Defining corporate reporting hierarchies is not a primary purpose of Identity Governance and Administration. In SailPoint IdentityIQ, reporting hierarchy data is typically consumed from an authoritative source, such as an HR system, rather than created as the central objective of IGA. IdentityIQ may use manager relationships for identity correlation, access reviews, approval routing, escalation, lifecycle processing, and certification ownership, but the system’s purpose is not to design or maintain the enterprise organizational chart.
IGA focuses on identity security outcomes: determining who users are, what access they have, whether that access is appropriate, how access was granted, and how inappropriate or risky access should be remediated. Manager and reporting-line data supports these controls, but it is supporting identity context, not the governance objective itself.
For example, a manager attribute may be used during Identity Refresh, certification generation, or access request approval. However, the business function of defining the reporting hierarchy normally remains with HR or organizational management systems.
Reference topics: Foundational Concepts — purpose of identity security; Identity Modeling — manager correlation and IdentityCube attributes; Governance — certification ownership and approval routing.
