This is probably one of the most powerful pictures you will ever see in the land of Identity Management. This is the “Magic Quadrant” by Gartner. Make it into the top-right corner, and your product will be bought. The higher up , the more it’ll be bought.

If you’re looking into purchasing an IdM suite from any vendor, this article is definitely worth a read. But please remember that this article and graph, all be it very informative, was written and compiled by people that do not implement these tools on a day-to-day level. To really understand which products you need for your environment, you need to bring someone in that knows what they’re doing, and more importantly has done it before… a lot!

Hands-on experience is the only tried and true method for getting the best Identity Management solution for your company or institution!

From Gartner:

User provisioning delivers capabilities to manage users’ identities across systems, applications and resources. Driven by compliance (security effectiveness) and security efficiency, the market is maturing, but identity governance and role-based access concerns raise new issues for customers.

via Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning.