We performed a comparison between SailPoint IdentityIQ and Symantec Privileged Access Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about SailPoint, One Identity, Omada and others in User Provisioning Software."I like IdentityIQ's granular attachment management and certification customization features."
"The first valuable feature of the solution is its interface. The second feature of the solution is the level of flexibility it provides."
"IdentityIQ's best features are the hassle-free user experience and security."
"The most selling modules for SailPoint are the compliance manager and the life cycle manager."
"SailPoint IdentityIQ has more enriched out-of-box connectors than the others."
"This solution is great for providing control access across your environment."
"Provides functionalities for various stages, such as joiner, mover, and leaver"
"User provisioning and the role management features are good."
"The DB clustering is a really good benefit of using CA PAM."
"For me, it is the robust API which is the most valuable feature. This allows for low maintenance costs and allows applications to automatically connect. This is great to automate security of the DevOps pipeline for shared secrets across environments. Also, being on Linux and a virtual appliance is great."
"Password Management and Session Recording. The simplicity and ease that it is to be up and running out-of-the-box is very much appreciated."
"It is great for identity governance."
"One of the key things for us about the product is around its simplicity. Being able to put in the technology that allows the business to remove complexity and also allow the security improvements."
"CA PAM is working well for us."
"Stability is solid as a rock."
"It will provide us with more security."
"It allowed to implement the automated processes when a new employee is hired. It allows to have a main central process for new hires."
"The solution, in general, is quite expensive."
"The cost of this solution is high. The technical assistance center could be improved. They're very good, but considering the intricacies of the solution, they can further improve."
"The UI needs to be more user friendly. More concentration on historical policy violations would be great. In terms of new features, I would like to see artificial intelligence and machine language added."
"The user interface could be slightly improved. It could be made simpler and more user-friendly, however, it is good enough right now."
"There is a need for further enhancements, specifically in the multifactor authentication capabilities."
"If there's a price reduction for SailPoint IdentityIQ, that would be helpful. Another area for improvement in the product is the technical support, which needs to be more friendly to customers."
"The connector for EPIC, ServiceNow, and Duo."
"They need to do a little bit more on the mainframe side."
"We experience stability issues after every patch upgrade. This is a place where CA needs to improve drastically."
"Bring more technology into the portfolio and being able to collapse those products into a much more integrated way."
"The management console could be improved."
"I would like this solution to be simpler. It should have a one-click access that works together with AWS."
"What I hope happens with the new product CA PAM is to keep all the useful features that exist in PA, but what I’ve noticed with many new products is the UI gets polished but systems lags stability and performance or it adds additional complexity instead of simplifying the user experience."
"They should include some assignments in the test environment to explore the product's features."
"They need to have zero tier and active-active setup with zero minimum downtime, which they are working on it. "
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SailPoint IdentityIQ is ranked 1st in User Provisioning Software with 61 reviews while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is ranked 18th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 50 reviews. SailPoint IdentityIQ is rated 8.2, while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SailPoint IdentityIQ writes "Flexible, easy to customize, and not too difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Privileged Access Manager writes "Allows IT and consultants to access the infrastructure environment but needs more security and better support". SailPoint IdentityIQ is most compared with Saviynt, One Identity Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, ForgeRock and Microsoft Identity Manager, whereas Symantec Privileged Access Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management, Delinea Secret Server and ARCON Privileged Access Management.
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