How Modern IGA Solutions Overcome Complexity in Identity Governance

Recent findings from Omada’s State of Identity Governance 2025 report indicate that most organizations today struggle to implement efficient Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) practices. Business and IT leaders surveyed report that complex access governance and time-consuming manual processes are the two principal issues driving their investments in modern cloud-based IGA solutions. For organizations not using a SaaS-based IGA solution, overcoming these issues is even more urgent. In this article, we will explain how modern IGA, the Omada Identity Cloud solution in particular, overcomes these challenges.

Why Legacy Systems Cannot Overcome IGA Complexity

Moving applications, systems, and identities to the cloud creates identity management challenges that organizations using legacy IGA systems cannot easily take on. In hybrid, cloud, and multi-cloud IT environments, legacy IGA cannot accurately review excessive and unused permissions or make enough sense of user activity data to deliver effective identity governance. Without costly custom coding, organizations cannot integrate legacy IGA with other IT environments, making it difficult to ensure identity security in all their IT environments to protect against the entire threat landscape. Even so, the State of Identity Governance 2025 report shows that 40% of organizations surveyed still have not yet deployed a modern IGA solution.

Modern IGA solutions, such as the Omada identity Cloud, drastically reduce complexity, boost efficiency, and significantly improve an organization’s security posture. Through IGA modernization, organizations are implementing smart, automated systems that manage access across the entire identity landscape seamlessly and securely. Here’s how Omada’s modern IGA solution makes the difference:

Simplified Identity Lifecycle Management

Automating Identity Creation

At onboarding, the Omada Identity Cloud ensures new users have the correct access from day one by automatically creating identities for employees and contractors when they join the organization and allowing for the creation of technical identities to manage business systems.

Automating Access Changes

The Omada Identity Cloud enables organizations to automatically update users’ personal data when they change jobs or departments. This prevents over-permissioning and access rights violations from occurring that are prohibited by business policies (e.g., segregation of duties (SoD) conflicts), whilst maintaining regulatory compliance.

Automated Off-boarding

Securely removing access for employees or contractors when they resign or are dismissed is critical for identity security compliance. The Omada Identity Cloud automates immediate and planned off-boarding of employees when they resign or are terminated, ensuring appropriate denial of access to business systems. This simplifies the transfer of ownership for resources previously held by departed users to new users and mitigates the risk of orphaned accounts.

Intelligent Role Mining with Machine Learning Insights

Traditional Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is a notorious time sink, especially with constant organizational shifts like mergers or evolving job functions. Roles become outdated, leading to security gaps and frustrating access delays. Omada Identity Cloud leverages cutting-edge machine learning to intelligently analyze user needs and dynamically align access rights. This means new employees gain the precise access they need from day one, accelerating productivity and significantly reducing the risk of over-provisioning or unauthorized access. The importance here cannot be overstated: streamlined onboarding directly impacts employee satisfaction and operational efficiency, while precise role management is fundamental to a strong security posture.

Actionable Analytics Dashboards

Many organizations drown in a sea of identity data, struggling to extract meaningful insights. This data overload cripples decision-making and escalates security risks. Omada Identity Cloud’s powerful, intuitive analytics dashboards cut through this complexity, offering a unified, real-time view of user access across the entire organization. This isn’t just data; it’s intelligence that simplifies compliance reporting and enables proactive risk management, empowering leadership to make informed decisions that safeguard sensitive information.

Codeless Configuration and Easy Automation

The implementation and maintenance of many identity governance solutions are often burdened by complex coding and specialized technical expertise, leading to slow deployments and ballooning costs. Omada Identity Cloud cuts through these barriers by enabling process and workflow automation with zero coding required. This capability is vital because it accelerates the path to value, drastically reduces reliance on highly specialized IT resources, and fosters a more agile security environment that can quickly adapt to changing business needs without prohibitive expenses.

Intelligent Decision Making

Fragmented visibility and inconsistent data quality often make it nearly impossible for organizations to accurately assess access risks. Decision-makers are left grappling with complex data, leading to slow processes and increased potential for critical errors. Omada Identity Cloud addresses this by offering AI-powered tools that provide centralized, real-time data, intelligent recommendations, and automated analysis. The importance is clear: precise, rapid decision-making minimizes risk exposure, strengthens compliance, and ensures that access policies are enforced consistently and effectively.

Natural Language, AI-Powered Access

Traditional identity management systems often force users to navigate cumbersome menus and forms, creating friction and increasing training demands. Omada Identity Cloud revolutionizes this experience by embedding natural language interfaces directly into user workflows. Through continuous machine learning, the Omada Identity Cloud continually optimizes access decisions, detects anomalies, and automates governance at scale. This transforms a typically frustrating experience into an intuitive one, making it easier for users to gain the access they need while simultaneously enhancing security through intelligent, automated oversight.

Seamless Application Integration

Integrating an IGA solution with existing applications and systems often requires significant technical expertise and ongoing maintenance, making it difficult for organizations to build a truly comprehensive IGA program. Omada Identity Cloud solves this problem with an extensive library of out-of-the-box connectors, ensuring seamless integration with other IAM solutions. This is crucial because it allows organizations to maximize the value of their current technology investments, avoiding costly rip-and-replace scenarios, while robustly enhancing efficiency, security, and compliance across their entire digital ecosystem.

Modern Cloud Architecture

The underlying infrastructure of an IGA solution directly impacts its performance, scalability, and ease of use. A cloud-native IGA platform like Omada Identity Cloud eliminates the burden of legacy hardware and manual updates. This modern architecture is essential for ensuring peak performance, enabling effortless scalability to meet growing demands, and providing the inherent resilience and continuous innovation that only a true cloud solution can offer.

Built-In Best Practices Framework

Implementing identity governance processes from scratch can be a daunting, time-consuming, and error-prone endeavor. Omada Identity Cloud mitigates these challenges by providing a proven, extensive set of planned steps for deployment through its IdentityPROCESS+ framework. This built-in, best practices framework is critical because it guides organizations through a structured implementation, ensuring that identity governance is established effectively, delivers measurable results, and provides tangible business value at speed without the typical deployment headaches and delays.

Conclusion

Poorly governed and managed IGA and IAM security posture is a critical vulnerability that exposes organizations to significant risks. As organizations take on the two-headed challenge of rapidly expanding IT landscapes whilst maintaining adherence to ever more robust and dynamic regulations, moving from legacy IGA to a modern SaaS-based IGA solution is essential.

About the Omada Identity Cloud

The Omada Identity Cloud is a proven, future-ready modern IGA solution built to overcome the challenges mentioned in this article. It dramatically reduces complexity by automating identity lifecycle management processes. By leveraging intelligent RBAC and AI-powered natural language interfaces, it transforms identity management into a simpler, more intuitive experience. Its ability to easily connect and integrate with other applications and systems, all without requiring coding, empowers organizations to make better, faster identity management decisions and confidently demonstrate compliance. The result is a powerful combination: unprecedented efficiency, fortified security, and enhanced business value.

Where to Learn More

Read the Omada Identity Cloud Product Brief.

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