We performed a comparison between Symantec Identity Governance and Administration and VMware Identity Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, SailPoint, One Identity and others in Identity Management (IM)."The most relevant feature is Omada's reporting engine. Omada never 'forgets' and archives every process. All steps an admin, user, or manager has executed, are recorded in Omada."
"The most valuable functionality of the solution for us is that when employees stop working for the municipality, they are automatically disabled in Active Directory. Omada controls that 100 percent. They are disabled for 30 days, and after that time Omada deletes the Active Directory account. The same type of thing happens when we employ a new person. Their information is automatically imported to Omada and they are equipped with the roles and rights so they can do their jobs."
"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."
"What I like most is that we can always find a solution, and we can also find the cause when something goes wrong. I like that the most because everything is in one way or another traceable. That is what I like most. I like its reliability."
"I'm not using Omada, but the interface is easy to use and gives you a solid overview of your identities."
"The most valuable feature in Omada is the governance. We work with other products and other product vendors, but the sweet spot in the market for Omada is where things are heavy on governance."
"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."
"As an administrator, we benefit from a lot of functionality that is available out of the box, but it is also configurable to meet our specific needs."
"The scalability potential is there if a company needs to expand."
"The most valuable features are role-based access and identity provisioning, which allow a single point of user access to multiple places."
"Self-registration and self-service password management are valuable features. The role modeling feature is also very useful. It allows you to model your enterprise role."
"It's a very useful tool that has improved our client's security, from day one."
"It has good endpoint support and endpoint connectivity to different versioning endpoints."
"It has improved our user management. It is definitely streamlined."
"Governance."
"I've used it to manage users, create and update, delete users, change passwords, and assign and change rules."
"The most valuable features in VMware Identity Manager for me are the control groups and rules."
"The most valuable feature is the User Experience Designer, which has been very helpful for our project."
"It helps the end users to work on the road without needing to set up all kinds of VPN connections"
"The solution was easy to deploy."
"The solution is stable."
"Personally, VMware Identity Manager is useful for comparison purposes so that I can provide better solutions to my company's customers."
"Zero Trust implementation is a great feature."
"The most valuable feature is that it will use my credentials to access various parts of the infrastructure or other solutions, such as vRealize."
"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."
"What I would most like to see added to the product is role management, especially enterprise or business role management, and the processes around that."
"Improved traceability would be helpful for administrators. For example, let's say a user's permission is being revoked. We can only see the system that has carried out a particular action but not what triggered it. If an event definition or something has changed in the criteria for the permission being removed or something like that, we don't have immediate access to that information. It takes a little detective work."
"The web GUI can be improved."
"The current reporting tools in Omada are limited, but we expect significant improvements in the new version."
"Its flexibility is both a good thing and a bad thing. Because it is very flexible, it also becomes too complex. This is common for most of the products we evaluated. Its scalability should be better. It had a few scalability issues."
"The reporting on the warehouse data and the import process both have room for improvement."
"The Omada support response time has room for improvement."
"Identity Manager has a lack of entitlement support, unlike other products that I have worked with."
"Although the capabilities are there, the user interface needs to be redesigned and the opportunities for integration should be improved."
"It has a large footprint which you'd expect to be much, much smaller. Just to run basic services, we have 10 different servers. Also, if it were easier to manage, that'd be useful."
"There are several areas for improvement in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration. They have no proper documentation on how to do backups. They also have a lengthy workflow process where we have to make some configurations to manage automation in the rules and in our tasks which takes time. We have to manually configure all the configuration files, and we cannot export users because there's no export system in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration. What we'd like to see in the next release of the solution is for them to make configuration and integration with other systems their top priorities. We have many API systems to manage, so hopefully, if they make these enhancements shortly, we can directly connect with our API systems when using Symantec Identity Governance and Administration."
"We would like to see integration with analytics. Also, for them to be more efficient regarding discovering and implementing new rules."
"Symantec is only on-premises, not on the cloud."
"They should easier and better integration with other software."
"The solution is not the best or the fastest available."
"We have a lot of problems when it comes to integrating with Active Directory."
"The database gets corrupted when used in the cluster. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't."
"The mobile SSO doesn't work as well on Android."
"it's very dependent on an active directory"
"I would like better integration for deploying programs with binary files."
"Many of the features that exist in Active Directory do not exist in Identity Manager, which means that people depend on Active Directory."
"The security features could always use improvement, although there has already been a huge improvement from years ago."
"There is a need for better user lifecycle management within VMware Identity Manager, along with better user governance...The scalability of the product needs to improve."
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Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is ranked 20th in Identity Management (IM) with 65 reviews while VMware Identity Manager is ranked 19th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews. Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is rated 7.6, while VMware Identity Manager is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Symantec Identity Governance and Administration writes "Works well on-premises and has partial capabilities but lacks many feaures". 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". 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, whereas VMware Identity Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and Okta Workforce Identity.
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