Puleng Technologies partners with SailPoint to help customers mitigate risk and address compliance

Puleng Technologies today announced a new partnership with SailPoint, the leading provider of identity and access management (IAM) solutions. The partnership strengthens Puleng's existing capabilities in delivering identity and data governance solutions projects while ensuring the delivery capabilities of its local technical team broadens its delivery capabilities, enhances its IAM delivery methodology and continues to build out its reputation as the leading IAM Security company within Africa.

Under the agreement, Puleng will integrate with, resell and provide professional services and support for SailPoint's governance-based identity and access management solutions.

SailPoint IdentityIQ is a unified IAM solution that offers risk-aware compliance management, closed-loop user lifecycle management, flexible provisioning, cloud access management, and identity intelligence all based on an integrated governance model.

"As SailPoint continues to expand our presence globally, we are seeing rapid momentum and adoption of our solutions in the South African market, particularly with leading companies in the finance and banking, telecommunications and retail verticals," said Harry Gould, Vice President of Worldwide Alliances and Channels for SailPoint. "We are very pleased to welcome Puleng to our partner ecosystem to help us keep pace with this increased demand and assist in building SailPoint's business locally to service this market and our customers. By leveraging SailPoint's industry-leading IAM solutions, Puleng can deliver streamlined and secure IAM systems that scale to accommodate growth in user populations, application coverage, unstructured data and new business units brought on board."

Muhammed Mayet, Director of the Puleng Security Division, said: "As a company, we are driven to provide exceptional client service. Working with SailPoint will allow us to offer our customers a solution that provides exceptional business benefits and is truly an enabler of business. Local companies will be able to accelerate the time to value for IAM implementations by leveraging the experienced team at Puleng to integrate, develop and deploy this solution."

By integrating with SailPoint IdentityIQ, Puleng is offering customers a solution to manage identities across the enterprise, as well as the access privileges of those identities to critical corporate assets, in order to mitigate risk, reduce IT costs, and ensure compliance. Powered by SailPoint, Puleng will provide superior visibility into and control over user access to sensitive applications and data, regardless of where they reside.