We performed a comparison between CyberArk Identity and VMware Identity Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup of CyberArk Identity was straightforward."
"I like the RBAC (Role-Based Access Control). It basically involves defining various roles, and then simply assigning those roles to users."
"The setup, via cloud, is simple."
"The user self-service program and the Office 365 provisioning service feature are the most valuable. It is a very easy and feature-rich solution that gives priority to the users and security."
"The most valuable feature of CyberArk Identity is the adaptive interface."
"The most valuable features of CyberArk Identity are its ability to control access to administrative staff."
"CyberArk Identity is a mature product."
"It has machine learning and can help clients to learn the environment and understand what is happening."
"The most valuable feature is the User Experience Designer, which has been very helpful for our project."
"The most valuable feature is that it will use my credentials to access various parts of the infrastructure or other solutions, such as vRealize."
"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 solution was easy to deploy."
"The most valuable features in VMware Identity Manager for me are the control groups and rules."
"The solution is stable."
"Zero Trust implementation is a great feature."
"The most valuable feature is single sign-on."
"CyberArk Identity's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The solution could be easier to use and I found it to be very complex involving many steps."
"There is room for improvement in documentation. The documentation could be more specific about the changes needed to achieve specific goals."
"We would like to see an improvement in the ability to manage mobile devices."
"In terms of a governance platform, it's worth noting that CyberArk doesn't offer a particularly strong one."
"They could improve their UI and make everything more user-friendly."
"The solution's difficulty in gaining skill sets should be improved because it's a vertical product."
"More integrations would be better."
"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."
"There is a need for better user lifecycle management within VMware Identity Manager, along with better user governance...The scalability of the product needs to improve."
"The license could be better."
"The security features could always use improvement, although there has already been a huge improvement from years ago."
"it's very dependent on an active directory"
"Many of the features that exist in Active Directory do not exist in Identity Manager, which means that people depend on Active Directory."
"The database gets corrupted when used in the cluster. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't."
"I would like to have better support for multi-cloud sessions."
CyberArk Identity is ranked 8th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 17 reviews while VMware Identity Manager is ranked 15th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews. CyberArk Identity is rated 8.2, while VMware Identity Manager is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of CyberArk Identity writes "Allows Linux and Unix administrators to login with single password ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Identity Manager writes "A tool that needs to improve scalability but is useful to manage user". CyberArk Identity is most compared with Microsoft Intune, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint IdentityIQ and PingFederate, whereas VMware Identity Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and SailPoint IdentityIQ. See our CyberArk Identity vs. VMware Identity Manager report.
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