Intense-Systems

Direction of travel

The Corporate Control Console

One control plane over the systems an IT director is accountable for, reading each of them through the same model that identity governance uses today. Most of it does not exist yet, and this page says which parts.

01 The idea

The same question, asked of every system

Identity governance answers one question well: who holds this access, and what approved it. That question is not specific to a directory. It is the same question you cannot currently answer about an AWS role, a vCenter permission, a software licence renewing next month, or a change that was approved in the service desk and then implemented differently.

Each of those lives in a different console, owned by a different person, exported to a different spreadsheet before each audit. The work of assembling them into a picture is done by hand, by you, about four times a year.

The console is the plan to stop doing that by hand. Identity governance is the first module because it is the one where the question bites hardest and the evidence is strongest.

02 Module status

What exists, and what is a plan

Written the way you would want a vendor to write it. One module is available. One is being built. Three are intentions.

  1. Available

    Identity governance

    Effective-access discovery, role baselining, joiner/mover/leaver automation, group state, audit revert, across hybrid Active Directory and Entra ID.

    This is the product. It is in use, it is what the demo shows, and it is what you would be buying.

  2. In development

    Cloud entitlement view

    AWS IAM and Azure RBAC read through the same trace model, so a cloud role resolves to a person the same way a security group does.

    Being built now. Read-only discovery first. Do not plan a control programme around it yet.

  3. In design

    ITSM integration

    Change and approval records from your service desk attached to the grants they authorised, so the approval and the access point at each other.

    Design only. No integration ships today, and the list of supported service desks is not fixed.

  4. Planned

    Virtualisation estate

    vCenter permissions and role assignments alongside directory access, since in most estates the two have drifted apart entirely.

    Not started. No date, and no date offered.

  5. Planned

    Procurement and budget

    Licences, renewals and spend held against the same asset and owner records the rest of the platform uses.

    Not started. This is the furthest out and the least certain.

03 How we sell it

Three commitments about the roadmap

  1. One

    You will never be quoted for a module that does not exist. Planned work is not on the price list, and it will not appear on a proposal as a line item with a discount against it.

  2. Two

    A roadmap item is never a reason to sign now. If identity governance on its own does not justify the spend, the honest answer is to wait, and you will get that answer on the call.

  3. Three

    Status on this page changes when the code does, not when the sales quarter does. If a module moves from planned to available, it is because you could use it that week.

04 Shared model

Why one platform rather than five tools

Every module reads into the same three records: the identity, the thing being granted, and the approval that connects them. That is the whole model, and it is deliberately small.

Because the model is shared, a cloud role and a security group answer to the same review, a leaver is a leaver in every module at once, and the revert behaves identically whichever system the change landed in. Five separate tools cannot do that, however good each one is on its own, because they do not agree on what a person is.

The same property is what keeps the agent design honest: one agent, one outbound channel, one place to revoke. Adding a module does not add a hole in your perimeter.

How the agent works →

Buy the module that exists. Judge the rest when it ships.

A demo covers identity governance, because that is what is real. If the console direction matters to your three-year plan, bring that to the call and you will get a candid answer about timing.