[MUSIC PLAYING] I'm Brian Chappell, and I'm the VP of Product Management here at One Identity, leading the product function across the globe. Wherever we go, identity is about gaining us access to something, but it's identity that's at the core. And having singular directories or singular identities can then lead you to the point of well, I just want to manage all the identities in my environment.
I don't care, really, what kinds of accesses they're being used for. I shouldn't care where they sit within the various directories I have. Those are just repositories for those sorts of things. So then I need a tool that sits on top of that, that starts with identity, deals with managing the identities, deals with the accesses that identities grant in one space, in one way, with one paradigm-- a properly, truly singular foundation, a singular platform for managing identity and access within your environment. So that's where the One Identity Cloud story starts, in terms of how we can deliver that kind of thing.
So in terms of us as a company, this is more of an evolution than a dramatic change to what we do. We had already started bringing many of our products together, and rather than just jamming them together in the hopes that people would see them as a singular solution, we've actually built some connective tissue so that the whole becomes greater than the sum of the parts, which is one of my favorite phrases because I think it is such a great thing when you can achieve it.
So that gets us so far, bringing those things together in that way, but we still end up with multiple configuration places. We still end up with multiple databases on the back end, and lots of complexity that perhaps doesn't need to be there. So the evolution is we'd already moved to the cloud with some of our solutions. This is that next stage of saying, well, let's look at our whole portfolio. Let's see how we can bring that together into a singular interface, a singular approach to managing identity.
At the same time, simplify what we're doing because many of the solutions that are out there are included have many, many decades of things being added to them. So let's take those products. Let's take everything we've learned over all of those years, apply that mass of expertise and just say, how would we do it from today?
How could we make this simpler for our customers so that they don't have to think about all of those multiple areas, and we come back to just that basic thing of let's manage the identities and the processes they have, and we don't lose the differences between the types of accesses, but we keep them under a consistent approach, which just then means if I go to an individual user, I see everything they have access to in one place.
And if I want to know who has access to a thing, I immediately who has access to it. It makes the lives of our customers easier because, day by day, they see an increasing number of identities out there in the environment and accounts, and they see an increasing number of applications. It's an enormously rapidly-growing environment. And the more we can do to help them focus on what's important on a day-to-day basis just is advantageous for both sides. This is taking everything we've learned, applying it to the problem today and coming up with a next-generation solution for the next 20 years.
And we're the first ones to come along and build a brand-new platform that's meant for today. Lots of people will be putting together products, and they will be linking them together. They may put a singular interface over the front of it to hide some of the complexity, but it's still there. It's going to influence the ways in which they can provide the capabilities to the end user and certainly in the ways that the user can interpret how the system is operating.
There's a lot of analysts in the past few years who have looked at this problem space and started to look at it in a connected way, and the term "identity fabric" has evolved out of that. To say these things are woven together or should be woven together in terms of their application. And that's great. Patchwork quilt is a beautiful thing, and many people make very many beautiful patchwork quilts, but it's still a patchwork.
Whereas we've come along and said, actually, let's weave a new fabric here, that is kind of one thread. It's just there to do the exact specific thing be this unified environment in which you manage all the identities and all the accesses, and we'll deal with the complexity underneath so that the end user just gets to see the benefits.
What I would just like everybody to about the One Identity Cloud is that this is a truly unified identity and access management platform. That is the be all and end all of its existence. It's not trying to be anything else outside that space, but it is trying to be everything within that space.
My name is Andrew Hartnett, and I run R&D and engineering here at One Identity. Everything that we do in engineering and R&D starts with the word "security." When we're dealing with customers' data. That we understand from a very in-depth perspective that security is top for us. And it is. It is not something that is going to change. But it is going to be woven into every single thing that we do.
One Identity Cloud is going to be a cloud platform by which we put our best of breed knowledge around the IAM space into the cloud. So as we move forward, what you will see is different sets of functionality and different products that we built into our
07:24