We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID and Salesforce Identity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Auth0 and others in Single Sign-On (SSO)."We have the ability to define the email user in the designated field."
"We have about 80 users in the Azure Active Directory right now, however, we know that if it was necessary to scale it for hundreds or thousands of users, it wouldn't be a problem."
"It can be used to grant access at a granular level. It provides secure access and many ways to offer security to your user resources. It provides a good level of security for any access on Azure. It gives you options like multi-factor authentication where apart from your password, you can use other factors for authentication, such as a code is sent to your phone or the authenticator app that you can use login."
"It offers features that improve our security posture such as multifactor authentication, which is the second layer of protection that is used when we log into the cloud."
"The scalability is good now, and I find it to be more stable and faster since scaling up to ESX."
"Privileged Identity Management (PIM), managed identities, dynamic groups, and extension and security attributes are all great features."
"Conditional Access, Geofencing, and Azure Multi-Factor Authentication are the major security features to secure resources."
"It offers good Microsoft integration capabilities."
"The user experience was great because it had all the features that the client needed. It was fully customized for the client, and it was very simple. It was the best solution at that time."
"Salesforce Identity is a very user-friendly solution."
"The most valuable features are the pipeline management, being able to track the pipeline anytime, and the ability to get in touch with our high management team or board members."
"The single sign-on feature of Salesforce Identity enhances our organization's security posture overall."
"I want to see new functionalities for the active directory."
"The synchronization between my AD and Azure AD needs improvement."
"In terms of stability, sometimes the more applications you integrate, the more it becomes a little bit unstable."
"Having more training would be quite helpful."
"There are some features, where if you want to access them, then you need to make use of PowerShell. If someone is not really versed in PowerShell scripting, then they would definitely have issues using some of those features in Azure Active Directory."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"From an admin perspective, I would like to see improvement in the Microsoft Graph API."
"The role-based access control can be improved. Normally, the role-based access control has different privileges. Each role, such as administrator or user, has different privileges, and the setup rules for them should be defined automatically rather than doing it manually."
"The interface should be simplified and the dashboard has a lot of options but could be improved."
"Salesforce Identity needs more expertise in the application."
"The most wanted feature on such platforms nowadays is artificial intelligence, especially for marketing activities. This is also my area of expertise, so it would be very interesting to see AI in these platforms."
"Salesforce could make it more user-friendly and easier to implement. Currently, there's a lot of coding and technical work required. I would appreciate a more plug-and-play approach where you could set it up without needing a dedicated technical person."
Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 190 reviews while Salesforce Identity is ranked 3rd in Mobile Identity with 4 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while Salesforce Identity is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Saves us time and money and features Conditional Access policies, SSPR, and MFA". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Identity writes "Adheres to the data privacy regulations of each region, easy to learn and offers strong security features ". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Okta Workforce Identity and Cisco Duo, whereas Salesforce Identity is most compared with SailPoint IdentityIQ, Auth0, Okta Workforce Identity, Saviynt and SAP Customer Identity and Access Management.
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