Janrain®, the company that pioneered the Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) category, today announced it was recognized as an Overall Leader in KuppingerCole’s comprehensive Leadership Compass CIAM Platforms report. KuppingerCole is the leading European research firm specializing in Information Security, Identity & Access Management (IAM) and Digital Transformation. Citing Janrain’s support for GDPR compliance and 50 different Internet of Things (IoT) applications, KuppingerCole senior analyst John Tolbert wrote, “Janrain is mature and scalable, and should be seriously considered by organizations that need HA (high availability) and comprehensive marketing analytics features.”
In addition to naming Janrain an Overall Leader, KuppingerCole included Janrain as a Leader in the Overall Product, Overall Market, and Market/Product categories and gave the CIAM pioneer high marks for security, functionality, integration, interoperability, usability, innovativeness, market position and ecosystem. The firm also cited the following as special strengths Janrain brings to the CIAM market:
- Large enterprise client base: This speaks to Janrain’s global reach, scalability, and mission critical availability — Janrain is the only CIAM provider deployed in over 65 countries by 2,100 clients managing more than 1.5 billion identities with 99.999% availability.
- Fine-grained consent management: This fulfills GDPR’s privacy and security requirements.
- Excellent integration with social networks: This provides broad access to deep user data for comprehensive marketing analysis.
- IoT integration via OAuth2 Device Flow: Janrain was the first to enter into the IoT space in 2011 to prepare organizations for the coming flood of IoT data and dramatic increase in security, privacy and scalability needs.
- Privacy Shield certification: This ensures data protection compliance with transatlantic commerce requirements.
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