Leadership Compass Access Management

Leadership Compass Access Management

KuppingerCole’s Leadership Compass provides an overview of the market for access management solutions.

KuppingerCole's Leadership Compass for August 2023 evaluates the market for Access Management products and services, helping you find the solution that best fits your organization's needs. It covers vendor functionality, market share, and innovation across the space.

Key insights:

  • Evaluates ~19 vendors (including Curity, Okta, Microsoft, IBM, Ping Identity, Oracle, ForgeRock, and others).
  • Access Management and Identity Federation are converging into one market — no longer separate.
  • IDaaS is overtaking on-premises IAM, driven by cloud-native ease of adoption.
  • Key trends: rising demand for decentralized identity, fine-grained policy-based access, and IGA/Access Management convergence.
  • Main challenges: integrating diverse authenticators, supporting hybrid deployments, and working with fraud detection tools.
  • Report includes Leadership ratings (Overall, Product, Innovation, Market) plus vendor-by-vendor evaluations.

Table of contents

  • Introduction / Executive Summary — 4

  • Leadership (ratings & rankings) — 12

  • Correlated View (comparison matrices) — 20

  • Products and Vendors at a Glance — 27

  • Product/Vendor Evaluation (individual vendor profiles) — 31

  • Vendors to Watch — 115

  • Methodology — 119

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