For years, organisations have invested heavily in IAM: IGA here, PAM there, CIEM in the cloud, secrets management layered on top. Each of these tools solves an important problem — but each also creates its own silo.
The result? Identity data is scattered, inconsistent, and incomplete. Security leaders asking simple questions like “Who has access to our most critical systems?” often face days of manual digging across disconnected tools.
This is the challenge Gartner has now given a name: Identity Visibility & Intelligence Platforms (IVIP).
According to Gartner, IVIPs gather, categorise, and visualise identity data across directories, tools, and IAM domains.
They’re not another directory. They’re not meant to replace PAM, IGA, or CIEM. Instead, they act as the intelligence layer that makes sense of identity data already spread across the enterprise.
Key characteristics of IVIP:
Cross-tool visibility: Unify identity data from different sources into one view.
Context & relationships: Connect accounts, roles, and entitlements across systems — showing the real permission fabric.
Designed for modern complexity: Handle not just human users, but the exploding number of service accounts, API keys, and machine identities.
In short: IVIPs are the missing layer of visibility in the IAM stack.
Elimity explained this concept earlier in our blog in The 4-Step Guide to Building an Identity Data Fabric.
AI Readiness
AI projects create huge numbers of machine and service identities. Without visibility, organisations cannot answer even the simplest question: What can these AI agents actually access?
Risk Reduction and Zero Trust
Zero Trust means verifying every identity and every access. This is impossible without complete visibility. IVIP makes it possible to enforce least privilege at scale.
Regulatory Pressure and Compliance
Boards, auditors, and regulators now expect real-time answers. Spreadsheets are no longer enough. IVIP gives an authoritative view of access risk that meets modern compliance needs.
Security Team Efficiency
SOC analysts need context quickly. They must know what an account can do and what the blast radius is. IVIP provides instant insights, helping teams investigate faster and cut through the noise.
At Elimity, we have been building toward this vision from the very beginning.
Being mentioned in Gartner’s framing of IVIP validates our approach and highlights the differentiators that set us apart.
This approach is not new to us. In our earlier blog on the Identity Data Fabric, we explained the four steps that guide how Elimity delivers on this promise.
Gartner has given the category a name. We’ve been building it for years.
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