Microsoft Entra External ID vs miniOrange CIAM comparison

Microsoft Entra External ID, part of Microsoft Entra, provides highly secure digital experiences for partners, customers, citizens, patients, or any users outside your organization with customization controls. Combine external identities and user directories in one portal to seamlessly manage access across the organization.

Microsoft Entra External ID refers to all the ways you can securely interact with users outside of your organization. If you want to collaborate with partners, distributors, suppliers, or vendors, you can share your resources and define how your internal users can access external organizations. If you're a developer creating consumer-facing apps, you can manage your customers' identity experiences.

With External ID, external users can "bring their own identities." Whether they have a corporate or government-issued digital identity, or an unmanaged social identity like Google or Facebook, they can use their own credentials to sign in. The external user’s identity provider manages their identity, and you manage access to your apps with Entra ID or Entra External ID to keep your resources protected.

The following capabilities make up External ID:

• B2B collaboration - Collaborate with external users by letting them use their preferred identity to sign in to your Microsoft applications or other enterprise applications (SaaS apps, custom-developed apps, etc.). B2B collaboration users are represented in your directory, typically as guest users.
• B2B direct connect - Establish a mutual, two-way trust with another Azure AD organization for seamless collaboration. B2B direct connect currently supports Teams shared channels, enabling external users to access your resources from within their home instances of Teams. B2B direct connect users aren't represented in your directory, but they're visible from within the Teams shared channel and can be monitored in Teams admin center reports.
• Azure AD B2C - Publish modern SaaS apps or custom-developed apps (excluding Microsoft apps) to consumers and customers, while using Azure AD B2C for identity and access management.

miniOrange Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM) platform is a versatile solution for managing customer identities and sculpting fruitful customer experiences over your digital resources or assets. Configure seamless customer authentication experiences with miniOrange CIAM tools like Custom User Login Form, Single Sign-On, Social Login, and Passwordless Authentication. Increase security with Multi-Factor Authentication and protect privacy with user consent management, privacy protection, and self-service. Drive more business growth with Progressive Profiling and User Analytics and Insights. The miniOrange CIAM solution is designed to scale as your customer base grows. Manage bulk users efficiently while providing a smooth experience to each one of them!

miniOrange offers a range of CIAM tools and solutions to secure customer Identities anywhere and everywhere! Here are some of the major features of miniOrange CIAM:

1. Custom User Login Form (Universal Login): Create customized login pages for your customers that reflect the brand image.

2. Single Sign-On: Enable your customers to login via a single set of credentials to all your apps.

3. Social Login: Allow your customers to login hassle-free with their existing social media account credentials.

4. Passwordless Authentication: Remove weak & stolen password threats by enabling Passwordless Login.

5. Account Management: Streamline the creation of customer accounts, their access requests, and termination.

6. Adaptive MFA: Use pre-defined risk factors to validate customer identities in high-risk scenarios.

7. Identity Brokering: The CIAM platform supports multiple external Identity Providers and different protocols.

8. Directory Authentication: Manage all identities on-premise or on the cloud with the miniOrange Universal Directory.

9. User Analytics and Insights: Get analytics on customer behavior & engagement from customer data collected by the CIAM platform.

   
   

Pricing Model Description

miniOrange offers competitive pricing in the IAM & CIAM market, making their solution cost-effective for modern enterprises and businesses. Also, no minimum contract amount or order value is required, which differentiates miniOrange from other vendors.

The pay-as-you-go option offers more payment flexibility for companies. miniOrange provides a 30-day free trial to try their platform. This free trial offers full feature access without any restriction and also offers Proof Of Concept or POC, including dedicated support from trained engineers.

No credit card detail is required to start the free trial for using and integrating miniOrange with any IDP, User Store, Protocol, or Application hosted on the Cloud or on-premise. The pricing is customizable and starts from $49/500 user/month.

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