15 July 2025

SailPoint: IdentityIQ 8.5 New Features

New Features:

 

Microsoft Teams Integration: Access Request Approvals: 

  • With this enhancement to IdentityIQ’s Microsoft Teams integration, approvers now have a simple way to manage access request approvals that is seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Teams, enabling them to make decisions on the go. Here are few of the actions users can take:Accept, Deny, Forward, AssignView work item detailsView policy violations

GenAI Descriptions for Entitlements: 

  • Managing entitlement descriptions at scale can be overwhelming—some IdentityIQ customers have catalogs with over a million entitlements. To ease this burden, IdentityIQ 8.5 introduces a powerful new GenAI-driven feature that automatically suggests entitlement descriptions using large language models. This enhancement helps keep your catalog accurate and up-to-date with minimal effort, saving time and improving clarity across your identity landscape.

 

Restrict View of Sensitive Identity Attributes:

  • As organizations store more sensitive personal data in IdentityIQ, protecting that information is more important than ever. With IdentityIQ 8.5, we’re introducing the ability to restrict visibility of sensitive identity attributes—ensuring that only users with a legitimate purpose can access certain personal or confidential fields. Whether it’s PII or other sensitive identity data, this feature allows you to define exactly who can see what, with flexible configuration options.

This enhancement helps organizations enforce data privacy while still empowering users to do their jobs effectively. Affected areas include Identity Warehouse, Manage Identity, Access Reviews, and Work Items.

 

UX/UI Modernization and Improvements:

  • As part of our continued effort to modernize IdentityIQ and improve the user experience, IdentityIQ 8.5 includes several UI and UX enhancements:
    • Improved the Sunrise/Sunset experience with a more intuitive look and feel, and a streamlined flow for adding, removing, or changing access. In addition, the terms Sunrise/Sunset Dates have been renamed to Start/End dates for better clarity.
    • Added new filters, Role Owner and Access Type, on the Manage Access Request page to help users find relevant access more efficiently.
    • Enhanced the end user access review page by making sorting clearer and displaying the actual due date directly in the UI.
    • Made the “Show Classifications” option configurable in Entitlement Owner Certifications, allowing more flexibility based on certification needs.
    • Modernized the front-end framework from AngularJS to Angular 18 on the following pages:
      • Access Review
      • Rapid Setup
      • Login Page
      • Admin Preferences
      • API Authentication
      • Access History

Access Request Entitlement Recommendations (Coming Soon): 

  • Access Request Recommendations have been expanded to include entitlements, enhancing the self-service experience with intelligent, data-driven recommendations. This improvement helps users request appropriate access more efficiently and reduces the burden on approvers by minimizing unnecessary or inappropriate requests.This feature closes the gap between role and entitlement recommendations by offering both options for self-service access requests. Recommendations eliminate guesswork by suggesting the entitlements users need to perform their job and consolidating all required access into a single request.

 

Further details available from the Compass Community site here:  What’s New in IdentityIQ 8.5 – Compass


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