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IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] vs Ping Identity Platform comparison

IBM and Ping Identity are both solutions in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category. Additionally, 93% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Ping Identity users who would recommend it.
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Categories and Ranking

IBM Tivoli Access Manager [...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
3.8
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Ping Identity Platform
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
Single Sign-On (SSO) (5th), Authentication Systems (7th), Data Governance (10th), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (6th), Access Management (5th), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (3rd), Directory Servers (1st)
 

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Senior Consultant at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Reverse proxy provides central control over authentication and authorization.
It is a single product that caters for all the business needs throughout the organization. It provides a seamless integration that in turn encourages most of the applications to use the SSO features Reverse proxy is the most valuable feature as it provides central control over authentication and…
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Shruthi R Varikoti
Senior ServiceNow Developer at Wells Fargo
Generative AI automates access reviews and provides workflow efficiencies
I work with Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), IT Service Management (ITSM), and Customer Service Management (CSM) modules of ServiceNow. My project is related to cybersecurity. I have touched on generative AI and integrations like SOAP APIs. I have used the Ping Identity Platform for seamless…
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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Tivoli Access Manager (or IBM Security Access Manager) is a fully featured web authentication, sso and authorization product."
"Tivoli Access Manger lets you separate security from applications and manage at one place."
"It is one of the best products in the present market in the area of access management."
"Centralized policy management and reverse proxy-based architecture make it very flexible in terms of deployment, adoption, and implementation."
"Before the solution was implemented it took around 2-3 weeks to get all the necessary account information for a new employee in my organization, and since implementation this now only takes a few minutes."
"SAML 2.0."
"Tivoli Access Manager's proxy product (WebSEAL) is extremely fast."
"Several SSO methods are supported out of box, federation based SSO (SAML / Oauth / OpenID etc) setup is easy, performance and scalability are very good, and the internal STS token service can be used for custom SSO tokens."
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"It's pretty stable as a product."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It provides very good possibilities and it's much better than other technology that we have used before which was unstable and slower."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The soundness of the solution is its most valuable feature. For example, if you are in our corporate network, you can log on without any traffic interfering."
"This is a user-friendly solution."
"I find the auto-discovery feature the most valuable. It helps us automate a lot of things using a single password across applications."
"It gets a mobility portal in place in conjunction with Office 365. It provides very good possibilities and it's much better than other technology that we have used before which was unstable and slower."
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Cons

"The license model is pretty complex."
"Yes, because there are so many moving parts it can often be difficult getting it right first time."
"An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for the newer appliance versions for hosting the virtual appliances on AWS will help."
"The TAMeB policy server is not scalable."
"Installation and configuration. If you don’t know the requirements of the supporting components, it could be complicated to install and this has been improved in the later versions that are renamed to IBM Tivoli Security Access Manager."
"There is only a single step-up authentication path, but I have sometimes seen the need for several steps or a divergent path."
"We have had stability issues lately with the hardware and SAN that the product runs on."
"The profiling element is incredibly robust, but also equally as complex, it requires an off-site course to be able to understand the context or the plethora of options available."
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"The management console needs to be improved. PingID should revise it."
"The product is not customizable."
"Many times when we are authenticating, we'd like the freedom to set the time; maybe it needs to be slightly longer, and before we can authenticate it, it ends up in an error and then we have to create everything all over again in terms of launching the application."
"We have encountered instances where it is not easy to do authentication."
"The solution should allow for better integration with other platforms and the UBT."
"They could use some bio-certification. It's just more user-friendly and more convenient than entering the one time passes. That would be an improvement."
"There is room for improvement in the solution, particularly in security."
"The timing of the token validity, if it could be extended, would be great. I'm not sure if there is even an option to configure these types of settings."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The IBM prices are, as ever, extortionate, even with a business partnership, and high levels of discounts."
"The platform's value justifies the pricing, especially considering its security features and scalability."
"Ping Identity Platform is not very expensive."
"Ping Identity Platform is not an expensive solution."
"The pricing is neither too expensive nor too cheap."
"Compared to some SaaS-based solutions, the platform is relatively cost-effective."
"The product is costly."
"The tool is quite affordable."
"Ping offers flexible pricing that's not standardized."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
16%
Marketing Services Firm
14%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Retailer
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

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Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise18
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Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise20
 

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Also Known As

Tivoli Access Manager, IBM Security Access Manager
Ping Identity (ID), PingFederate, PingAccess, PingOne, PingDataGovernance, PingDirectory, OpenDJ
 

Overview

IBM Tivoli Access Manager is a robust and secure centralized policy management solution for e-business and distributed applications. IBM Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL is a high performance, multi-threaded Web server that applies fine-grained security policy to the Tivoli Access Manager protected Web object space. WebSEAL can provide single sign-on solutions and incorporate back-end Web application server resources into its security policy.
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IDENTITY DEFINED SECURITY PLATFORM delivers a unified, standards-based platform that can be deployed as SaaS, software or both and can scale to handle millions of identities. From multi-factor authentication and single sign-on to access security, directory and data governance, our capabilities work together to give employees, partners and customers secure access to cloud, mobile and enterprise applications, securing and streamlined everything from sign-on to sign-off and everywhere in between.
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Sample Customers

Essex Technology Group Inc.
Equinix, Land O'Lakes, CDPHP, Box, International SOS, Opower, VSP, Chevron, Truist, Academy of Art University, Northern Air Cargo, Repsol
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