Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it has been named a Sample Vendor in the 2025 Gartner report titled “Reduce IAM Technical Debt” by Nat Krishnan and Erik Wahlstrom.

As hybrid and multicloud environments become the norm, legacy identity systems and siloed architectures have created technical debt and operational burdens. Strata’s Maverics platform enables organizations to unify IAM silos through identity orchestration and unified single sign-on (SSO), allowing enterprises to support the coexistence of multiple identity providers (IDPs) without rewriting legacy applications or disrupting business.

Rationalizing IAM Without Rewriting Applications

Maverics decouples identity from applications, making it possible to layer in modern protocols like SAML, OpenID Connect, and FIDO2—even in environments still running legacy WAM, LDAP, or homegrown authentication mechanisms. This enables centralized policy enforcement, federated session management, and simultaneous support for multiple IDPs to ensure IAM resilience.

“We believe being mentioned as a Sample Vendor in this Gartner report demonstrates the unique value we provide for customers looking to rationalize their identity stack and unify SSO without refactoring hundreds, sometimes thousands of applications,” said Eric Olden, CEO of Strata Identity. “IAM technical debt has quietly become one of the biggest roadblocks to cloud transformation. Strata’s Maverics platform helps enterprises modernize at their own pace, unify siloed systems, and secure access without disrupting legacy infrastructure.”

Reducing IAM Technical Debt with Orchestration

The Gartner report cites five top contributors to technical debt: custom and siloed IAM tools, nonstandard and legacy enterprise applications, incomplete discovery process, poor IAM hygiene, and complex and incomplete enrollment of applications and services.

As the report explains, “IAM teams must break down the applications and services into categories that are based on their type and their existing support for IAM controls. They must collaborate with application owners to pick the appropriate IAM modernization strategies and collaborate with them on a phased modernization approach. The applications must then be prioritized based on the business impact as identified by the stakeholders. Leverage orchestration, proxies and connectors where needed as an alternative to replacing and rebuilding existing legacy applications. Wider adoption of identity standards and protocols for all integrations will prevent further accumulation of technical debt going forward.”

Strata helps organizations operationalize these recommendations through its identity orchestration layer that bridges incompatible identity systems, vendors, and environments—turning modernization into an iterative, low-risk process. By abstracting identity logic from individual applications, Maverics enables seamless policy enforcement, failover, and user authentication across hybrid and multicloud environments without rewriting apps or disrupting user experiences.

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Gartner, “Reduce IAM Technical Debt,” by Nat Krishnan and Erik Wahlstrom, 23 June 2025.

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About Strata Identity

Strata Identity enables organizations to orchestrate and modernize identity without disrupting existing infrastructure while maintaining a frictionless user experience. By decoupling identity from applications, Strata's Maverics platform unifies SSO, can rationalize redundant IDPs, and ensures continuous access during outages via IDP failover. It enables organizations to extend zero-trust controls across human, machine, and autonomous AI identities. Led by CEO Eric Olden—co-author of the SAML standard—Strata also created the Identity Query Language (IDQL) and open-source Hexa project to help standardize multi-cloud identity management. Learn more at Strata.io and follow us on LinkedIn and YouTube.

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We believe being mentioned as a Sample Vendor in this Gartner report demonstrates the unique value we provide for customers looking to rationalize their identity stack and unify SSO without refactoring hundreds, sometimes thousands of applications.