We performed a comparison between Microsoft Identity Manager and Symantec Identity Governance and Administration based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Identity Management (IM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Omada Identity Suite has a very powerful workflow engine. It is used for requesting access for approval to everything that's around Access Management and for re-certification purposes."
"Omada offers a technical solution that addresses both our needs."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic provisioning and reconciliation of things like the Active Directory groups and memberships."
"Omada's user interface is elegant and easy to work with. I like Omada's ability to automatically generate accounts for new hires and allow them access to all required systems by established policies. Around 80 percent of workers can start working immediately on their first day without requesting further access."
"The teams we work with at Omada provide great insights and support. Overall, it has been a pleasure working with them. That's the part we value the most."
"You can make resources. You can import them from Azure or Active Directory and put them in an application. For example, if there is an application that uses a lot of Active Directory groups, you can make the groups available for people. If they need to access that application, you can tell them the resource groups you have for that application. People can do everything by themselves. They do not need anybody else. They can just go to the Omada portal, and they can do it all by themselves. That is terrific."
"The identity lifecycle support is definitely valuable because we are a complex organization, and there is a lot of onboarding, movement, and offboarding in our organization. We have 31,000 users, and there are a lot of users who are constantly onboarding, offboarding, and moving. So, we need to make sure that these activities are supported. In old times, we used to do everything manually. Everyone was onboarded, offboarded, or moved manually. So, from a business point of view and an economics point of view, identity lifecycle is most valuable. From a security point of view, access review is the most important feature for us."
"When we started with identity and access management, we cleaned up and skipped 500 accounts. Therefore, there are a lot of people who are still in our system. Using this tool, we have cleaned up a lot of accounts for ourselves as well as our partners and suppliers. So, we can manage everything now."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the fact that I can use it to track who is sending which email, who is accessing which documents or which files, etc. These tools help me improve security within the enterprise environment."
"I appreciate how Microsoft keeps adding new features to Microsoft Identity Manager."
"The feature that I find most valuable is the security layer of the identity and access management solution. The ability to secure on-premises and cloud-based workloads and to provide seamless authentication into hybrid workloads, which is also both on-premises and in cloud environments."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides protection for our company documents."
"The product’s simplicity and integration are valuable."
"It is a stable product. You will experience some issues with it, but it's a good product."
"The product allows us to track the logins easily."
"It is one of the easiest products to implement, which is one of the main advantages. The integration is easy. Unlike other products, it is not complicated to integrate."
"Out-of-the-box the product has a lot of opportunity for configuration and sophisticated identity management capability."
"Streamlines user access, consolidates applications."
"It is easy to use, and does not requires an extensive programming or development background."
"I like that it is easy to diagnose. It has a version of a virtual appliance so we can download it, run it, configure it, and it would take about 10 to 15 minutes to configure the cluster or so."
"Governance."
"Word mining and risk campaigns are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The scalability potential is there if a company needs to expand."
"Self-registration and self-service password management are valuable features. The role modeling feature is also very useful. It allows you to model your enterprise role."
"If you're running Omada on a cloud service, you may have some issues deploying the newest release. Sometimes, the latest release doesn't adapt to the processes we have already installed. Identity Access Management is a critical system for our organization, and we need to ensure that everyone has the same access as they did before the release."
"When making a process, you should be able to use some coding to do some advanced calculations. The calculations you can currently do are too basic. I would also like some additional script features."
"Omada Identity has a steep learning curve."
"The security permission inside Omada needs improvement. It's tricky to set up."
"Omada's performance could be better because we had some latency issues. Still, it's difficult to say how much of that is due to Omada versus the resources used by our other vendors in our on-prem environment. Considering the resources we have invested into making it run well, it's slightly slower than we would expect."
"They need to improve the cost for small companies."
"We are trying to use Omada's standards and to adapt our processes. But we have had some trouble with the bad documentation. This is something that they could improve on. It has not been possible for us to analyze some of the problems so far, based on the documentation. We always need consultants. The documentation should include some implementation hints and some guidelines for implementing the processes."
"Omada could communicate better with us about the product roadmap. We haven't gotten any updates about it. The user interface is often a bit difficult to understand. It isn't optimized for small screens, so it doesn't display all of the information clearly, so users need to scroll a lot."
"All actions require logging in to the server."
"It requires a lot of improvements. Microsoft is killing this product and migrating some of the features to Azure AD. The last version of this solution was 2016. If it is going to stay and integrate with Azure AD, its integration needs to be worked on in terms of connectors, etc. It doesn't seem that they are improving it alone. Microsoft wants to integrate it with Azure AD, but the integration is still not complete."
"The product's pricing and integration features could be improved."
"In terms of the identity and access management solution for on-premises environment, I think Microsoft needs to eliminate or minimize the number of workloads for the solution to run in on-premises environment."
"The information that is available for the Active Directory portal is segregated here and there."
"Microsoft Identity Manager could be more intuitive in terms of interface."
"This product was only launched two or three years ago and it is still in the process of becoming stable."
"The setup was difficult. The deployment process is not quick."
"The reporting functions."
"The support from Symantec Identity Governance and Administration could improve."
"Although the capabilities are there, the user interface needs to be redesigned and the opportunities for integration should be improved."
"A better information display for the approvals within the workflow would give them more information and the ability to comment back on a request as to why they're rejecting it. We've been telling them we'd like this improvement, and we hope to see it."
"I find the API boring. I also faced issues while integrating with CA SSO."
"Identity Manager has a lack of entitlement support, unlike other products that I have worked with."
"The directory has room for improvement. Also, the dashboards and, in particular, the KPI dashboard that shows the current user’s information needs reworking."
"They should easier and better integration with other software."
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Microsoft Identity Manager is ranked 8th in Identity Management (IM) with 18 reviews while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is ranked 19th in Identity Management (IM) with 65 reviews. Microsoft Identity Manager is rated 7.8, while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Identity Manager writes "Constantly evolving while being a crucial feature for today's security needs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Identity Governance and Administration writes "Works well on-premises and has partial capabilities but lacks many feaures". Microsoft Identity Manager is most compared with SailPoint IdentityIQ, Microsoft Entra ID, Saviynt, Microsoft Entra Permissions Management and CrowdStrike Identity Protection, whereas Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is most compared with SailPoint IdentityIQ, AlertEnterprise Enterprise Guardian, SAP Identity Management, BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management and OpenIAM Identity Governance. See our Microsoft Identity Manager vs. Symantec Identity Governance and Administration report.
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