CloudEagle.ai vs. SailPoint: Managing SaaS Access with Automation & AI

As organizations rely more on SaaS apps, managing access to these apps has become more challenging. While essential for daily work, SaaS apps can pose risks if not properly secured.

To solve this, companies are turning to platforms with automation and AI to simplify access management, reduce errors, and improve security.

SailPoint is known for its identity and access management, but it struggles with the growing complexity of SaaS apps, especially in automation and real-time visibility.

That’s where CloudEagle.ai helps. It augments SailPoint by providing automation, AI-powered insights, improved visibility, and cost optimization, resulting in a more robust solution for managing SaaS access.

Let’s know more about this in detail.

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TL;DR

• SailPoint focuses on managing identities, but it doesn't give full visibility into all SaaS apps. CloudEagle.ai solves this by showing you all your apps, including Shadow IT, so nothing goes unmanaged.
• SailPoint doesn’t offer SaaS spend optimization, whereas CloudEagle.ai tracks and optimizes SaaS spend, identifying unused or underutilized apps to reduce costs.
• The tool excels at identity lifecycle management, but CloudEagle.ai automates the entire SaaS user lifecycle, improving efficiency and security.
• It doesn’t have detailed license management features. CloudEagle.ai tracks SaaS licenses, ensuring compliance and optimal usage to avoid overspending.
•  While SailPoint offers RBAC, CloudEagle.ai provides advanced, context-aware access controls like JIT access and location-based restrictions to improve security and compliance.

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1. Overview of Sailpoint

SailPoint is an identity governance platform that helps organizations manage user identities, access permissions, and compliance across both on-premises and cloud applications. By automating identity governance and access management, SailPoint helps organizations protect sensitive information, reduce risks, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.

A. Key Features of Sailpoint

• Streamlined Access Management: The tool automates user access management across apps, ensuring proper permissions are granted. However, it lacks detailed visibility into SaaS application usage and costs.
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): This simplifies permissions by associating users with roles. While effective for security, it doesn't provide deep insights into SaaS application licensing and usage.
• Policy Enforcement & Compliance: Ensures compliance with internal and external policies. Yet, managing compliance around SaaS renewals and usage can still require additional tools.
• Audit & Reporting: This offers comprehensive auditing and reporting for user access and compliance. It doesn't, however, track SaaS application usage or associated costs in detail.
• Identity Lifecycle Management: Manages the user lifecycle for application access but does not provide a complete solution for managing SaaS application licenses and renewals.

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2. Challenges of Relying Solely on SailPoint

While SailPoint excels in identity governance, organizations may struggle with:

A. Security Gaps in Access Control

While SailPoint offers robust role-based access control, it may not provide enough granular control over individual SaaS apps. This can lead to potential security gaps, especially if access permissions aren’t continuously monitored and updated.

B. Limited SaaS Application Visibility (Shadow IT)

SailPoint doesn’t provide deep visibility into shadow IT, which includes SaaS applications used without IT’s knowledge. This can result in unmanaged, potentially risky apps operating within the organization, increasing security vulnerabilities and compliance risks.

C. Limited SaaS Spend Optimization

SailPoint focuses on identity management and access control, but it doesn’t provide insights into SaaS application usage and spend. Without this, organizations can end up overspending on unused or underutilized software, missing out on opportunities to optimize their SaaS portfolio.

D. Inefficient User Provisioning & Deprovisioning

While SailPoint excels in identity lifecycle management, its SaaS provisioning and deprovisioning capabilities are limited. Without seamless integration with SaaS platforms, it is challenging to ensure that users have the right access and that expired licenses are properly removed.

E. No Detailed License Management

SailPoint lacks comprehensive features like license reclamation workflows for identifying and repurposing SaaS licenses. As a result, organizations may struggle to track renewals, understand license usage, and ensure compliance with vendor agreements, leading to unnecessary spending.

F. Limited Integration Support

SailPoint seamlessly integrates with many identity systems but may struggle to integrate with the vast number of SaaS apps that organizations use. Without seamless integration, managing SaaS applications, licenses, and renewals can become time-consuming and prone to errors.

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3. How Does CloudEagle.ai Augment SailPoint In Access Management?

While SailPoint excels in identity governance, CloudEagle.ai enhances SaaS access management with features like centralized application visibility, improved access control using RBAC, ABAC, JIT, PoLP, and others.

Here’s how CloudEagle.ai augments SailPoint's capabilities:

A. Complete SaaS Application Visibility

SailPoint often lacks deep visibility into the full range of SaaS applications in use within an organization. CloudEagle.ai fills this gap by offering complete visibility into all SaaS applications, including those that may be managed outside of IT, often referred to as Shadow IT.

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With CloudEagle.ai, organizations can track and manage all SaaS applications across their entire stack, ensuring that no application goes unnoticed, reducing risks associated with unapproved and unmanaged apps.

