Quest Software used its stage at The Experts Conference (TEC) 2025 to sharpen its identity as a critical player in AI readiness, introducing a wave of AI-enabled capabilities across three cornerstone offerings: Security Guardian, the erwin Data Management Platform, and On Demand Migration. The announcements align with Quest’s newly launched company strategy, which zeroes in on three essential hurdles organizations face when scaling AI initiatives—trusted AI-ready data, secure identity management, and modernized platforms able to handle AI’s demands.
The updates to Security Guardian directly address the non-human identity gap that has grown exponentially with the rise of agentic AI and cloud-native applications. With non-human identities now outnumbering human ones at ratios as high as 80:1, the exposure of workloads and service principals has become a prime vector for attack. Quest’s enhancements, including Workload Identity Audit and Detection for Microsoft Entra ID and the new cloud-native Security Guardian Audit, extend deep visibility, compliance strength, and generative AI–driven detection capabilities. This creates a more proactive defense model for Active Directory and Entra ID, reducing investigation time and making disaster recovery up to 90% faster—a promise of both cost savings and operational resilience.
In parallel, Quest is pushing its erwin Data Management Platform into a new league by layering in GenAI for automated data modeling. Trusted data is the lifeblood of AI, and Quest has clearly recognized that governance and accuracy must scale in lockstep with speed. The platform’s new AI-assisted workflows enable natural language prompts to translate directly into production-ready models, cutting time to market by up to 30%. Moreover, by rolling out industry-specific model frameworks, erwin reduces the traditionally lengthy process of collecting regulatory requirements and design work from weeks to days. The result is a system that not only accelerates delivery but also embeds compliance-readiness for sectors like finance and healthcare, where trust and regulation converge.
Migration remains the third leg of Quest’s AI strategy, and here the company continues to push boundaries with On Demand Migration. Already the first to deliver an AI-powered Active Directory migration tool, Quest is now previewing Microsoft Power Apps discovery, giving organizations clearer insight into tenant applications and workflows before consolidation. Combined with its certified AI assistant for Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, and Power BI, On Demand Migration helps companies simplify and de-risk tenant-to-tenant migrations—an essential modernization step for scaling into AI-native operations.
What ties these announcements together is not simply the AI feature set, but the positioning of Quest as a bridge between Microsoft’s ecosystem and enterprise customers’ AI ambitions. With six Partner of the Year awards and the longest-standing identity-focused ISV relationship with Microsoft, Quest is leaning heavily into its credibility. As Alex Simons of Microsoft Entra put it, agent identities and cloud-native identity governance are at the heart of the AI shift, and partners like Quest are crucial in easing that transition.
Quest’s roadmap signals a deliberate attempt to make AI not a lofty aspiration but an operational reality. By addressing identity sprawl, data governance, and migration hurdles head-on, the company is building an AI readiness narrative that aligns both with the urgency of enterprise adoption and the compliance-heavy realities of the sectors it serves. For IT and security leaders attending TEC 2025, the message is clear: AI success depends on foundations, and Quest is positioning itself as the vendor that makes those foundations both secure and scalable.
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