Friday, February 19

Next Generation IDaaS: Moving From Tactical to Strategic

Today, I posted a blog entry to the Oracle Identity Management blog titled Next Generation IDaaS: Moving From Tactical to Strategic. In the post, I examine the evolution of IDaaS and look toward the next generation of Enterprise Identity and Access Management. I believe that the adoption of IDaaS by enterprises has typically been a reactive, tactical response to the quick emergence of SaaS (and the associated loss of control). The next generation of IDaaS will be more strategic and carefully planned to better meet evolving enterprise requirements.

Note that I'm not talking about the technology. Nor am I talking about consumer use-cases or developer adoption of outsourced authentication. In this post, I'm looking at IDaaS from the perspective of enterprise IAM and the on-going Digital Transformation.

Here's a few quotes that capture the essence:
First generation Identity as a Service (IDaaS) was a fashion statement that’s on its way out. It was cool while it lasted. And it capitalized on some really important business needs. But it attempted to apply a tactical fix to a strategic problem.

Security functions are coalescing into fewer solutions that cover more ground with less management overhead. Digital Enterprises want more functionality from fewer solutions.

The next generation of IAM is engineered specifically for Digital Business providing a holistic approach that operates in multiple modes. It adapts to user demands with full awareness of the value of the resources being accessed and the context in which the user is operating. Moving forward, you won’t need different IAM products to address different user populations (like privileged users or partners) and you won’t stand up siloed IDaaS solutions to address subsets of target applications (like SaaS).

Next generation IDaaS builds on all the promises of cloud computing but positions itself strategically as a component of a broader, more holistic IAM strategy. Next-gen IDaaS fully supports the most demanding Digital Business requirements. It’s not a stop-gap and it’s not a fashion statement. It’s an approach enabling a new generation of businesses that will take us all further than we could have imagined.
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