What are Identity Visibility & Intelligence Platforms?

Identity Visibility & Intelligence Platforms collect, categorize, and visualize identity data across tools and domains, creating a single view of identities, relationships, activity, configuration, and posture. They do not replace IAM, IGA, or PAM. They work above them as an intelligence layer that turns siloed data into clear insight and action.

Identity Visibility & Intelligence Platforms (IVIP)

Why now?

Identity sprawl across hybrid and multi-cloud makes “who has access to what, and why” hard to answer in one place.

Regulations and audits, including NIS2, expect consistent evidence and clear ownership.

AI and automation depend on clean, connected identity data.

Risk changes faster than governance cycles; teams need earlier signals on over-privilege, shadow admins, and toxic access.

CORE CAPABILITIES

One place for access visibility

Brings accounts, groups, and permissions from all systems into a single view so you can quickly tell who has access to what.

One source for clean identity data

Turns scattered data into a consistent inventory with owners and last-used details, making stale or missing access easy to spot.

Risk analytics and detection

Flags too much access, unused or orphaned accounts, and toxic combinations, and explains why they matter.

From visibility to action

Sends review tasks and tickets to the tools you already use and produces audit-ready evidence.

IVIP pulls identity data into one clear view so you can act fast.Identity Visibility & Intelligence Platforms pulls identity data into one clear view so you can act fast

Common use cases

No clear view of access?

IVIP connects directories, cloud, and apps into one model so you can answer “who has access to what and why” in minutes.

Access reviews keep dragging?

IVIP gives reviewers owner, last-used, and peer context, then sends review tasks to your IGA and routes changes to your service desk.

Too much standing privilege?

IVIP flags unused and excessive permissions and segregation-of-duties issues, then suggests least-privilege changes in PAM and IGA.

Struggling to prove access for audits?

IVIP produces a consistent cross-system view with change history and exports evidence packs on demand.

A New Gartner Category

In the 2025 Hype Cycle for Digital Identity, Gartner introduced Identity Visibility & Intelligence Platforms (IVIP) as a way to close the gap between today’s IAM controls and the visibility teams need. It formalizes an intelligence layer that unifies identity data across tools and domains into one actionable view.

 

Read more about the new category

 

 

Identity Visibility & Intelligence Platforms makes least privilege practical by showing what exists today, what should change tomorrow, and how to drive it through the tools you already own.

 

Identity Visibility & Intelligence Platforms

Our partner Elimity

Elimity is positioned by Gartner within the IVIP framework. It brings together identity data from all your systems, highlights risky access and excessive permissions, and presents business-ready dashboards for IT, audit, and compliance.

Elimity is quick to set up. In just a few weeks, your organization will clearly see who has access to what—and why.

Connectors include Entra ID and AD, Okta, SailPoint and Omada, CyberArk and Delinea, Workday and SAP, AWS, Azure, GCP, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, GitHub, and common file shares.

 

Learn more about our partner Elimity →

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Schedule a short meeting and confirm if Identity Visibility & Intelligence Platforms match your goals and tools.

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