We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and VMware Identity Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Auth0 and others in Single Sign-On (SSO)."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator are easy to configure, secure, and the application has good performance."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy. It is also easy to deploy."
"It keeps track of users and their IPs no matter where they are in the network. When users roam, we don't have to worry about not mapping them to an IP."
"We have not had issues with Fortinet FortiAuthenticator. It is stable."
"The product is good, cost-effective, and functionally efficient."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The logs have great detail that make it easier to evaluate and control the security environment."
"For someone concerned with multifactor authentication, I'm satisfied with the product."
"Its value is when you use it with a Workspace ONE UEM solution as it is part of the ecosystem for VMware Workspace ONE."
"When we publish the applications, getting the credentials to log in and keep the application up or running is easy."
"It helps the end users to work on the road without needing to set up all kinds of VPN connections"
"The solution was easy to deploy."
"Zero Trust implementation is a great feature."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is single sign-on."
"The most valuable feature is the User Experience Designer, which has been very helpful for our project."
"The only issue I encounter is that when not using FortiAuthenticator for an extended period, it's typical to encounter some obstacles in the configuration process that you need to address."
"I would like to see integration and customization capabilities with the end-user portal to solve authentication issues with diverse implementation scenarios."
"The customization capability of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is not very flexible."
"The integration with other products, for example, some SAML authentications, would make it more flexible."
"A better integration with other vendors."
"The product must provide 2FA for applications."
"It would be helpful to receive a code by yourself for authentication instead of it registered to a phone."
"The hardware aspect of the solution could be improved. We are not really able to understand the hardware capabilities of the device."
"it's very dependent on an active directory"
"There are a lot of difficulties whenever people have a lot of configurations in it, basically related to security certificate configurations and integration with VMware Horizon."
"The database gets corrupted when used in the cluster. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't."
"Many of the features that exist in Active Directory do not exist in Identity Manager, which means that people depend on Active Directory."
"The security features could always use improvement, although there has already been a huge improvement from years ago."
"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."
"I would like to have better support for multi-cloud sessions."
"The mobile SSO doesn't work as well on Android."
Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is ranked 5th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 52 reviews while VMware Identity Manager is ranked 15th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews. Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is rated 8.0, while VMware Identity Manager is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator writes "A reasonably priced solution that can be scaled toward different functionalities and offers flexible SMS messaging". 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". Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiToken, Fortinet FortiNAC, Microsoft Entra ID and Cisco Duo, whereas VMware Identity Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), SailPoint IdentityIQ and Okta Workforce Identity.
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