SaaS tools step up to fill identity management void

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: James Furbush.

Aside from pricey legacy identity and access management vendors like Oracle, Novell and CA, a new breed of SaaS products has popped up in recent years to help organizations better integrate mobile endpoints and SaaS apps into their environments through single sign-on. This movement is turning "a once-boring enterprise niche into something sexy," said Gregg Kreizman, an identity access management analyst at Gartner, Inc., a Stamford, Conn.-based research firm.

As is often the case with enterprise technology, both types of identity management vendors — which exist to serve distinct market needs — have started offering similar feature sets as one another to provide customers a full range of governance, provisioning and de-provisioning, group policy, and single sign-on access…

The goal of many of these newer identity vendors is to integrate with Active Directory in the short term and help companies transition off it over the long-term by offering AD-like functionality within the feature set, said Thomas Pedersen, cofounder of OneLogin Inc., a cloud identity startup headquartered in San Francisco…

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