{"id":1256,"date":"2016-08-09T11:02:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T15:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2016-08-24T12:15:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:15:41","slug":"ping-identity-acquires-unboundid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/ping-identity-acquires-unboundid\/","title":{"rendered":"Ping Identity Acquires UnboundID, Sets Sights on CIAM, IoT Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1257\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2016\/08\/ping-unbound.jpg\" alt=\"ping-identity-acquires-unboundID\" width=\"800\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2016\/08\/ping-unbound.jpg 800w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2016\/08\/ping-unbound-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2016\/08\/ping-unbound-768x336.jpg 768w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2016\/08\/ping-unbound-600x263-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2016\/08\/ping-unbound-180x79-1.jpg 180w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2016\/08\/ping-unbound-400x175.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\nPing Identity has acquired UnboundID, a provider of customer identity and access management (CIAM) for an undisclosed amount, according to a joint release statement issued last week.<\/p>\n<p>This acquisition is the first for Ping Identity since being <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/ping-identity-to-be-acquired-by-vista-equity-partners\/\" target=\"_blank\">acquired by Vista Equity Partners<\/a>\u00a0and adds a slew of new capabilities to the Ping platform that will improve its ability to provide enterprises with scalable solutions to manage IoT devices and secure partner access to corporate applications and data.<\/p>\n<p>With the addition of UnboundID, the Ping Identity Platform adds a scalable user directory for social login, customer preference, and profile management, which, combined with Ping\u2019s existing MFA, SSO, and secure access capabilities, Ping hopes will make its platform &#8220;the most complete solution in the Identity market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"box box0\"><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/mfa-best-practices-ping-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1233 size-thumbnail alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2016\/07\/Ping-whitepaper-thumb-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"Ping-whitepaper-thumb\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2016\/07\/Ping-whitepaper-thumb-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2016\/07\/Ping-whitepaper-thumb-1-60x60.png 60w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2016\/07\/Ping-whitepaper-thumb-1-81x81.png 81w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2016\/07\/Ping-whitepaper-thumb-1-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2016\/07\/Ping-whitepaper-thumb-1.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/mfa-best-practices-ping-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Best Practices: Using<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Multi-factor Authentication to Secure the Modern Digital Enterprise<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Learn about authentication in depth, including its vocabulary, mechanisms, and signals.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Tips for choosing the right MFA mechanisms for your environment.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0How to apply a risk-based model to step-up MFA.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Best practices in step-up MFA, including risk analysis, choice of authentication factors, privacy, lock-out, registration, user opt-in, suspension and bypass, self-service, native applications, initial authentication and multiple touch points\/channels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/mfa-best-practices-ping-identity\/\" class=\"ss-button default\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>UnboundID was founded in 2008 by a group of former Sun Microsystems employees\u2013 CEO Steve Shoaff, Chief Architect David Ely and Principal Engineer Neil Wilson \u2013 who were working on the OpenDS open source directory project prior to Oracle\u2019s acquisition of Sun in 2009. They took an early focus on providing directory services for enterprise customers with high requirements for scalability.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, UnboundID has moved towards managing customer profiles for many of its clients, recently making a full-on push into the CIAM space, picking up banner accounts such as Uber, Citi, and Intuit. \u00a0According to Bekker\u2019s report, External-facing use cases account for more than 70% of UnboundID\u2019s overall revenue, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/vendor-spotlight-how-unboundid-is-overcoming-security-grudge-spend-with-monetized-ciam\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent report from 451 Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelivering a personalized and consistent customer experience across all channels is core to many digital transformation initiatives,\u201d said Andre Durand, CEO of Ping Identity. \u201cUnboundID has clearly earned the trust of global brands as one of the highest performing user and identity directories on the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UnboundID CEO Steve Shoaff will join the Ping Identity executive team as Chief Product Officer, responsible for all of engineering and product management for the joint company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to join Ping Identity; our companies share a common mission to put identity at the center of both security and all customer engagement. Ping and UnboundID have worked together to meet demanding identity requirements of many customers,\u201d said Steve Shoaff, CEO of UnboundID. \u201cOur customers and the market will benefit from greater resources and a broader focus this combination creates. We look forward to sharing the UnboundID capabilities for identity-centric, multi-channel customer engagement and personalization with Ping\u2019s family of customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two companies have been partners for nearly two years and share well over 20 enterprise customers across the US, EMEA and Asia, including Cisco, Telus and Wawa. The combined company provides Identity and Access Management solutions for the world\u2019s leading companies, including over half of the Fortune 100, and manages over 3 billion identities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ping Identity has acquired UnboundID, a provider of customer identity and access management (CIAM) for an undisclosed amount, according to a joint release statement issued last week. This acquisition is the first for Ping Identity since being acquired by Vista Equity Partners\u00a0and adds a slew of new capabilities to the Ping platform that will improve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,62,118,294,63,120],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ping Identity Acquires UnboundID, Sets Sights on CIAM, IoT Markets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/ping-identity-acquires-unboundid\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeff Edwards\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/ping-identity-acquires-unboundid\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/ping-identity-acquires-unboundid\/\",\"name\":\"Ping Identity Acquires UnboundID, Sets Sights on CIAM, IoT Markets\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/ping-identity-acquires-unboundid\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/ping-identity-acquires-unboundid\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2016\/08\/ping-unbound.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-08-09T15:02:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-08-24T16:15:41+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/#\/schema\/person\/3d31b4b6a777a91476a65c087be260e6\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/ping-identity-acquires-unboundid\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/ping-identity-acquires-unboundid\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/ping-identity-acquires-unboundid\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2016\/08\/ping-unbound.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2016\/08\/ping-unbound.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":350,\"caption\":\"ping-identity-acquires-unboundID\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/ping-identity-acquires-unboundid\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Ping Identity Acquires UnboundID, Sets Sights on CIAM, IoT Markets\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/\",\"name\":\"Best Identity Access Management (IAM) Software, Tools, Vendors, Solutions, &amp; Services\",\"description\":\"Identity Access Management (IAM) News, Best Practices and Buyer&#039;s Guide\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/#\/schema\/person\/3d31b4b6a777a91476a65c087be260e6\",\"name\":\"Jeff Edwards\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8471d2b63e0587b41d829ecc153ba8e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8471d2b63e0587b41d829ecc153ba8e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jeff Edwards\"},\"description\":\"Jeff Edwards is an enterprise technology writer and analyst covering Identity Management, SIEM, Endpoint Protection, and Cybersecurity writ large. 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