We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID and NetIQ Access Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Access Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Azure Active Directory has many automation capabilities, and you can apply policies on top. You can do a lot of things with these combinations and integrate other tools like PingFederate."
"Azure AD has features that have helped improve our security posture."
"Overall, I think the support and the pictorial format of this web portal are very good."
"Azure AD allowed us to get rid of servers and other hardware running at our offices. We moved everything to the cloud. Once we set up roles and permissions, it's only a matter of adding people and removing people from different groups and letting permissions flow through."
"The central authentication server is most valuable. GPOs are useful for user and computer policies."
"In terms of identity management, it helps to improve security posture. It generally helps in terms cloud security, simplicity, and single sign-on for multiple apps."
"It's definitely both stable and scalable."
"Let's say we decide that our users need to have MFA, multi-factor authentication. It is very easy to implement that with Azure Active Directory."
"The single sign-on feature is excellent."
"It's very easy to integrate with applications."
"The features that we have found most valuable with NetIQ Access Manager are its single sign-on and two factor two second factor database."
"There are lots of options to customize the solution to your needs."
"The most valuable features of NetIQ Access Manager are SSO and Multi-Factor Authentication."
"The downside is that we now have all our eggs in one basket with Microsoft. We have this great authentication and single sign-on, but if Microsoft has an outage in North America or globally, on Outlook or Teams, we're dead in the water... We get some type of hiccup once a quarter."
"Certain aspects of the user interface can be rather clunky and slow. It can sometimes be circular in terms of clicking a link for a risky user sign-in and seeing what the risky login attempts were. It takes you in a circle back to where you started, so drilling down into details, especially if you are not in it every day and it is one of many tools that you use, can be difficult. It can be difficult to track down the source of an issue."
"The integration between the Azure active directory and the traditional active directory could be improved upon."
"Microsoft needs to make improvements in this regard and extend its services to other operating systems as well, especially when considering their widespread usage."
"The robustness of the conditional access feature of the zero trust strategy to verify users is adequate but not comprehensive."
"Be aware that it may not work perfectly globally yet. There are still glitches with the solution in Africa."
"The product needs to improve its support."
"The only issue is the OU is not properly synced. Therefore, you have to do a manual sync sometimes or you might lose the connector due to AD Connect or sync servers."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the security of the infrastructure and the server and the working networking device."
"Having the ability to easily extract and view and compare and version control configurations would be ideal."
"The application portal could be improved with more options and easier customization."
"Classification of junctions and new versions of applications, such as APIs, can be added to enable the use of more devices that utilize biometrics for Multi-Factor Authentication to improve the solution."
"I would love to see the upgrade procedure handled more effectively. I would prefer to have OVS installation possibilities, although the upgrade procedures should include the OS as well. You should be able to use the whole application as an appliance."
Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Access Management with 190 reviews while NetIQ Access Manager is ranked 14th in Access Management with 5 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while NetIQ Access Manager is rated 8.0. 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 NetIQ Access Manager writes "Multi-Factor Authentication, stable, and extremely scalable". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Yubico YubiKey and Cisco Duo, whereas NetIQ Access Manager is most compared with Okta Workforce Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Auth0 and Symantec Siteminder. See our Microsoft Entra ID vs. NetIQ Access Manager report.
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