About
An IAM specialist with an engineering background
OPNS is a Belgian company that specialises in identity and access management. Long before IAM became the focus, the team built custom IT solutions for organizations with complex requirements, and that background still shapes how OPNS works today.
OPNS
Open Products, Network and Software
The name reflects the company's roots. OPNS today works across identity, applications, workflows and directory data, most of it delivered on the NetIQ/OpenText platform family alongside a technology partnership with SUSE.
Long before IAM was the specialty, OPNS built tailor-made IT solutions for organizations whose requirements were too specific for anything off the shelf. As those organizations' systems grew more interconnected, managing who could reach what became the harder problem, and OPNS moved into identity and access management to work on it directly.
That background still shows: OPNS treats identity as a piece of enterprise architecture, not a checklist of security policies, and designs around how complex organizations actually operate.
The work is carried out by a small, senior team; every engagement gets someone who has done this before.
Company context
A focused history.
1989
OPNS NV is founded in Belgium as an IT engineering company.
Identity and access management becomes the focus only later. More than 30 years of hands-on engineering experience turn into 20 years of dedicated IAM specialisation.
2023
OPNS joins Metastore Group.
The acquisition completes in August 2023.
Today
Identity is the whole business now, not one capability among several.
OPNS delivers it as a specialist practice, and builds its own IAM software alongside the client work.
Ownership
Part of Metastore Group
August 2023
OPNS is part of Metastore Group, its parent company.
Metastore has grown since 1992 by pairing structured frameworks with a curated group of specialist teams (the idea behind its name, Meta plus Store).
For OPNS customers, that ownership means continuity and the backing of a larger group, not a change in who they work with day to day.
Specialisation
Identity-driven security, built on least privilege
OPNS specialises in identity-driven security, built around the least-privilege principle: giving each person the access needed to do the job, and no more. In practice, that spans:
- Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- Privileged Access Management (PAM)
- Identity Governance & Administration (IGA)
- Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM)
- Zero Trust Architecture
- Single Sign-On (SSO) & Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Role-Based & Attribute-Based Access Control (RBAC / ABAC)
- User Lifecycle Management
- Regulatory Compliance & Audit Readiness (NIS2, GDPR, ISO 27001)
- Non-Human & Machine Identity Management
- Directory Services & Identity Synchronization
Client geography
A footprint across Europe and the Middle East
OPNS works with clients across:
- Benelux
- France
- Germany
- Middle East
Mir.IAM
Why OPNS built its own solution
That same engineering approach to identity (architecture, not policy) is why OPNS eventually built Mir.IAM, its own IAM solution.
How OPNS works
A practical identity perspective
Work with what is in place
Start from the organization's current identity platform, applications, directories, reviewers and operating responsibilities, rather than proposing a rebuild from zero.
Deliver through a disciplined lifecycle
Move every engagement through Dev → UAT → Prod, with an external validator involved before go-live, so nothing reaches production on trust alone.
Keep control visible
Design identity processes so responsibilities, access decisions, review outcomes and evidence remain understandable to the teams operating them, not just to the people who built them.
Get to know OPNS through the work
Explore customer stories, or speak with the team about an identity challenge that needs to become an operating control.