NEXIS

Nexis is a German provider in the field of identity governance, identity intelligence, and access governance, headquartered in Regensburg. The company helps organizations make complex identity, entitlement, and risk structures transparent, controllable, and audit-ready.

With the NEXIS platform, Nexis today positions itself as a provider of an Identity Visibility & Intelligence Platform, or IVIP for short. The focus is no longer solely on classic entitlement analysis or role modeling, but on a comprehensive view of identities, entitlements, risks, controls, and governance processes across different systems.

The NEXIS platform combines Identity & Access Management with Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC). This gives companies a unified foundation for identifying access risks, demonstrating regulatory requirements, and making governance decisions based on data. This is particularly relevant for regulated companies that want to connect existing IAM, IGA, PAM, GRC, ERP, cloud, and security systems.

The NEXIS platform combines identity visibility, identity intelligence, IAM, GRC, access governance, role & access governance, identity security posture management, and integration capabilities into one modular system. The goal is not to look at identities, roles, entitlements, risks, and controls in isolation, but to bring them together in a shared governance model.

•  Identity Visibility & Intelligence Platform - IVIP as the new core of the NEXIS positioning

The NEXIS platform is built around identity visibility & intelligence. IVIP means that identity data from different sources is consolidated, normalized, analyzed, and made usable for governance decisions.

The value lies in the fact that companies not only automate individual IAM processes but gain a holistic understanding of their identity landscape. NEXIS makes visible which identities exist, which entitlements they hold, which risks arise from them, and which controls are already in place or missing.

This turns identity governance into a continuous process rather than a one-off cleanup initiative. Companies can identify risks, derive measures, and feed optimized entitlement structures back into existing IGA, IAM, or GRC systems.

•  Identity & Access Analytics - Transparency across users, roles, and entitlements

NEXIS helps companies build a normalized, system-wide inventory of users, roles, and entitlements. Technical entitlements are translated into a business context, so IAM, security, and compliance teams can better understand which access actually exists and how it should be assessed.

This transparency is especially important in IT landscapes that have grown organically over time. Many companies operate multiple IAM tools, business applications, ERP systems, cloud platforms, and manually maintained entitlement structures. NEXIS creates a cross-system view and helps identify toxic entitlement combinations, segregation-of-duties conflicts, orphaned accounts, or risky access patterns.

• Role & Access Governance - Roles, recertification, and SoD in one continuous model

NEXIS supports role & access governance across the entire lifecycle. This includes role discovery, role modeling, approval workflows, recertifications, and segregation-of-duties controls.

Unlike one-off role projects, NEXIS follows a continuous governance approach. Roles and entitlements are not modeled once and then managed statically, but are regularly reviewed, adjusted, and reconciled against real access data. This allows companies to keep role models up to date and better detect drift between the target concept and the live system state.

This is particularly relevant for RBAC - role-based access control, because an effective role model only creates value if it is understandable from a business perspective, technically feasible, and maintained on an ongoing basis.

• NEXIS GRC - Governance, Risk & Compliance within the platform

NEXIS GRC forms the governance, risk, and compliance layer within the NEXIS platform. The goal is not to treat IAM and GRC requirements separately, but to connect them through a shared data foundation.

This allows companies to map identity risks, controls, regulatory requirements, and audit evidence in one consistent model. NEXIS supports, among others, ISO 27001, DORA, NIS2, and other internal and external control requirements. It is especially relevant that modern regulatory frameworks increasingly require continuous evidence rather than just an annual snapshot.

• Identity Security Posture Management - ISPM for measurable governance coverage

Another important part of the new NEXIS positioning is identity security posture management. NEXIS ISPM makes visible which identities, accounts, and entitlements are actively covered by governance controls and where gaps exist.

This allows companies to make governance coverage measurable. Relevant examples include high-risk entitlements, SoD conflicts, orphaned accounts, overdue approvals, or incomplete recertifications. This turns identity governance from something that is merely documented into a manageable security and risk discipline.

• Integrations and ecosystems - Connecting existing IAM, GRC, and security systems

NEXIS is designed not to replace existing systems, but to connect them and make their data usable for governance. The platform integrates IAM, IGA, GRC, ERP, cloud, and security systems in order to bring together identities, risks, controls, and governance processes.

This is especially important for companies that already use solutions such as Microsoft Entra ID, One Identity, OpenText, SAP, ServiceNow, or other enterprise systems. NEXIS complements these environments with visibility, intelligence, governance, and an analytical basis for decision-making.

