We performed a comparison between ForgeRock and VMware Identity Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Auth0, Okta and others in Access Management."I like the intelligent authentication feature."
"The support is good and prompt."
"Easy to navigate, handle and manage the applications."
"We create and define the permissions and configurations for the users."
"I like the way it is handling authentication and authorization."
"Installation and configuration are pretty easy for ForgeRock OpenIDM."
"The most valuable features of ForgeRock are social login and data protection."
"Their access management solution, OpenAM, is most valuable because it meets the needs of a lot of users."
"The most valuable feature is the User Experience Designer, which has been very helpful for our project."
"The most valuable features in VMware Identity Manager for me are the control groups and rules."
"Personally, VMware Identity Manager is useful for comparison purposes so that I can provide better solutions to my company's customers."
"The most valuable feature is that it will use my credentials to access various parts of the infrastructure or other solutions, such as vRealize."
"When we publish the applications, getting the credentials to log in and keep the application up or running is easy."
"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 solution is stable."
"The solution was easy to deploy."
"Lacks simplified documentation within the tool that requires use of a separate portal."
"The product's support services in the French language are not free."
"The solution's documentation is not very good, and they do not give more details."
"I find that it's quite expensive for just an open-source system. Support is quite expensive."
"I think the upgrade process is sometimes a little complicated and there are failures that occur."
"The solution's deployment should be made easier."
"We raised tickets asking for improvements, but sometimes we don't get the proper solution. They are responding, but the ticket is open for weeks and weeks. For some issues, we don't get a satisfactory solution or the solution doesn't work."
"As with any complex software platform, there is a learning curve to using ForgeRock, and it may require specialized expertise to implement and manage effectively."
"The mobile SSO doesn't work as well on Android."
"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."
"I would like better integration for deploying programs with binary files."
"The license could be better."
"I would like to have better support for multi-cloud sessions."
"The database gets corrupted when used in the cluster. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't."
"There are a lot of difficulties whenever people have a lot of configurations in it, basically related to security certificate configurations and integration with VMware Horizon."
"The security features could always use improvement, although there has already been a huge improvement from years ago."
ForgeRock is ranked 4th in Access Management with 27 reviews while VMware Identity Manager is ranked 17th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews. ForgeRock is rated 8.0, while VMware Identity Manager is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of ForgeRock writes "Governance and access management solution used for multi-factor authentication that is outdated with an unresponsive UI". 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". ForgeRock is most compared with SailPoint IdentityIQ, PingID, Microsoft Entra ID, Auth0 and Symantec Siteminder, whereas VMware Identity Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and Fortinet FortiToken.
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