
LoginRadius held steady in sixth place, while Transmit Security - which raised $543 million last year - is new to the list. Microsoft and OneWelcome leapt from ninth to seventh and 10th to ninth, respectively. The latest rankings represent a drop for SAP and WSO2, which fell from third to fifth and eighth to 10th, respectively. Challenger: Cisaas, Cloudentity, Optimal IDM, 1Kosmos, Simeio, Synacor, CoffeeBean, Xayone, Nevis Security, NRI, ReachFive, Fusion Auth, DruID.Leader: SAP, LoginRadius, Microsoft, Transmit Security, OneWelcome, WSO2.Outside of the top four, here's how KuppingerCole sees the CIAM market: Features that were considered innovative in the previous edition of this report are going mainstream." "The 'consumerization of IT' is exemplified by the push to use CIAM methods and technologies for registration, authentication, and authorization in workforce IAM. "Innovation in CIAM drives the wider IAM market," Tolbert wrote. Should the three companies be combined, it would take the bronze in market share, narrowly edging out IBM. Thoma Bravo has acquired SailPoint and plans to buy Ping and ForgeRock. Microsoft, Okta and IBM were the three market share leaders in the broader $13.6 billion identity and access management category last year, while Ping Identity and ForgeRock captured ninth and 10th place, according to IDC. "With every iteration of this report, we observe significant acquisitions of CIAM specialists by others in the market, and entry into the market of new vendors." "The trend toward digitalization of consumer experiences was well underway in the late 2010s, and the COVID pandemic forced more businesses and other organizations to expedite digital transformation," John Tolbert wrote in the 120-page report. And in the market leadership category, Microsoft again took gold, Auth0 catapulted from seventh to second place in market leadership due to becoming part of Okta, and SAP fell from second to third since the last report in late 2020, KuppingerCole found. ForgeRock, Ping Identity and IBM maintained the gold, silver and bronze, respectively, in innovation leadership. Ping Identity leapfrogged ForgeRock to capture the gold in product leadership, and IBM once again took the bronze. See Also: Live Webinar | Breaking Down Security Challenges so Your Day Doesn’t Start at 3pm


Perennial leaders ForgeRock, Ping Identity and IBM, along with a surging Okta, set themselves apart from the pack of CIAM vendors in the latest report by KuppingerCole analysts.