NEXIS is particularly well suited for companies that want to not only manage their identity landscape technically, but understand and control it as a whole. The platform comes into play when IAM, IGA, PAM, GRC, ERP, and cloud systems exist side by side and there is no unified view of identities, entitlements, and risks.

Typical scenarios include creating access transparency, preparing for audits, implementing DORA, NIS2, or ISO 27001 requirements, analyzing toxic entitlement combinations, improving role models, carrying out recertifications, and connecting IAM and GRC processes.

NEXIS also makes sense when companies want to modernize or extend existing IAM systems without rebuilding their entire landscape. The platform can start with one concrete governance challenge, such as access transparency or regulatory compliance, and then be extended in a modular way.

Organizations must be able to trace who has access to which systems, applications, and data. Transparent role and permission structures are especially critical for audits, regulatory requirements, and internal controls.

Nexis helps systematically analyze access rights and roles, assess risks, and document governance decisions in a traceable way. This makes it possible to meet compliance requirements more efficiently and reduce audit effort.

This makes Nexis particularly well suited for organizations with high requirements for compliance and regulatory requirements, for example in connection with DORA, NIS2, internal control systems, or industry-specific audit requirements.

Nexis stands out through its focus on identity visibility & intelligence. While many IAM or IGA solutions primarily map operational processes such as user provisioning, approvals, or provisioning workflows, NEXIS concentrates on cross-system visibility, analysis, and control of identities, entitlements, risks, and controls.

A key difference lies in connecting IAM and GRC. NEXIS does not look at identity data in isolation, but brings it together with risks, regulatory requirements, controls, and audit evidence. This makes identity governance part of active risk governance, rather than just an IT process.

Another differentiator is the IVIP approach. The platform collects identity data from different systems, normalizes it, assesses risks, and turns it into actionable governance information. This allows companies to continue using existing IAM landscapes while establishing an overarching intelligence and governance layer.

NEXIS is particularly well suited for companies that want to understand their IAM landscape based on data, secure it from a regulatory standpoint, and continuously improve it.

The NEXIS platform offers flexible licensing models that can be tailored to the individual requirements of a company. The platform is modular and can be extended step by step depending on the use case.

Relevant functional areas include Identity & Access Analytics, Role & Access Governance, Identity Security Posture Management, as well as integrations into existing IAM, GRC, ERP, cloud, and security systems.

The NEXIS platform can be operated as a cloud service in a SaaS model or as installable software on-premises. This allows the operating model to be adapted to security requirements, regulatory guidelines, and existing IT architectures.

For companies with a cloud strategy, the SaaS model offers flexible, scalable use. Organizations with specific requirements around data hosting, internal controls, or existing infrastructure can also deploy NEXIS on-premises.

Thanks to its open integration architecture, NEXIS is suitable both as a standalone governance initiative and as a complementary intelligence and governance layer on top of existing IAM, GRC, and security systems.

IPG has been a Platinum Partner of Nexis for over a decade. This is the highest partner status and underscores the long-standing collaboration and extensive project experience IPG has with NEXIS.

Our specialists have extensive expertise in deploying the NEXIS platform. They help companies analyze existing entitlement structures, build identity analytics and IVIP transparency views, optimize role and entitlement concepts, and closely align Identity & Access Management (IAM) with Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC).

They also support companies in implementing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) projects, integrating the NEXIS platform into existing IAM landscapes, and preparing and conducting access reviews and recertifications. This range of services is complemented by hands-on training for business units, IAM teams, and administrators, ensuring the sustainable use and continued development of established processes.

IPG has implemented numerous successful projects together with Nexis. Customers benefit from improved access governance processes, greater transparency over identities and entitlements, and a stronger foundation for compliance, audit, and risk management.

Customer projects frequently focus on topics such as identity analytics, IVIP, entitlement analysis, role modeling, RBAC, IAM modernization, GRC requirements, and integration into existing IAM systems.

Our close cooperation with Nexis allows us to offer tailored solutions for complex IAM challenges.

Would you like to introduce the NEXIS platform in your company, improve your identity visibility, or bring IAM and GRC requirements together in a shared governance model?

IPG supports you with consulting, architecture, implementation, integration, and further development of modern Nexis solutions. Contact us for a consultation, a product demo, or a quick check of your existing IAM, GRC, and entitlement landscape.

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