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Gartner® Buyer’s Guide for Identity Verification

Download this Gartner Report to discover how organizations are using user’s identity as the foundation of digital interactions with customers or workforces.

Finding the right solution for your business

Tech leaders face a confusing choice of different methods to gain confidence in a user’s identity, often struggling to understand how data-centric identity affirmation and document-centric identity verification vary in the assurance levels they offer. This report will help provide clarity over the following key findings:

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Determining your need

Organizations face a confusing choice of different methods to gain confidence in a user’s identity, often struggling to understand how data-centric identity affirmation and document-centric identity verification vary in the assurance levels they offer.

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Creating an effective RFP

Gartner clients consistently cite difficulty in understanding how effective the identity verification (IDV) process is, given the lack of standards and metrics available. This makes vendor comparison challenging.
Vendors vary greatly in how they handle and store personally identifiable information (PII) and in their reasons for doing so.

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Reducing implementation effort

Integrating IDV solutions into business workflows is often complex and time-consuming. In addition, many solutions lack flexibility when it comes to configuration and are not designed with accessibility for end users as a priority.

Understand the IDV buying journey

Get the Gartner® Buyer’s Guide for Identity Verification to explore key use cases, compare solution types,
and simplify your decision-making process.

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Gartner – Buyer’s Guide for Identity Verification, By Akif Khan, James Hoover, Nayara Sangiorgio, 7 April 2025

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