Symplified was founded on the principle that identity is central to enterprise security. Today the company delivers an identity management services platform that manages user identities and access across any device or application, located on premises or in the cloud, anywhere in the world.

Research methodology: Symplified commissioned a survey conducted October 12 – 13, 2013 among 63 IT decision makers in firms with

3,000 or more employees who completed an online survey designed by Lawless Research LLC and programmed via Qualtrics, Inc. The

margin of error is +/- 12 percentage points at the 95 percent level of confidence.

About Symplified Symplified delivers a secure, comprehensive identity management services platform to manage user

identities and access across any device or application, located on premises or in the cloud, for businesses

around the world.

To learn more, visit www.symplified.com.

Cloud, Cost + Complexity

84%73%

44%

24% 19%

11%

MOBILEEMPLOYEES

CONTRACTORS

BUSINESS CUSTOMERS

PARTNERS

CONSUMER CUSTOMERS

S E C U R I T Y A N D T O T A L C O S T O F O W N E R S H I P are top priorities in identity management.

In a survey of enterprises managing a total of

4.5 Symplified gauged IAM priorities and pain points including:

SECURITY

COST

B E C A U S E N O S I N G L E T R A D I T I O N A L I A M P R O D U C T M E T A L L O F T H E I R N E E D S . . .

...many enterprises have created, and are now burdened with managing, a patchwork of multiple solutions. Mobile identities and the growing number of new applications are also common challenges.

19%

14%

R E G U L A T O R Y C O M P L I A N C E is among the top three most important goals enterprises want to address via IAM.

USING MULTIPLE TOOLS TO MANAGE IAM (E.G., ON-PREMISE, SPREADSHEETS, ACTIVE DIRECTORY, LDAP)

T H E M I G R A T I O N O F A P P L I C A T I O N S T O C L O U D S E R V I C E S . . . ...mobility and the need to manage non-employees' access to sensitive materials are challenging CIOs everywhere. IT is expected to do more with less while the volume of users, the diversity of their requirements, the proliferation of applications, and the demand for BYOD all explode.

MANAGING ACCESS W/OUT REPLICATING USER DATA

AUDITING USER ACTIVITIES WITHIN AN APPLICATION

MANAGING IDENTITY AND ACCESS FOR MOBILE DEVICES

OFFICE-BASED EMPLOYEES

M A N Y L A R G E O R G A N I Z A T I O N S A R E G R A P P L I N G

TIME AND EFFORT REQUIRED TO ADD NEW APPLICATIONS

MANAGING IDENTITY AND ACCESS FOR CLOUD-BASED APPLICATIONS

24%

24%

28%

28%

75%O F E N T E R P R I S E S M A N A G E

M O B I L E I D E N T I T I E S .

I N T H E E R A O F T H E E X T E N D E D E N T E R P R I S E :Fewer boundaries exist thanks to continuous innovations in cloud and mobile technologies; business applications are now on premises, cloud- and SaaS-based; and users extend beyond onsite employees to include contractors, customers and partners.

C H A L L E N G I N G T R A D I T I O N A L I D E N T I T Y M A N A G E M E N T M O D E L

I N C R E A S I N G L Y C O M P L E X M I X O F U S E R S :

M O S T I M P O R TA N T C R I T E R I A F O R I M P L E M E N T I N G A N I A M S Y S T E M :

PROVIDING + CONTROLLING ACCESS TO CLOUD-BASED APPLICATIONS

MANAGE COST OF IDENTITY AND ACCESS ADMINISTRATION

SIMPLIFY MANAGEMENT OF IAM

I D E N T I T Y A N D A C C E S S M A N A G E M E N T G O A L S , R A N K E D O N I M P O R TA N C E .

57%

20%

DATA SECURITY AND PRIVACY

36%

EFFICIENT SERVICE DELIVERY

TO USERS (PASSWORDS AND

ACCESS TO APPLICATIONS)

PROTECT SECURITY OF WEB AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS

ACCESSING APPLICATIONS AND DATA ON MOBILE DEVICES

with how to address these new challenges in identity and access management (IAM) with the legacy solutions they already have in place.

29%

29%

18%

27%2725% 21%

ONBOARDING AND PROMOTING VISIBILITY OF NEW APPLICATIONS

ON-PREMISEON-

PREMISE

T O P I D E N T I T Y A N D A C C E S S M A N A G E M E N T C H A L L E N G E S

10%UPFRONTCOST

60%

54%

51%

51%

48%

37%

37%

24%

27%

UP-TIME

TOTAL COSTOF OWNERSHIP

SECURITY OFCREDENTIALS

EASE OF IMPLEMENTATION

ACCESS FOR EXTERNAL USERS

EASE OF CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

COVERAGE FOR CORPORATE APPLICATION ON MOBILE DEVICES

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

COVERAGE FOR CLOUD-BASED APPLICATIONS

SCALABILITY

COMPLEXITY

MILLION GLOBAL IDENTITIES

the

O F E N T E R P R I S E S M A N A G E I D E N T I T I E S F O R A T L E A S T O N E T Y P E O F E X T E R N A L U S E R

50%