We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID and PingFederate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Azure Active Directory has been very useful for our company, it is not difficult to use."
"The two-factor authentication provides an additional layer of security for our organizational data, so Microsoft Authenticator plays a crucial role in making our confidential data more secure."
"The most valuable feature is Conditional Access, and we use it extensively."
"The visibility and control for permission management are excellent."
"It is easy to manage. I can manage systems with policies and automate our systems. Any professional system can be easily integrated with Azure Active Directory. It is widely used with Windows versions."
"Privileged Identity Management (PIM), managed identities, dynamic groups, and extension and security attributes are all great features."
"The valuable features I use daily are enterprise application, conditional access, identity governance, password monitoring, and a password reset."
"We can centralize and manage everything much more effectively with this tool."
"PingFederate gives you granular control over the settings. There are many options for fine-tuning policies."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"PingFederate is very flexible. We can do many customizations, and it also provides an SDK to tailor it to our specific requirements. There are also numerous plugins available. I've worked with tools like ForgeRock and Okta, but I find PingFederate to be the most customizable."
"The most valuable feature is multifactor authentication."
"The main issue is that because Active Directory is in the cloud, it will inevitably be dependent on internet connectivity."
"The price has room for improvement."
"Microsoft should work on enhancing its machine-learning algorithm to prevent unnecessary lockouts of users."
"In terms of stability, sometimes the more applications you integrate, the more it becomes a little bit unstable."
"Initially, we wanted to exclude specific users from MSA. So, we had a condition policy, which forces MSA for all the users. So we wanted to exclude users who are using an NPS extension. So it was not listed, as a NPS extension was not listed outside an application, in actual, so, we go back and were not able to exclude users using NPS extension from MSA. So that was one limitation that we found and we had to work around that."
"From time to time it takes a little bit of time to replicate, with some of the applications—something like five to 10 minutes. I know that the design is not supposed to enable real-time replication with some of the applications. But, as an administrator, I would like to run a specific change or modification in Azure Active Directory and see it replicated almost immediately."
"If your organization requires additional security then the subscription will be more expensive."
"Microsoft Entra ID should improve workload identities. It should set conditional access."
"It requires some expertise to set up and manage."
"PingFederate's UI could be streamlined. They have recently made several improvements, but it's still too complex. It's a common complaint. The configuration should be simplified because the learning curve is too steep."
"Currently, the main integration is SAML-based, but other integration methodologies need to be supported."
"Notifications and monitoring are two areas with shortcomings in the solution that need improvement."
Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 190 reviews while PingFederate is ranked 10th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 4 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while PingFederate is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Allows users to authenticate from home and has excellent integrations in a simple, stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PingFederate writes " A highly stable tool offering extremely helpful technical support to its users". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco Duo and Saviynt, whereas PingFederate is most compared with Symantec Siteminder, PingID, Microsoft Active Directory, CyberArk Identity and Red Hat Single Sign On. See our Microsoft Entra ID vs. PingFederate report.
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