We performed a comparison between Fortra's Powertech Identity & Access Manager and VMware Identity Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about CyberArk, Delinea, BeyondTrust and others in Privileged Access Management (PAM)."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."
"When we publish the applications, getting the credentials to log in and keep the application up or running is easy."
"The most valuable features in VMware Identity Manager for me are the control groups and rules."
"It helps the end users to work on the road without needing to set up all kinds of VPN connections"
"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 solution is stable."
"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 most valuable feature is the User Experience Designer, which has been very helpful for our project."
"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."
"The security features could always use improvement, although there has already been a huge improvement from years ago."
"The license could be better."
"I would like to have better support for multi-cloud sessions."
"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."
"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."
"it's very dependent on an active directory"
"The database gets corrupted when used in the cluster. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't."
"The mobile SSO doesn't work as well on Android."
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Fortra's Powertech Identity & Access Manager is ranked 38th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) while VMware Identity Manager is ranked 17th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews. Fortra's Powertech Identity & Access Manager is rated 5.0, while VMware Identity Manager is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Fortra's Powertech Identity & Access Manager writes "Inexperienced support for old product, but good flexibility for use case customization". 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". Fortra's Powertech Identity & Access Manager is most compared with , whereas VMware Identity Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and Okta Workforce Identity.
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