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IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence vs IBM Tivoli Identity Manager [EOL] comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Security Identity Gover...
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
User Provisioning Software (13th), Identity Management (IM) (30th)
IBM Tivoli Identity Manager...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1830612 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head, Cybersecurity at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We use the solution to ensure organizations conform to industry base certifications and best practices
We use the product to ensure organizations conform to industry base certifications and best practices and do not contradict their security policies within the base points they specify in the system, which are used to match everything against their governance use cases I think the product's most…
it_user711912 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at a tech services company
Ease of configuration is the most valuable feature.
The engine is getting a bit long in the tooth, the UI should be redone to be a bit more modern and flexible. The software has been running pretty much on the same UI for a long time. The self-service UI was not a good enough improvement due to the "self-only" part. Lately there's been improvement, but other vendors seem to have much slicker UIs. Users want wizard-like UIs nowadays (in my experience). They don't want to navigate endless menus and selections. The engine is still the same clump of Java it was long ago as Enrole. But now it's a notably larger collection of extensions, and IBM has it reasonably documented. When done correctly, customizations are stable, but when done incorrectly they may cause hangs in the database that are difficult to resolve. Outside of that, the Adapter Development Tool (ADT), an old and (officially) unsupported tool made and maintained by an IBMer seems to no longer be maintained. A lot of people used this tool to create customized adapters for ITIM, expanding it further than IBM ever could. Now it seems all gone.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Government
13%
Computer Software Company
10%
Insurance Company
10%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise11
 

Also Known As

IGI, IBM Security Identity Manager, ISIM
Tivoli Identity Manager, IBM Security Identity Manager
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

E.ON Global Commodities
Whirlpool Corporation, EXA Corporation, Arla Foods, Iceland Government
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