IBM Cloud Identity Service Reviews

Vendor: IBM

4.0 out of 5

3 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is IBM Cloud Identity Service?

Whether your applications are custom, your business processes complex, or you're looking for world-class professional services and project management to coordinate each step of your project, IBM Cloud Identity Service is uniquely suited to serve organizations with out-of-the box challenges.

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IBM Cloud Identity Service is the #31 ranked solution in top Identity and Access Management as a Service providers. PeerSpot users give IBM Cloud Identity Service an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. IBM Cloud Identity Service is most commonly compared to Microsoft Entra ID: IBM Cloud Identity Service vs Microsoft Entra ID.

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June 2025

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reviewer1054431

Chief Technology Officer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I have found IBM Cloud Identity Service to be highly scalable. It can handle thousands of users. IBM solutions are truly enterprise-grade. You don't find a lot of use cases for small businesses, or even sometimes medium businesses, the price point does not fit smaller businesses. The implementation effort, it's hard to find that cost-benefit.

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Baba Sally

Head of Advisory at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

It is multiple identity and access management, so all of the applications are valuable. It's also part of the automated process The support needs improvement. I have been using IBM Cloud Identity Service for the last five years. It is stable. It is scalable. We have 5,000 users using this…

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reviewer1777113

Responcible specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use it for all user management jobs. We also use it for some of the SAP requirements. It is a cloud-based solution, and we are using its latest version It is stable. We can automate many of our daily operations with it, and we don't have to manage many things manually. Everything can be more…

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IBM Cloud Identity Service mindshare

As of July 2025, the mindshare of IBM Cloud Identity Service in the Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) category stands at 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"It is stable. We can automate many of our daily operations with it, and we don't have to manage many things manually."
"One of the most valuable features of IBM Cloud Identity Service is that it delivers integrations with the commercial SaaS software that's available."
"It is multiple identity and access management, so all of the applications are valuable. It's also part of the automated process."

Room for Improvement

"Everything can be more stable and secure. There could also be more account features. I would like to be able to do more things through it to manage users' accounts."
"IBM Cloud Identity Service is going in the right direction with the product. They need to keep building out the integrations and having the library is very critical."
"The initial setup is complex, it's not straightforward. It takes months because it's not straightforward."

Pricing

"The price of the solution is expensive for non-enterprise companies. IBM's always going to be a little more expensive, you're going to be paying a premium. However, depending on the organization's needs, there's probably a benefit there to do even with the price being the way it is."

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IBM Cloud Identity Service can be designed to help with the full lifecycle of implementation and operations, including discovery, planning, project management, integration engineering and more – expertly delivered by IBM's global staff of identity professionals.