Custom Report Creation: How Avatier Outperforms SailPoint Reporting Tools in 2025

The ability to generate customized, detailed reports from your identity management solution isn’t just a nice-to-have feature—it’s a mission-critical capability. For CISOs, IT leaders, and security professionals tasked with safeguarding enterprise identities, the reporting capabilities of your IAM solution directly impact governance, compliance efforts, and security decision-making.

As organizations evaluate identity management solutions, the battle between Avatier and SailPoint often comes down to their reporting capabilities. While SailPoint has established itself as a market leader, Avatier’s innovative approach to custom report creation is changing how enterprises view identity intelligence.

The Current State of Identity Reporting

Before diving into specifics, it’s worth noting that according to Gartner, by 2025, 70% of large enterprises will utilize advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities in their identity management systems, up from just 20% in 2021. This shift reflects the growing need for more sophisticated reporting tools in identity management.

Identity reporting is no longer just about basic access reviews. Modern enterprises need comprehensive visibility into:

• User access patterns and anomalies
• Certification and compliance status
• Risk scoring across identities
• Provisioning/deprovisioning metrics
• Privileged access insights
• Authentication trends

Avatier vs. SailPoint: Core Reporting Capabilities Compared

User Interface and Dashboard Experience

SailPoint’s Approach: SailPoint offers a robust but complex reporting framework. Their IdentityIQ platform provides powerful capabilities but often requires specialized knowledge to construct custom reports. Many organizations end up needing dedicated SailPoint administrators or consultants to build and maintain reports.

Avatier’s Advantage: Avatier Identity Anywhere takes a dramatically different approach with its intuitive interface designed for business users, not just technical specialists. The drag-and-drop report builder allows security professionals to create custom reports without coding or complex SQL queries. This democratization of reporting means that business units can create their own reports without constant IT involvement.

A recent survey by Enterprise Strategy Group found that 68% of organizations consider ease of use a critical factor when selecting IAM reporting tools, placing Avatier’s approach directly in line with market demands.

Real-Time Analytics vs. Periodic Reporting

SailPoint’s Approach: SailPoint typically operates on a scheduled reporting model. While comprehensive, these reports often represent point-in-time snapshots rather than real-time analytics. This can create blind spots between reporting cycles.

Avatier’s Advantage: Avatier’s Identity Anywhere platform offers continuous, real-time analytics on identity activities. This allows security teams to monitor events as they happen rather than discovering issues during the next reporting cycle. The platform’s Activity Monitor provides immediate insights into unusual access patterns, failed authentication attempts, or policy violations.

According to Forrester, organizations with real-time identity analytics detect potential security incidents 63% faster than those relying on periodic reporting cycles.

Compliance-Focused Reporting

SailPoint’s Approach: SailPoint provides strong compliance reporting capabilities with pre-built reports for common regulations. However, customizing these reports for organization-specific compliance needs often requires technical expertise.

Avatier’s Advantage: Avatier’s Access Governance solutions shine in compliance reporting with adaptive frameworks for major regulations including NIST 800-53, HIPAA, SOX, GDPR, and more. The solution allows for rapid creation of custom compliance reports that match your specific regulatory environment and internal policies.

Avatier’s compliance-focused reporting is particularly valuable considering that 89% of organizations faced challenges with IAM compliance reporting in 2023, according to the Identity Defined Security Alliance.

AI-Enhanced Reporting Capabilities

SailPoint’s Approach: SailPoint has begun integrating AI capabilities but primarily focuses on recommendations rather than report creation and analytics.

Avatier’s Advantage: Avatier has fully embraced AI for report generation and analysis. The platform uses machine learning to:

1. Identify reporting patterns and suggest optimized templates
2. Highlight anomalies that might indicate security risks
3. Predict access needs based on role changes and organizational movement
4. Recommend report parameters based on user behavior and preferences

A Ponemon Institute study found that AI-enhanced identity reporting reduced the time to identify potential access risks by 47% compared to traditional reporting methods.

Technical Reporting Architecture: The Foundation of Flexibility

Data Extraction and Integration

SailPoint’s Approach: SailPoint uses a centralized data model that, while powerful, can be rigid when connecting to non-standard data sources. Extracting data for custom reports often requires technical knowledge of their proprietary data structures.

Avatier’s Advantage: Avatier’s Identity Management Architecture utilizes a flexible, microservices-based approach that allows for simpler integration with diverse data sources. The platform’s open API framework means that custom reports can easily incorporate data from:

• Cloud applications
• On-premises systems
• HR databases
• Security information and event management (SIEM) tools
• Custom business applications
• Third-party risk platforms

This architectural advantage means Avatier can create truly unified reports that cross traditional system boundaries, giving security leaders a more complete picture of identity risks.

Report Distribution and Collaboration

SailPoint’s Approach: SailPoint provides standard report scheduling and distribution capabilities but limits collaborative report development.