Know how Heath Ceramic's IT and Finance team got 100% SaaS visibility and spend data using CloudEagle.ai.

B. Advanced SaaS Spend Optimization

SailPoint focuses on ensuring that users have the right access to the right applications, but it does not provide insights into SaaS spend or cost efficiency.

CloudEagle.ai enhances this by offering advanced SaaS spend optimization, providing insights into how much your organization is spending on different applications, and highlighting opportunities to reduce costs.

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With CloudEagle.ai, organizations can easily identify underutilized software, eliminate redundant subscriptions, and ensure that they are only paying for what they use.

C. Real-Time Spend Tracking

CloudEagle.ai takes spend optimization a step further with real-time spend tracking. While SailPoint manages identity and access control, it doesn’t provide the continuous tracking of SaaS spend that CloudEagle.ai does.

By integrating with SailPoint, CloudEagle.ai allows organizations to track SaaS costs in real-time, ensuring that organizations can maintain cost efficiency and avoid overpayments as subscription terms change or new applications are adopted.

D. Detailed Application Usage Analytics

CloudEagle.ai provides detailed application usage analytics, a critical feature that SailPoint doesn’t cover in depth.

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With CloudEagle.ai, you can gather detailed insights into how frequently your SaaS applications are being used, which teams or individuals are using them, and how much value they are getting from the application.

These insights help organizations optimize access, improve license allocation, and ensure that applications are being used efficiently, which complements SailPoint’s access management capabilities.

E. Automated User Provisioning and Deprovisioning

While SailPoint automates identity lifecycle processes, CloudEagle.ai takes it a step further by automating the entire user lifecycle for SaaS apps, including user provisioning and deprovisioning.

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This reduces human error, improves security, and saves time. By automating provisioning with CloudEagle.ai, organizations can save over 500+ hours annually on onboarding, making the process more efficient and cost-effective.

On the contrary, when employees leave the company or change roles, CloudEagle.ai ensures that their access is immediately revoked, preventing unauthorized access.

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Check out how Treasure Data streamlined employee offboarding using CloudEagle.ai.

F. Comprehensive License Management

SailPoint is effective at managing user access, but it lacks built-in tools to track SaaS license usage or ensure compliance with licensing agreements. CloudEagle.ai addresses this gap by offering comprehensive license management features, allowing organizations to track license allocation, usage, and expiration dates.

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This helps prevent over-purchasing and ensures compliance with software terms. By integrating with SailPoint, CloudEagle.ai ensures that licenses are properly assigned to the right users, departments, or teams, optimizing license utilization and reducing costs.

Additionally, CloudEagle.ai offers license reclamation workflows that identify unused or underused SaaS apps, cancel those licenses, and save them for later use. These licenses can be reassigned to new or current users, helping to better manage licenses.

G. Self-Service App Catalog

One of the key enhancements that CloudEagle.ai provides over SailPoint is the self-service app catalog. While SailPoint offers role-based access control to apps, it lacks a centralized place where users can request or access applications based on their needs.

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CloudEagle.ai’s self-service app catalog allows users to discover and request access to approved applications based on pre-set policies, streamlining the app request process and ensuring that only compliant applications are in use.

H. Enhanced Security with Access Control

While SailPoint uses role-based access control (RBAC), CloudEagle.ai enhances security by offering more detailed, context-aware access control. It looks at factors like usage patterns, compliance needs, and cost, allowing organizations to manage access in real time.

CloudEagle.ai also provides just-in-time (JIT) access, which provides temporary access only when needed and revokes it after the task is complete, and location-based access control, which restricts access based on the user's location or network.

I. Seamless Integrations with Non-SCIM Apps

SailPoint mainly works with apps that support SCIM, but many companies use apps that don't. CloudEagle.ai integrates with over 500 apps, including non-SCIM ones, allowing better access and license management for more SaaS tools.

By connecting with these apps, CloudEagle.ai ensures user access is managed consistently across all apps, whether they support SCIM or not, providing complete access control and reducing the risks of non-compliant access.

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Check out this testimonial from Alice Park at Remediant, where she explains how CloudEagle.ai helped streamline onboarding and offboarding.

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4. Conclusion

While SailPoint is great for identity governance and access control, CloudEagle.ai takes it to the next level by giving better visibility into SaaS apps, automating user management, optimizing spending, and handling license management.

When used with SailPoint, CloudEagle.ai makes SaaS management simpler, reduces security risks, ensures compliance, and cuts costs. With features like real-time tracking, usage analytics, and managing both SCIM and non-SCIM applications, CloudEagle.ai helps organizations get the most out of their SaaS investments.

Together, SailPoint and CloudEagle.ai provide a complete solution to manage SaaS access and licenses while keeping things secure and compliant. For a more efficient and cost-effective SaaS management experience, integrating CloudEagle.ai with SailPoint is a great choice.

Schedule a demo with CloudEagle.ai and learn how it can enhance your SaaS access management.

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