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We performed a comparison between RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle 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.
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Pros
"The identity lifecycle support is definitely valuable because we are a complex organization, and there is a lot of onboarding, movement, and offboarding in our organization. We have 31,000 users, and there are a lot of users who are constantly onboarding, offboarding, and moving. So, we need to make sure that these activities are supported. In old times, we used to do everything manually. Everyone was onboarded, offboarded, or moved manually. So, from a business point of view and an economics point of view, identity lifecycle is most valuable. From a security point of view, access review is the most important feature for us.""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.""Its best feature is definitely the process design. It is quite easy and straightforward to design a process.""The support for the validity of the resources is valuable. The tool allows resource assignments within a validity period so that the managers do not have to remember to revoke the access once the work is done.""I appreciate all the support we receive from Omada.""We don't have to go in and do a lot of the work that we did before. It may have saved us somewhere in the range of 10 to 30 percent of the time we spent on provisioning access.""The most valuable feature is the automatic provisioning and reconciliation of things like the Active Directory groups and memberships.""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."

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"Roles, connectors for provisioning and re-accreditation or reviews help greatly to govern user access.""With the tool in place, you need to hire fewer people to provide access, and you have control over your processes.""The data collection is excellent and easy to do. It does not require a lot of configuration nor does it require rules to be written like other competitors do.""RSA Identity Governance and lifecycles are good for the access certification and auditing sections.""The most valuable feature is the security, in particular, the One Time Password support."

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"​It has improved our user management. It is definitely streamlined​.""Connector Xpress and Policy Xpress and the new interface.""The scalability potential is there if a company needs to expand.""I've used it to manage users, create and update, delete users, change passwords, and assign and change rules.""It is easy to use, and does not requires an extensive programming or development background.""The most valuable features are role-based access and identity provisioning, which allow a single point of user access to multiple places.""It has good endpoint support and endpoint connectivity to different versioning endpoints.""It's a very useful tool that has improved our client's security, from day one."

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Cons
"The backend is pretty good but the self-service request access screen, the GUI, needs improvement. It's an old-fashioned screen. Also, Omada has reports, but I wouldn't dare show them to the business because they look like they're from 1995. I know they are working on these things and that’s good, because they’re really needed.""I would like to search on date fields, which is not possible now.""The account management integration isn't bad, but it isn't plug-and-play like Microsoft Azure. You need some deep development knowledge to set up the connectors.""There's a challenge with handling large amounts of data in this system.""The comprehensiveness of Omada's out-of-the-box connectors for the applications we use could be better. We are getting a new HR system called Cornerstone for which they do not have an out-of-the-box connector, so we have to take the REST connector and play around with it.""If I had to name one thing, it would be the user interface (UI).""The architecture of the entire system should also be less complex. The way they process the data is complex.""Omada could communicate better with us about the product roadmap. We haven't gotten any updates about it. The user interface is often a bit difficult to understand. It isn't optimized for small screens, so it doesn't display all of the information clearly, so users need to scroll a lot."

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"This product is missing a lot of features which other competitors are providing. One of the key features that are missing right now is risk scoring. Additionally, there is not much scope for customization - everything is hard-coded and predefined, so it does not allow the developers to make many modifications.""Every connector that you have in the product needs to be custom-built, so there are not a lot of standard connectors available in the product, because of which there are a lot of hidden consultancy costs.""If you use the appliance version then it won't handle a huge database volume.""The user interface and workflow need improvement, and more connectors would help.""RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle could improve out-of-the-box customization.""There are scalability issues. This product does not scale very well. It is not a good product for load balancing / active–active architecture.""Technical support in Pakistan can be improved."

