Fortra's Powertech Identity & Access Manager vs ObserveIT comparison

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We performed a comparison between Fortra's Powertech Identity & Access Manager and ObserveIT based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"HelpSystems Powertech's feature that I have found most valuable is its flexibility. It is able to be extended. A lot of the products these days, especially the ones on the cloud, are limited and can't handle all the use cases. Often there is not even a way to customize the application to meet uncommon use cases and HelpSystems provides an infrastructure that lends itself to the ability to be customized."

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"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."

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"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the support of the product. It's hard to get support for it. I think this is emblematic of the fact that they don't have a lot of employees who have long-term experience with it."

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"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."

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Buyer's Guide
Privileged Access Management (PAM)
March 2024
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Also Known As
HelpSystems Powertech Identity & Access Manager, Powertech Identity & Access Manager, BoKS, BoKS ServerControl, Fox Technologies ApplicationControl, ApplicationControl
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Overview

Powertech Identity & Access Manager (BoKS) transforms your multi-vendor Linux and UNIX server environment into one centrally managed security domain. It simplifies your organization’s ability to enforce security policies, and control access to critical systems and information. With full control over accounts, access and privilege, IT and security teams can proactively prevent internal and external attacks on critical systems before they start.

The biggest security problem today is people. Insiders are responsible for 90% of security incidents, per the 2015 Verizon DBIR Report. Organizations need to manage security risk from vendors, privileged users and high-risk users. ObserveIT captures video playback of policy violations and comprehensive metadata related to what people are doing, with this information, you can easily search and see what happened without translating logs or investigating across multiple systems.

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Integris Health
Coca Cola, Allianz, Premiere League, Xerox, AIG, Cigna, Starbucks, Revlon, Toshiba, Nissan and more.
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Financial Services Firm24%
Computer Software Company13%
Manufacturing Company9%
Government8%
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Small Business19%
Midsize Enterprise17%
Large Enterprise64%
Buyer's Guide
Privileged Access Management (PAM)
March 2024
Find out what your peers are saying about CyberArk, Delinea, BeyondTrust and others in Privileged Access Management (PAM). Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Fortra's Powertech Identity & Access Manager is ranked 37th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) while ObserveIT is ranked 2nd in User Activity Monitoring. Fortra's Powertech Identity & Access Manager is rated 5.0, while ObserveIT is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortra's Powertech Identity & Access Manager writes "Inexperienced support for old product, but good flexibility for use case customization". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ObserveIT writes "Easy to implement and configure. Ticketing and incident workflow can be improved. ". Fortra's Powertech Identity & Access Manager is most compared with , whereas ObserveIT is most compared with Teramind, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Ekran System, Dtex Systems and One Identity Safeguard.

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