{"id":1368,"date":"2016-09-30T12:13:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T16:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2016-10-07T10:47:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:47:57","slug":"comparing-access-management-federation-solutions-with-kuppingercoles-leadership-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/comparing-access-management-federation-solutions-with-kuppingercoles-leadership-compass\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Access Management & Federation Solutions With KuppingerCole’s Leadership Compass"},"content":{"rendered":"

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International Analyst firm KuppingerCole has released the latest iteration of its Leadership Compass report<\/a> for Access Management and Federation.<\/p>\n

In the 2016 Leadership Compass for Access Management and Federation, KuppingerCole Founder and Principal analyst Martin Kuppinger evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 17 vendors that he considers most significant in the Access Management market and provides readers with graphs separating the vendors into followers, challengers, and leaders. Kuppinger compares vendors across four graphed categories: Overall Leaders, Product Leaders, Market Leaders, and Innovation Leaders.<\/p>\n

KuppingerCole’s ratings are based on a wide range of input and a long experience in that market segment. Input consists of experience from KuppingerCole advisory projects, feedback from customers using the products, product documentation, and a questionnaire sent out before creating the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass, plus a variety of other sources.<\/p>\n

Vendors featured in the report are\u00a0Identity Automation, Evidian, EmpowerID, Ergon, GlobalSign, Atos, Dell, Forum Systems, WS02, SecureAuth, AdNovum, Oracle, CA Technologies, Micro Focus, IBM, Ping Identity, and ForgeRock.<\/p>\n

At Solutions Review, We read the 53-page report, available in full here<\/a>,\u00a0and pulled a few of what we considered the most important takeaways.<\/p>\n

What is Access Management and Federation?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before jumping into the big takeaways we should probably clarify exactly what KuppingerCole mean when they talk about\u00a0Access Management and Federation.<\/p>\n

According to the report, Web Access Management and Identity Federation are technologies that “enable organizations to manage access both from and to external systems, including cloud services, in a consistent way.”<\/p>\n

Specifically,\u00a0Access management<\/a> is the process of managing a user\u2019s login and access across a wide range of applications, systems, and resources belonging to an organization. Most IAM solutions manage user access to resources but leave access authorization decisions to the application owners.<\/p>\n

Identity federation is the process of linking all of an individual\u2019s disparate electronic identities and attributes, which may be stored across multiple identity management solutions.<\/p>\n

The primary focus of this report is on solutions that are available on premises, but the report also\u00a0takes into account the fact that several of these solutions also are offered from as cloud services.<\/p>\n

\"Kuppingercole-leadership-button\"<\/a>The KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Access Management & Federation is here.<\/strong><\/p>\n