Many companies take pride in their self-developed IT solutions. In the field of Identity & Access Management (IAM), we frequently encounter custom-built systems that have evolved over many years, originally created to meet specific needs. What initially seemed like a flexible and cost-effective alternative often turns into an unexpectedly expensive one-off – a bespoke solution that increasingly requires effort to maintain.

Ongoing maintainability becomes a real Achilles’ heel: every update to third-party systems, every new compliance requirement, and every security vulnerability demands adjustments or further development of the in-house solution. This ties up valuable, highly skilled IT resources.

In this presentation, we compare in-house development with standardized IA ...