Fortra's Powertech Identity & Access Manager vs Ilex Sign&go comparison

The compared Fortra and Ilex solutions aren't in the same category. Fortra is ranked #37 in PAM , and holds a 0.9% mindshare in the category. Ilex is ranked #23 in SSO , and holds a 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Ilex users are willing to recommend the solution.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

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Categories and Ranking

Fortra's Powertech Identity...

Average Rating

5.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Privileged Access Management (PAM) (37th)

Ilex Sign&go

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Single Sign-On (SSO) (23rd)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Identity and Access Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Fortra's Powertech Identity & Access Manager is designed for Privileged Access Management (PAM) and holds a mindshare of 0.9%, up 0.2% compared to last year.
Ilex Sign&go, on the other hand, focuses on Single Sign-On (SSO), holds 1.6% mindshare, up 0.5% since last year.

Privileged Access Management (PAM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Fortra's Powertech Identity & Access Manager	0.9%
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager	11.2%
Delinea Secret Server	5.0%
Other	82.9%

Privileged Access Management (PAM)

Single Sign-On (SSO) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Ilex Sign&go	1.6%
Microsoft Entra ID	11.6%
Okta Platform	9.1%
Other	77.7%

Single Sign-On (SSO)

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reviewer910470

Practice Lead at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Inexperienced support for old product, but good flexibility for use case customization

HelpSystems Powertech is scalable if you throw more servers at it. Then you can distribute the load, which is a Microsoft SQL Server backend, and as long as you allocate enough resources to those things, then it is scalable. That's good enough. It would be an entire organization that uses it. So at a hospital for example, a healthcare system, a bank, and it would be the entire workforce on it. I haven't see a lot of customer's specific use cases, but it is for the whole workforce, everyone. The CEO of the company to the janitor. In terms of maintaining it, that requires application administrators or system administrators. There is a manual process to update the product, at least with the on-premise version.

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reviewer1251120

Managing Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Strong single sign on security comes packaged with simplicity in this on-premises-only solution

We do not have a huge usage load in our implementation of the product at our company. We know this because we have been working with clients and speaking with them as users and they literally have thousands of users on the product. Based on their testimonial and their lack of problems in performance, the scalability is there. In our company on our projects, we stay in the range of only hundreds of users, which is very small in comparison. As far as the number of people we require for maintenance, we are the level two maintenance with the vendor. To use and to configure on the client's side — for our clients — they really should never require in excess of one person full-time or the equivalent. Sign&Go has got a pretty low administrative requirement as far as maintenance is concerned. On our side, as far as the second level of support, I would say we get very few requests for actual issues with the product. The product stability is good. So, as far as running the maintenance on our end, we tend to only have a request is when a client needs to integrate a new workstation or do something else to expand their operations.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"HelpSystems Powertech's feature that I have found most valuable is its flexibility. It is able to be extended. A lot of the products these days, especially the ones on the cloud, are limited and can't handle all the use cases. Often there is not even a way to customize the application to meet uncommon use cases and HelpSystems provides an infrastructure that lends itself to the ability to be customized."

"The on-premises deployment meets restrictions and the end-user is able to control all the configuration in their own IT environment."

Cons

"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the support of the product. It's hard to get support for it. I think this is emblematic of the fact that they don't have a lot of employees who have long-term experience with it."

"There is no software as a service or PaaS (Platform as a Service) offering from Ilex. The only option is on-premises integration."

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Also Known As

HelpSystems Powertech Identity & Access Manager, Powertech Identity & Access Manager, BoKS, BoKS ServerControl, Fox Technologies ApplicationControl, ApplicationControl

Sign&go

Overview

Powertech Identity & Access Manager (BoKS) transforms your multi-vendor Linux and UNIX server environment into one centrally managed security domain. It simplifies your organization’s ability to enforce security policies, and control access to critical systems and information. With full control over accounts, access and privilege, IT and security teams can proactively prevent internal and external attacks on critical systems before they start.

Fortra

Sign&go is a modular global SSO solution from llex International which addresses the security and traceability issues. It offers Strong authentication, Web Access Management, Mobile Access Management, Identity Federation functionalities through common architecture and administration.

Ilex

Sample Customers

Integris Health

High Council of French Notaries, Leroy Merlin, IFP School, CANAL+ Group, Soci_t_ G_n_rale, Saint-ótienne University Hospital

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