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. We have identified four major trends in 2007: * Market consolidation: For the most part, larger platform vendors extended their positions significantly in 2006, while smaller vendors exhibited limited growth, and this trend is continuing in 2007. Large-vendor WAM solutions offer reasonable or even extensive functionality at competitive price points and are backed by large, diverse organizations that often have highly capable professional service organizations. For these reasons, the value propositions of best-of-breed vendors are becoming much less compelling, and many smaller vendors are suffering as a result. * Compliance focus: Compliance and audit requirements are driving enterprises to separate security — or at least authentication and authorization — from applications wherever possible. Security is increasingly seen as an "envelope" around business logic that should be managed and controlled separately, and this is resulting in more interest in heterogeneous access management and specifically in WAM solutions. This approach is also pushing WAM vendors to look for ways to easily extend their offerings to more enforcement points. One example: Several WAM solutions now offer capabilities that allow access control rules to be extended "behind" the application, to the database. * Pricing: Downward pricing pressure and tough competition continue in the WAM market, and vendors continue to try out different kinds of pricing options for different customer situations. Average per-user list pricing has continued to drop, with 5,000-user costs averaging less than $11.00 per user and 100,000-user costs averaging about $3.50 per user. One million-user pricing is approaching $1.00 per user, but deployments of that size are more likely to use site licensing. Processor-based pricing continues to be attractive to some Gartner clients. In 2007, some vendors have experimented with subscription-based pricing, which replaces a larger upfront licensing cost with a smaller periodic (monthly or annual) cost. Subscription pricing is a potential prelude to outsourced service offerings for WAM and greater IAM. Perhaps the most appealing pricing model is concurrent-user pricing, in which the buyer is charged based on the largest number of concurrent authentications or user sessions supported. This model appeals especially to enterprises running larger external customer or partner portals, because it does not penalize them for having dormant or rare users in their user repositories. Concurrent-user pricing would seem — along with per-authentication pricing, which is currently unknown — to be the fairest way to measure WAM solution use. These results indicate a growing interest in identity federation, especially given that half of the WAM products do not bundle federation capabilities.
. We have identified four major trends in 2007: * Market consolidation: For the most part, larger platform vendors extended their positions significantly in 2006, while smaller vendors exhibited limited growth, and this trend is continuing in 2007. Large-vendor WAM solutions offer reasonable or even extensive functionality at competitive price points and are backed by large, diverse organizations that often have highly capable professional service organizations. For these reasons, the value propositions of best-of-breed vendors are becoming much less compelling, and many smaller vendors are suffering as a result. * Compliance focus: Compliance and audit requirements are driving enterprises to separate security — or at least authentication and authorization — from applications wherever possible. Security is increasingly seen as an "envelope" around business logic that should be managed and controlled separately, and this is resulting in more interest in heterogeneous access management and specifically in WAM solutions. This approach is also pushing WAM vendors to look for ways to easily extend their offerings to more enforcement points. One example: Several WAM solutions now offer capabilities that allow access control rules to be extended "behind" the application, to the database. * Pricing: Downward pricing pressure and tough competition continue in the WAM market, and vendors continue to try out different kinds of pricing options for different customer situations. Average per-user list pricing has continued to drop, with 5,000-user costs averaging less than $11.00 per user and 100,000-user costs averaging about $3.50 per user. One million-user pricing is approaching $1.00 per user, but deployments of that size are more likely to use site licensing. Processor-based pricing continues to be attractive to some Gartner clients. In 2007, some vendors have experimented with subscription-based pricing, which replaces a larger upfront licensing cost with a smaller periodic (monthly or annual) cost. Subscription pricing is a potential prelude to outsourced service offerings for WAM and greater IAM. Perhaps the most appealing pricing model is concurrent-user pricing, in which the buyer is charged based on the largest number of concurrent authentications or user sessions supported. This model appeals especially to enterprises running larger external customer or partner portals, because it does not penalize them for having dormant or rare users in their user repositories. Concurrent-user pricing would seem — along with per-authentication pricing, which is currently unknown — to be the fairest way to measure WAM solution use. These results indicate a growing interest in identity federation, especially given that half of the WAM products do not bundle federation capabilities.