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"The development process to create this connector is not as easy as I would like.""It has a large footprint which you'd expect to be much, much smaller. Just to run basic services, we have 10 different servers. Also, if it were easier to manage, that'd be useful.""The product has a lot of need for improvement. Our issues are being raised back to the vendor as enhancements.""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 drawback with the CA Identity Manager is they don't have a connector to HR systems like SAP, or PeopleSoft, or Workday. That's a major drawback with the CA Identity Manager. For that we have to do lots of custom quoting to get data from HR systems. And if they could connect it to GRC systems, that's good to have in an identity product.""There are times that it takes too long to generate reports and to run the assessment tools to collect the information.""Provisioning has a dependency on Windows.​""Identity Manager has a lack of entitlement support, unlike other products that I have worked with."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The pricing is too high for SMBs."
  • "Omada continues to be very competitive on pricing, especially on the Omada cloud product."
  • "The initial total cost of ownership to implement Omada Identity is not small. The TCO for the implementation is as high as any other solution. However, the cost of maintaining the solution is at par or lower than competitors, including adding more features or maintaining the system after the initial deployment or installation to make sure that they are available for users to use or extending the functionalities of those activities. Those maintenance costs are lower than other vendors, but the initial cost of getting the system installed is still high."
  • "It is licensed per managed user per year."
  • "There were a lot of administrator, partner, and supplier accounts for people who were no longer working for us but still in the system. So, we reduced the number of users no longer with the company, which saved us some money on licensing."
  • "It's a fair price for the on-premises system. Compared with what we had before, it's much cheaper and we get all the modules in one. We tried to go with the cloud, but it was far too expensive."
  • "From an on-prem point of view, the cost is quite transparent and reasonable. The direct cost is primarily for licenses and maintenance on licenses."
  • "My client deals directly with the Omada Identity team in terms of licensing. I never look at pricing, so I'm not aware of how much the solution costs, but it's worth the money. Often, when you begin to use Omada Identity and it takes a while to set up, it'll be irreversible, and you'd depend on and focus more on the functionality of the solution, rather than its price tag."
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  • "Pricing varies based on user count/number of modules you need."
  • "We are using the cloud platform, but we don't find it compatible to be served as a multi-tenant platform. This is a large drawback. It becomes expensive because it is then an all-dedicated solution. You have to have a separate tenant for each client, which increases the cost. The overall unit pricing can be less expensive than how it is right now."
  • "I rate the product's price a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."
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  • "Compared to other options, CA products are not that expensive."
  • "The price is based on the number of users."
  • "Pricing and licensing models are adequate and reasonable."
  • "The connector is free, and bundled with the product."
  • "I do not recall the approximate prices or licensing models, although I do so that it was priced per user number."
  • "The product has a good price in competition with another product with the same solution."
  • "Symantec keeps increasing the price. I rate its pricing a seven on a scale of ten."
  • "The price is flexible for our existing customers."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:We don't have to go in and do a lot of the work that we did before. It may have saved us somewhere in the range of 10 to… more »
    Top Answer:My client deals directly with the Omada Identity team in terms of licensing. I never look at pricing, so I'm not aware… more »
    Top Answer:There are some technical bits and pieces that we have looked at that could be better. For instance, when you do a… more »
    Top Answer:With the tool in place, you need to hire fewer people to provide access, and you have control over your processes.
    Top Answer:Every connector that you have in the product needs to be custom-built, so there are not a lot of standard connectors… more »
    Top Answer:RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle can be deployed on the cloud or on-premise. We have our own proprietary cloud… more »
    Top Answer:The product’s most valuable feature is flexibility. It can be customized as per the customer’s requirements.
    Top Answer:The product works slowly while accessing cloud-native solutions. They should work on their ability to integrate with… more »
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    Also Known As
    Omada Identity Suite, Omada Identity Cloud
    SecurID
    CA Identity Suite, Symantec IGA, Layer7 Identity Suite, CA Identity Manager (CA IDM), CA Identity Minder, CA IAM, CA Identity Manager (CA IDM), CA Identity Governance
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    Overview

    Omada Identity delivers an end-to-end identity and access management solution with essential identity governance functionality for secure, compliant, and efficient administration of all users' access rights across on-premises or cloud-based systems. The solution provides configurable best practice processes that covers all identity and access related scenarios from providing an access risk overview, management of identities lifecycle, to automated enforcement of policies.

    RSA SecurID provides world-leading two-factor authentication, protecting 25,000 organizations and 55 million users. RSA SecurID extends security to bring your own device (BYOD), cloud, and mobile as well as traditional virtual private network (VPN) and web portals. RSA SecurID solutions comprise three primary components: authenticator, platform, and agents.

    The Symantec Identity Governance and Administration (formerly CA Identity Suite) provides comprehensive identity management and governance capabilities with a simple, intuitive user experience. This user experience can dramatically simplify processes such as user access requests and access certifications, resulting in improved productivity and user satisfaction. In addition, the Symantec Identity Governance and Administration performs risk analysis and certification and enables remediation actions in real-time during the access provisioning steps, thereby improving audit performance and risk posture with preventive policy enforcement.

    While providing these business and governance-centric capabilities for business users, the Symantec Identity Governance and Administration also delivers core enterprise-grade identity management and governance capabilities, including broad provisioning support for on-premise and cloud apps, extensibility and flexibility to integrate with other IT systems and consumer-grade scale. This means organizations are not forced to choose between usability and performance. With the Symantec Identity Governance and Administration, they can have both.

    Sample Customers
    Bayer, ECCO Shoes, Vattenfall, NuStar Energy, Unicredit, Schiphol Group
    NTT Com Asia, Virgin Blue, Bank of Uganda, EMEA Telecommunications Company, LAit (Lazio Innovazione Tecnologica), NyNet, OTP Bank, Red Bull Racing, Rupert House School, Signify, UK Local Authority, Bancolombia, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico (BPPR), TIVIT, Array Services, International Computerware, KPMG LLP, Moffitt Cancer Center
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    Top Industries
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    Government16%
    Retailer13%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Computer Software Company11%
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    Financial Services Firm16%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Government7%
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    Financial Services Firm26%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Financial Services Firm30%
    Healthcare Company18%
    Insurance Company8%
    Government8%
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    Computer Software Company26%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Government10%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise77%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise56%
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    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise59%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise74%
    Buyer's Guide
    RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle vs. Symantec Identity Governance and Administration
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    RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle is ranked 22nd in Identity Management (IM) with 9 reviews while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is ranked 19th in Identity Management (IM) with 65 reviews. RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle is rated 6.8, while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle writes "Lacking customization, poor support, but useful auditing". 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". RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle is most compared with SailPoint IdentityIQ, Saviynt, One Identity Manager, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), 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 RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle vs. Symantec Identity Governance and Administration report.

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