Given these requirements, we believe assuring effective and efficient privileged identity management capabilities in the hybrid cloud will favor comprehensive, well-integrated offerings over individual point solutions:
– Different PIM technologies across different platforms and environments, each implementing controls in a different way, can lead to inconsistent policy definition and enforcement. That results in less effective security, and gaps in coverage.
– And with multiple tools, the task of demonstrating compliance with the host of regulatory mandates most organizations must satisfy becomes significantly more complex. Multiple systems means multiple data stores for policies and operational logs. That data must be collected and consolidated before it’s consumable by audit and enforcement teams.
– Finally, multiple solutions boost administrative complexity and operational costs. With a comprehensive system, there’s a single point for defining and enforcing policy, gaining access to systems, and monitoring and reporting on results.

Take a look on the Xceedium blog entry about this topic