Control five-year cost
Reduce unnecessary licensing and operational complexity where the evidence supports it.
Enterprise identity
Lower identity cost. Keep the business running.
Reduce identity cost without compromising critical journeys. Midships designs, modernises and supports Keycloak and existing enterprise IAM environments, including customer-owned Ping estates, with independent advice on when to retain, renegotiate or migrate.
Why you are here
When identity becomes a board-level cost.
If one of these is true, set out the options now, while every route is still open.
- Licence cost rises with your customers. Pricing per active user or per stored identity grows with every digital success.
- A renewal or major upgrade is within 24 months. Options narrow and negotiating leverage falls as the date approaches.
- The platform depends on scarce specialist skills. Key-person risk and slow change make every release expensive.
- A migration has been discussed but never sized. Without evidence on the risk, the default is to renew.
What changes
When should you keep, renegotiate or replace your IAM platform?
Protect your customers
Maintain authentication journeys, availability and capability through change.
Retain the right platform
Optimise what works, negotiate better terms or move with a tested alternative.
Supported estates
Keycloak when change makes sense. Independent help when it does not.
We do not need to replace your platform to deliver value.
01
Keycloak and Red Hat build
Assess operating cost, migration feasibility, authentication continuity and supportability, then implement with our Accelerator.
02
Existing Ping environments
Independent specialist engineering for customer-owned PingAM, PingDS, PingGateway and PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud estates.
03
Operations and support
Keep journeys, integrations, observability and platform lifecycle dependable through Guardian and agreed L3 services.
Choose based on value
Keep, renegotiate or replace.
We do not need you to migrate to help you make a better commercial decision.
Optimise the estate
Reduce operational complexity and improve resilience in the platform you already own.
Build negotiation leverage
Understand the credible alternative before renewal terms become unavoidable.
Migrate when justified
Use rehearsed engineering and the right accelerator to deliver a different cost structure.
Migration, shown simply
Change the platform. Keep the customer journey.
01Map dependenciesFlows, tokens, apps, constraints
02Build in parallelCompatibility and integration
03Prove and rehearseLoad, recovery, rollback
04Cut over in stagesObserve and respond
Enterprise IAM capability
Two platforms. Independent advice.
Keycloak / Red Hat build of Keycloak
Reduce CIAM costs without compromising essential capability.
Assess renewal economics, authentication compatibility, operational resilience and migration risk before choosing a replacement.
Explore Keycloak ↗Ping Identity / former ForgeRock environmentsGet more value from the IAM platform you already own.
Deep implementation, upgrades, optimisation, deployment accelerators and independent L3 engineering for PingAM, PingDS and PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud.
Explore independent Ping expertise ↗Independent means independent. Midships is not a Ping reseller, so our advice follows your business case, not a vendor target.
Common questions
Questions about enterprise identity.
Do we have to replace our existing IAM platform?
No. We assess whether retaining, modernising, renegotiating or migrating the platform makes the most sense for your organisation.
Does Midships support Ping Identity?
Yes. Midships provides independent engineering, migration and agreed L3 implementation support across customer-owned PingAM, PingDS and PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud environments. Midships is not a Ping reseller.
How is zero-downtime migration demonstrated?
By compatibility testing, parallel deployment, realistic rehearsals, clearly defined cutover criteria, observability and a rollback plan. Each workload is assessed individually.
Renewal coming up?
Decide before the contract decides for you.
If your identity platform renews within 24 months, set out renew, renegotiate and migrate side by side while every option is still open.
Next step
Review your renewal or migration position Compare your identity options.
Start with your renewal timetable, five-year costs and the journeys you cannot disrupt. We can help assess whether to retain, renegotiate or replace.