CrowdStrike Falcon vs SAP Identity Management comparison

The compared CrowdStrike and SAP solutions aren't in the same category. CrowdStrike is ranked #1 in XDR , with an average rating of 8.6, and holds a 14.1% mindshare in the category. SAP is ranked #12 in IAM , with an average rating of 9.5, and holds a 2.6% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of CrowdStrike users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of SAP users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 15, 2025

SAP Identity Management and CrowdStrike Falcon are key players in the enterprise technology sector, each offering strong solutions in their respective areas. While SAP Identity Management excels in identity and access management, providing robust security and control, CrowdStrike Falcon stands out with its advanced threat detection capabilities, giving it an edge in cybersecurity.

Features: SAP Identity Management focuses on centralized identity authentication, lifecycle management, and role-based access control. Its integration within enterprise ecosystems bolsters security. CrowdStrike Falcon shines with endpoint threat detection, proactive threat intelligence, and real-time response, prioritizing advanced cybersecurity strategies.

Room for Improvement: SAP Identity Management could improve user experience, streamline integration processes with non-SAP systems, and enhance automation tools for broader applications. CrowdStrike Falcon might benefit from expanding its identity protection features, improving user interface customization, and reducing false positive alerts in threat detection.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAP Identity Management involves a complex deployment process that requires expert integration with existing systems, demanding substantial support. In contrast, CrowdStrike Falcon offers swift, cloud-based deployments with a proactive support team ensuring minimal operational disruption and effective, responsive service.

Pricing and ROI: SAP Identity Management incurs significant setup costs, but over time, it effectively mitigates security risks, yielding good ROI. On the other hand, CrowdStrike Falcon's subscription model provides predictable costs with a faster ROI due to its immediate impact on reducing threats, appealing to businesses seeking quick returns on cybersecurity investments.

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Categories and Ranking

CrowdStrike Falcon

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

132

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (6th), Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (2nd), Threat Intelligence Platforms (1st), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (1st), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (1st), Attack Surface Management (ASM) (1st), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (2nd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (1st)

SAP Identity Management

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

User Provisioning Software (6th), Identity Management (IM) (12th)

Mindshare comparison

CrowdStrike Falcon and SAP Identity Management aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. CrowdStrike Falcon is designed for Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and holds a mindshare of 14.1%, down 19.4% compared to last year.
SAP Identity Management, on the other hand, focuses on Identity Management (IM), holds 2.6% mindshare, down 2.9% since last year.

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Identity Management (IM)

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Waleed Omar

Information Security Specialist at Arab Open University

Provides effective real-time threat detection with potential for cost optimization

Some features such as device control, firewall management, and file analysis are standalone products that we need to purchase separately. If these features came out of the box within the product, it would be much more beneficial for us. Other providers such as SentinelOne include these features in their base product. We attended a CrowdStrike Falcon event where they discussed some shallow AI features, but we cannot see these in our panel yet. We work with different solutions such as Darktrace and SocRadar, where AI features are automatically displayed in our dashboards after release. However, for CrowdStrike Falcon, we cannot see these features.

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Kiril Petkov

CEO at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

Stable, especially if you're an experienced user and is suitable for managing access rights for accounts, process sharing, and file sharing, but it isn't straightforward to use or maintain

I'm not so happy about the features provided by SAP Identity Management, but I'm not sure where the problem lies, if it's a product issue, an issue with its deployment, or both. I find SAP Identity Management complicated to use. Maintaining it is also complex. The solution is integrated with only two core systems, so it's not compatible with all applications in terms of providing single sign-on, which makes no sense to me, so this is another area for improvement in SAP Identity Management. Still, the issue could be with the supplier my company is working with, as that supplier provides consultancy and deployment services. It's a popular, experienced, and well-ranked supplier in the local market. However, it's still not guaranteed that the business requirements have been understood correctly and that the deployment was done properly. What I'd like to see in SAP Identity Management in its next release is a more innovative way to use it for handling all access rights rather than having to use different products.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The threat intelligence is the most valuable feature."

"From what we have seen, it is very scalable. We have recently acquired a company where someone had a ransomware attack when we joined networks. Within the course of just a few days, we were able to easily get CrowdStrike rolled out to about 300 machines. That also included the removal of that company's legacy anti-malware tool."

"The most valuable feature is the machine learning that they use to check certain patterns in the endpoint devices. It checks the whole ecosystem or entire environment."

"The solution is silent and sits on your system as one single agent."

