In a recent Leadership Compass: Identity Governance and Administration report, independent analyst organization KuppingerCole has identified Omada as a leading global provider of solutions for managing identities, controlling access, and ensuring compliance for enterprises. The report evaluates the capabilities of Omada’s solution, and provides a detailed account of how the solution meets the needs of all organizations to monitor, assess, and manage the risks associated with identity lifecycle management, access governance, identity provisioning, and compliance reporting.
In this Leadership Compass report, KuppingerCole identifies the specific ways in which the Omada Identity Cloud leverages Identity Governance and Administration tools to contribute to more effective enterprise-wide user management, cybersecurity risk mitigation, and business enablement.
Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions have long been critical components of IT infrastructures for managing a full range of digital identities, from employees and partners to customers, devices, and things. As enterprises have moved critical data and applications into cloud-hosted environments, they need to bring their IAM solutions along with them. To meet these new demands, more enterprises are bringing Access Governance into their overall IAM solutions to gain greater transparency and control over governance functions and access entitlements across their entire IT architecture.
To meet the IAM needs of modern enterprises, SaaS-based governance solutions must provide capabilities beyond simple reporting and dashboarding. They must offer advanced functionalities such as AI and machine learning to enable automated pattern recognition. These capabilities allow access and governance managers to use IAM to get the intelligence they need for enterprise-wide process optimization, role design, automated reviews, and anomaly detection.
The KuppingerCole Leadership Compass report identifies these specific core capabilities that distinguish Omada Identity Cloud as a leading SaaS solution in the IGA market:
Proven core IGA capabilities
Since 2000, Omada’s IGA solutions have played a vital role in business enablement for enterprises worldwide, enabling employees, contractors, business partners, and customers to access applications, systems, and data safely and securely. Omada Identity Cloud brings these proven core IGA capabilities, rebuilt to enable efficient delivery as a service.
Self-service user management
As business complexity increases, self-service user management is a game changer. Omada Identity Cloud supports a wide range of authenticators to optimize the onboarding and change processes and ensure that unnecessary entitlements are revoked, and accounts are deleted or deactivated once they are no longer required. Omada Identity Cloud also manages access through various access control policies, Just In Time (JIT) provisioning, adaptive authentication, and dynamic authorization.
Wide range of connector support
The Omada Identity Cloud Platform supports a connector community for peers to share, generate, and install connectivity packages. Standards-based connectivity builds on the established SCIM standard which supports identity provisioning including support for SCIM 2.0, while API-based connectivity utilizes standard APIs such as REST, SQL, GraphQL, and SOAP.
AI- and ML-driven IAM analysis
Omada Identity Cloud uses AI to recommend access requests based on peers via a thorough analysis. The solution supports continuous validation of access policies, automation of migrating controls, closed-loop reconciliation, automatic case management, and context modeling. The solution also uses AI and machine learning to facilitate role discovery.
Unified view of standards compliance
The Omada compliance workbench in the solution provides a unified view of the compliance state of all access rights across all systems. The workbench dashboard drives access review and certification campaigns, provides a comprehensive view of the system, and helps customers understand the overall system health metrics based on parameters such as unapproved access and orphaned accounts.
Interactive advanced analytics dashboard and audit trail
Omada Identity Cloud offers an interactive advanced analytics dashboard that provides information about the status of certifications, characteristics of SLAs, ongoing campaigns, and historical data. The solution also features an analytics-powered dynamic audit trail that displays advanced data and identity analytics. The dashboard landing page displays a modern data visualization interface highlighting widgets related to decisions made in a week compared to total requests inbound, rate of approved access, breakdown of activities carried out in a week, and top resources requested for access. Users can use filters to customize dashboards and download the audit trail as a CSV file or an image for reporting.
Accelerated time-to-value
Omada offers an Accelerator Package that uses a proven best practice framework enabling customers to be operational within 12 weeks. This package features cloud-native services including a Data Pipeline service, a Provisioning service, a Workflow automation service, a Role and Policy engine service, an Identity analytics service, and a cloud management portal.
Customer-controlled patch and update adoption
Omada constantly optimizes the Identity Cloud platform with continuous updates and patches. These planned solution updates are released every six weeks but are not forced. This gives customers a great degree of flexibility in adapting the solution to their needs while still enabling them to implement no-code best practice processes, KPIs, etc. based on Omada’s extensive practical experience.
Automated SoD and recertification
Omada Identity Cloud provides tools to automate processes around Separation of Duties (SoD) violations controls and conflicts unauthorized access as well as recertifications. The solution also features a new SAP Concur connectivity package enabling users to directly manage access within Omada and connect directly with SAP Concur by enforcing SoD policies.
Read more about what KuppingerCole says about Omada here.
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