Identity As a Service provides both IT and business benefits to enterprises. The IT benefits include:
Easier Administration
Performing administrative tasks and adding newer tasks is simplified as appropriate modular components can be invoked with ease.
Flexible Deployment Architecture
Allows deployments to effectively unify duplicate code and services and put forth a flexible and unified services.
Simplified Outsourced and Federated Identity and Access Management
Allows enterprises to leverage and outsource identity management services to system integrators and partners with core competency in the area.
Business benefits of Identity as a Service include:
Reduced Operational risk and Maintenance Cost
The Identity services layer is useful when adding new applications or services to an existing deployment, reconciling different identity management solutions acquired through mergers and acquisitions. It also allows you to centralize various Identity Management functions such as access management, resulting in reduced operational risk.
Increased compliance
With all applications using the same set of auditing services, audit log aggregation, and detection of violations of regulatory compliance, rules become easier to manage. With a common policy framework that spans applications, Identity as a Service simplify the management and improves the enforcement of complex segregation of duties policies.
More Business Insight into Identity Management
The traditional developer centric nomenclature used in identity management products has long been found hard by common users. With prevalent use of Identity As A Service and easy to use available interfaces, the deployments will be simpler to manage.