What is our primary use case?
I'm a consultant. I work with companies to evaluate it and sometimes help them implement it as well.
I'm using the most recent version. It's somewhere around version 8.
What is most valuable?
The big one now is that they're adding AI and machine learning to figure out automated approvals and make recommendations to their reviewers. So, if I bring up Doug McPherson and it says he has access to this application, the system will make a review based on peer group analysis. That's one of the biggest new things. The problem used to be that people would get everything loaded on, and they created too much work for themselves. Now, they can use these policies and start to let the machine pick the less risky things. If it says it should be approved, then automatically approve it. It's definitely a time saver for a lot of people.
It has got a great user interface, and it just does the job.
What needs improvement?
It tends to be more expensive, but at the end of the day, it works.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for probably 15 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Its stability is very good. It's running so well now. I'd rate it a nine out of ten in terms of stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Its scalability is awesome. They've got customers with over a million users, so it'll scale to what you need. It has a very scalable architecture.
I'm a consultant, and I implement it for clients. I've worked with clients from 5,000 users and up to about 400,000 users.
How are customer service and support?
I'd rate them really high. They have a group called Expert Services. They rely on third parties like me or the big four, like the Deloittes and the PWs, to do the implementation, but they maintain a group that they call their Expert Services. It has about a hundred people you can go to for the hardest things. If you were on the edge of performance issues and any other issues, you can bring in their experts. It's a really good team. It's more expensive than the other guys, but it's worth it.
How was the initial setup?
IdentityIQ is difficult to begin with, but compared to its competitors, it'd be an eight out of ten in terms of ease of setup.
The deployment duration varies. They've got examples of people being up and running in a month. For massive companies with hundreds or thousands of employees, it takes a couple of years to get fully implemented, but they've got ways where you can implement it almost by a business unit, so you can be up and running and then slowly, you add the rest of the company to the implementation.
In terms of the number of people required, the actual SailPoint team would be three to four people, and then they use the business analysts in the company to help onboard the application. That's a really nice methodology where I can spread the workload over a bunch of people instead of having to rely on one person and get those backlogs and lineups form. For example, I can have a business analyst from the business units I'm working with help me onboard applications. That really speeds it up.
In terms of the deployment model, they have a SaaS version, but you can do it on-prem, and you can also do it with the hybrid model.
What was our ROI?
It depends on your company, but I've seen ROIs in 14 to 18 months. So, it's great.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It's all competitive. Initially, the prices look a bit higher, but once it gets into a competitive situation, they meet the market. I'd rate it an eight out of ten in terms of pricing. It tends to be more expensive, but it works.
What other advice do I have?
They've got such a big lead in the market from a capabilities point of view. They're going after the cloud, so they're doing a lot in the cloud management area and making that easier for clients to implement it for managing the applications in the cloud space or all their SaaS applications. That's one of the big areas. They just did the acquisition of SecZetta, which provides management for third parties. For partners and third parties you work with, it can help automate the management of access to those people.
I'd rate it a nine out of ten because what it does is hard. The work that they implement isn't simple because the companies are so big. It works and does the job. It's not the product that causes problems; it's generally working with the company and its processes, but the product is bulletproof.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Implementer