SailPoint Adds Virtualization and Other Services

SailPoint today announced a suite of new deployment offerings for its identity governance solution, SailPoint IdentityIQ, including a virtual appliance, a hosting option and a menu of managed services, to streamline and simplify the process of buying, implementing and managing identity management solutions. These new options, in addition to SailPoint’s conventional hardware appliance and software licensing offerings, give customers a broader range of deployment environments to fit their specific situation, providing immediate ROI and better control over technology costs.

SailPoint’s new deployment options adapt to unique customer requirements, such as those of a global bank that needed IdentityIQ to address compliance requirements but faced a three month delay for the procurement of hardware and system software to run the application. The IdentityIQ managed hosting option enabled them to stay within their original project plan while maintaining the flexibility to migrate back to a traditional software deployment in the future if their needs change. A leading financial services provider chose to implement IdentityIQ in a virtualized environment, which allowed them to make use of extra data center capacity and to deploy IdentityIQ very quickly to address their identity governance business needs.

“The down economy is forcing companies to strengthen their identity management practices and access controls,” said Ian Glazer, senior analyst at Burton Group. “In order to help companies meet their needs in this economy, vendors have to address immediate business problems, and they also have to be creative with licensing and deployment models.”

SailPoint developed its new delivery options, available through SailPoint and its partners, to provide more flexible deployment, maintenance, and operating models for organizations facing constrained IT resources and lower IT budgets. Identity governance remains a top priority, but many organizations lack the internal resources needed to deploy and manage new applications. That was the case with a Fortune 500 organization that was in the process of being acquired by a larger company. By using SailPoint’s hosted solution for IdentityIQ, the company was able to quickly deploy IdentityIQ for access certifications and policy enforcement, providing proof of compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley before, during and after the acquisition.

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