{"id":518,"date":"2015-04-29T15:50:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T19:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/?p=518"},"modified":"2016-10-07T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T15:49:09","slug":"top-identity-and-access-management-tools-for-2015-it-central-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/top-identity-and-access-management-tools-for-2015-it-central-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Identity and Access Management Tools for 2015, IT Central Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, IT Central Station released the 2015 edition of its yearly list of the top Identity and Access Management (IAM)\u00a0tools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itcentralstation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">IT Central Station<\/a> is a crowdsourced platform created to connect enterprise professionals\u00a0with peers for researching and reviewing enterprise technologies<\/p>\n<p>The list is based on analysis of over 17,000 views of the top IAM tools by IT Central Station users in 2014 and Q1 of 2015. 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