"ObserveIT is small, easy to use, easy to deploy, and is not complicated, so it's more generally suited for only SMBs. It's a good value with a cheaper price."
"The two factor authentication, and the single most important capability was it supported PIV and CAC as one of the two factors. That was pretty huge for us."
"Password Management and Session Recording. The simplicity and ease that it is to be up and running out-of-the-box is very much appreciated."
"We have received good support from the tech support team."
"It reduces the viral attacks on my website. It also allows certain users access to see what happens daily."
"We can check the activities in the server for fragile files and documents in case of any issues."
"Stability is solid as a rock."
"Whoever built it from the ground up, they understand how an organization is laid out."
"It's easy to use and easy to configure."
"ObserveIT is not scalable and it's not for the medium to large corporations. It's for the smaller environments. For the larger corporations, we have other scalable solutions."
"We have to do a lot of manual work to automate features."
"We experience stability issues after every patch upgrade. This is a place where CA needs to improve drastically."
"The setup is complex."
"They need to have zero tier and active-active setup with zero minimum downtime, which they are working on it. "
"The management console could be improved."
"What I hope happens with the new product CA PAM is to keep all the useful features that exist in PA, but what I’ve noticed with many new products is the UI gets polished but systems lags stability and performance or it adds additional complexity instead of simplifying the user experience."
"They need to do a little bit more on the mainframe side."
"Instead of just giving passwords to the user based on job function, from auditing perspective, turn that cycle around. That would really help from an auditing standpoint."
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ObserveIT is ranked 2nd in User Activity Monitoring while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is ranked 18th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 50 reviews. ObserveIT is rated 8.4, while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of ObserveIT writes "Easy to implement and configure. Ticketing and incident workflow can be improved. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Privileged Access Manager writes "Allows IT and consultants to access the infrastructure environment but needs more security and better support". ObserveIT is most compared with Teramind, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Ekran System, Splunk User Behavior Analytics and One Identity Safeguard, whereas Symantec Privileged Access Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management, Delinea Secret Server and ARCON Privileged Access Management.
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