OpenText Identity Governance vs Saviynt comparison

OpenText and Saviynt are both solutions in the Identity Management (IM) category. OpenText is ranked #30, while Saviynt is ranked #5 with an average rating of 7.2. OpenText holds a 0.6% mindshare in IAM, compared to Saviynt’s 8.4% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 79% of Saviynt users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 19, 2025

OpenText Identity Governance and Saviynt are both competitive solutions in the identity management sector, offering governance and compliance features. OpenText is often favored for its pricing and support, while Saviynt is typically preferred for its advanced features.

Features: OpenText Identity Governance offers integration capabilities, compliance reporting, and role management. Saviynt provides comprehensive identity analytics, continuous monitoring, and a proactive security posture, with refined analytics and monitoring tools.

Room for Improvement: OpenText can enhance its analytics and monitoring tools, add more advanced reporting features, and improve user interface intuitiveness. Saviynt could benefit from simplifying deployment processes, enhancing documentation for non-technical users, and expanding its integration capabilities with other enterprise systems.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText is known for straightforward deployment and reliable customer support. Saviynt offers flexible deployment models and responsive customer service, capable of addressing complex queries.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText typically offers a budget-friendly setup, providing good ROI due to its efficient pricing model. Saviynt, though higher in initial cost, justifies this with significant ROI by leveraging comprehensive features, appealing to feature-rich business needs despite the higher expense.

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Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Identity Management (IM) category, the mindshare of Omada Identity is 3.2%, down from 3.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Identity Governance is 0.6%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Saviynt is 8.4%, down from 8.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Pernilla Hulth

IAM Project Manager (Independent) at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The interface is easy to use and gives you a solid overview

The cloud-based deployment was straightforward, but the on-prem deployment was in a highly complex ecosystem. Omada has matured since then. I wouldn't say that it isn't straightforward, but it depends on the customer. A standard deployment is relatively easy, but it can be more painful if you need a lot of customization. We deployed the cloud solution in around four months, nearly meeting the 12-week benchmark. The on-prem deployment took three years. It was a highly complex ecosystem that was dependent on other systems. Depending on the size of your environment, you need a product owner and some specialists for maintenance. My last customer was a university with a complex environment. They had around 12 people involved in maintenance at that organization. Typically, it's between 2-5 people.

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JoelHercik

Account Executive at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

A mature, capable solution that should be available as a cloud solution

They haven't really evolved the product to the cloud, so they don't have a cloud solution. It's just deployable in the cloud, so in some cases that holds them back in a competitive situation. I don't know if they're intent on taking their solution to the cloud, but if they do, that would be one improvement. It would allow them to be competitive down market in medium to small enterprises. I don't know if they care to address that market or not because it doesn't seem like they've made that move, but that would be one way for them to do that. As for additional features, I would suggest stronger integration. I think enabling more universal industry standard integrations would probably help them with different applications.

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VinayM

Senior Solutions Expert - CIS at Peristent Systems

Used for IAM, IGA, MFA, SSO, and access management

The technical support team's response time could be improved. After the implementation, Saviynt should provide good support to their customers. While migrating from legacy applications to the cloud, Saviynt has many bugs. The lift and shift are not very seamless. There are a lot of customizations to be done and some development is required. From the migration point of view, the solution is a little buggy.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It scales in terms of numbers and types of identities. It can govern the on-premise applications as well as the cloud applications. So, it can manage hybrid environments with all types of identities and various load amounts."

"What I like most is that we can always find a solution, and we can also find the cause when something goes wrong. I like that the most because everything is in one way or another traceable. That is what I like most. I like its reliability."

"The benefits of Omada Identity include a holistic way of viewing access, the ability to give people access, and automation."

"Our customers have benefited from Omada Identity automating the certification process. Most of our customers were using manual methods for user access certification. With Omada Identity, you can automate almost all of it, which means that certification now becomes on demand. You don't have to wait for two or three months to execute a certification timeframe. Instead, you can do certifications as often as you want."

