We performed a comparison between IBM Cloud Identity Service and Microsoft Entra ID based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Okta, Google and others in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)."One of the most valuable features of IBM Cloud Identity Service is that it delivers integrations with the commercial SaaS software that's available."
"It is stable. We can automate many of our daily operations with it, and we don't have to manage many things manually."
"It is multiple identity and access management, so all of the applications are valuable. It's also part of the automated process."
"All of the features are amazing, such as identity governance and privileged identity management."
"Privileged Identity Management and Privileged Identity Management make controlling access considerably easier and ensure that authorized access is achieved."
"It's a very intuitive platform. It's easy to create groups and add people."
"Coming from a traditional on-premises Active Directory infrastructure, it is purely a SaaS platform. It is global. It is evergreen. It is always evolving. It is core to the Microsoft Ecosystem."
"The most valuable feature is the authentication platform."
"Single sign-on is the reason we use AD."
"Being able to use Azure AD means that you can use some of the Azure AD security features like Advanced Password Protection. As well as querying your normal password requirements like lengths and complexity, Azure AD has a feature in which you can put specific words. It can be words to do with your company, words to do with your company location, or words that a lot of your employees would otherwise use. You can disallow them. It's very good at making more obvious passwords, ones they're not allowed to use anymore. That's a good feature."
"The most valuable feature of Azure AD is its ability to connect with services outside of Microsoft, although documentation is necessary to properly implement these connections."
"IBM Cloud Identity Service is going in the right direction with the product. They need to keep building out the integrations and having the library is very critical."
"The initial setup is complex, it's not straightforward. It takes months because it's not straightforward."
"Everything can be more stable and secure. There could also be more account features. I would like to be able to do more things through it to manage users' accounts."
"The documentation could be better."
"To look at more documentation, engineering, or an open standard would be nice."
"I hope, in the roadmap, Microsoft eventually offers the same features as Okta. It will take some more time to mature."
"It doesn't function the same way as an Active Directory inside of an infrastructure, that is, a physical infrastructure. In the cloud, it is all flat. That's one of the disadvantages."
"Better deployment management and visibility functionality would be helpful."
"Many people believe that the Azure Active Directory is overly complicated and antiquated."
"The licensing and support are expensive and have room for improvement."
"Compatibility features for legacy system integration with new features will be challenging at times."
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IBM Cloud Identity Service is ranked 22nd in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) while Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 190 reviews. IBM Cloud Identity Service is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Cloud Identity Service writes "Excellent support, beneficial integration, and low maintenance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Allows users to authenticate from home and has excellent integrations in a simple, stable solution". IBM Cloud Identity Service is most compared with , whereas Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Yubico YubiKey and Cisco Duo.
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