"The scalability of the product is decent."
"I like Intune's MDM and MI."
"In terms of identity management, it helps to improve security posture. It generally helps in terms cloud security, simplicity, and single sign-on for multiple apps."
"This product is easy to use."
"It can be used to grant access at a granular level. It provides secure access and many ways to offer security to your user resources. It provides a good level of security for any access on Azure. It gives you options like multi-factor authentication where apart from your password, you can use other factors for authentication, such as a code is sent to your phone or the authenticator app that you can use login."
"It also has features that help improve security posture. The most important of these features include multifactor authentication, which is very useful for connecting to the organization, especially from outside the boundaries of the organization. That is very helpful when it comes to user security."
"Azure Active Directory has useful policy assigning and management."
"Many of its features are valuable, including: facilitating application authentication, privileged access management, processes for attestation, and access reviews."
"Google is always on its own. Google Cloud Identity is pretty good on every point."
"The solution is moderate to difficult to use. I found the approach was practical. Following the steps made it very easy to use."
"I think the first thing that is great is that it gives you a lot of features, like login, and then vaulted passwords and secure LDAP. It becomes easier for the end customer to leverage all those features without going to a higher SKU of G Suite."
"Cloud Identity is scalable enough for our needs. It's serving more than 3,000 users in our organization."
"It's easy to set up."
"One of the most useful features was the single sign-on. You can use it as an identity provider or service provider. And you can use their organization unit feature to enable or disable some of the features for a specific group of users."
"Though the installation was seamless, it took longer than expected to be completed."
"I think the documentation and configuration are both areas that need improvement."
"Sometimes, what one customer may like, another may not like it. We have had customers asking, "Why is Microsoft forcing us to do this?" For example, when you use Exchange Server on-premise, then you can customize it for your company and these customizations are unlimited. However, if you use Exchange Online or with Microsoft 365, then your ability to make modifications is limited. So, only the cloud versus is limited."
"There is no documentation about how Microsoft will scale Azure AD for customers. It only mentions that it will scale out if you have a lot of requests but does not mention how in detail."
"Some systems do not integrate very well with Azure AD. We thought of going for Okta, but later on we were able to achieve it, but not the way we wanted. It was not as easy as we thought it would be. The integration was not very seamless."
"I would like it if Intune could manage MacOS or iOS directly. Right now, we have to use a third-party solution."
"I would like to see improvements made when it comes to viewing audit logs, sign-in logs, and resource tags."
"It would be awesome to have a feature where you can see the permissions of a user in all their Azure subscriptions. Right now, you have to select a user, then you have to select the subscription to see which permissions the user has in their selected subscriptions. Sometimes, you just want to know, "Does that user have any permissions in any subscriptions?" That would be awesome if that would be available via the portal."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"If you want to set up some alerts, you don't have much control over the configuration. You have to use their default alerts. And they only provide alerts for certain activities, so you cannot customize those. Monitoring isn't very helpful either."
"Google Cloud Identify could make the technology used easier to understand as a layman making it more user-friendly."
"The one place it could be improved is the password vaulting. The password vaulting does not prevent the admins from reading users' passwords, and that's a debate."
"They are going ahead and adding a few more things to the Google Cloud premium edition. Their stock management and remote computer management can be improved."
"Technical support is slow."
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Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is ranked 1st in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 99 reviews while Google Cloud Identity is ranked 4th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 6 reviews. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is rated 8.8, while Google Cloud Identity is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) writes "With multi-factor authentication, we've seen a marked decrease in the number of threats we've seen come through". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud Identity writes "You don't need much expertise or previous experience to work with it". Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is most compared with Okta Workforce Identity, AWS Directory Service, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Auth0 and CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, whereas Google Cloud Identity is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Okta Workforce Identity, VMware Workspace ONE, Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM) and Jamf Pro. See our Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) vs. Google Cloud Identity report.
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