"It helps to prevent unauthorized access or identity theft from external sites. If your identity is stolen, you can ban it."

"I value the overall behavior analysis of CrowdStrike. The engine of this product is what drew us to this solution."

"We have a small IT Team, and this allows us to get sleep at night, knowing that someone else is taking care of any incidents that occur."

"Probably the most valuable thing to me is the real-time response piece. The fact that I can connect to an endpoint as long as it is on the Internet, no matter where it is globally. I can remove files from the endpoint, drop files on the endpoint, stop processes, reboot it, run custom scripts, and deploy software. Pretty much no other tool can do all that."

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"The most valuable feature is the user experience for managing information."

"The most valuable features of SAP Identity Management are business roles and automated user provisioning."

"What I like about SAP Identity Management is that it's stable for experienced users and suitable for access management, not just for SAP accounts, but for Active Directory, including file sharing and process sharing."

"The tool's most valuable features are its access control and approval of access requests. The self-service password reset feature is efficient. Role management capabilities streamline user access by assigning and revoking roles."

"What's most valuable in SAP Identity Management is that it's easily an out-of-the-box solution for connectivity with SAP applications. We do not have to do any customizations, and this makes the solution very compatible with most SAP applications. SAP Identity Management is also very user-friendly."

"The setup process is straightforward."

"What I found most valuable in SAP Identity Management is process automation. The solution also gives transparency about what is happening and why which I find beneficial. Another feature I found valuable in SAP Identity Management is integration. It has very good integration."

"Rather than implement a basic SSO, this solution assisted us with setting up two-factor authentication."

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Cons

"I believe nothing can be done to make CrowdStrike Falcon a ten out of ten, as I think it's one of the best solutions in the market. However, rating it a ten overall would imply there's no scope for improvement, but to survive in the market, changes must be made every day."

"It would be nice if they did have some sort of Active Directory tie-in, whether that be Azure or on-prem. Sometimes, it is difficult for us to determine if we are missing any endpoints or servers in CrowdStrike. We honestly don't have a great inventory, but it would be nice if CrowdStrike had a way to say this is everything in your environment, Active Directory-wise, and this is what doesn't have sensors. They try to do that now with a function that they have built-in, but I have been unsuccessful in having it help us identify what needs a sensor. So, better visibility of what doesn't have a sensor in our environment would be helpful."

"For CrowdStrike to work, all the machines need to have an internet connection. This makes it challenging to assist customers without an internet connection. We would like to have a mechanism or relay to make this possible."

"The dashboard does not have the facility to export the reports in a PDF format, which I can quickly share with internal stakeholders."

"There are some aspects of the UI that could use some improvement, e.g., working in groups. I build a group, then I have to manually assign prevention policies, update policies, etc., but there is no function to copy that group. So, if I wanted to make a subgroup for troubleshooting or divide workstations into groups of laptops and desktops, then I have to manually build a brand new group. I can't just copy a build from one to another. Additionally, in order to do any work within a group, I have to first do the work on the respective prevention policy page or individual policy page, then remove the group if the group is assigned to a different prevention policy, remove the prevention policy, and then add the new one in. So, it can get a little hectic. It would be easier if I could add and remove things from the group page rather than having to go into the policy pages to do it."

"I would like a centralized deployment where I could roll out or push it to all endpoints."

"They should provide us with good visibility for everything."

"The ability to receive text alerts natively in the console would be kind of cool."

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"A lack of startup connectors to different systems, and could have better connectors for SAP IDM."

"I find SAP Identity Management complicated to use. Maintaining it is also complex."

"It needs to have the SSO for the HANA modules that SAP is releasing."

"Research and marketing need to be improved."

"One of the areas for improvement in the solution is its user interface which needs to be up-to-date and fancier, in particular, have better visualization in terms of the tabs and buttons. The user interface of SAP Identity Management should be improved based on the latest trends."

"SAP Identity Management can improve risk analysis and authority checks."

"For SAP support in Brazil, everything is in English, which poses a difficulty for many customers."

"The pricing could be better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost of CrowdStrike Falcon in Latin America seems high relative to the economic conditions in the region."

"The licensing model is straightforward. We choose the features we want and we then can download the package we want."

"CrowdStrike Falcon offers excellent value for the money for our organization, particularly given our lean IT team."

"CrowdStrike is a reasonably priced tool."

"CrowdStrike is well priced. On a yearly basis, it costs between $60 and $100 per user."

"As I'm part of the technical team, not the budgeting team, I don't have information on CrowdStrike Falcon pricing."

