{"id":536,"date":"2015-05-15T10:07:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T14:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/?p=536"},"modified":"2018-07-20T12:36:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T16:36:39","slug":"gartner-2015-idaas-magic-quadrant-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/gartner-2015-idaas-magic-quadrant-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Predictions For The 2015 IDaaS Gartner Magic Quadrant"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"badimageforgartner\"<\/a>Editors Note:\u00a0<\/strong>The 2015 IDaaS Gartner Magic Quadrant is out. Check out our write-up here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: <\/strong>The IDaaS MQ is no longer a yearly report.\u00a0Check out the\u00a0Kuppingercole Leadership Compass \u2013 IDaaS: Single Sign-On to the Cloud\u00a0<\/a>and The Forrester Wave: Identity-As-A-Service Q4 2017<\/a>\u00a0for information on IDaaS.<\/p>\n

It’s been nearly a year since IT industry analysis and research firm Gartner released its first ever Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Identity and Access Management as a service (IDaaS), and that means its almost time for another iteration of Garner’s yearly report<\/a> on the growing field of IDaaS vendors. So what should vendors and clients expect\u00a0to see in Gartner’s 2015 MQ for IDaaS?<\/p>\n

I’ve made four predictions for Gartner’s new report, based on market trends and changes currently in motion, but first, let’s recap 2014’s IDaaS MQ.<\/p>\n

What is IDaaS?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Depending on who you ask, IDaaS stands for either ‘Identity-as-a-service’ or ‘Identity and Access Management-as-a-service.’ Gartner prefers the latter terminology, so for consistencies sake that’s what we’ll stick with. IDaaS solutions are cloud-based services that provide users with IAM functionality to target their on-premise or (most often) cloud-based systems.<\/p>\n

In the 2014 IDaaS MQ Gartner gives a more in-depth definition:<\/p>\n

\u201cA vendor in the identity and access management as a service (IDaaS) market delivers a predominantly cloud-based service, in a multitenant or dedicated and hosted delivery model, that brokers core identity governance and administration, access and intelligence functions to target systems on customers’ premises and in the cloud.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

How does Gartner evaluate IDaaS vendors?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In order to feature on Gartner’s IDaaS MQ (per 2014 requirements), vendors must provide some level of offerings in the following functional areas: identity governance and administration, access controls (user authentication, single sign-on, and authorization enforcement), and intelligence (logging and analytics for IGA and access events).<\/p>\n

Vendors also must meet Gartner’s minimum requirements for revenue and amount of clients.<\/p>\n

Vendors who pass those requirements and are featured in Gartner’s MQs are then evaluated on their ‘completeness of vision’ and their ‘ability to execute’ that vision, and placed on a graph segmented into four quadrants: niche players, challengers, visionaries, and leaders.<\/p>\n

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\"Forrester<\/a>Complementary Forrester Report: Market Overview, Consumer IAM Solutions<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n