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CIO

Intelligent Identity Governance for the Strategic CIO

Modernize your Stack. Automate Operations.
Drive Digital Transformation.

As a CIO, you are no longer just the head of IT operations; you are a strategic leader tasked with aligning technology investments with business growth. In a world of hybrid clouds and sprawling application portfolios, "legacy" identity processes are a bottleneck to innovation. BalkanID provides an intelligent, automated IGA platform designed to reduce operational overhead and provide the agility needed for the modern enterprise.

The CIO’s Mandate:
Efficiency and Scalability

Eliminating the "IT Tax" via Automation
Managing access manually across hundreds of applications is a drain on your most valuable technical resources.
Reduce Helpdesk Burden: Automate the entire identity lifecycle from onboarding to offboarding -cutting support tickets and manual provisioning effort. BalkanID’s Agentic Identity Governance powers both IGA for AI and IGA with AI. BalkanID MCP enables your teams to run lifecycle actions, automate access reviews, surface risks, and reduce operational fatigue; saving time and effort across teams.
Speed to Value: While legacy IGA deployments can take 12–18 months, BalkanID is built for Setup in hours, not months, requiring no expensive professional services.
Strategic Cost Optimization
Successful CIOs shift spend management from tactical "keep the lights on" activities to strategic innovation.
Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Replace expensive, "overkill" legacy platforms with a modular, pay-as-you-go model starting at $10k/year a fraction of the cost of a single IT engineer.
Optimize Licenses: Automatically identify "zombie" or dormant accounts to reclaim unused software licenses and reduce unnecessary SaaS spend.
Modernizing the Identity Architecture
Digital transformation requires moving beyond "pieced-together" legacy tools that weren't built for the cloud.
Unified Governance: BalkanID acts as a central point of governance, integrating your HRIS, IdPs, cloud providers, and 200+ SaaS apps into one cohesive identity fabric. It is also identity control plane for all your organization identities human, non-human and AI agents.
"Headless" Integration: Leverage our API-first design to embed identity governance directly into your existing operational workflows (ServiceNow, Jira, etc.) without a full system replacement.
Supporting the Agile Workforce
Your teams need the right tools now, not next week.
Frictionless Employee Experience: New hires are productive on Day 1 with automated role-based provisioning.
Self-Service Requests: Empower employees to request access via Slack or Teams, with intelligent forms that auto-populate based on their role and department.
Identity Control Plane
IGA for AI -  Govern Identity Across Your Stack
Identity complexity grows faster than your operations can handle.
Discover and govern service accounts, APIs, and AI agents across all systems
Unify identity across SaaS, cloud, and legacy environments
Track identity lifecycle and access dependencies across systems
Eliminate shadow identities and unmanaged credentials
IGA with AI - Automate Identity Operations
Manual identity workflows slow down the business.
Automate provisioning, deprovisioning, and lifecycle (JML) events
Run access reviews and approvals with AI-driven recommendations
Enable natural language queries to manage identity operations instantly
BalkanID MCP orchestrates identity workflows across systems without manual intervention

CIO Outcomes:
From Cost Center to Value Driver

CIO Priority
Legacy Approach
BalkanID Impact
Operational Efficiency
Slow, manual ticketing & scripts
90% automation of identity operations
Audit & Compliance
Painful, reactive scrambles
40–60% faster audit cycles
Digital Velocity
Frustrated "Joiners" and "Movers"
Minutes to provision standard roles
Risk Management
Invisible "Identity Sprawl"
AI-driven outlier and risk detection

Trusted by Leaders Modernizing IT

BalkanID's offering, combined with a transparent pricing model is a significant advancement within the identity security governance landscape. I value knowing the capabilities and associated costs regardless of deployment size. IGA Lite delivers enterprise-grade functionality at a fraction of the cost, with the flexibility to deploy on our own terms and timelines.
Sangram Dash
CISO and VP of IT at Sisense

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