We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID and VMware Identity Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Entra ID are the login and the conditional access pieces."
"The most valuable components of the solution are provisioning and deprovisioning since both features work...Microsoft Entra Verified ID is a very stable solution."
"It's an easy product to maintain."
"Entra ID can be deployed using a hybrid model for organizations with a significant on-premises presence, or in a fully cloud-based setup for those that do not."
"The best feature is the single sign-on provision for the various type of users."
"Every feature in Microsoft Entra ID plays a crucial role in overall security."
"Very stable and scalable IAM service with good SSO and authentication features."
"When we publish the applications, getting the credentials to log in and keep the application up or running is easy."
"The solution was easy to deploy."
"Zero Trust implementation is a great feature."
"The most valuable features in VMware Identity Manager for me are the control groups and rules."
"Its value is when you use it with a Workspace ONE UEM solution as it is part of the ecosystem for VMware Workspace ONE."
"One of the features that I enjoyed most was the integration with Azure AD because I could use VMware Identity Manager to standardize the User Principal Name coming from Active Directory. You have Azure AD Connect to do that. In between, if you have vIDM handling it, you can easily get the synchronization of users into your VM and standardize the User Principal Name. If you require quality assurance for handling it, you can actually count on the vIDM to do so. That was one of the main things I enjoyed about the product."
"It helps the end users to work on the road without needing to set up all kinds of VPN connections"
"Personally, VMware Identity Manager is useful for comparison purposes so that I can provide better solutions to my company's customers."
"We have a lot of freedom in using the Group Policy Objects and, although Group Policy Objects are part of Azure Active Directory, there are still a lot of things that can be improved, such as providing local admin rights to a user. There are various, easy ways that I can do that in the on-premises version, but in the cloud version, it is a bit difficult. You have to create a bunch of policies to make it work."
"The custom role creation function could be improved as it's somewhat tricky to use."
"Better integration with external governance products would be a welcome addition to Azure AD."
"I would like to see improvements made when it comes to viewing audit logs, sign-in logs, and resource tags."
"Reading documentation could be simplified. Technical support could also be faster."
"They can combine conditional access for user actions and application filtering. Currently, they are separated, and we cannot mix the two. I do not know how it would be possible, but it would be interesting."
"I would like to be able to authenticate Wi-Fi users using the Azure ID"
"The solution has not saved costs. While we’ve eliminated some tools, there are some other features that we are dependent on as admin, which are not yet integrated with Azure AD."
"it's very dependent on an active directory"
"The mobile SSO doesn't work as well on Android."
"vIDM could be improved with the multi-tenant capabilities that VMware tends to offer—features like customization branding and the integration of the app catalog based on the branding. Since the integration has been at top-level OGs, you were not able to then do rebranding if you were required to use specific user groups to highlight specific applications. At the time, I was personally opening feature requests for these things. I haven't worked with the latest release, so I don't know if these features were already deployed or not."
"The license could be better."
"I would like to have better support for multi-cloud sessions."
"Many of the features that exist in Active Directory do not exist in Identity Manager, which means that people depend on Active Directory."
"There are a lot of difficulties whenever people have a lot of configurations in it, basically related to security certificate configurations and integration with VMware Horizon."
"The security features could always use improvement, although there has already been a huge improvement from years ago."
Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 190 reviews while VMware Identity Manager is ranked 19th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while VMware Identity Manager is rated 7.6. 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 VMware Identity Manager writes "A tool that needs to improve scalability but is useful to manage user". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Ping Identity Platform and Okta Workforce Identity, whereas VMware Identity Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Okta Workforce Identity and SailPoint Identity Security Cloud. See our Microsoft Entra ID vs. VMware Identity Manager report.
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