Why you should migrate from IdentityIQ to SailPoint Identity Security Cloud  

 Authored by Chris Gossett, SVP, Technology Services 

On-premises solutions can give you control of all your infrastructure and the power to customize your configurations. While powerful, on-premises solutions have their limits and can impact budgets, resource consumption, availability, scalability, and more. For example, organizations may struggle to find appropriate staff with the right domain expertise. On-premises solutions can also have higher management costs when compared to cloud solutions, as well as limitations in scalability for potential future organizational growth. Lastly, on-premises applications must be maintained and upgraded regularly, consuming valuable IT resources and requiring experienced staff. 

But, there is good news! If you are a SailPoint IdentityIQ customer, unlocking the value of the cloud is easier than you think. Did you know that organizations deploying SailPoint’s on-premises product IdentityIQ can take advantage of SailPoint’s Identity Security Cloud upgrade program to accelerate their migration to cloud-based identity security? 

Why upgrade to cloud 

As organizations move more and more services and applications to the cloud, having a cloud-first identity security approach makes sense in multiple ways.  

Conveniently, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud leverages an organization’s existing IdentityIQ investment. On-premises and cloud solutions share the same identity model and connectivity framework and use the same business essential integrations, including ServiceNow, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. Since the two products are closely related, rolling out a seamless transition is easy, initially moving the connectors, roles, and rules that matter most. 

SailPoint Identity Security Cloud has several distinct advantages over on-premises solutions, including:  

• Lower total cost of ownership. On average, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud customers reduce their total cost of ownership by 10-30% after switching to the cloud. 
   
• Faster deployment and feature adoption. SailPoint automatically manages, updates, and deploys new features—that means less time managing infrastructure and more bandwidth. 
   
• Enhanced security posture with AI-driven insights. AI-Driven identity security gives organizations data visibility and insights to help them make better and faster access decisions, proactively spot risks, and maintain a strong identity security posture. 
   
• Continuous, seamless releases with no downtime. High-speed updates are continuously tested, hardened, and ready for production when they automatically deploy—no manual upgrades and near zero downtime. 

By moving from one SailPoint product to another, organizations can maintain any work already done with IdentityIQ and build on that work by migrating configured connectors, objects, and rules to SailPoint Identity Security Cloud. Organizations will be able to leverage the total value of cloud-based identity security, and the model will be the same, including the relationships between accounts, roles, and entitlements. 

The complementary Cloud Upgrade Assessment Program from SailPoint  

Upgrading is made even easier with the complimentary Cloud Upgrade Assessment Program for IdentityIQ customers, and only takes about four weeks. The upgrade program gives organizations everything they need to start, including a product demo, technical discovery, detailed business value assessment, implementation timeline, and a solution review and plan. It allows organizations to accelerate their migration to the cloud by implementing a cloud-based identity security platform that can serve as the foundation for future cloud security. 

Unpacking the value of cloud 

“The migration made a huge difference from a cost perspective. Managing identities in the cloud changed the way we consumed data and brought down costs. We also did not have to manage the underlying architecture, freeing us to focus our operational efforts elsewhere. And users saw no difference at all.” – Sue Walker, cybersecurity manager, RWE

Faster deployment  

After seamlessly upgrading from IdentityIQ to SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, organizations will have an identity management architecture that can scale with their enterprise, regardless of their IT architecture. SailPoint Identity Security Cloud enables organizations to configure features based on industry best practices, primarily via admin user interfaces and REST APIs. External customization can be done outside the system using REST APIs or event triggers when necessary.  Leveraging the rapid setup of multi-tenant SaaS, organizations can quickly scale an identity foundation, connectivity setup, and feature configuration as needed. Multi-tenant SaaS-based continuous releases enable them to stay on the latest software version without downtime. In addition, the solution’s multi-tenant microservice architecture delivers both scale and quality to handle high-volume, complex workloads as the business grows. 

Reduced costs 

Instead of developing heavily customized solutions to meet identity security challenges, an organization can easily configure SailPoint Identity Security Cloud to meet its unique business needs, reducing the need for deep in-house subject matter expertise. This frees up personnel resources to focus on the day-to-day security tasks rather than actively managing and monitoring infrastructure. By saving resources and time, organizations can reduce their total cost of ownership. 

Enhanced security 

By leveraging natively integrated AI insights, organizations will have additional visibility into access privileges, which can help identify potential risks, such as abnormal entitlements and dormant or orphaned accounts. Business stakeholders can make accurate and faster access decisions based on AI-assisted recommendations. Real-time reporting and dashboards deliver the information needed to understand how access was granted and removed for better auditing and compliance. 

Let us help you  

For most organizations that have deployed IdentityIQ, the benefits of migrating to the cloud with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud are clear and compelling. The first step to realizing those benefits is completing SailPoint’s free Identity Security Cloud Upgrade Assessment Program.  

Take the free assessment today.