• Sailpoint Identity IQ
• Ping Identity
• IBM Tivoli Identity Manager

As the final decision comes down to our clients, they are the ones who evaluate other possible options.

We did have one vendor. I’d rather not say which one. They were pretty competent too. In comparison, we thought that CA Identity Manager would be a better fit for us. The skills that we have and our experience with this solution is what made it a better fit than the competition. The partnership and flexibility that CA offer were also pretty important factors in our decision.

No.

We are looking at another tool from CA Advanced Authentication for our guest site, which is then millions of users. So far, we are still in QA, but it seems that it will scale just fine.

Selecting a vendor is important to us. We need to make sure to pick the right vendor. Firstly, we look at are they one of the vendors we currently work with. Consistency in approach, consistency in the technology, consistency in the style, is all important for us. The product in and of itself is good, but what you need is a holistic approach from your organization, because identity management is not just simply a one area focus. It is an organizational issue. Make sure to include all the areas of the organization. We had a sort of homegrown applications that we wrote. Scripts and programs that were wrote to manage in the context of our current applications.

We made a request for a proposal to which IBM, Oracle, ISA, and CA responded. CA and Oracle were proven because the other ones didn’t agree with the time, four months, which is a big challenge. When my architecture team and security team checked the solutions, CA has a better score than Oracle, and they had a better price.

We have long, long list of parameters that we, of course, check. It's about 5 pages of criteria and of course robustness, the ability to go forwards as a system over long years. Transforming to such a system is a very long process. We want to have a system that can be up with us for at least 10 to 15 years. We checked it quite thoroughly, we of course talked to other organizations that had the system. We think we had made a good decision.

I was not there when they made this selection. I'm sure they evaluated the normal ones, SailPoint, CA, Oracle.

We have evaluated many open-source tools.

I prefer Oracle Identity Manager, which is more stable. 

Identity Manager solutions from Oracle, SailPoint, IBM and RSA/EMC. The products from the mentioned vendors generally seem more competitive than today’s offering from CA.

We compared a couple of other vendors. Some of the newer ones are cloud-based, we weren't comfortable with that yet.

We saw other options in the market, but the technical support of CA made the difference. This is why we chose the product. If the system is down, someone could help us and this was an important factor.

We did, but I don't know which ones.

Yes 

We looked at Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite that was the major contender at the time.

We also looked at options from IBM and Oracle.

Look at training from the vendor not just their perfect scenarios but real world issues. Make sure your users have the skills needed to manage the product.

No other options evaluated.

We evaluated Novell and Oracle as well, and for our needs this was still the best solution.

Do a good gathering of your requirements and make sure you are creating the system architecture it in the right way.

I did not evaluate other options, since this product was just meant for a PoC.

Yes, Oracle Identity Manager

Yes, Oracle IAM.

I’m aware on qualities of Novell (Netiq) Identity Manager and IBM Security (Tivoli) identity manager. It depends completely on business needs – for some cases one product will fit, for another cases another.

Yes, we also considered using Oracle Identity Manager.

No.