Activate Identity Operations
Automate the operational work across your existing identity ecosystem.
Activate automates and orchestrates approvals, provisioning, fulfilment and identity lifecycle execution across complex enterprise environments.
Identity governance platforms determine who should have access, while Activate ensures those decisions are executed consistently across your workforce, systems, applications and digital assets.
Built for hybrid, cloud and distributed environments, Activate extends identity automation across the systems you already run. It’s designed for incremental adoption, minus the complexity and disruption of traditional IGA platforms.
Built for organisations where identity is operationally complex.
Activate Identity Operations is designed for organisations that need more than standard provisioning. It’s ideal for:
Enterprise organisations managing complex identity lifecycle processes
Organisations extending Microsoft Entra, Active Directory or ServiceNow with enterprise identity automation
Businesses preparing identity operations for AI adoption and the growth of non-human identities
Security teams reducing identity risk and improving operational control
AM and GRC teams supporting audit, compliance and governance
How Activate Identity Operations works.
Identity governance determines who should have access. Activate automates what happens next.
Enterprise identity rarely fails because provisioning is difficult. It becomes difficult because approvals, fulfilment and downstream operational tasks are often fragmented across multiple systems and teams. Activate provides a central identity operations layer that automates those activities across your digital workspace.
From a single platform you can coordinate identity changes across users, systems, applications, devices and digital assets while maintaining operational consistency and audit visibility.
Reduce manual identity work while strengthening operational control.
Automate identity operations across complex enterprise environments. Strong identity operations reduce operational effort while improving security, consistency and compliance. With Activate you can:
Automate approvals across business and IT teams
Coordinate provisioning and fulfilment across multiple systems
Reduce manual identity requests and service desk effort
Strengthen operational consistency across hybrid environments
Produce continuous audit evidence and operational traceability
Reduce over-privileged access through controlled identity lifecycle processes
Support ISO 27001 and other governance frameworks through consistent execution
One platform for enterprise identity operations.
Automate more than provisioning. Identity changes rarely affect only one system. Activate coordinates identity operations across:
Users
Service accounts & non-human identities
Applications
Devices
Security groups
Shared mailboxes
Distribution lists
Licenses
Digital assets
Business workflows
Custom enterprise processes
Connect your HR platform, Microsoft Entra, Active Directory, ITSM platform and business applications into a single operational workflow, without replacing your existing investments.
Built to complement your existing identity platform
Activate works alongside the technologies you already use, including
Microsoft Entra ID
Active Directory
Non-human identity platforms
ServiceNow
HR systems
Identity Governance platforms
Business applications
Cloud and on-premises environments
Identity governance determines who should have access. Activate automates approvals, provisioning, fulfilment and lifecycle execution across those platforms.
“The solution has significantly improved our ability to manage identity lifecycle processes in a consistent and controlled way.”
- Government Identity & Access Manager
Why do identity operations matter?
Creating an account is only one step in the identity lifecycle. Real enterprise identity involves:
Business approvals
Provisioning
Fulfilment
Notifications
Security groups
Shared resources
Device allocation
Downstream application updates
Audit evidence
Exception handling
Activate orchestrates these activities into one coordinated identity process, helping organisations reduce manual effort while improving operational visibility.
Trusted identity operations across your enterprise.
Reduce enterprise identity risk through governance across identities, systems and assets.
REDUCE GOVERNANCE GAPS, STRENGTHEN SECURITY CONTROL ACROSS COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS.
Controls are explicit, approvals are consistent, and evidence is always available.
Reduce over-privileged access and identity-related operational risks.
Prevent inconsistent approvals
Produce defensible, continuous audit evidence.
Improve compliance with regulatory and security requirements i.e. ISO270001
Preparing your organisation for operational AI?
ACTIVATE PROVIDES A UNIFIED OPERATIONAL LAYER ACROSS YOUR DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT.
Gain visibility across identities, systems, applications, devices and assets while automating the work that happens after identity decisions have been made.
The result is less manual work, faster identity lifecycle execution, better operational consistency, improved audit readiness, and greater value from existing identity investments.
Unified identity operations across access, lifecycle, and digital workspace automation.
AI ASSISTANTS AND AI AGENTS ARE NON-HUMAN IDENTITIES THAT RELY ON THE IDENTITIES, PERMISSIONS AND LIFECYCLE PROCESSES ALREADY OPERATING WITHIN YOUR ORGANISATION.
As AI adoption grows, trusted identity operations become increasingly important.
Activate helps organisations automate the operational foundations that support secure, well-governed AI adoption.
Read our CTO’s Guide to Non-Human Identities here.
Explore features
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Automates the creation, maintenance, and governance of security group memberships by aligning access with organisational roles, attributes, and policies.
