"ObserveIT is small, easy to use, easy to deploy, and is not complicated, so it's more generally suited for only SMBs. It's a good value with a cheaper price."
"Streamlines user access, consolidates applications."
"There are many valuable features within the solution. The product is easy to customize. It’s also highly secure."
"Provisioning engine (on the back-end, separate from front-end components, that's part of layered architecture)."
"When comparing it to other products, you can set up CA IAM in a PoC very quickly to demonstrate its provisioning capabilities."
"It is easy to use, and does not requires an extensive programming or development background."
"Word mining and risk campaigns are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The product’s most valuable feature is flexibility. It can be customized as per the customer’s requirements."
"Connector Xpress and Policy Xpress and the new interface."
"ObserveIT is not scalable and it's not for the medium to large corporations. It's for the smaller environments. For the larger corporations, we have other scalable solutions."
"The product works slowly while accessing cloud-native solutions."
"Identity Manager has a lack of entitlement support, unlike other products that I have worked with."
"The solution is not the best or the fastest available."
"Although the capabilities are there, the user interface needs to be redesigned and the opportunities for integration should be improved."
"Integration capabilities with other solutions and formats, including JSON, could be improved."
"The Identity tool needs to do more kinds of reporting for audit purposes. It doesn't really track any of the metrics that are useful to us, at this point."
"The product has a lot of need for improvement. Our issues are being raised back to the vendor as enhancements."
"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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ObserveIT is ranked 2nd in User Activity Monitoring while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is ranked 19th in Identity Management (IM) with 65 reviews. ObserveIT is rated 8.4, while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of ObserveIT writes "Easy to implement and configure. Ticketing and incident workflow can be improved. ". 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". ObserveIT is most compared with Teramind, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Ekran System, Splunk User Behavior Analytics and Dtex Systems, 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.
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