We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID and Ping Identity Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Authentication Systems solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's multi-tenant, residing in multiple locations. The authentication happens quickly. Irrespective of whether I'm in Australia, the US, India, or Africa, I don't see any latency. Those are the good features that I rely on."
"The user functionality enables us to provide different levels of access, across many applications, for each user. We can customize the access level and set a security level in connection with that access. For instance, we can require MFA. That is a feature that helps enhance our security posture a lot."
"The user management groups are valuable. It is a pretty basic product, but user management, in general, is valuable with the ability to differentiate between business lines and add different policies, group-based management, and dynamic user groups."
"The self-password reset if it's enabled and configured properly, really helps a company be able to reset rather than getting IT involved."
"The solution has come a long way. Now, with the Azure AD B2C offering integrated as well, we've got a full IAM-type solution for our customer-facing identity management. In addition, when it comes to user journeys we now can hook in custom flows for different credential checking and authorizations for specific conditional access."
"I like Azure AD's conditional access policies. Microsoft Entra provides a single pane of glass for managing user access, improving the overall user experience."
"Don't delay implementing this solution, it's the best thing you can do for your identity protection."
"The most valuable feature is that it is very easy to implement, you don't need a lot of effort to set up the solution. This is the most advantageous point, that you can do anything on Azure without taking too much time."
"The solution is highly stable and scalable"
"The solution has a smooth and configurable user interface for single sign-on capabilities."
"It is a scalable solution...It is a stable solution."
"The soundness of the solution is its most valuable feature. For example, if you are in our corporate network, you can log on without any traffic interfering."
"PingFederate gives you granular control over the settings. There are many options for fine-tuning policies."
"This is a user-friendly solution."
"We use the product to run different reports."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"When it comes to identity governance, the governance features in Azure AD are very focused on Microsoft products. I would like to see those governance and life cycle management features offered for non-Microsoft products connected to Azure AD."
"Documentation I think is always the worst part with what Azure's doing right now across the board."
"Be aware that it may not work perfectly globally yet. There are still glitches with the solution in Africa."
"I want to be able to identify the audiences effectively and manage them."
"The workflow management for registering new applications and users could be improved."
"The product takes at least ten minutes to activate privilege identity management roles."
"If any service is down, it can affect a whole region. We would need to wait on a ticket and get word from Microsoft to understand the issues. If it takes longer to resolve the issue on Microsoft's side, all we can do is wait for them to fix it."
"The documentation could be better."
"We have encountered instances where it is not easy to do authentication."
"They could use some bio-certification. It's just more user-friendly and more convenient than entering the one time passes. That would be an improvement."
"The management console needs to be improved. PingID should revise it."
"PingFederate's UI could be streamlined. They have recently made several improvements, but it's still too complex. It's a common complaint. The configuration should be simplified because the learning curve is too steep."
"If the solution is going to compete with Microsoft, they need to offer more unique functionality to keep their current user base."
"The initial setup appears to be difficult in the beginning."
"Notifications and monitoring are two areas with shortcomings in the solution that need improvement."
"I think that the connection with like Microsoft Word, especially for Office 365, is a weak point that could be improved."
Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Authentication Systems with 190 reviews while Ping Identity Platform is ranked 5th in Authentication Systems with 19 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while Ping Identity Platform is rated 8.4. 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 Ping Identity Platform writes " A highly stable tool offering extremely helpful technical support to its users". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Okta Workforce Identity and Cisco Duo, whereas Ping Identity Platform is most compared with Symantec Siteminder, ForgeRock, Microsoft Active Directory, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud and RSA SecurID. See our Microsoft Entra ID vs. Ping Identity Platform report.
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