Note: this blog is a mirror of my HP Labs Blog, on the same topic, accessible at: http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Research-on-Security-and/bg-p/163

Friday, August 31, 2007

New “Identity & Access Management Services” Report

I’ve just come across this site providing an overview of a new report (to be released in September 2007), titled “Identity & Access Management Services”, by Research&Market:

“The "Identity & Access Management Services” report provides extensive research and rational analysis on the Identity Management industry at global level. This report has been made to help clients in analyzing the opportunities, challenges and drivers critical to the growth of identity management service industry. The forecast given in this report is not based on a complex economic model, but is intended as a rough guide to the direction in which the market is likely to move. It is based on a correlation between the past market growth and growth of base drivers….”

Here are some of the key findings of this work, including a list of the issues, facts and players that have been analysed:

Key Findings
  • Identity management services industry is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.28% over the period 2007 to 2011.
  • It is forecasted that hardware token authentication market will grow at a rate of 10.72% from 2003 to 2009.
  • Increasing investment in identity management-related technologies will further drive the identity management services industry in future.
  • Use of identity management services will curtail the administrative time up to 50%.
  • Identity management services can be applied to different industry verticals like banking, defense, and automotive manufacturing.


Key Issues and Facts Analyzed

  • The market size of the global identity management services industry.
  • Analysis of various challenges and opportunities for the industry.
  • The factors driving growth in this sector.
  • SWOT analysis of key players operating in the industry.

Key Players Analyzed

This section covers the key players operating in the global identity management service industry including BMC Software, Inc., Computer Associates, Novell Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Accenture, IBM Corporation, Hewlett Packard Co. etc.”

Further information is available here, including a “Table of Content”.

The “Industry Analysis” (and related SWOT analysis) and “Future Outlook (2007-2011)” sections might potentially provide some interesting insights about the current status of Identity Management Technologies/Services and where this area is heading: however it must be said that this report is not free (and actually it is quite expensive …).

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