We performed a comparison between One Identity Active Roles and Symantec Identity Governance and Administration based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two User Provisioning Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The provisioning and deprovisioning saves a lot of time and skips a lot of errors."
"Secure access is the most valuable feature."
"Having a tool to manage all changes to AD from a single pane of glass is awesome."
"Because of Active Roles, we're able to synchronize on an even more regular basis. It enables us to provide even more information to the Active Directory, which helped us to group our users in a more consistent manner."
"With the use of the sync service we were able to import information from multiple external systems and populate them within our space and leverage them for downstream systems."
"It gives us attribute-level control and the AD management features work very well."
"It's valuable to us in that it resembles the native tools that most people have grown accustomed to... Active Roles resembles traditional tools, such as from Microsoft. That is really good because it eases the way people interact with the tool."
"The biggest thing for us is Active Roles saves a lot of man-hours in keeping groups up-to-date manually or trying to write some sort of script that you have to run, so we don't have to reinvent the wheel. Instead of when every time somebody joins a department, then somebody has to remember to put in a request to add "meet user Joe" to this group, the solution does it automatically for us. Therefore, it saves our business and IT staff time because they do not have to process requests since Active Role can do it for them."
"The product is relatively easier to use than other identity management products."
"The scalability potential is there if a company needs to expand."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"It's a very useful tool that has improved our client's security, from day one."
"It offers a nice price. It's mid-range."
"Word mining and risk campaigns are the most valuable features of this solution."
"There are many valuable features within the solution. The product is easy to customize. It’s also highly secure."
"Provisioning engine (on the back-end, separate from front-end components, that's part of layered architecture)."
"The third area for improvement, which is the weakest portion of ARS, is the workflow engine, which was introduced a few years ago. It's slow and not very intuitive to use, so I would like to see improvement there."
"The initial setup was quite easy, but it was time-consuming. It took about three months."
"There are some features that we think should be included in their next release. We think these things would take them to the next level: the ability to completely force or limit any dynamic group processing to specific servers, change-tracking reporting of virtual attributes, and the ability to use files as inputs to automation workloads. These things have also been talked about. Knowing them, they're probably working on them."
"The user and group management in Azure AD could be better. Our focus these days is dynamic sharing with several on-prem Microsoft applications like SharePoint."
"For the AAD management feature, it needs to improve the objects that we can manage and the security."
"I've had a difficult time getting it to cooperate with Azure in the cloud and, while the support staff are very good and very knowledgeable, what they assist with just on a call doesn't go deep enough to help with a number of issues. The answer that comes back is that we'd have to start an engagement with Professional Services, which is fine but that takes time to schedule and it takes budget."
"The way you can search groups could be better."
"The ability to send logs to a SIEM would be very beneficial."
"The product works slowly while accessing cloud-native solutions."
"Identity Manager has a lack of entitlement support, unlike other products that I have worked with."
"The Identity tool needs to do more kinds of reporting for audit purposes. It doesn't really track any of the metrics that are useful to us, at this point."
"The reporting functions."
"Provisioning has a dependency on Windows."
"The development process to create this connector is not as easy as I would like."
"The drawback with the CA Identity Manager is they don't have a connector to HR systems like SAP, or PeopleSoft, or Workday. That's a major drawback with the CA Identity Manager. For that we have to do lots of custom quoting to get data from HR systems. And if they could connect it to GRC systems, that's good to have in an identity product."
"They should easier and better integration with other software."
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One Identity Active Roles is ranked 5th in User Provisioning Software with 17 reviews while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is ranked 9th in User Provisioning Software with 65 reviews. One Identity Active Roles is rated 8.6, while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of One Identity Active Roles writes "Single interface and workflows simplify AD and Azure AD management efficiency and security". 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". One Identity Active Roles is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, ManageEngine ADManager Plus, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, One Identity Manager and Softerra Adaxes, whereas Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is most compared with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, AlertEnterprise Enterprise Guardian, SAP Identity Management, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) and Microsoft Identity Manager. See our One Identity Active Roles vs. Symantec Identity Governance and Administration report.
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