"The most valuable feature in Omada is the governance. We work with other products and other product vendors, but the sweet spot in the market for Omada is where things are heavy on governance."

"I'm not using Omada, but the interface is easy to use and gives you a solid overview of your identities."

"The most valuable aspects of Omada Identity for me are the automation capabilities."

"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."

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"I like the queries and find the catalog to be comparatively powerful."

"When doing a review you can either make manual or automatic fulfillment to immediately apply the manager's decision to the system, like removing or adding new permissions to the user account."

"This solution has been around for a long time. It has had lots of successful deployments and releases."

"I really like the separation of the duties. It is the most ambitious model in the server because you have to create all the different rules, especially business rules. You have to check with the client and set different policies and rules, and then, you to have refine them. You will notice what is bad in the company and where the real problem is."

"All three functionalities, access certification, the configuration of duties, and role mining - especially role mining - are very advanced compared with the competition."

"You can run reports and verify the access each user has. There is a process that runs automatically for access review. It sends an email to the manager and provides a task for the manager to review the users and access. The manager can approve or reject, and then it goes to the application owner for further review. This feature is especially important in large customer environments, as manual review can be challenging."

"We’re very satisfied with technical support. Usually we get people with the right knowledge who understand the solution very well."

"NetIQ Identity Governance has improved the security of my company."

"The product's initial setup phase is easy."

"The dedicated Freshdesk platform is a user community and a step in the right direction for offering learning resources."

"The most valuable aspect of Saviynt is its market acceptance."

"The repository has many features where you can define primary and secondary owners."

"The product is flexible to use."

"Considering the initial cost and the basic features, this is a good solution that provides integration with both on-premise and cloud applications."

"Saviynt is used for the greenfield implementation for the whole IAM, IGA, MFA, SSO, and access management."

"Saviynt provides built-in access recommendations, while SailPoint IdentityNow offers access recommendations through a separate AI integration that requires additional licensing. Saviynt functions as a unified platform for various business operations, consolidating user and access data from multiple sources into a single platform. This allows for leveraging the same user base and data across different business functions, including access governance, privileged access management, data access governance, and third-party access governance. In contrast, SailPoint is a decoupled tool, requiring separate integration for managing access and permissions, especially for unstructured data. Saviynt's approach is more integrated and streamlined, providing a unified platform for access recommendations and various business operations."

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Cons

"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."

"I would like to see them expand the functionality of the tool to continue to be competitive with the monsters out there. For example, they could add functionality on the authentication side, functionality that Octa and SailPoint have. But they should do that while maintaining the same simplicity that makes Omada a product of choice today."

"Its flexibility is both a good thing and a bad thing. Because it is very flexible, it also becomes too complex. This is common for most of the products we evaluated. Its scalability should be better. It had a few scalability issues."

"The current reporting tools in Omada are limited, but we expect significant improvements in the new version."

"The reporting on the warehouse data and the import process both have room for improvement."

"The comprehensiveness of Omada's out-of-the-box connectors for the applications we use could be better. We are getting a new HR system called Cornerstone for which they do not have an out-of-the-box connector, so we have to take the REST connector and play around with it."

"Omada Identity has two main issues that need to be solved or improved the most. One is its setup or installation process because it's complex and cumbersome. I'm talking about the process for on-premises deployment because I've never tried the cloud version of Omada Identity. Setting up the cloud version should be much easier. The second area for improvement in Omada Identity is that it's piggybacking on Microsoft's complex way of having all kinds of add-ons, extensions, or setups, whether small or large, such as the new SQL Server, and it's cumbersome to make sure that everything works. Omada Identity is a complex solution and could still be improved."

"I would like to search on date fields, which is not possible now."

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"Technical support is horrible."

"With NetIQ, you have to install two or more products. It would be better if we could install one product and have one server and one dashboard."

"NetIQ Identity Governance is not flexible. Sometimes, filtering information to provide users with options, such as selecting the application to which they want to request access, can be challenging. It needs to improve application integration as well."

"The initial setup has room for improvement."

