Analyst Chat #305: IGA in 2026 - NHIs, Sovereignty & the Platform Shift

Yeah, so really, we want to really draw from your research, from your experience.

And IGA is a market segment that is around for quite a while, but that does not mean that it's stalling or getting boring or does not evolve.

All of this is completely wrong.

It's changing.

So when we look at IGA from your research, where does IGA stand today? What has happened? Where it is now? What's the state of the union?

Absolutely, completely agree with you.

I think most of the people would say that IGA is a very mature market.

There's not much happening, but it's completely the opposite.

You can say IGA traditionally was definitely more driven towards more static models and more towards siloed components.

But what we are seeing right now when we did this report, when we did our current analysis on this IGA report, is that The vendors are moving towards some more, you can say, a converged platform for lifecycle management, access governance, access intelligence capabilities.

Then also some are also providing password management capabilities as well.

So it's all being done on one single platform and that seems to be the new theme as well.

But what is also interesting right now is that due to the current demand as well now the types of identities that are being supported is not just limited to workforce contractors partners it is now also being expanded to the to this new uh genre of identity is called the non-human identities and the ig vendors are now also covering this part of the you can say work for you can say identities as well so it is definitely moving into that side It is also equally driven by the customers as well as the customers are looking for a more integrated solution for all types of identities and all types of modules.

But that said, you can say that some organizations are still currently preferring and depending on what is their industry and what is the focus.

to have a bit more central control into their on-premises rather than just having a more fully deployed into the cloud.

So it's a bit of a mix of both right now.

So it's definitely an interesting time to be here.

But I think with the current advancement in IGA, I think we are at a really