We performed a comparison between IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] and Symantec Identity Governance and Administration based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about SailPoint, One Identity, Omada and others in User Provisioning Software."Omada's most valuable aspect is its usability."
"The best feature in Omada Identity is that it enables us to implement standardized employee life cycle processes so that we don't have to create them ourselves. We can then use the standard workflows. The breadth and scope of the solution’s IGA features also fulfill our requirements."
"The administrative features and SoD are valuable."
"Its best feature is definitely the process design. It is quite easy and straightforward to design a process."
"The identity lifecycle support is definitely valuable because we are a complex organization, and there is a lot of onboarding, movement, and offboarding in our organization. We have 31,000 users, and there are a lot of users who are constantly onboarding, offboarding, and moving. So, we need to make sure that these activities are supported. In old times, we used to do everything manually. Everyone was onboarded, offboarded, or moved manually. So, from a business point of view and an economics point of view, identity lifecycle is most valuable. From a security point of view, access review is the most important feature for us."
"It has a very user-friendly interface compared to what we are used to, and it is highly configurable. In the old solution, when we needed to do something, we had to have a programmer sitting next to us, whereas, in Omada Identity, everything is configurable."
"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."
"The support for the validity of the resources is valuable. The tool allows resource assignments within a validity period so that the managers do not have to remember to revoke the access once the work is done."
"SAML 2.0."
"The Verify feature: A push method which customers are going for."
"Single Sign-On functionality is valuable because the core purpose of the product is to allow universal (or bespoke) SSO for application suites."
"The integration effort with the end application is quite straightforward and easy."
"OAuth 2 is now the de facto standard for API protection and scoped authorized delegation. IBM TAM now supports OAuth 2 and can act as fully compliant OAuth 2 authorization server."
"Using the implementation guide, I was able to implement the solution with ease."
"The most valuable features are role-based access and identity provisioning, which allow a single point of user access to multiple places."
"Connector Xpress and Policy Xpress and the new interface."
"It is easy to use, and does not requires an extensive programming or development background."
"I like that it is easy to diagnose. It has a version of a virtual appliance so we can download it, run it, configure it, and it would take about 10 to 15 minutes to configure the cluster or so."
"It's a very useful tool that has improved our client's security, from day one."
"The product’s most valuable feature is flexibility. It can be customized as per the customer’s requirements."
"Provisioning engine (on the back-end, separate from front-end components, that's part of layered architecture)."
"If I had to name one thing, it would be the user interface (UI)."
"The backend is pretty good but the self-service request access screen, the GUI, needs improvement. It's an old-fashioned screen. Also, Omada has reports, but I wouldn't dare show them to the business because they look like they're from 1995. I know they are working on these things and that’s good, because they’re really needed."
"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."
"Omada Identity has a steep learning curve."
"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."
"I would like more training. As someone who is new to this world, I don't feel that the courses Omada provides are good enough. They should also improve the documentation. It is difficult to learn how to use the solution by yourself"
"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."
"The account management integration isn't bad, but it isn't plug-and-play like Microsoft Azure. You need some deep development knowledge to set up the connectors."
"Looking at their roadmap, they have a broad grasp of the security features which the industry needs."
"The self-service portal needs improvement."
"An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for the newer appliance versions for hosting the virtual appliances on AWS will help."
"Multi-factor authentication with social integration needs to improve."
"The profiling element is incredibly robust, but also equally as complex, it requires an off-site course to be able to understand the context or the plethora of options available."
"The support from Symantec Identity Governance and Administration could improve."
"We would like to see integration with analytics. Also, for them to be more efficient regarding discovering and implementing new rules."
"Identity Manager has a lack of entitlement support, unlike other products that I have worked with."
"The reporting functions."
"The drawback with the CA Identity Manager is they don't have a connector to HR systems like SAP, or PeopleSoft, or Workday. That's a major drawback with the CA Identity Manager. For that we have to do lots of custom quoting to get data from HR systems. And if they could connect it to GRC systems, that's good to have in an identity product."
"The Identity tool needs to do more kinds of reporting for audit purposes. It doesn't really track any of the metrics that are useful to us, at this point."
"The directory has room for improvement. Also, the dashboards and, in particular, the KPI dashboard that shows the current user’s information needs reworking."
"The development process to create this connector is not as easy as I would like."
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IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in User Provisioning Software while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is ranked 9th in User Provisioning Software with 65 reviews. IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] writes "Reverse proxy means applications need only minimal changes to support SSO with ISAM". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Identity Governance and Administration writes "Works well on-premises and has partial capabilities but lacks many feaures". IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is most compared with SailPoint IdentityIQ, AlertEnterprise Enterprise Guardian, SAP Identity Management, Microsoft Identity Manager and Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine).
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