We performed a comparison between Symantec Identity Governance and Administration and VMware Identity Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, SailPoint, One Identity and others in Identity Management (IM)."For me, the best feature of Omada Identity is its web interface because it's really easy for users to understand."
"Omada's user interface is elegant and easy to work with. I like Omada's ability to automatically generate accounts for new hires and allow them access to all required systems by established policies. Around 80 percent of workers can start working immediately on their first day without requesting further access."
"Omada offers a technical solution that addresses both our needs."
"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."
"Two valuable features of Omada Identity are the ability to discover accounts and link them to identities, and the automatic disabling of inactive accounts or identities."
"The customer success and support teams have been crucial."
"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."
"User-friendly solution."
"It has improved our user management. It is definitely streamlined."
"Provisioning engine (on the back-end, separate from front-end components, that's part of layered architecture)."
"It's a very useful tool that has improved our client's security, from day one."
"What I found most valuable in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is its simple GUI. It's also easy to deploy compared to other products. With other products, you have to install the Windows version inside the Windows machine on all units, but with Symantec Identity Governance and Administration, it can work offline, so the solution is a little bit easier than other systems."
"Self-registration and self-service password management are valuable features. The role modeling feature is also very useful. It allows you to model your enterprise role."
"Out-of-the-box the product has a lot of opportunity for configuration and sophisticated identity management capability."
"Using the implementation guide, I was able to implement the solution with ease."
"The product’s most valuable feature is flexibility. It can be customized as per the customer’s requirements."
"Personally, VMware Identity Manager is useful for comparison purposes so that I can provide better solutions to my company's customers."
"One of the features that I enjoyed most was the integration with Azure AD because I could use VMware Identity Manager to standardize the User Principal Name coming from Active Directory. You have Azure AD Connect to do that. In between, if you have vIDM handling it, you can easily get the synchronization of users into your VM and standardize the User Principal Name. If you require quality assurance for handling it, you can actually count on the vIDM to do so. That was one of the main things I enjoyed about the product."
"The most valuable feature is single sign-on."
"It helps the end users to work on the road without needing to set up all kinds of VPN connections"
"Zero Trust implementation is a great feature."
"The most valuable feature is that it will use my credentials to access various parts of the infrastructure or other solutions, such as vRealize."
"The most valuable features in VMware Identity Manager for me are the control groups and rules."
"When we publish the applications, getting the credentials to log in and keep the application up or running is easy."
"If you're running Omada on a cloud service, you may have some issues deploying the newest release. Sometimes, the latest release doesn't adapt to the processes we have already installed. Identity Access Management is a critical system for our organization, and we need to ensure that everyone has the same access as they did before the release."
"The web GUI can be improved."
"There is room for improvement in Omada's integration capabilities, particularly in streamlining complex integrations and enhancing programming logic for better rule management."
"When making a process, you should be able to use some coding to do some advanced calculations. The calculations you can currently do are too basic. I would also like some additional script features."
"Omada's performance could be better because we had some latency issues. Still, it's difficult to say how much of that is due to Omada versus the resources used by our other vendors in our on-prem environment. Considering the resources we have invested into making it run well, it's slightly slower than we would expect."
"The security permission inside Omada needs improvement. It's tricky to set up."
"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."
"Functionality and usability could be improved."
"Symantec is only on-premises, not on the cloud."
"The solution is not the best or the fastest available."
"In the next release, there should be provisioning of your certifications."
"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."
"They provide a framework to develop your own connectors. A connector is a piece of software that integrates with the solutions that are not a part of the support matrix. Currently, it is difficult to create these connectors in this solution. Other solutions, such as NetIQ Identity, provide a better way to create your own connector. Currently, there is no cloud version. It should have a cloud version."
"The product's technical support could be better."
"Reporting could be improved."
"Although the capabilities are there, the user interface needs to be redesigned and the opportunities for integration should be improved."
"The mobile SSO doesn't work as well on Android."
"I would like to have better support for multi-cloud sessions."
"We have a lot of problems when it comes to integrating with Active Directory."
"The security features could always use improvement, although there has already been a huge improvement from years ago."
"it's very dependent on an active directory"
"vIDM could be improved with the multi-tenant capabilities that VMware tends to offer—features like customization branding and the integration of the app catalog based on the branding. Since the integration has been at top-level OGs, you were not able to then do rebranding if you were required to use specific user groups to highlight specific applications. At the time, I was personally opening feature requests for these things. I haven't worked with the latest release, so I don't know if these features were already deployed or not."
"Many of the features that exist in Active Directory do not exist in Identity Manager, which means that people depend on Active Directory."
"I would like better integration for deploying programs with binary files."
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Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is ranked 19th in Identity Management (IM) with 65 reviews while VMware Identity Manager is ranked 15th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews. Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is rated 7.6, while VMware Identity Manager is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Symantec Identity Governance and Administration writes "Works well on-premises and has partial capabilities but lacks many feaures". 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 Identity Governance and Administration is most compared with SailPoint IdentityIQ, AlertEnterprise Enterprise Guardian, Microsoft Identity Manager, SAP Identity Management and BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management, 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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