"The solution should provide more connectors in future releases. The solution also should offer more monitoring."

"The product could use more advanced features related to Identity Intelligence."

"They haven't really evolved the product to the cloud, so they don't have a cloud solution."

"We need more connectors to cloud applications like AWS."

"It is time-consuming to troubleshoot issues."

"The company needs to do more to establish standard practices within the product itself that are common in the industry."

"It should support more customizations. In SailPoint, we can do many customizations, but we are not able to do that in Saviynt. For workflows and other things, we can only use what is already in place. Saviynt has a lot of scope for improvement on the customization part."

"According to feedback I've received, some users prefer SailPoint over Saviynt in real complex environments. SailPoint has its provisioning platform. Complex integrations may pose challenges in scenarios like a large bank with thousands of users, making SailPoint a preferred choice for some."

"The tool is difficult to migrate."

"An area for improvement in Saviynt is that there's a limitation on the number of logs you can get from the past twenty-four hours. For example, if the data is huge, the tool can only give you a maximum of one hundred logs. You can't get any further than that. In the next version of Saviynt, however, you can get more logs and you'll see them inside the log rotation. For example, when you're trying to search inside the log, you can select a date range, and then you can search for a particular log. We haven't used that new log rotation feature yet, but it's included in the next release of Saviynt. Another area for improvement in the tool is that it doesn't have a server monitoring feature, so if your server has a high load, it should give you a warning. You're supposed to get an alert similar to what's being done in WebLogic. In WebLogic, we had a separate facility, but in Saviynt, that feature's missing."

"The UI doesn’t enhance the user experience."

"The main difficulty was the integration process itself. But we were able to kind of work through it and fix it. We tried integrating with our HR system and other IBM solutions, like Microsoft Identity Management."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is not cheap. It is expensive, but compared to what we did almost three years ago, it is value for money. It is worth it."

"The pricing is okay."

"Omada isn't cheap or expensive. The licensing model is flexible. I've only had limited interactions with the Omada sales team, but they were positive. They don't sell the customers more licenses than they need. It's important to accurately forecast future usage. For example, we have many licenses that we don't use because we don't have the identities yet. We pay extra, which isn't good."

"Omada is expensive."

"They are positioned at a good price point. They are lower than some of their competitors."

"The initial total cost of ownership to implement Omada Identity is not small. The TCO for the implementation is as high as any other solution. However, the cost of maintaining the solution is at par or lower than competitors, including adding more features or maintaining the system after the initial deployment or installation to make sure that they are available for users to use or extending the functionalities of those activities. Those maintenance costs are lower than other vendors, but the initial cost of getting the system installed is still high."

"Omada is too expensive. We are in the automotive industry. The pricing might be high because most of the other customers are in the insurance or banking sectors, but it's steep for an auto supply company."

"Omada Identity is very reasonably and competitively priced."

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"I give the cost a nine out of ten."

"It's expensive relative to the cloud solutions that are out there."

"In terms of pricing, the tool seems a bit cheaper compared to other SaaS solutions."

"If you are investing in securing your data and avoiding any non-compliance issues, then yes, it is certainly recommended. To put it plainly, if you're willing to pay fines and aren't concerned about the misuse of data, then there might not be a problem. However, if you intend to safeguard the data of your employees, vendors, and customers, it becomes crucial. In this context, managing data security requires preventive and detective measures, such as enforcing segregation of duties and regularly reviewing permissions. Throughout an individual's life cycle within an organization or customer life cycle, various access permissions are granted. Without taking action on these permissions, there is a risk of exposure later on. If individuals retain access after leaving the organization, it poses a serious security threat. Implementing solutions like Saviynt can address these challenges, ensuring continuous access review, generating reports, alerts, and identifying potential risks."

"The solution has a pay-as-you-go licensing model, and you can subscribe monthly or yearly."

"The price of the license for this product is quite expensive."

"If you need to make any changes then there are additional fees."

"The product is less expensive than one of the competitors."

"Saviynt has a competitive price."

"Saviynt's pricing is reasonable."

