We performed a comparison between Azure Active Directory and SailPoint IdentityIQ based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Active Directory is the clear winner in this comparison. It is a feature-rich and powerful solution with an impressive ROI. It also received higher marks in the Deployment and Pricing categories.
"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."
"The thing that I find most valuable is that Omada consists of building blocks, which means that you can configure almost anything you want without using custom code, making it pretty easy to do. It's possible to connect to multiple target systems and to create one role that consists of different permissions in the different target systems. So one role in Omada can make sure that you have an account in three different systems."
"Omada's user interface is elegant and easy to work with. I like Omada's ability to automatically generate accounts for new hires and allow them access to all required systems by established policies. Around 80 percent of workers can start working immediately on their first day without requesting further access."
"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."
"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."
"Omada offers a technical solution that addresses both our needs."
"User-friendly solution."
"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 tool's most valuable feature is conditional access."
"We can centralize and manage everything much more effectively with this tool."
"I like Intune's MDM and MI."
"The two-step authentication is the most valuable."
"It has things like conditional access. For example, if someone is accessing sensitive information, then we could force them to do multi-factor authentication. Therefore, we can stop access if it is coming from a location that we did not expect."
"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."
"The solution scales well."
"Azure Active Directory features have helped improve our security posture. The remote working has been a massive help during the pandemic."
"What I like most about SailPoint IdentityIQ is that it's simple to use and easy to configure and deploy."
"The solution’s stability and performance are good."
"Provides functionalities for various stages, such as joiner, mover, and leaver"
"It is a stable tool, which we run in our complex environment."
"The level of customization for data imports and role modeling, because it helps to integrate faster, support easier and let it reuse the organization role structure."
"The community is very active and when I had questions about an issue, I was able to find the resources."
"IdentityIQ's best features are the hassle-free user experience and security."
"The most powerful feature of the solution is its platform-based approach. Unlike other solutions, this tool offers a high level of customization. It is an open and flexible platform, allowing users to tailor it to their needs. This ability to customize and adapt the solution to individual requirements makes the solution stand out as a powerful product."
"Omada's performance could be better because we had some latency issues. Still, it's difficult to say how much of that is due to Omada versus the resources used by our other vendors in our on-prem environment. Considering the resources we have invested into making it run well, it's slightly slower than we would expect."
"The solution should be made more agile for customers to own or configure."
"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."
"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"
"In our organization, all the data is event-driven, which means that if an attribute is changed in the source system, it can be updated within a few seconds in all end-user systems. There is room for improvement in Omada regarding that. Omada is still batch-based for some processes, so sometimes it can take an hour or even four hours before the execution is run and the update is sent."
"The architecture of the entire system should also be less complex. The way they process the data is complex."
"When you do a recalculation of an identity, it's hard to understand what was incorrect before you started the recalculation, and which values are actually updated... all you see are all the new fields that are provisioned, instead of seeing only the fields that are changed."
"Omada's reporting functionality is limited and could benefit from greater customization."
"Azure Active Directory could improve the two-factor authentication."
"When you start to deal with legacy applications, provisioning is not as intuitive."
"The scalability of the solution is good."
"Overall, it's not a very intuitive solution."
"I think the documentation and configuration are both areas that need improvement."
"The synchronization with the local Active Directory and synchronization with all of the users on the local and cloud could be better."
"Customers should be informed that public review features are not intended for production use."
"There is a concept of cross-tenant trust relationships, which I believe Microsoft is actively pursuing. That is something which in the coming days and years to come by will be very key to the success of Azure Active Directory, because many organizations are going into mergers and acquisitions or spinning off new companies. They will still have to access the old tenant information because of multiple legal reasons, compliance reasons, and all those things. So, there should be some level of tenant-level trust functionality, where you can bring people from other tenants to access some part of your tenant application. So, that is an area which is growing. I believe Microsoft is actively pursuing this, and it will be an interesting piece."
"It tends to be more expensive, but at the end of the day, it works."
"Finding integration experts for SailPoint in the North American market can be challenging, and transitioning to a no-code or low-code setup could reduce dependence on specialized skills."
"The user interface could be slightly improved. It could be made simpler and more user-friendly, however, it is good enough right now."
"Some setups should be done in the interface and in the code, and could be made simpler."
"Additional details during account aggregation failures to help quick troubleshooting."
"Scalability is hard, especially when you are doing it in real time."
"It is not readily available and cannot be downloaded from the net."
"We faced some issues while integrating the solution with a third-party tool."
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Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Identity Management (IM) with 190 reviews while SailPoint Identity Security Cloud is ranked 2nd in Identity Management (IM) with 62 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while SailPoint Identity Security Cloud is rated 8.2. 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 SailPoint Identity Security Cloud writes "Flexible, easy to customize, and not too difficult to set up". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Ping Identity Platform and RSA SecurID, whereas SailPoint Identity Security Cloud is most compared with Saviynt, One Identity Manager, ForgeRock, Microsoft Identity Manager and Oracle Identity Governance. See our Microsoft Entra ID vs. SailPoint Identity Security Cloud report.
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