SailPoint IdentityIQ Reviews

There are a lot of use cases. About 90% of our clients are using this solution for internal identity management. Only one client is using SailPoint for external customers. 

About 70% or 80% of deployments are on the cloud, and about 30% or 20% of deployments are on-premise. We have two customers who have on-premise deployments.

It provides a lot of out-of-the-box functionalities. You don't have to do too much custom development like other solutions such as Microsoft or NetIQ. It also has a lot of out-of-the-box connectors for different sources, directories, databases, etc.

Its cloud version is working very well, and its pricing is okay. Its value for money is fine for most of the customers. It is also very flexible. They have frequent new releases and patches for fixing errors and things like that.

They can work on their strategy for the on-premise version. They have to decide whether and for how long they will support the on-premise version. The new features first appear in the cloud, and after that, they are released for the on-premise version. In the cloud, you have more options and flexibility, which is absolutely normal. They have to have a clear strategy regarding whether they'll support the on-premises version with the same focus. The licensing for on-premise and cloud is a little bit different. They can make it the same.

We have been using this solution for three years.

It is absolutely stable.

It is scalable. It can support tens of millions of identities. We have a total of nine clients. Eight clients use it internally. One client is using SailPoint for external customers, and it is a very large deployment. They have about a million and a half customers.

We do not offer support because support is provided by SailPoint, but we can act as the first line of support. We have around seven people who are actively doing SailPoint tasks.

Their support is very good. My colleagues, as well as our customers, have shared that the support is very good.

We had some experience with Microsoft and IBM in the past, but these solutions are not so good. They're very expensive, and Microsoft and IBM are not flexible in pricing. 

We decided to go with SailPoint because, as a company, they are flexible. Their partner discounts are also good. SailPoint is a really good company. It is a new generation company like some of the other competitors and vendors.

Its installation is easy, but it depends on how many and what types of identity sources you have. If you have well-defined sources, such as active directory, LDAP directory, or some other application directories, it is very easy, but if you have only databases with identities, it could be challenging. It is not always easy to deploy identity management solutions in organizations because there are too many identity sources that have to be integrated.

The deployment duration depends on the scale, complexity, and number of sources. Typically, in enterprise organizations, it could take from six to nine months to cover the whole organization. It can even take a year. For customers with less than 20,000 or 30,000 active users, you can deploy it in less than three months.

Its price is okay. It provides good value for money.

It is subscription-based. You can go for a one-year or three-year subscription.

I would absolutely recommend this product. It is a good product.

I would rate SailPoint IdentityIQ a nine out of ten.

The use case is different for each client but most companies are generally looking for compliance, password management and user life cycle management. We have a partnership with SailPoint and implement this solution for our customers. I'm a senior manager. 

I like the life cycle management, segregation of duties, and analytics features. They have very good, large-scale connectors. The solution enables a high level of flexibility in customization. SailPoint is a leader in its field and has a long-term product development view. 

The product is very good and doesn't have many limitations and is very easy to deploy. You will need an SME Team for Deployment and to bring an ROI.

One needs to understand that SailPoint is into full-fledged IAM practice with a long-term vision, and customers will get a quick ROI with best practices implementation.

We have been implementing these solutions since 2015 and SailPoint is a wonderful product, it covers all the features required and the best part is it has both on-prem and SaaS models available. Our customers are very happy and have gained an ROI.

The solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable, the majority of our customers are enterprise-size companies. 

The technical support is wonderful. 

Positive

The initial setup is very easy. There are no challenges with the implementation.  The deployment strategy depends upon the kind of applications you want to integrate. Implementation time is based purely on your number of connectors, the kinds of applications, and the user environment. 

It's important to look at the product and its functionalities. Technology is a continuous journey, and if you want to have an identity management program, then SailPoint is a good option. They have a long-term vision that a company like Microsoft does not have. If somebody wants to have a good product for the long term then IdentityIQ provides that. 

I rate this product 10 out of 10.

The product is for identity management.

