"I have found that all of the features are valuable. It is very easy to deploy because we are able to port users directly from Active Directory (AD) and LDAP."
"The access policies, and all of the policies in Cisco ISE, are important to us."
"SGTs are valuable because they make it easy to enforce policies, instead of pushing them across all the other platforms."
"The WiFi portal in Cisco ISE is very useful for WiFi customers."
"The implementation is very simple."
"The TACACS and RADIUS have been the most valuable features so far."
"It's easy to change and add policies."
"When you push out the policy, it is able to populate the entire network at one time."
"One of the features that I enjoyed most was the integration with Azure AD because I could use VMware Identity Manager to standardize the User Principal Name coming from Active Directory. You have Azure AD Connect to do that. In between, if you have vIDM handling it, you can easily get the synchronization of users into your VM and standardize the User Principal Name. If you require quality assurance for handling it, you can actually count on the vIDM to do so. That was one of the main things I enjoyed about the product."
"Zero Trust implementation is a great feature."
"Its value is when you use it with a Workspace ONE UEM solution as it is part of the ecosystem for VMware Workspace ONE."
"The pricing is fair."
"In an upcoming release, the solution needs to be more agentless and more independent. Additionally, there could be improved integration with other next-generation solutions, such as Palo Alto, Fortinet, or Check Point."
"The solution is not so user-friendly."
"I would like to see integration with other vendors, and the RADIUS integration needs to be improved a little bit."
"The knocks I have against the product are the number of bugs that we encounter, constantly, and the amount of upgrading that we have to do."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"The price could be better. I would like to see more integration with third-party solutions in the next release. This is because many of my clients don't have Cisco."
"The initial setup was a little bit complex. It's not that simple because it requires a lot of prerequisites for the solution to get a hold on."
"The license could be better."
"The mobile SSO doesn't work as well on Android."
"vIDM could be improved with the multi-tenant capabilities that VMware tends to offer—features like customization branding and the integration of the app catalog based on the branding. Since the integration has been at top-level OGs, you were not able to then do rebranding if you were required to use specific user groups to highlight specific applications. At the time, I was personally opening feature requests for these things. I haven't worked with the latest release, so I don't know if these features were already deployed or not."
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Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Network Access Control (NAC) with 60 reviews while VMware Identity Manager is ranked 9th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 3 reviews. Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.0, while VMware Identity Manager is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) writes "Secures devices and has good support, but needs a better interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Identity Manager writes "Great integration and end user experience ". Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Forescout Platform, Fortinet FortiNAC, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management, whereas VMware Identity Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Okta Workforce Identity, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and SailPoint IdentityIQ.
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