Index › Vendors › IBM ISAM · September 2026 Edition

IBM · 1 category · Named, not ranked

IBM ISAM

8Judge labels

0First choices

8Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. IBM ISAM was named 1 time in Workforce identity, where Microsoft Entra ID led with 36%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business38 of 44

under the label threshold

Mid-market34 of 48

under the label threshold

Enterprise42 of 55

under the label threshold

In workforce identity · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named IBM ISAM for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Workforce identity and SSO	Identity and access	0%	34 of 48	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Entra ID at 36%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for IBM ISAM yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated IBM ISAM across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“enterprise-scale tools that can be over-engineered for smaller or mid-market organizations” Perplexity Sonar · Workforce identity · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as IBM ISAM, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM ISAM was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Oracle Identity Governance7 of 80Not in the top three

Okta5 of 82Not in the top three

Microsoft Entra ID5 of 81Not in the top three

SailPoint IdentityIQ5 of 80Not in the top three

Saviynt5 of 80Not in the top three

JumpCloud4 of 83Not in the top three

Cisco Duo2 of 80Not in the top three

Google Workspace2 of 80Not in the top three

OneLogin2 of 80Not in the top three

Ping Identity2 of 80Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named IBM ISAM. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 8 of the 8 answers that named IBM ISAM and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

corma.io8

startwithidentity.com6

loginradius.com3

lumos.com3

tech-insider.org3

accessowl.com2

cakewalk.security2

expertinsights.com2

majorkeytech.com2

marketingcasestudy.io2

No domain is on file for IBM ISAM, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

corma.io/blog/top-10-iam-solutions-for-smbs-and-mid-size-companies-20268

startwithidentity.com/articles/top-6-workforce-identity-platforms5

startwithidentity.com/rankings/best-iam-platforms5

startwithidentity.com/rankings/best-iam-for-smb4

lumos.com/identity-matters/identity-governance/sailpoint-competitors-and-alternatives3

tech-insider.org/microsoft-entra-id-vs-okta-vs-auth0-20263

accessowl.com/blog/buyers-guide-for-iga-tools-by-team-size2

cakewalk.security/blog/okta-alternatives2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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