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."Its best feature is definitely the process design. It is quite easy and straightforward to design a process."
"The support response time and the freedom from strange bugs and strange things happening in the software are valuable."
"We used to have a problem where an employee's access wasn't terminated when they left the company. Now, we have much better visibility into and control over who has access."
"The customer success and support teams have been crucial."
"The most relevant feature is Omada's reporting engine. Omada never 'forgets' and archives every process. All steps an admin, user, or manager has executed, are recorded in Omada."
"Omada's best feature is creating accounts, automatically assigning permissions, and distributing resources based on assignment policies."
"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."
"Omada's onboarding features reflect our processes for onboarding new employees well. That is the primary reason we use this solution. We use role-based access control. I'm not sure how much it has improved our security posture, but it's made managing identities more convenient."
"SAML 2.0."
"The integration effort with the end application is quite straightforward and easy."
"Single Sign-On functionality is valuable because the core purpose of the product is to allow universal (or bespoke) SSO for application suites."
"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."
"The Verify feature: A push method which customers are going for."
"It offers a nice price. It's mid-range."
"Provisioning engine (on the back-end, separate from front-end components, that's part of layered architecture)."
"The most valuable aspects of Symantec Identity Governance and Administration are all the features, it is the most complete solution on the market. It has features, such as scanners and portals, it has everything."
"Out-of-the-box the product has a lot of opportunity for configuration and sophisticated identity management capability."
"Governance."
"I've used it to manage users, create and update, delete users, change passwords, and assign and change rules."
"Using the implementation guide, I was able to implement the solution with ease."
"The product is relatively easier to use than other identity management products."
"There is room for improvement in Omada's integration capabilities, particularly in streamlining complex integrations and enhancing programming logic for better rule management."
"If you're running Omada on a cloud service, you may have some issues deploying the newest release. Sometimes, the latest release doesn't adapt to the processes we have already installed. Identity Access Management is a critical system for our organization, and we need to ensure that everyone has the same access as they did before the release."
"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."
"Improved traceability would be helpful for administrators. For example, let's say a user's permission is being revoked. We can only see the system that has carried out a particular action but not what triggered it. If an event definition or something has changed in the criteria for the permission being removed or something like that, we don't have immediate access to that information. It takes a little detective work."
"When making a process, you should be able to use some coding to do some advanced calculations. The calculations you can currently do are too basic. I would also like some additional script features."
"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."
"When the re-certification process is launched that makes Omada very slow. There are performance issues in the current version."
"One thing that we are not so happy about is the user interface. It is a bit dated. I know that they are working on that, but the user interface is quite dated. Currently, it is a little bit difficult to customize the user interface to the need of the business, which is a little bit disappointing. It needs it to be a little bit easier to operate, and it should have a better user interface."
"Looking at their roadmap, they have a broad grasp of the security features which the industry needs."
"An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for the newer appliance versions for hosting the virtual appliances on AWS will help."
"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 self-service portal needs improvement."
"Multi-factor authentication with social integration needs to improve."
"We would like to see integration with analytics. Also, for them to be more efficient regarding discovering and implementing new rules."
"The product has a lot of need for improvement. Our issues are being raised back to the vendor as enhancements."
"Symantec is only on-premises, not on the cloud."
"The product's technical support could be better."
"Integration capabilities with other solutions and formats, including JSON, could be improved."
"There are times that it takes too long to generate reports and to run the assessment tools to collect the information."
"The directory has room for improvement. Also, the dashboards and, in particular, the KPI dashboard that shows the current user’s information needs reworking."
"In the next release, there should be provisioning of your certifications."
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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, Microsoft Identity Manager, SAP Identity Management and BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management.
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