Why We Co-Founded IAM Factory — and What It Means for European Identity Management

For over a decade, Inalogy has been helping organizations across Europe implement and integrate identity management solutions. We’ve deployed MidPoint — the leading open-source identity governance platform — for universities, enterprises, and public institutions across multiple countries. It’s work we’re proud of, and work that taught us something important.

Most organizations don’t want to run identity infrastructure. They want identity to just work.

Even with an excellent platform like MidPoint, operating it in-house demands dedicated expertise: server management, upgrades, security patching, connector maintenance. For many organizations — particularly in higher education, healthcare, and the public sector — this burden diverts resources from what actually matters: serving students, patients, and citizens.

That realization is why we co-founded IAM Factory.

What Is IAM Factory?

IAM Factory is a German-based company providing MidPoint as a fully managed service — identity lifecycle management, access governance, provisioning, compliance reporting — without the operational overhead of running it yourself.

You define the policies and business requirements. We handle everything else: infrastructure, updates, monitoring, and day-to-day operations.

Why IAM Factory — and Why Now?

Building a trusted managed service platform for the European market requires more than technical expertise. It requires local presence, deep industry relationships, and decades of understanding how enterprises actually buy and operate identity management.

That’s why we partnered with a German consulting company with over 20 years of experience in identity and access management. They bring an established network across German enterprises, universities, and public institutions — along with the kind of market credibility that only comes with time. Inalogy brings what we’ve built over the years: deep MidPoint integration expertise and the ability to operate the platform itself — from technical integration and connector development to the day-to-day running of the managed service infrastructure.

IAM Factory is where these capabilities come together. Not a side project or a reseller arrangement, but a dedicated German company built specifically to deliver MidPoint as a service to the European market.

Built for European Sovereignty

This matters more than ever. With increasing regulatory requirements — NIS2, DORA, KRITIS — European organizations face growing pressure to ensure their critical systems are operated within a framework they can trust and audit.

IAM Factory runs on German datacenter infrastructure. The entire stack is open-source, with no dependencies on non-European cloud providers. Your identity data stays in Europe, managed by a European company, on infrastructure you can verify.

This isn’t a marketing claim. It’s an architectural decision. Organizations that need to demonstrate digital sovereignty to regulators or auditors can do so without asterisks or workarounds.

Who Is It For?

IAM Factory serves organizations that need professional identity management but don’t want to build and maintain the team to run it internally. Our primary focus is on:

• Higher education — universities and research institutions managing complex identity lifecycles across staff, faculty, and affiliated organizations
• Healthcare — hospitals and care providers navigating strict compliance requirements while modernizing their IT infrastructure
• Public sector — municipalities and government agencies under increasing regulatory pressure to implement proper identity governance

Our first customer, Hochschule Mainz, is already in implementation — a milestone that validates both the platform and the approach.

What This Means for Inalogy Customers

Looking Ahead

Inalogy is a co-founder and technology partner of IAM Factory. To learn more, visit iamfactory.de or contact us at info@inalogy.com.