There are lots of features. It depends on what your use cases are. Basically, how the entitlements are handled is very good. It's the complete lifecycle of entitlements. That is what the best feature is about the product.

It offers a single source of truth. Everything can be handled from one tier.

I focused on the functionality. We needed to implement everything properly, and those functionalities were pre-built in the product. We didn't have an issue in that sense.

The interface is simple and very usable. I have used other products and didn't see their interface as better than SailPoint. 

The product is stable.

It is scalable. 

I wouldn't be able to point out any shortcomings. Right now, also I'm not working on the product as much. 

The user interface could be slightly improved. It could be made simpler and more user-friendly, however, it is good enough right now. 

I've used the solution for more than a year. 

It is stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

The scalability is good. 

We only used support for a few months initially and they were very, very good. There was no problem at that time. After that, we are on our own. We have our own experts. They have been experts in SailPoint for a long, long time. Therefore, we are reaching out to SailPoint support directly - until and unless there is a shortcoming or a bug in the product. I have not come across any yet.

Positive

We had legacy systems. That's why we moved to SailPoint.

The setup was pretty good. We have five people that can handle deployment and maintenance. 

The pricing was taken care of by management. I don't know about the exact cost.

I'm a customer. We have bought the product, and we are using it. It's in our organization.

I am not sure which version of the solution we're using. It might be one version behind. 

Whether or not this is the right solution for others depends on your use cases. If your use cases align with those, this is the best product to use. The client that I'm working with has their use cases aligned with this solution, and we haven't had to customize much. Most of the functionality's in-built.

I'd rate the product ten out of ten. It covers the functionality we need.

SailPoint started as a product for certification and governance. This is their most mature module and the first portion of the tool my clients want to implement.

But other valuable features are the strong user interface, quick ability to stand up solution, and many out of box connector.

This product, when implemented correctly, can streamline access control operations, reduce risk by provisioning and de-provisioning access quickly and hold approvers accountable for decisions on access.

There seems to be a rush to add new features in SailPoint. I would prefer cutting the amount of features in half to increase the stability, reduce the resource utilization and reduce bugs..

I have been using IdentityIQ and other Identity and Access Management solutions for over 3 years

We encountered major issues with the Active Directory connector caching configurations and concurrent major release upgrades. If you are running SailPoint 5.3, you need to update to 5.5, 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2 before upgrading to 6.3, it was a mess.

Although it seems to be getting better, for each deployment it seems a new set of bugs appear. There has never been a deployment where we have not encountered a product bug. If you are looking to do a deployment it may be better to deploy on the previous version with the latest patch than with a new version (e.g. 6.2.5 instead of 6.3).

Being based on Java, this tool is very heavy in memory and in processing. Word of advice, for large implementations be sure to use Intel processors. SailPoint supports Unix deployments, but it really is only better for smaller environments

SailPoint has a strong account management and support team, each company has an account manager and they are available to escalate issues quickly. Do not hesitate to escalate issues if they are time sensitive, sometimes it is tough to get their attention if something needs to be resolved quickly.

Similar to customer service, the technical support is strong. It might take a few times back and forth to get them out of the “try this and send us your logs” cycle, but getting them on a WebEx or LiveMeeting is a great way to watch them shine.

The initial setup is very straight forward and it takes around 30 minutes end to end. It is a Java app on a web server; you can do it locally very quickly.

The initial setup is very straight forward and it takes around 30 minutes end to end. It is a Java app on a web server so you can do it locally and very quickly.

We have had deployments with combinations of consultants, vendor hours(~200), and in house teams. The vendor help has always been very good, albeit sometimes you may get a fresh college graduate as an expert.

We achieve two returns in the investment in a SailPoint implementation. We were able to streamline access control related business processes and reduce identity management and access control risks, including potential audit/regulatory findings.

The other major players in the Identity Management space are Oracle OIM/OIA, Aveska and CA Technologies Identity Management. We had evaluated all via a vendor scorecard.

It is very difficult to go at this alone. If you are interested in implementing send your engineers to the SailPoint provisioning training and get a few experienced consultants to help you.

