SailPoint expands connectivity, supports 21k+ applications

SailPoint Technologies announced the expansion of SailPoint Connectivity, which now supports integration with more than 1,100 enterprise applications and 20,000 custom applications.

This development is a significant enhancement to the company's Atlas platform, a unified identity security framework that aims to streamline and secure access to various business applications under a single identity protocol.

At the heart of SailPoint Connectivity is the capability to extend, connect, and integrate core identity security functionalities with the critical business applications that organisations use every day. This integration, in turn, is essential for promptly achieving identity security initiatives. According to SailPoint, the absence of such connectivity has been a common hindrance in legacy identity security implementations, impacting effective governance of access across different applications and systems.

"SailPoint is one of those rare security products that both makes things easier for the business and delivers strategic value," said Lachlan McGill, General Manager of Cyber Risk and Compliance at Salvation Army. "The comprehensiveness of the SailPoint integrations was very important to us, as was the ability to easily build custom connectors. It's great to be able to report to the Board and senior executives about the controls we have around identity."

SailPoint Connectivity includes deep integrations with strategic customer applications, comprehensive vertical and category connectivity, and standardised low-code connectivity tools. This ensures effective integration and extension of SailPoint's identity security to the business-critical applications, software, and systems that enterprises use most. The company's recently introduced application onboarding for SailPoint Identity Security Cloud leverages AI-powered recommendations to discover and apply identity security policies to ungoverned applications, aiding in complete application lifecycle management.

"Enterprise security is both constant and continuous, and baseline visibility into access across applications must come first," stated Grady Summer, Executive Vice President of Product at SailPoint. "With tens of thousands of connectivity options and strategic integrations, SailPoint Connectivity gives our customers an in-depth and seamless solution to apply unified identity security functionality to the applications they use every day. By securely, efficiently, and comprehensively providing the right access to key applications, we're helping customers accelerate their programme right out of the gate and see immediate value."

SailPoint's integration capabilities were a decisive factor for Currys, a major UK-based electronics retailer, in their selection of the product. Nicholas Rossiter, Head of Technology Risk at Currys, remarked on the effectiveness of SailPoint's solutions: "Currys used SailPoint's integrations to connect to SAP ECC and S4 seamlessly. SailPoint's connectors and integrations have worked well for us. They've been one of the success factors for our deployment. We've even used API calls to automate integrations with some of our legacy systems, and it's worked quite nicely."

The enhancement of SailPoint Connectivity represents another step in the company's ongoing efforts to provide comprehensive identity security solutions that can adapt to the evolving complexities of modern digital ecosystems. This expansion is likely to be particularly beneficial for organisations grappling with the governance challenges posed by a plethora of applications and systems, both commercial and custom-built.