Identity Governance and Administration, App Proliferation, and the App Integration Chasm

Identity Governance and Administration, App Proliferation, and the App Integration Chasm highlights that most enterprises use more than 1,000 apps, with a mean of about 1,100 across organisations, and that only around half of these are adequately integrated with IGA. The piece notes that some large organisations, such as a top 10 US financial institution, reported around 14,000 apps, and that many apps remain outside visibility, contributing to shadow SaaS and under‑integrated portfolios.

It explains that the gap in app integration arises partly because many apps do not support modern identity standards like SAML, OpenID Connect and SCIM, and because connectors can be time‑consuming and costly. The author discusses how the vendor ecosystem is responding, with new IGA features to ease onboarding and a mix of providers focused on governance, provisioning and access control for disconnected apps.

The article, dated 14 November 2025, attributes the research to Omdia and underscores the ongoing challenge of balancing stability, agility and security in workforce identity security. according to Omdia