Avatier’s Advantage: Avatier enhances the reporting experience with collaborative features that allow teams to:

• Co-develop and edit reports
• Annotate findings directly within reports
• Share interactive dashboards with configurable permissions
• Set up automated distribution based on events, not just schedules
• Maintain report version history for audit purposes

These capabilities are particularly valuable for organizations with distributed security teams or those implementing a DevSecOps approach to identity management.

Real-World Reporting Scenarios: Where Avatier Excels

Scenario 1: M&A Identity Integration Reporting

When organizations merge, understanding the combined identity landscape becomes critical. Avatier’s flexible reporting tools allow security teams to:

• Create consolidated views of identity repositories across both organizations
• Identify redundant access rights and potential segregation of duties violations
• Track integration progress with real-time dashboards
• Report on compliance gaps in the acquired organization

In a recent case study, a financial services firm reduced post-acquisition identity consolidation time by 64% using Avatier’s custom reporting capabilities during M&A activity.

Scenario 2: Zero Trust Implementation Tracking

Organizations implementing zero trust security models require detailed visibility into authentication patterns, access exceptions, and privilege usage. Avatier’s custom reports provide:

• Detailed MFA adoption and exception tracking
• Session behavior analytics and anomaly detection
• Just-in-time access provisioning metrics
• Least privilege violation identification

According to IDC, organizations with advanced identity reporting capabilities are 2.5x more likely to successfully implement zero trust architectures.

Scenario 3: Hybrid Workforce Monitoring

With distributed workforces accessing resources from various locations and devices, organizations need specialized reporting to manage risk. Avatier enables:

• Location-based access pattern analysis
• Device compliance reporting across corporate and BYOD assets
• Remote vs. on-premises access comparison
• Time-of-access anomaly detection

These capabilities are particularly relevant given that 82% of organizations plan to maintain hybrid work models indefinitely, according to PwC research.

Cost of Ownership: The Hidden Reporting Expense

When comparing Avatier and SailPoint, organizations must consider the total cost of their reporting capabilities:

SailPoint’s Approach: While SailPoint offers powerful reporting features, organizations often incur significant costs for:

• Specialized SailPoint administrators ($120K-$150K annually)
• Consultant fees for custom report development ($1,500-$3,000 per report)
• Ongoing report maintenance as the environment changes
• Training for technical teams on SailPoint’s proprietary reporting tools

Avatier’s Advantage: Avatier’s intuitive reporting capabilities significantly reduce these hidden costs:

• Business users can create and modify reports without specialized training
• Self-service reporting reduces dependency on technical resources
• Automated report maintenance adapts to environmental changes
• Cloud-native architecture eliminates infrastructure costs

Organizations using Avatier typically report 40-60% lower total cost of ownership for reporting capabilities compared to SailPoint implementations.

Future-Proofing Your Identity Reporting Strategy

As identity management continues to evolve, reporting capabilities must adapt to new challenges:

1. Cloud Identity Proliferation: Avatier’s reporting tools are designed for multi-cloud environments, providing unified visibility across AWS, Azure, GCP, and private cloud resources.
2. Non-Human Identity Growth: While SailPoint focuses primarily on human identities, Avatier’s reporting framework extends to service accounts, bots, APIs, and IoT devices—critical as machine identities now outnumber human identities in most enterprises.
3. Regulatory Expansion: Avatier’s flexible compliance reporting framework adapts quickly to new regulations without requiring platform upgrades or consultant involvement.
4. AI/ML Integration: Avatier continues to lead in integrating advanced analytics into identity reporting, moving beyond simple dashboards to predictive and prescriptive identity intelligence.

Making the Switch: Migration Considerations

Organizations considering a move from SailPoint to Avatier for improved reporting capabilities should consider:

1. Data Migration: Avatier provides specialized tools to import historical reporting data from SailPoint, ensuring continuity of compliance records.
2. Training Requirements: Most security teams can transition to Avatier’s reporting interface with minimal training due to its intuitive design.
3. Customization Preservation: Avatier’s professional services team can recreate custom SailPoint reports in the Avatier environment, often enhancing them with additional capabilities.
4. Phased Approach: Many organizations implement Avatier reporting alongside existing SailPoint functionality before completing a full migration.

Conclusion: The Future of Identity Reporting

As identity becomes the new security perimeter, the quality and accessibility of your reporting tools directly impact your security posture. While SailPoint has historically dominated the enterprise IAM market, Avatier’s innovative approach to custom report creation offers compelling advantages in usability, flexibility, and total cost of ownership.

For security leaders struggling with complex reporting requirements, limited visibility, or excessive dependence on technical specialists for identity insights, Avatier Identity Management Services provide a path to more accessible, comprehensive, and actionable identity intelligence.

By prioritizing business user accessibility without sacrificing technical depth, Avatier is redefining expectations for what identity reporting can and should deliver in today’s complex security environment. For organizations seeking to transform identity data into actionable security intelligence, Avatier’s reporting capabilities offer a clear competitive advantage over traditional solutions like SailPoint.

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