We performed a comparison between Google Cloud 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."Google is always on its own. Google Cloud Identity is pretty good on every point."
"I used it as an administrator without implementing it myself. As for valuable aspects or benefits, the significant point is that it's a straightforward, single solution that just works."
"Cloud Identity is scalable enough for our needs. It's serving more than 3,000 users in our organization."
"Google Cloud Identity uses what they call organizational units (OUs) instead of the security groups you'd find in Microsoft's Entra."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The main control page and the ability to manage all our users from a web-based portal are the most valuable aspects of the solution. That's particularly useful because we're a heterogeneous network."
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage users from one central location."
"The tool provides a free service that you can integrate for laptop authentication. You also don’t need a separate Active Directory."
"The most valuable feature is single sign-on."
"It helps the end users to work on the road without needing to set up all kinds of VPN connections"
"Personally, VMware Identity Manager is useful for comparison purposes so that I can provide better solutions to my company's customers."
"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."
"When we publish the applications, getting the credentials to log in and keep the application up or running is easy."
"The solution is stable."
"Zero Trust implementation is a great feature."
"The most valuable features in VMware Identity Manager for me are the control groups and rules."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The solution's storage capacity could be increased."
"If you want to set up some alerts, you don't have much control over the configuration. You have to use their default alerts. And they only provide alerts for certain activities, so you cannot customize those. Monitoring isn't very helpful either."
"There is room for improvement in the configuration of their security policies. It seems quite basic."
"The customer service and support team is not so good."
"They are going ahead and adding a few more things to the Google Cloud premium edition. Their stock management and remote computer management can be improved."
"Technical support is slow."
"Google Cloud Identity the UI could improve."
"The license could be better."
"I would like to have better support for multi-cloud sessions."
"it's very dependent on an active directory"
"We have a lot of problems when it comes to integrating with 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."
"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."
"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."
Google Cloud Identity is ranked 3rd in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 21 reviews while VMware Identity Manager is ranked 15th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews. Google Cloud Identity is rated 7.6, while VMware Identity Manager is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Google Cloud Identity writes "A stable and scalable cloud solution easily compatible with Google office Suite". 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". Google Cloud Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Intune, Okta Workforce Identity, JumpCloud and VMware Workspace ONE, 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 Google Cloud Identity vs. VMware Identity Manager report.
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