This is the fifth installment in our “Making Sense of the Latest IGA Guidance” series, focusing on how organizations can achieve both flexibility and control through governance by design. When compliance and adaptability are built into the foundation, identity programs become more resilient, efficient, and aligned with business outcomes.
One of the most persistent myths in the identity governance space is that flexibility and control are opposites. Analysts often suggest that organizations must choose between an agile, configurable IGA solution or a tightly governed, secure one.
At Fischer Identity, we have never accepted that trade-off.
Our architecture is built on the principle that true governance requires both. Flexibility gives organizations the agility to adapt to new requirements, while control ensures that every change remains secure, compliant, and auditable. Fischer delivers both with precision, without ever forcing a compromise.
The False Choice Between Flexibility and Control
For years, organizations were led to believe that cloud-based identity solutions meant giving up administrative control. SaaS deployments promised scalability but required dependency on the vendor for configuration, policy updates, and integration changes.
That model might work for simple access management, but it fails when applied to identity governance at scale. Governance requires ownership. When administrators cannot control policies, workflows, or integrations, they cannot maintain compliance or respond to risk effectively.
Fischer Identity redefined this dynamic. We provide the efficiency of a modern cloud platform with the same full administrative control traditionally reserved for on-prem deployments.
Our customers configure everything they need without waiting on us to do it for them.
Fischer’s Architecture: Control Without Complexity
Fischer Identity’s platform gives organizations complete visibility and authority over their identity environment, no matter how it is deployed.
1. Configuration-Driven Design
Every workflow, policy, and connector can be configured directly by the customer. No scripts, no code, and no dependency on Fischer development teams.
2. Full Administrative Access
Customers maintain the ability to manage integrations, adjust business rules, and create new workflows in real time, whether in a multi-tenant or dedicated environment.
3. Predictable Upgrades
Because Fischer’s cloud and on-prem solutions share the same code base, upgrades are seamless. There is no risk of losing functionality or rewriting integrations.
4. Unified Control Across All Environments
Whether managing cloud, hybrid, or on-prem deployments, Fischer delivers identical capabilities and interfaces. Administrators can govern identity from a single point of control.
This combination of autonomy and consistency allows organizations to operate securely without complexity or vendor lock-in.
Governance Through Empowerment
At Fischer, flexibility is not the absence of structure. It is structure intelligently applied. By empowering customers to make changes safely within the platform, we enable governance that is both responsive and controlled.
- Security teams can adapt policies as threats evolve.
- Compliance officers can adjust audit workflows without development cycles.
- IT administrators can integrate new systems or departments in hours, not months.
This agility ensures that governance evolves at the speed of business while preserving the highest standards of compliance and oversight.
Executive Perspective: Control Drives Confidence
For executives, control is about assurance. It means knowing that the organization’s identity governance processes are predictable, enforceable, and resilient. Flexibility means being able to evolve those processes without risk.
Fischer Identity provides both through a unified framework that combines secure policy enforcement with real-time adaptability.
- Governance remains consistent across every system and department.
- Policies are centrally defined but locally actionable.
- Compliance is auditable and transparent.
When executives can trust that their teams have both agility and control, they gain the confidence to modernize faster and manage risk proactively.
The Fischer Identity Difference
Fischer’s governance model was designed to eliminate the compromises that other platforms still impose.
- One code base across cloud and on-prem
- No-code configuration with full administrative control
- Continuous compliance through policy-driven workflows
- Real-time visibility into every identity action
Our customers do not have to choose between innovation and oversight. They get both, securely and sustainably.
Governance By Design
Flexibility without control leads to chaos. Control without flexibility leads to stagnation.
Fischer Identity proves that organizations do not have to choose. With governance-by-design, leaders can maintain full oversight while continuously evolving their identity strategy.
True flexibility and true control are not competing priorities. They are the same thing when built the Fischer way.
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