SailPoint launches AI tool to speed identity cloud migration

SailPoint has launched Agentic Acceleration for companies moving legacy identity systems to its cloud platform, aiming to speed upgrades from on-premises software.

The offering is for customers migrating from SailPoint IdentityIQ or rival legacy systems to SailPoint Identity Security Cloud. It automates much of the modernisation process, including configuration work, workflows and policy translation that would otherwise require significant engineering effort.

At the centre of the approach is SailPoint's Virtual Architect, an artificial intelligence tool designed to convert legacy identity settings into a cloud deployment foundation. The system draws on two decades of identity security work and experience from thousands of large enterprise deployments.

The method is intended to shorten projects that have traditionally taken months. Customers can also review how their applications, workflows and provisioning processes would run in the cloud before beginning a full upgrade.

Migration focus

Cloud migration in identity management has often been slowed by the complexity of replacing long-established on-premises systems tied to internal processes and compliance requirements. Large organisations can face lengthy implementation work, as well as operational risks if access controls and provisioning rules are not carried over accurately.

SailPoint is positioning Agentic Acceleration as a way to reduce that burden by automating early-stage modernisation tasks. The service will be provided at no extra cost to customers upgrading through its forward deployed engineers.

That pricing decision could make the launch significant for existing users of IdentityIQ, SailPoint's long-standing on-premises product, as the wider software market continues to push customers towards subscription-based cloud services. It also gives SailPoint a new argument when targeting users of competing identity products that still run in customer data centres.

Matt Mills, President of SailPoint, described the launch in broader terms.

"SailPoint Agentic Acceleration is a paradigm shift for cloud adoption. We are not just offering an upgrade methodology; we are delivering a strategic business accelerant. By automating the foundational heavy lifting, we are removing the primary barriers of time, cost, and risk that have slowed enterprise transformation efforts. For our customers, this means realising the value of their cloud investment almost instantly. For the market, it signals a new standard for identity security, one that delivers intelligence with greater speed and less complexity," said Mills.

Partner angle

SailPoint also said the new method is intended to support its partner network. By reducing manual migration work at the start of a project, systems integrators and other partners may be able to move more quickly to later phases involving security design, governance and operational changes.

The announcement comes as identity security vendors adapt their products to environments in which machine accounts, automated processes and software agents are proliferating across corporate systems. That shift has increased attention on how access is granted, reviewed and revoked across both human and non-human identities.

SailPoint says its broader platform is built around adaptive identity security and risk-based access controls, an approach it argues is becoming more important as non-human identities outnumber human users in many enterprise environments.

For customers with ageing identity infrastructure, however, the immediate issue is often less about strategy than the practical difficulty of migration. Identity systems sit close to core business processes, connecting staff, contractors, applications and data permissions, which makes replacement projects particularly sensitive.

SailPoint said the Virtual Architect allows customers to validate fit before an upgrade begins by showing their actual applications, workflows and provisioning processes operating within Identity Security Cloud.