New survey highlights how the cloud, costs and new complexities are challenging the traditional Identity & Access Management (IAM) model.

1. Cloud, Cost & Complexity:
Challenging the Traditional
Identity Model
New Survey of Enterprise IT Decision Makers Shows An
Increasingly Complex Mix of Application Users and Top Challenges
with Identity & Access Management

2. Symplified Identity Management Research: Key
Findings
In the era of the extended enterprise, fewer boundaries exist thanks
to continuous innovations in cloud and mobile technologies; business
applications are now on premises, cloud – and SaaSbased; and users
extend beyond onsite employees to include conractors, customers
and partners..
Many large organizations are grappling with how to address these
new challenges in identity and access management (IAM) with the
legacy solutions they already have in place.
Because no single traditional IAM product met all of their needs,
many enterprises have created, and now must manage, a patchwork
of multiple solutions. Mobile identities and the growing number of
new applications are common challenges.

3. Symplified Identity Management Research: Key
Findings
50% of enterprises
manage identities for
at least one type of
external user; 75%
manage mobile
identities.

4. Symplified Identity Management Research: Key
Findings
Security and total cost
of ownership are top
concerns.

5. Symplified Identity Management Research: Key
Findings
Using multiple tools to
manage identities and
managing mobile
identities are top
challenges.

6. Symplified Identity Management Research: Key
Findings
Regulatory compliance
is among the top 3 IAM
goals for enterprises.

7. About The Research
Research methodology: Symplified commissioned a survey
conducted October 12-13, 2013 among 63 IT decision makers
at companies with 3,000 or more employees. Participants
completed an online survey designed by Lawless Research LLC
and programmed via Qualtrics, Inc. The margin of error is +/12 percentage points at the 95 percent level of confidence.

8. About Symplified
Symplified was founded on the principle that identity is central
to enterprise security. Today the company delivers an identity
management services platform that manages user identities
and access across any device or application, located on
premises or in the cloud, anywhere in the world. Symplified is
headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. Learn more at
www.symplified.com.