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Symantec Directory

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VMware Identity Manager

Read 12 VMware Identity Manager reviews
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72% willing to recommend
Featured Review
Anonymous User
We use it for internal-facing and external-facing website security.
Mostly we are using it for website securities like internal-facing or external-facing websites so this provides security of our data. It helps in... Read more →
Thiago Bassan
Optimizes IT efficiency and offers excellent technical support
VMware Identity Manager has saved IT time by eliminating the need for daily station visits and manual installations. Now, we deliver a virtual... Read more →
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  • "We pay approximately $6.50 per user for the standard version. If you are paying for an enterprise license that includes VDI then it will cost approximately $25 per user on a monthly basis."
  • "Licensing fees are paid on a monthly basis."
  • "A person should pay towards the licensing costs of VMware Identity Manager on a yearly or monthly basis, but government and public sector units cannot for a perpetual licensing model."

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    Top Answer:The most valuable features in VMware Identity Manager for me are the control groups and rules.
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    Top Answer:I would rate the costliness of the solution as an eight out of ten. The licensing costs for the solution vary based on user count, so there is no fixed value. It depends on factors like the number of… more »
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    Top Answer:In terms of improvement, I would like better integration for deploying programs with binary files. As for future releases, I hope to see features like seamless migrations with collaboration tools to… more »
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    Ranking
    6th
    out of 6 in Directory Servers
    Views
    3
    Comparisons
    2
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    Average Words per Review
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    15th
    out of 51 in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)
    Views
    661
    Comparisons
    519
    Reviews
    3
    Average Words per Review
    528
    Rating
    6.3
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    Also Known As
    CA Directory
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    Overview
    CA Directory is an easy-to-manage directory service with superior performance for read and write operations, transparent and distributed replication across any number of servers and automatic recovery for seamless failover and failback. With these market-leading capabilities, CA Directory provides a mature, standards-based platform for your application infrastructure that allows you to reduce your costs while still delivering superior user experience and improved business agility.
    VMware Identity Manager is an Identity as a Service (IDaaS) offering, providing application provisioning, self-service catalog, conditional access controls and Single Sign-On (SSO) for SaaS, web, cloud and native mobile applications. It simplifies business mobility with one touch from any device, empowers employees with a self-service app store, optimizes user experience & security with AirWatch and was designed for the mobile cloud world for AirWatch enrolled devices providing a seamless consumer-grade user experience.
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    Seventy Seven Energy, The Hut Group, SAIC
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    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company14%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Government9%
    Insurance Company8%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business92%
    Large Enterprise8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise65%

    Symantec Directory is ranked 6th in Directory Servers while VMware Identity Manager is ranked 15th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews. Symantec Directory is rated 7.6, while VMware Identity Manager is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Symantec Directory writes "We use it for internal-facing and external-facing website security". 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 Directory is most compared with , whereas VMware Identity Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and SailPoint IdentityIQ.

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