Identifying business drivers and changes for a hybrid move
There are many reasons why a company needs or wants to move to a hybrid IAM strategy. The first relevant argument is that such a strategy builds the base infrastructure to support all other cloud solutions by providing authentication and authorization over company borders. Another very important side-effect is that you start to support new services and workloads. Furthermore, to be realistic, most companies drive their own On-Premise infrastructure, which needs to be integrated and added with additional functionality to support different cloud scenarios. Typical questions you will receive are:
- Does the company need to support different cloud delivery models such as SaaS or PaaS?
- Does the company need to support legacy applications or do they try to move them to the cloud?
- Does the company need a central solution to manage On-Premise and cloud services at the same time?
- Does the company need to integrate external identities to work...