"We are not into the licensing part. The clients take care of the licensing part."

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Financial Services Firm

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Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

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15%

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13%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Omada Identity Cloud?

As an administrator, we benefit from a lot of functionality that is available out of the box, but it is also configur...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Omada Identity Cloud?

They are positioned at a good price point. They are lower than some of their competitors.

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What needs improvement with Omada Identity Cloud?

The biggest issue, which is the reason why we are transitioning from their product to SailPoint, is the overall user ...

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What do you like most about NetIQ Identity Governance?

You can run reports and verify the access each user has. There is a process that runs automatically for access review...

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What needs improvement with NetIQ Identity Governance?

NetIQ Identity Governance is not flexible. Sometimes, filtering information to provide users with options, such as se...

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What advice do you have for others considering NetIQ Identity Governance?

The solution is worth using because of its flexibility, especially in integrating applications. However, the time req...

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What do you like most about Saviynt?

It is very easy to use. It addresses most of the trends in identity governance and risk management.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Saviynt?

Saviynt is very affordable compared to its competitors. It is cloud-based, making it significantly cheaper than on-pr...

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What needs improvement with Saviynt?

One area for improvement is Saviynt's training platform. They could enhance their training arrangements for partners ...

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Compared 100% of the time

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Compared 38% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

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Also Known As

Omada Identity Suite, Omada Identity Cloud

NetIQ Access Governance Suite, Novell Access Governance Suite

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Overview

Omada Identity is an identity governance and administration (IGA) solution designed to help organizations manage and secure digital identities and access across their IT environments. It focuses on enhancing security, compliance, and efficiency by automating identity management processes.

Omada Identity offers a robust set of features that streamline identity lifecycle management, access governance, and compliance reporting. It integrates with a wide range of IT systems, applications, and data sources, providing a centralized platform for managing user identities and access rights. The solution enables organizations to enforce security policies, ensure regulatory compliance, and reduce the risk of unauthorized access.

What are the critical features of Omada Identity?

Identity Lifecycle Management: Automates the process of creating, updating, and deactivating user identities throughout their lifecycle.
Access Governance: Ensures that users have appropriate access rights, enabling continuous monitoring and recertification of access.
Compliance Reporting: Provides comprehensive reporting capabilities to demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements.
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Simplifies the assignment and management of access rights based on user roles within the organization.
Self-Service Access Requests: Empowers users to request access to resources through a user-friendly portal, reducing administrative burden.
Integration Capabilities: Seamlessly integrates with various systems, applications, and data sources for unified identity and access management.

What benefits or ROI items should users look for in the reviews when evaluating Omada Identity?

Improved Security: By ensuring that only authorized users have access to sensitive information, Omada Identity enhances overall security posture.
Regulatory Compliance: Helps organizations meet compliance requirements by providing detailed audit trails and reporting features.
Operational Efficiency: Automates routine identity management tasks, reducing manual effort and freeing up IT resources for strategic initiatives.
User Productivity: Streamlines access management processes, enabling users to quickly obtain the resources they need to perform their jobs.
Reduced Risk: Minimizes the risk of data breaches and insider threats by enforcing strict access controls and continuous monitoring.

Omada Identity is widely adopted across various industries, including healthcare, finance, and manufacturing. In healthcare, it helps protect patient data and comply with regulations like HIPAA. In finance, it ensures compliance with SOX and other financial regulations. In manufacturing, it secures access to sensitive production data and intellectual property.

Pricing and licensing for Omada Identity are typically based on the number of users and the specific features required. Customer support is available through various channels, including online resources, support tickets, and professional services for implementation and customization.

In summary, Omada Identity is a comprehensive IGA solution that enhances security, compliance, and efficiency in managing digital identities and access.

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OpenText Identity Governance provides robust access review capabilities, risk analysis, and intuitive dashboards. Its advanced role mining and dynamic grouping ensure efficient access management, supporting compliance through separations of duties.

