How the calculator works
The calculator models annual time and cost savings across three areas – Access Reviews, Access Requests, and Access Management.
using your inputs and industry benchmarks to estimate total savings and ROI.
Achieve 280% ROI in 12 months with Identity Confluence.
Access Reviews
Estimates savings from automating periodic access reviews (user-role entitlements, manager certifications, exception management).
Performing manual reviews can be very costly, with managers often spending several minutes per entitlement across 100s of users. With automation and intelligent recommendations, the review effort can be reduced by 60-70%. This reduction in effort lessens compliance fatigue on the reviewers, which allows them to only focus on the exceptions rather than every single entitlement. Quicker, more streamlined reviews lower costs and improve audit readiness, and decrease the chances of an excessive access issue being overlooked.
Formula
Annual review hours
= Days spent per access review × Working hours per day × Frequency of access reviews per year × Number of security engineers
Time saved
= Annual review hours × Savings in access reviews time by IC.
Cost saved
= Time saved × IT/security cost per hour.
Access Management
Estimates the time saved by automating employee onboarding, offboarding, birthright provisioning, and ongoing lifecycle activities across applications.
Provisioning and deprovisioning are some of the most repetitive identity tasks, often taking 5–15 minutes per application when done manually. Automation reduces this time dramatically, saving hundreds of IT hours annually. Beyond cost efficiency, automated onboarding ensures employees have the right access from day one, while automated deprovisioning closes security gaps by eliminating orphaned accounts and reducing insider threats. This blend of efficiency and stronger security makes lifecycle automation one of the highest ROI areas in identity governance.
Formula
Annual provisioning/deprovisioning events
= No of onboardings/offboardings per month × No of Birthright apps x 12 months.
Time saved per event
= (Manual provisioning time − automated provisioning time).
Total time saved
= Annual provisioning events × time saved per event.
Cost saved
= Total time saved × IT cost per hour.
Access Requests
The model presented calculates potential savings resulting from the automation of access request workflows and approvals.
On average, resolving a manual access request ticket takes 57 minutes. With automation, regular requests have up to an 80% faster resolution time; this means IT teams are managing fewer tickets and saving time for each ticket processed. This decreases mean time to resolution (MTTR) for access, which is beneficial in getting employees access faster, keeping employees productive, and decreasing the requirement for escalating issues.
Formula
Annual time saved (in minutes)
= Number of daily access requests × Ticket resolution time per request (minutes) × Number of working days in a year × Savings introduced by IC.
Annual time saved (in hours)
= Annual time saved (minutes) ÷ 60.
Annual cost savings
= Annual time saved (in hours) × IT/Security team cost per hour.
What These Numbers Mean for Your Organization
Efficiency:
Eliminate manual work and compress audit cycles — let the IT/security department work on higher value tasks.
Security:
Focus on demolishing orphaned accounts and stale entitlements, enhancing least-privilege posture, and reducing breach likelihood.
Audit Readiness:
Audit readiness: Faster, documented access reviews and a complete evidence trail reduce audit time and audit burden.
ROI-Validated:
ROI-Validated: Typical customers save significant operational costs. For instance, vendors report large annual savings as proof that automation of identity is valuable.
FAQ
The ROI calculation comes primarily from the time savings in performing access reviews, handling requests, and provisioning, multiplied by IT labor cost, plus a reduction in ticket volume and issue resolution time. Tech Prescient will input both your information and the benchmarks of the obtained efficiency to estimate annual savings.
A typical automation ROI of identity governance tools will fall into the 200–400% range over 12 months, based on scale and baseline processes. Identity Confluence customers will typically see up to an ROI of 279% in 12 months (a figure based on aggregate customer data).
Depending on your org size and maturity, your time savings will vary dramatically, but typically customers save anywhere from 2,000 to 7,000+ IT hours a year across provisioning, access reviews, and ticket handling, depending on the inputs. (Results show immediately when using the calculator.)
The calculator takes into account savings from automated access reviews, automating ticket resolution, lifecycle management, and provisioning/deprovisioning. The labor rates and automation effectiveness can be customized based on your situation.
Yes. The defaults and some of the benchmark percentages are based on the aggregated experiences of Tech Prescient customers across industries.
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How the calculator works
The calculator models annual time and cost savings across three areas – Access Reviews, Access Requests, and Access Management.
using your inputs and industry benchmarks to estimate total savings and ROI.
Achieve 280% ROI in 12 months with Identity Confluence.
Cost Savings
$ 119,715Time Savings
6,445 hrsAccess Reviews
Estimates savings from automating periodic access reviews (user-role entitlements, manager certifications, exception management).
Performing manual reviews can be very costly, with managers often spending several minutes per entitlement across 100s of users. With automation and intelligent recommendations, the review effort can be reduced by 60-70%. This reduction in effort lessens compliance fatigue on the reviewers, which allows them to only focus on the exceptions rather than every single entitlement. Quicker, more streamlined reviews lower costs and improve audit readiness, and decrease the chances of an excessive access issue being overlooked.
Formula
Annual review hours
= Days spent per access review × Working hours per day × Frequency of access reviews per year × Number of security engineers
Time saved
= Annual review hours × Savings in access reviews time by IC.
Cost saved
= Time saved × IT/security cost per hour.
Access Management
Estimates the time saved by automating employee onboarding, offboarding, birthright provisioning, and ongoing lifecycle activities across applications.
Provisioning and deprovisioning are some of the most repetitive identity tasks, often taking 5–15 minutes per application when done manually. Automation reduces this time dramatically, saving hundreds of IT hours annually. Beyond cost efficiency, automated onboarding ensures employees have the right access from day one, while automated deprovisioning closes security gaps by eliminating orphaned accounts and reducing insider threats. This blend of efficiency and stronger security makes lifecycle automation one of the highest ROI areas in identity governance.
Formula
Annual provisioning/deprovisioning events
= No of onboardings/offboardings per month × No of Birthright apps x 12 months.
Time saved per event
= (Manual provisioning time − automated provisioning time).
Total time saved
= Annual provisioning events × time saved per event.
Cost saved
= Total time saved × IT cost per hour.
Access Requests
The model presented calculates potential savings resulting from the automation of access request workflows and approvals.
On average, resolving a manual access request ticket takes 57 minutes. With automation, regular requests have up to an 80% faster resolution time; this means IT teams are managing fewer tickets and saving time for each ticket processed. This decreases mean time to resolution (MTTR) for access, which is beneficial in getting employees access faster, keeping employees productive, and decreasing the requirement for escalating issues.
Formula
Annual time saved (in minutes)
= Number of daily access requests × Ticket resolution time per request (minutes) × Number of working days in a year × Savings introduced by IC.
Annual time saved (in hours)
= Annual time saved (minutes) ÷ 60.
Annual cost savings
= Annual time saved (in hours) × IT/Security team cost per hour.
What These Numbers Mean for Your Organization
Efficiency:
Eliminate manual work and compress audit cycles — let the IT/security department work on higher value tasks.
Security:
Focus on demolishing orphaned accounts and stale entitlements, enhancing least-privilege posture, and reducing breach likelihood.
Audit Readiness:
Audit readiness: Faster, documented access reviews and a complete evidence trail reduce audit time and audit burden.
ROI-Validated:
ROI-Validated: Typical customers save significant operational costs. For instance, vendors report large annual savings as proof that automation of identity is valuable.
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