We performed a comparison between NetIQ Identity Governance and Symantec Identity Governance and Administration based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Identity Management (IM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Surveying is a valuable feature because it allows us to import data and see who has access to what data, for example."
"We used to have a problem where an employee's access wasn't terminated when they left the company. Now, we have much better visibility into and control over who has access."
"The thing that I find most valuable is that Omada consists of building blocks, which means that you can configure almost anything you want without using custom code, making it pretty easy to do. It's possible to connect to multiple target systems and to create one role that consists of different permissions in the different target systems. So one role in Omada can make sure that you have an account in three different systems."
"The best feature in Omada Identity is that it enables us to implement standardized employee life cycle processes so that we don't have to create them ourselves. We can then use the standard workflows. The breadth and scope of the solution’s IGA features also fulfill our requirements."
"It scales in terms of numbers and types of identities. It can govern the on-premise applications as well as the cloud applications. So, it can manage hybrid environments with all types of identities and various load amounts."
"Omada Identity Suite has a very powerful workflow engine. It is used for requesting access for approval to everything that's around Access Management and for re-certification purposes."
"The Governance and self-service that can be set up so you can use them yourself to work in the system are the most valuable features. End users can be enabled to help themselves."
"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."
"We’re very satisfied with technical support. Usually we get people with the right knowledge who understand the solution very well."
"I really like the separation of the duties. It is the most ambitious model in the server because you have to create all the different rules, especially business rules. You have to check with the client and set different policies and rules, and then, you to have refine them. You will notice what is bad in the company and where the real problem is."
"When doing a review you can either make manual or automatic fulfillment to immediately apply the manager's decision to the system, like removing or adding new permissions to the user account."
"You can run reports and verify the access each user has. There is a process that runs automatically for access review. It sends an email to the manager and provides a task for the manager to review the users and access. The manager can approve or reject, and then it goes to the application owner for further review. This feature is especially important in large customer environments, as manual review can be challenging."
"This solution has been around for a long time. It has had lots of successful deployments and releases."
"All three functionalities, access certification, the configuration of duties, and role mining - especially role mining - are very advanced compared with the competition."
"I like the queries and find the catalog to be comparatively powerful."
"NetIQ Identity Governance has improved the security of my company."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"Out-of-the-box the product has a lot of opportunity for configuration and sophisticated identity management capability."
"There are many valuable features within the solution. The product is easy to customize. It’s also highly secure."
"Connector Xpress and Policy Xpress and the new interface."
"Automated provisioning removes manual labor and manual provisioning."
"It offers a nice price. It's mid-range."
"The scalability potential is there if a company needs to expand."
"The most valuable aspects of Symantec Identity Governance and Administration are all the features, it is the most complete solution on the market. It has features, such as scanners and portals, it has everything."
"In our organization, all the data is event-driven, which means that if an attribute is changed in the source system, it can be updated within a few seconds in all end-user systems. There is room for improvement in Omada regarding that. Omada is still batch-based for some processes, so sometimes it can take an hour or even four hours before the execution is run and the update is sent."
"I would like to see them expand the functionality of the tool to continue to be competitive with the monsters out there. For example, they could add functionality on the authentication side, functionality that Octa and SailPoint have. But they should do that while maintaining the same simplicity that makes Omada a product of choice today."
"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."
"When you do a recalculation of an identity, it's hard to understand what was incorrect before you started the recalculation, and which values are actually updated... all you see are all the new fields that are provisioned, instead of seeing only the fields that are changed."
"It is not possible to customize reports on Omada Identity."
"The reporting on the warehouse data and the import process both have room for improvement."
"Omada's reporting functionality is limited and could benefit from greater customization."
"We are trying to use Omada's standards and to adapt our processes. But we have had some trouble with the bad documentation. This is something that they could improve on. It has not been possible for us to analyze some of the problems so far, based on the documentation. We always need consultants. The documentation should include some implementation hints and some guidelines for implementing the processes."
"The product could use more advanced features related to Identity Intelligence."
"NetIQ Identity Governance is not flexible. Sometimes, filtering information to provide users with options, such as selecting the application to which they want to request access, can be challenging. It needs to improve application integration as well."
"The initial setup has room for improvement."
"With NetIQ, you have to install two or more products. It would be better if we could install one product and have one server and one dashboard."
"They haven't really evolved the product to the cloud, so they don't have a cloud solution."
"We need more connectors to cloud applications like AWS."
"The solution should provide more connectors in future releases. The solution also should offer more monitoring."
"Technical support is horrible."
"The reporting functions."
"A better information display for the approvals within the workflow would give them more information and the ability to comment back on a request as to why they're rejecting it. We've been telling them we'd like this improvement, and we hope to see it."
"Although the capabilities are there, the user interface needs to be redesigned and the opportunities for integration should be improved."
"The product has a lot of need for improvement. Our issues are being raised back to the vendor as enhancements."
"In the next release, there should be provisioning of your certifications."
"I find the API boring. I also faced issues while integrating with CA SSO."
"There are times that it takes too long to generate reports and to run the assessment tools to collect the information."
"We would like to see integration with analytics. Also, for them to be more efficient regarding discovering and implementing new rules."
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NetIQ Identity Governance is ranked 22nd in Identity Management (IM) with 9 reviews while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is ranked 20th in Identity Management (IM) with 65 reviews. NetIQ Identity Governance is rated 8.0, while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of NetIQ Identity Governance writes "Helps to run reports and verify user access but improvement is needed in integration ". 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". NetIQ Identity Governance is most compared with SailPoint IdentityIQ, OpenText Identity and Access Management and One Identity Manager, whereas Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is most compared with SailPoint IdentityIQ, AlertEnterprise Enterprise Guardian, Microsoft Identity Manager, SAP Identity Management and BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management. See our NetIQ Identity Governance vs. Symantec Identity Governance and Administration report.
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