We performed a comparison between Azure Active Directory and SailPoint IdentityIQ based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Active Directory is the clear winner in this comparison. It is a feature-rich and powerful solution with an impressive ROI. It also received higher marks in the Deployment and Pricing categories.
"I appreciate all the support we receive from Omada."
"Two valuable features of Omada Identity are the ability to discover accounts and link them to identities, and the automatic disabling of inactive accounts or identities."
"The support for the validity of the resources is valuable. The tool allows resource assignments within a validity period so that the managers do not have to remember to revoke the access once the work is done."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic provisioning and reconciliation of things like the Active Directory groups and memberships."
"What I like most is that we can always find a solution, and we can also find the cause when something goes wrong. I like that the most because everything is in one way or another traceable. That is what I like most. I like its reliability."
"Omada Identity Suite has a very powerful workflow engine. It is used for requesting access for approval to everything that's around Access Management and for re-certification purposes."
"As an administrator, we benefit from a lot of functionality that is available out of the box, but it is also configurable to meet our specific needs."
"The most relevant feature is Omada's reporting engine. Omada never 'forgets' and archives every process. All steps an admin, user, or manager has executed, are recorded in Omada."
"The security and compliance features are very helpful. The online information on the site is well documented."
"Azure Active Directory has been very useful for our company, it is not difficult to use."
"It's a very scalable solution."
"I like Entra's ability to integrate the Active Directory with third-party solutions. It's straightforward. I like the ability to define third-party systems and make the AD the primary identity provider."
"The tool's most valuable feature is auto logs. It helps with user activity and monitoring. It also assists us with GLBA policies and procedures. Microsoft Entra ID gives a 360 view of what the user has access to, what applications are available to them, when they are logging in and out, etc. It makes knowing what is happening to our tenants incredibly powerful."
"I would say that Azure AD's pricing is very reasonable because of the structure and in terms of the solution."
"The solution scales well."
"The most valuable feature is the conditional access policies. This gives us the ability to restrict who can access which applications or the portal in specific ways."
"I find the built-in connectors, lifecycle management, certification, and recertification features to be the most valuable."
"The first valuable feature of the solution is its interface. The second feature of the solution is the level of flexibility it provides."
"The access certification feature is valuable."
"Access certification and provisioning are two of the solutions most valuable features."
"Has a great certification module with intuitive options."
"Provisioning in multiple environments."
"It is a stable tool, which we run in our complex environment."
"We are happy with the SailPoint IdentityIQ’s stability."
"The backend is pretty good but the self-service request access screen, the GUI, needs improvement. It's an old-fashioned screen. Also, Omada has reports, but I wouldn't dare show them to the business because they look like they're from 1995. I know they are working on these things and that’s good, because they’re really needed."
"Omada's performance could be better because we had some latency issues. Still, it's difficult to say how much of that is due to Omada versus the resources used by our other vendors in our on-prem environment. Considering the resources we have invested into making it run well, it's slightly slower than we would expect."
"The security permission inside Omada needs improvement. It's tricky to set up."
"When making a process, you should be able to use some coding to do some advanced calculations. The calculations you can currently do are too basic. I would also like some additional script features."
"The architecture of the entire system should also be less complex. The way they process the data is complex."
"There's a challenge with handling large amounts of data in this system."
"The account management integration isn't bad, but it isn't plug-and-play like Microsoft Azure. You need some deep development knowledge to set up the connectors."
"The reporting on the warehouse data and the import process both have room for improvement."
"Microsoft Authenticator can improve their notifications because sometimes, my team doesn't receive notifications about app updates and authentication failures."
"I would rate it an eight out of ten. The price plays a factor in the rating."
"Active Directory could always be more secure. Right now, we've got two-factor authentications. All services based on Active Directory have a username and password. If somebody hacked our username, they could easily get all the data from our side. So I want two-factor authentication and a stronger password policy from Active Directory. The domain controllers should be more secure as well."
"Microsoft has so many different requirements and priorities that sometimes they don't invest all their energy into the products that you have expectations to investigate."
"The conditional access rules are a little limiting. There's greater scope for the variety of rules and conditions you could put in that rules around a more factual authentication for other users. If you have an Azure AD setup, you can then connect to other people's Azure AD, but you don't have a huge amount of control in terms of what you can do. Greater control over guest users and guest access would be better. It's pretty good as it is but that could be improved."
"Microsoft needs to add a single setup, so whenever resources join the company or are leaving the company, all of the changes can be made with a single click."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The support could be better. Lately, they sort of dropped off a bit in terms of quality."
"Additional details during account aggregation failures to help quick troubleshooting."
"It is not readily available and cannot be downloaded from the net."
"The user interface could be slightly improved. It could be made simpler and more user-friendly, however, it is good enough right now."
"The price of IdentityIQ could be lower. There are additional costs when you buy the licenses, and they force the customers to pay for them."
"The connectors are far too manual. This needs to be automated a bit."
"The cost of this solution is high. The technical assistance center could be improved. They're very good, but considering the intricacies of the solution, they can further improve."
"We faced some issues while integrating the solution with a third-party tool."
"It tends to be more expensive, but at the end of the day, it works."
Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Identity Management (IM) with 190 reviews while SailPoint IdentityIQ is ranked 2nd in Identity Management (IM) with 61 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while SailPoint IdentityIQ is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Allows users to authenticate from home and has excellent integrations in a simple, stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SailPoint IdentityIQ writes "Flexible, easy to customize, and not too difficult to set up". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Yubico YubiKey and RSA SecurID, whereas SailPoint IdentityIQ is most compared with Saviynt, One Identity Manager, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity and Oracle Identity Governance. See our Microsoft Entra ID vs. SailPoint IdentityIQ report.
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