The Future is not "Faster Manual" -- It's Intelligent Automation

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Large enterprises routinely run 10,000 or more applications when SaaS, packaged software, custom applications, legacy systems, and AI tools and agents are considered together.

However, most identity programs were built to govern a relatively small set of well understood systems – and most organizations focus on the most visible applications, leaving others ungoverned and creating security loopholes.

All applications matter, but they do not all require the same level of governance.

Just a small percentage of applications are strictly regulatory, a larger portion are mission-critical, and most support day-to-day business processes. When identity security can’t scale across the application landscape, it leaves gaps that no amount of policy or process can close.

To solve this, organizations need a flexible and progressive approach to governance. That’s where we come in. SailPoint’s connectivity framework provides this path, enabling companies to start with visibility and apply deeper control where it matters most.

This framework helps you apply the right level of control to the right application. A low-risk marketing tool doesn't need the same deep governance as your core financial system.

The Three Pillars of Modern Onboarding

1. Visibility first: You can't govern what you can't see. The first step is always discovery—finding every enterprise application in your landscape, managed or not. This stage is about discovering everything, including shadow IT, to build a complete inventory.
2. Broad-based governance to satisfy compliance needs: Once you know what applications you have, use pre-configured connectors to quickly bring thousands of low-to-medium risk apps under consistent governance. 
3. Deep governance for critical applications: For the crown jewels of your application landscape (SOX, financial and ERP systems, for example), apply deep, audit-ready controls and granular entitlement management.

Progressive governance for a more secure enterprise

This framework allows organizations to stop treating all applications the same and instead apply the right level of control to the right app at the right time.

Because let’s face it: Identity security and IT admins are not ticket-takers. They are an automation architect, a security strategist, and a business enabler who curates and oversees an intelligent onboarding engine. We can help.