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Ping Identity Platform vs Segment comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Ping Identity Platform
Ranking in Data Governance
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
Single Sign-On (SSO) (4th), Authentication Systems (7th), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (6th), Access Management (4th), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (3rd), Directory Servers (1st)
Segment
Ranking in Data Governance
49th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Web Analytics (11th), Customer Data Platforms (CDP) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of Ping Identity Platform is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Segment is 0.6%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Governance Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Ping Identity Platform0.7%
Segment0.6%
Other98.7%
Data Governance
 

Featured Reviews

SV
Senior ServiceNow Developer at Wells Fargo
Generative AI automates access reviews and provides workflow efficiencies
I work with Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), IT Service Management (ITSM), and Customer Service Management (CSM) modules of ServiceNow. My project is related to cybersecurity. I have touched on generative AI and integrations like SOAP APIs. I have used the Ping Identity Platform for seamless…
reviewer2808258 - PeerSpot reviewer
Web and marketing automation specialist at a logistics company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Centralized customer data has powered predictive audiences and proactive marketing campaigns
The best features Segment offers are the audience building features. We've also launched predictive audiences, which is so far really promising for us and marketing has a lot of ideas for activating these types of audiences. We're going from using historical data to using current data to get more predictive with how we're activating. In my experience, the audience building tools compared to other solutions I've seen or used are really sophisticated. I've used other CRMs in the past for this, and I would say the type of data you're not getting as much of is what you do when you're activating or creating the audiences within the CDP. I think predictive audiences require a 360 view of the customer in order to create these types of AI audiences because they use a lot of different data points. How it's helping the team is by giving us more ways to reach our customers and being more proactive in the type of campaigns that marketing can launch. They have a lot of good ideas and some good things in the pipeline.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"If someone is looking for a solution that works both for on-prem or hybrid, I strongly recommend opting for the cloud."
"It gets a mobility portal in place in conjunction with Office 365. It provides very good possibilities and it's much better than other technology that we have used before which was unstable and slower."
"I like the self-service feature. The 502 and UBP systems are also excellent. PingID's ability to authenticate with SSH, RDP, and Windows login is pretty handy. It covers the entire spectrum of use."
"From a security perspective, I highly value the product's biometric authentication methods such as FIDO, FaceID, YubiKey, and the mobile app."
"This is a user-friendly solution."
"Setting up the infrastructure with Ping Identity Platform is very easy compared to other IAM products."
"I like PingFederate."
"The product's most valuable features include its cloud-based capabilities for handling cloud applications and providing authentication and authorization through OIDC and SAML. It also supports integrations needed for both local and internal applications, including legacy applications requiring web server access."
"Inserting some very simple code snippets has made this part of it a breeze for our developer so he can concentrate on the hard stuff."
"Segment's scalability is amazing, and it's fully capable of handling all of the different use cases that we have in our company and we have a very complicated company."
"Customer support is fantastic."
"I like the straightforward way of connecting with various data sources and destinations. That's the most valuable feature. It has built-in integrations for a lot of them, so the overall effort required for integrations is relatively low."
 

Cons

"It has a long way to go until it is a cloud-based solution."
"Notifications and monitoring are two areas with shortcomings in the solution that need improvement."
"PingID should put a little more effort into making a pretty self-explanatory deck about their tech features and the services they offer."
"The solution should allow for better integration with other platforms and the UBT."
"Many times when we are authenticating, we'd like the freedom to set the time; maybe it needs to be slightly longer, and before we can authenticate it, it ends up in an error and then we have to create everything all over again in terms of launching the application."
"I think that the connection with like Microsoft Word, especially for Office 365, is a weak point that could be improved."
"If the solution is going to compete with Microsoft, they need to offer more unique functionality to keep their current user base."
"Ping Identity Platform must improve its UI since its management console is complicated."
"I chose a rating of eight out of ten because these video tutorials would really illustrate how to use the tool to its full potential, and perhaps some more hands-on support from the Segment team would push it to a ten."
"The design of the website is such that you lose context when clicking around (e.g. when clicking on docs)."
"The only challenge was the session functionality."
"The challenge is the lack of flexibility in the SDKs, given the capabilities of the destinations."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"PingID pricing is a ten out of ten because it's a little bit cheaper than other tools, such as Okta and ForgeRock, and supports multiple tools."
"The tool is quite affordable."
"The pricing is neither too expensive nor too cheap."
"Ping Identity Platform is not an expensive solution."
"Ping Identity Platform is not very expensive."
"PingID's pricing is pretty competitive."
"Ping offers flexible pricing that's not standardized."
"The platform's value justifies the pricing, especially considering its security features and scalability."
"The pricing was on the higher side but it wasn't excessively high."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
21%
Retailer
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Computer Software Company
9%
University
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise20
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PingFederate?
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 tool...
What needs improvement with PingFederate?
It requires some expertise to set up and manage. Also, having dedicated support is helpful. It's not something anyone can just set up and run without assistance – ideally, a team using PingFederate...
What is your primary use case for PingFederate?
We use PingFederate to provide SSO (Single Sign-On) solutions to enterprise applications. We support protocols like SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language), OAuth, and OpenID Connect. For example...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Segment?
I wasn't involved in the negotiation about pricing, setup cost, and licensing, but in the new negotiation that we have coming up, I know that we're very happy with the pricing so far.
What needs improvement with Segment?
There was a race condition in the Segment journey that I highlighted to Segment, and I think they must be doing something with it. Everything else was perfect. I think everything has improved. They...
What is your primary use case for Segment?
I have used Segment for more than a year. I was working with Addx and Segment was used to align profiles and different user profiles. I used it for journey building, unifying different emails or pr...
 

Also Known As

Ping Identity (ID), PingFederate, PingAccess, PingOne, PingDataGovernance, PingDirectory, OpenDJ
Segment.io
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Equinix, Land O'Lakes, CDPHP, Box, International SOS, Opower, VSP, Chevron, Truist, Academy of Art University, Northern Air Cargo, Repsol
Nokia, rdio, Bonobos, LiveNation, Atlassian
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