Microsoft has been named a Leader on the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management for its Microsoft Active Directory (Azure AD) competencies.

The company was positioned farthest right on the completeness of vision axis, and third equal for its ability to execute.

According to Gartner, More than 70% of new deployments will prefer converged identity and access management (IAM) by 2025, and by 2024, low-code and no-code orchestration tools will be critical in IAM products.

Speaking about Microsoft, the report notes, “Its Azure AD product is sold in bundles and is focused on delivering AM as part of a converged SaaS IAM platform for internal and external AM use cases. Its operations are geographically diversified, and its clients vary in size and industry. Most Microsoft clients use its products for workforce scenarios.”

“Recent product innovations include the addition of FIDO2 support (for passwordless authentication), an agent for joining AD forests and adaptive access for CIAM,” the report notes, however, these are what Gartner considers to be catch-up features.

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