"We bought a very small number of licenses, then ran it for a year. We bought a 100 licenses for a year, so we didn't actually do a proof of concept. We just bought them. Then, the next year, we bought 10,000 licenses."

"When it comes to licensing, customers can choose a bundle or select licences based on the specific features they would like access to. This solution comes with premium pricing. It is approximately 20 to 30% more expensive than competing solutions."

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"I rate the solution's pricing a four out of ten."

"The licensing cost varies depending on the specific requirements and deployment size."

"When evaluating the price of any product, I first look at how it meets my business requirements and if it meets requirements adequately and predictively. Currently, I don't see this from SAP Identity Management, so pricing for it is expensive, in my opinion."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

11%

Energy/Utilities Company

Financial Services Firm

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Questions from the Community

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How does Microsoft Defender for Endpoint compare with Crowdstrike Falcon?

The CrowdStrike solution delivers a lot of information about incidents. It has a very light sensor that will never push your machine hardware to "test", you don't have the usual "scan now" feature ...

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What do you like most about SAP Identity Management?

The tool's most valuable features are its access control and approval of access requests. The self-service password reset feature is efficient. Role management capabilities streamline user access b...

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What needs improvement with SAP Identity Management?

One area that could be improved with SAP Identity Management, other than support, is user engagement from an implementation perspective. It would be beneficial for SAP to extend their events and wo...

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What is your primary use case for SAP Identity Management?

The use cases for SAP Identity Management include the logistics company, and we also have a beverage company that is using SAP Identity Management. We did not make the migration for them, but we im...

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Also Known As

CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike Falcon XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon Threat Intelligence, CrowdStrike Identity Protection, CrowdStrike Falcon Surface

SAP NetWeaver Identity Management, NetWeaver Identity Management

Overview

CrowdStrike Falcon provides AI-powered endpoint detection and protection with minimal system impact. Its real-time monitoring and cloud-native design support efficient threat analysis and integration with other platforms, enhancing security management and workflow.

CrowdStrike Falcon is renowned for its comprehensive cybersecurity features, offering automatic threat analysis and AI-driven protection. Users appreciate its cloud-native flexibility and seamless integration capabilities. Its real-time monitoring, incident response, and vulnerability assessment deliver detailed insights and threat intelligence. Despite its robust features, improvements in integration with other technologies, dashboard functionalities, log management, and support for outdated systems are desired. Enhanced reporting, detailed malware analysis, and reduced false positives can improve user experiences. Organizations leverage Falcon for endpoint protection, threat detection, ransomware defense, and forensic investigations with its effective AI capabilities.

What are the key features of CrowdStrike Falcon?

Endpoint Detection: Provides comprehensive monitoring and AI-driven analysis to identify threats.
Automatic Threat Analysis: Uses machine learning to swiftly analyze potential threats.
AI-Driven Protection: Employs advanced AI for proactive security measures.
Real-Time Monitoring: Offers immediate detection and alerting of security issues.
Incident Response: Facilitates efficient response to security incidents and breaches.
Vulnerability Assessment: Identifies and evaluates security vulnerabilities effectively.
Seamless Integration: Easily connects with other platforms for unified security management.
Threat Intelligence: Provides in-depth insights into security threats and activities.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Minimal Performance Impact: Ensures systems run efficiently without significant resource use.
Cloud-Native Flexibility: Offers scalable and adaptive use without on-premises constraints.
Detailed Insights: Provides comprehensive data for informed decision-making and threat assessment.
Robust Protection: Keeps evolving threats at bay with customizable policies and frequent updates.
Enhanced Workflow: Improves user productivity with an efficient, streamlined dashboard.

In finance and healthcare, CrowdStrike Falcon is implemented to protect against advanced threats and ensure compliance. Its AI-driven capabilities aid in real-time threat detection and vulnerability management, making it an essential tool for companies aiming to secure sensitive data and maintain operational continuity. Manufacturing sectors utilize it for securing production systems against potential cyber threats, ensuring uptime and safety. CrowdStrike Falcon's adaptable architecture benefits these industries by providing reliable protection across varied operating environments.

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Reduce risk and centrally manage user access across your enterprise – with SAP Identity Management. The software integrates with your business processes to provide robust data and application security. Keep your operations running smoothly – and boost productivity by providing role-based user access, self-service password reset, approval workflows, and more.

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Sample Customers

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State of Indiana, Automotive Resources International (ARI), Alliander N.V., Chemion Logistik GmbH, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH)

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