We use the solution for identity and access governance. It is an automation tool for onboarding and offboarding processes.

It has multiple good features. It provides us with the information we need for onboarding any user or application, provisioning, de-provisioning, and other business processes. The product is easy and convenient to use. It has good features. The tool is quite stable and user-friendly. We can easily customize the processes.

The product must improve its support.

I have been using the solution for three years.

The tool is reliable and stable.

We have 1000 people using the solution in our organization. It is suitable for a small organization with less than 5000 employees.

The initial setup is easy.

The solution is not cheap.

I would recommend the product to others. The solution is easy to deploy. We get a lot of applications out of the box. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

We use this solution for identity governance and to understand who has access to what and whether that access should be granted or not. We also use it for access to recertification automation which provides a complete report of who has what access in the organization at the press of a button. We are able to automate the entire process of joiners, movers, levers and the provisioning and deprovisioning of identities. 

When someone joins any organization, all their roles and access is provided at the click of a button. When they move from one department to the other, the accesses which are not required are revoked, and the ones which are necessary are provisioned. Sailpoint offers complete automation of the lifecycle of any user.

We are able to offer on-prem on cloud based deployments, depending on our customer's requirements. 

This solution has made our team more effective. We need less manual approvals when someone new joins our company. There is less paperwork and fewer support tickets raised for access. 

The number of integrations that they have is amazing. The flexibility of the tool is great and you can really customize a lot. The dashboards that can be created are very useful. The proactive revoking of accesses in the case of an attack is amazing.

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.

We have been using this solution for six and a half years.

This is a stable solution. 

This is a very scalable solution. A couple of million users can be scaled overnight.

I would rate this solution's technical support a three and a half out of five. 

Neutral

The initial setup is complex due to the handling of identity and access management. If you have the expertise and if you are trained well, then it is not difficult. Deployment takes between three and twelve months.

This is an expensive solution. I would rate it a two and a half out of five for pricing. 

I would recommend Sailpoint to others. 

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

We have a central server and use SailPoint to provide us access to all user/admin accounts/files. There are a lot of integration options that we have not taken advantage of yet - it is possible that in the future, a customer will want to integrate their HR system with SailPoint.

This solution is great for providing control access across your environment.

I would like for the next release to have a more user-friendly interface.

This is a stable solution that is widely used because it is dominant within the industry.

This solution can be expanded so I would say that it is scalable. The solution can accommodate thousands of users, there are maybe sixty of seventy thousand users within my organization.

Technical support is good.

This solution takes a long tome to deploy, but it is not complex to setup. A medium-scale deployment will take you about one year.

The system requires about ten to fifteen people to maintain from various teams i.e. active directory, access management, security etc.

You are able to get discounts if you plan to use the tool for the long-term i.e. discounts for 5+ years of usage.

I would recommend this solution to anyone looking into it and would rate it an eight out of ten.

SailPoint IdentityIQ is used for reporting and identity, account, and access management.

The most valuable features of SailPoint IdentityIQ are the reporting because it is better than other solutions. The workflows can be customized to our requirements and the overall features are good.

If you compare Saviynt and Okta Workforce Identity versus SailPoint IdentityIQ, SailPoint IdentityIQ needs to improve its UI.

I have been using SailPoint IdentityIQ for approximately four years.

When using SailPoint IdentityIQ you need to tell them the capacity you want, and they will provide the solution with the appropriate license. For example, you have to tell them initially that you will have 50,000 users using the solution then they will tell you how much service you will need to deploy.

The technical support is not very good but it is good. They can improve.

I have previously used Saviynt and Okta Workforce Identity.

The initial setup of SailPoint IdentityIQ is easy. The time of deployment can take approximately two days.

We did the implementation of SailPoint IdentityIQ in-house.

My advice to others is if you are new to the identity access management world, and you are starting with SailPoint IdentityIQ, you have the best tool in your hand to start with. You can receive complete exposure to all the types of operations or workflows.

I rate SailPoint IdentityIQ a nine out of ten.