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IBM Security Identity Manager is still the best provisioning engine on the market

By KURT RILEY posted Tue April 21, 2020 07:07 PM

  
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Often times when I run into business partners who install multiple identity offerings, I want to know what they think is the best.  That question is often met with, "It depends on the use case." While this is a common response I always like to start with the question of identity life cycle. The provisioning and de-provisioning of accounts to be exact. The answer is always the same; IBM Security Identity Manager (ISIM) is still the best provisioning engine on the market. 

IBM has thousands of customers who still have ISIM. I've had the opportunity to talk to many of them and after more than 20 years not only are they still running ISIM but they don't have plans to move off of it either. Our competitors don't have robust adapters and features within their tools that ISIM does and likely won't catch up anytime soon. 

We just released a new version of ISIM this year with some new features like an updated self-service center which has been received very well. You can read about all the new features released here

In all fairness, ISIM has fallen short in the governance space. You can still run basic certification campaigns but it's no where near as feature rich as IBM Identity Governance and Intelligence (IGI). As IBM continues to invest in the cloud you are going to see a new offering called IBM Cloud Identity Governance (CIG) which will integrate with ISIM in a hybrid cloud model.   

ISIM customers that are looking to augment their on premise investment with a cloud offering are in luck. IBM Cloud Identity Governance (CIG) has a major release coming out this week which will offer expanded capabilities. While CIG isn't a replacement for ISIM, it will add great new features for managing cloud applications.  As I watch CIG grow into a wonderful platform, it will still be a while before ISIM is dethroned as king of identity life cycle. That's right, IBM Security Identity Manager is still the best provisioning engine on the market.
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