SailPoint Features

User on/off Boarding (6)

Self Service Access requests: Based on 42 SailPoint reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Users can request access to an application and be automatically provisioned if they meet policy requirements
Smart/Automated Provisioning: Based on 44 SailPoint reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Automates account/access rights creation, changes and removals for on-premise and cloud apps
Role Management: Based on 41 SailPoint reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Establish roles that create a set of authentication rights for each user in the role
Policy Management: Based on 38 SailPoint reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Enables administrators to create access policies and applies policy controls throughout request and provisioning processes
Access Termination: Based on 39 SailPoint reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Terminate access to multiple applications based on dates
Approval Workflows: Based on 44 SailPoint reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allow business stake-holders/managers to approve or reject requested changes to access via a defined workflow

User Maintenance (3)

Self Service Password Reset: Based on 37 SailPoint reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Enables users to reset passwords without administrator interaction. Enforces password policies when resetting.
Bulk Changes: Based on 38 SailPoint reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Change users and permissions in bulk
Bi-directional Identity Synchronization: Based on 37 SailPoint reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Keep identity attributes consistent across applications whether the change is made in the provisioning system or the application

Governance (2)

Administration (8)

Reporting: Based on 43 SailPoint reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Standard and customized report creation to ensure appropriate access rights have been assigned
Mobile App: Based on 31 SailPoint reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provides mobile application that alerts administrators of potential issues and allows administrators manage access rights
Ease of set up for target systems: Based on 42 SailPoint reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Support for wide variety of cloud and on premise apps to automate provisioning for existing and new applications procured
APIs: Based on 40 SailPoint reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provides appropriate application interfaces to enable custom integrations for unique business requirements
Bi-Directional Identity Synchronization: Keep identity attributes consistent across applications whether the change is made in the provisioning system or the application.
Policy Management: Enables administrators to create access policies and applies policy controls throughout request and provisioning processes.
Cloud Directory: Provides or integrates with a cloud based directory option that contains all user names and attributes.
Application Integrations: Integrates with common applications such as service desk tools.

User Experience (3)

Authentication (4)

Multi-Factor Authentication: Provides support for Multi-Factor authentication, so users are required to provide multiple factors to authenticate. For example, something they know, Something they have or something they are.
Biometric Authentication: Uses biometric trait or characteristic to authenticate. Additional hardware may be required to support this type.
Other Authentication Methods: Provides authentication capabilities outside standard authentication methods such as MFA and biometric .
Role-Specific Authentication: Able to assign authentication requirements for different levels of users, such as more robust authentication for senior level executives.

Functionality (16)

Structure type: Searches structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data for sensitive data.
Contextual search: Offers contextual search functions to understand factors such as file type, sensitivity, user type, location, and other metadata.
Template algorithms: Has template rules and pattern matching algorithms (PII, PCI, PHI and more)
Custom algorithms: Offers the option to create custom templates and rules based on department, user type and data type.
False-positive management: Offers false-positive management functions
Multiple file and location types: Search multiple file types (images, PDFs, etc.) and repository locations (such as on-premise databases, cloud storage, email servers, websites, etc.)
Real-time monitoring: Monitors data stores in real-time searching for newly created sensitive data.
Dashboard: Offers a dashboard showing specific location of sensitive data.
Compliance: Facilitates compliance and enables adherence to common industry regulatory standards such as GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO, and others.
Reporting: Offers reporting functionality.
User provisioning: Simplifies or automates user provisioning, deprovisioning, and other user role changes. This feature was mentioned in 77 SailPoint reviews.
Password manager: Offers password management tools to end users. This feature was mentioned in 70 SailPoint reviews.
Single Sign-on: Offers single sign-on functionalities to end users, allowing them to authenticate once and be given access to all of their company accounts. 72 reviewers of SailPoint have provided feedback on this feature.
Enforces policies: Enforces user-access policies based on individual, role type, group membership or other factors to prevent unauthorized access to company systems and data. This feature was mentioned in 73 SailPoint reviews.
Authentication: Authenticates users prior to granting access to company systems. This feature was mentioned in 70 SailPoint reviews.
Multi-factor authentication: Based on 70 SailPoint reviews. Offers multi-factor authentication methods to verify a user's identity.

Type (2)

Reporting (4)

Tracking: As reported in 68 SailPoint reviews. Tracks user activities across protected systems.
Reporting: As reported in 75 SailPoint reviews. Provides reporting functionality.
Access & Permission Change Reporting: Log and report all modifications to user roles and access rights. This feature was mentioned in 27 SailPoint reviews.
Compliance & Audit Trail Export: Provide standardized reports for regulatory compliance and audits. This feature was mentioned in 27 SailPoint reviews.

Access control - Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (4)

Monitoring - Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (2)

Auditing - Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (2)

Agentic AI - Sensitive Data Discovery (4)

Authentication & Authorization - Identity and Access Management (IAM) (1)

Administration & Governance - Identity and Access Management (IAM) (2)

Generative AI - Identity and Access Management (IAM) (3)

AI‑Driven Access Anomaly Detection: Identify unusual access patterns using machine learning models. 22 reviewers of SailPoint have provided feedback on this feature.
Automated Policy Tuning: Dynamically adjust access policies based on risk and AI-generated insights. 22 reviewers of SailPoint have provided feedback on this feature.
Predictive Role Recommendations: Suggest appropriate user roles based on usage patterns and peer behavior. This feature was mentioned in 21 SailPoint reviews.