Gartner IGA Magic Quadrant

A Gartner Magic Quadrant graphically represents their view of a market and its competitors. The Magic Quadrant’s gives uniform criteria for quickly assessing competitive positioning among technology providers. The Gartner Magic Quadrants do not endorse vendors, products or services included in its research publications. Instead, Gartner research represents their opinion and should not be considered statements of fact.

Gartner’s Magic Quadrants apply to specific solutions. All total, Gartner research covers over 150 Magic Quadrants, which use the same format to graphically place solution providers based on the following four types of market positions:

Leaders execute well against their vision.

Visionaries understand where the market is going.

Niche Players focus successfully on segments.

Challengers execute well in a large segment.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant intends to quickly educate you on a market’s competing technology providers and their ability to deliver today and in the future. It helps you understand a company’s competitive positioning in a marketplace and strategy.

Gartner considers identity governance and administration (IGA) as technology solutions used to conduct identity management and access governance operations. IGA includes the tools, technologies, reports and compliance activities required for identity lifecycle management. It engrosses every operation from account creation and termination, to user provisioning, access certification and enterprise password management. The IGA looks at automated workflow and data from authoritative sources capabilities along with self-service user provisioning, IT governance and password management.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) consolidates the User Administration and Provisioning (IAM) and Identity and Access Governance (IAG) Magic Quadrants. However, the IGA Magic Quadrant review includes only technology providers offering a unified identity management solution.

The Avatier Identity Management Software (AIMS) suite delivers IGA solutions for access management, compliance and IT audit reviews. AIMS IGA solutions are readily configurable and deploy quickly in comparison to other IGA vendors in the Magic Quadrant.