Idax Software is positioned at the centre of a major shift in identity security, driven by Gartner’s introduction of the Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platform (IVIP) category and its accompanying magic quadrant.
As organisations adopt cloud, SaaS, third-party access, and non-human identities, traditional identity governance approaches are no longer sufficient. Gartner notes that “identity security has become a data problem — one that existing governance tooling alone was not designed to solve.” The firm highlights that IVIP platforms must “provide real-time visibility into identity risk, connecting disparate sources into a unified, intelligence-driven context layer.”
IVIP reflects this new reality, moving organisations beyond static governance toward real-time insight, context, and risk-driven action across complex identity ecosystems.
What Is an Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platform (IVIP)?
Gartner defines IVIP as “a category of solutions that consolidate identity, access and activity data; enrich it with analytics and risk models; and surface prioritised actions to reduce identity-driven attack surface.”
In practical terms, IVIP enables near-real-time understanding of who has access to what, where risk is accumulating, and which identities or entitlements pose the greatest threat. This includes identifying toxic access combinations, excessive or orphaned privileges, and anomalous or suspicious behaviour.
Crucially, IVIP is not a replacement for Identity Governance and Administration (IGA). Instead, it acts as an intelligence and visibility layer that sits above existing identity tooling.
Why Traditional IGA Tools Need an Intelligence Layer
IGA platforms such as SailPoint and Saviynt remain critical for access lifecycle management, certification workflows, and policy enforcement. However, modern identity environments are distributed, fast-moving, and increasingly decentralised.
Static access reviews and point-in-time snapshots struggle to reflect continuously changing risk across hybrid infrastructure, SaaS applications, machine identities, and third-party access. Gartner highlights that governance tooling alone was not designed to keep pace with this complexity.
This is where IVIP fills the gap — providing continuous monitoring, contextual risk insight, and data-driven prioritisation to complement governance workflows.
How idax Aligns with Gartner’s IVIP Vision
idax Software is purpose-built around the core principles of IVIP. Rather than duplicating IGA functionality, idax enhances existing investments by ingesting identity, entitlement, and activity data from across the environment — including IGA platforms, directories, cloud infrastructure, and SaaS applications.
Through advanced analytics and AI-driven detection, idax correlates fragmented identity data to uncover high-risk access combinations, privilege accumulation, toxic entitlement patterns, and behavioural anomalies. These insights are surfaced as clear, prioritised actions that help teams improve governance outcomes, strengthen investigations, and reduce identity risk.
Gartner reinforces this: “IVIP should sit above governance systems as an independent intelligence plane, enabling continuous risk evaluation without disrupting existing operational processes.” By acting as an independent intelligence plane, idax enables continuous risk evaluation without disrupting established identity processes.
A Strategic Opportunity for Organisations and Partners
The formalisation of IVIP by Gartner creates a compelling narrative for organisations looking to strengthen identity security without undertaking disruptive replacement projects. By adding an intelligence and visibility layer with idax, organisations can make existing IGA investments more effective, measurable, and defensible.
For partners, idax offers a ready-to-sell IVIP-aligned solution — enabling new services around identity risk assessment, continuous monitoring, and targeted remediation.
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