OpenText Identity Governance enhances access management and auditing processes through features such as role mining, access certification, and separations of duties that support efficient management protocols. Though it excels in stability, scalability, and integration with Identity Management solutions, it requires improvements in installation, Workflow Designer, and cloud application connectors. Addressing stability issues and offering enhanced Identity Intelligence features are essential for competitive edge. The governance tool leverages automated reporting and approval workflows, aiding large environments in streamlining management tasks. Its ability to integrate closely with NetIQ Identity Manager facilitates internal audits, particularly in banking and governmental sectors.

What are the key features?

Access Review: Manage permissions efficiently across applications.
Risk Analysis: Provides detailed risk assessment to support governance.
Advanced Role Mining: Enhance management with refined role assignments.
Dynamic Grouping: Enables efficient dynamic access adjustment.
Automated Reporting: Streamline compliance and reporting with automation.

What benefits should users look for?

Compliance Assurance: Identifies power imbalances, ensuring policy adherence.
Performance Integration: Offers seamless compatibility with IDM solutions.
Streamlined Governance: Automated processes support efficiency in large environments.
Stability and Scalability: Designed to sustain performance in growing infrastructures.

OpenText Identity Governance sees deployment in industries like banking and government, where auditing and access management are critical. It aids in permission management and account discovery, utilized notably in regions such as Chile and Argentina. Organizations benefit from its integration with NetIQ Identity Manager to ensure proper account activation and deactivation, ultimately facilitating sector-specific compliance and auditing tasks.

OpenText

Saviynt is an intelligent, cloud-first identity governance & access management solution. The solution is designed to help organizations quickly scale cloud initiatives and solve security and compliance challenges. Saviynt offers identity governance, granular application access, cloud security, and privileged access to secure your company’s ecosystem and provide a seamless user experience.

Saviynt Features

Saviynt has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Mobile enablement: Saviynt provides a powerful mobile app to manage business operations such as initiating a request, managing approvals, completing certifications, viewing dashboards, and taking actions in a timely manner.

Scalability and Flexibility: Saviynt is built for enterprise scale & flexibility with an industry-leading cloud architecture.

Cloud-based: Saviynt provides you with the ability to quickly deploy and seamlessly integrate with multiple critical applications within your environment to manage risks effectively.

Rapid application & identity onboarding: With Saviynt application and identity onboarding is easy. Saviynt offers pre-built templates and discovery of unmanaged assets & applications to help speed up the process.

AI & ML powered identity analytics: By leveraging the power of AI and machine learning, Saviynt is able to identify risk and duplicate identities, and can also close access gaps.

Actionable insights: Saviynt provides actionable insights for identity management, compliance, and security via the Control Center.

Saviynt Benefits

There are several benefits to implementing Saviynt. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Frictionless access requests: With Saviynt you can request access from anywhere, at any time.

Policy violation and SoD conflict detection: Saviynt helps your organization prevent risky access by understanding violations and conflicts for any request.

Governance: Saviynt provides governance for all human and machine identities – including third parties.

Easier provisioning: Saviynt enables you to automate lifecycle tasks in order to make cross-application provisioning easier and more efficient.

Out-of-the-box rulesets: With Saviynt’s out-of-the-box rulesets, you can automatically connect security roles to security tasks.

User friendly: Saviynt is designed with a modern web interface and has a mobile app and browser plug-in along with a ServiceNow app to make it easy to use.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Saviynt users.

An Identity and Access Management Specialist at a non-tech company states, "The dedicated Freshdesk platform is a user community and a step in the right direction for offering learning resources. Saviynt has a lot of potential with many features available for users."

A Principal Consultant at a tech services company says, "It's a highly functional system and a very well rounded solution. The onboarding of applications is solid. Their user access reviews are very good. Their role-based model and their identity life cycle stuff are solid.”

PeerSpot user Amimesh A., Senior Associate at a tech services company, mentions, “The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation. This product works well out of the box and if you don’t want to do a lot of configuration then this is the best tool. The reporting features are good.”

Irappa H., Manager at a computer software company, comments, “The most valuable features are the workflows and certification.”

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