Enforces least-privilege access across systems by dynamically updating memberships, while removing manual administration and reducing privilege sprawl.
Delivers full auditability, scalability, and clear visibility into who has access and why, strengthens compliance and gives IT teams confidence in their access governance.
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Automate access & governance across file shares and cloud storage. Permissions stay aligned to business structure, helping prevent over exposure of sensitive data.
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Core engine of the base platform. Includes orchestration engine, approval engine, analytics, auditing, Microsoft integration, connectors, and security boundary.
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Activate Access Automation replaces manual requests and provisioning with governed workflows that connect directly to your systems.
Users request access through a self-service portal or existing ITSM tool. Activate evaluates each request based on role and context, then approves automatically or routes for approval. Once approved, access is provisioned across AD, Entra ID, and business applications.
Access can be time-bound and removed automatically.
It works alongside Activate Identity Lifecycle by handling on-demand access requests, while lifecycle automation manages joiner, mover and leaver events, together delivering consistent, end-to-end identity control.
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Activate Identity Lifecycle builds on Access Automation by extending control from individual requests to the full workforce lifecycle.
When users join, move, or leave, Activate automatically provisions, updates, or removes access across business systems based on role and organisational data.
As roles change, outdated access is removed and new access applied automatically. Leaver events trigger immediate de-provisioning.
Together with Access Automation, it ensures both requested and lifecycle-driven access are handled consistently, reducing manual effort and maintaining continuous control.
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Governs and automates Microsoft Teams at scale by enforcing policies for team creation, naming, membership and lifecycle, reducing unmanaged growth and administrative overhead.
Enables automated provisioning from templates or triggers, synchronises memberships from authoritative sources, applies governance rules including approvals, naming conventions and expiry.
Provides auditing and self-service capabilities to keep Teams secure, compliant and aligned with business requirements.
Teams environments stay structured, with appropriate access and lifecycle management across the organisation.
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Automate the assignment and management of software licenses, subscriptions and phone numbers.
Ensure users receive the right tools based on their role, while unused licenses are automatically reclaimed or cancelled when access changes.
Reduces waste, controls costs, and maintains clear visibility over software usage and entitlements.
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Automate device assignment and lifecycle management as part of your identity processes.
Activate Devices ensures users receive the right hardware based on their role, while devices are reassigned or decommissioned as roles change.
This improves visibility, reduces manual effort, and keeps your digital workspace aligned with workforce changes.
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Purchase as part of Activate Security Extension. Activate Privileged Account Management (PAM) delivers secure, policy-driven control of high-privilege accounts through self-service workflows that operate natively within the Activate platform. It automates the lifecycle management, approval, and review of privileged accounts, enforcing just-in-time access, and full auditability across on-premises and cloud environments. By unifying governance, automation, and compliance, Activate Privileged Account reduces standing privileges, improves security posture, and enables business owners to manage privileged accounts efficiently without ongoing IT involvement.
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Customers can apply Activate’s identity management automation to almost any assigned asset; security cards, meeting rooms, vehicles or any specialist equipment. If an item needs an owner, approval, lifecycle and audit trail, Activate can automate how it is assigned, changed, reclaimed and governed.
Ready to modernise your identity operations?
Activate helps ensure those decisions are executed consistently through approvals, provisioning, fulfilment and identity lifecycle automation.
Whether you're modernising Microsoft Entra, extending ServiceNow, supporting Identity Governance or preparing for AI, Activate helps automate the operational work that enterprise identity depends on.
Want to go deeper?
Still have questions? Explore architecture, deployment models, configuration, automation and operational guidance at the Activate Knowledge Centre, or speak to one of our team.
Frequently asked questions
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Activate Identity Operations helps organizations understand, control, and continuously reduce access risk by answering three critical questions: who has access, why they have it, and whether they should keep it. It replaces manual, spreadsheet-driven governance with automated, policy-based oversight.
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Traditional IGA platforms are often large, monolithic, and difficult to implement. Activate Identity Operations is designed for incremental adoption. You can start with visibility and access reviews, then layer in policy enforcement and risk-based governance without a full rip-and-replace of your IAM stack.
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No. Activate Identity Operations is designed to integrate with existing IAM, directory, and provisioning systems. It orchestrates and governs access rather than replacing your identity infrastructure.
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Organizations typically see value in weeks through improved access visibility and more efficient access reviews. Time to value depends on scope and integrations, but initial use cases are deliberately low risk.
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All access decisions, reviews, approvals, and policy actions are fully logged and reportable. The platform produces audit-ready evidence aligned to common regulatory and internal control requirements.
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Governance is risk-based. Reviews and enforcement are prioritized based on access sensitivity and business risk, allowing teams to focus effort where it matters most.
