We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID and PingID based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Authentication Systems solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."My two preferred features are conditional access and privileged identity management."
"Let's say we decide that our users need to have MFA, multi-factor authentication. It is very easy to implement that with Azure Active Directory."
"It has been very instrumental towards a lot of services we run, especially on the single sign-on side. For example, we have 160 countries that all run their own IT but we still are able to provide users with a single sign-on experience towards global applications. So, they have a certain set of accounts that they get from their local IT department, then they use exactly the same account and credentials to sign into global services. For the user, it has been quite instrumental in that space. It is about efficiency, but also about users not having to remember multiple accounts and passwords since it is all single sign-on. Therefore, the single sign-on experience for us has been the most instrumental for the end user experience."
"Conditional Access is a helpful feature because it allows us to provide better security for our users."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"It is great for mom-and-pop shops or small businesses that are truly coming into the enterprise ecosystem and that have not come from a legacy environment."
"When logging on to Azure AD it's pretty quick."
"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 solution is stable. We haven't experienced any bugs or glitches."
"It's pretty stable as a product."
"We use the product to run different reports."
"It provides ease of connecting all our devices."
"The only feature we were looking for in PingID was SSO integration with our existing web app."
"This is a user-friendly solution."
"The soundness of the solution is its most valuable feature. For example, if you are in our corporate network, you can log on without any traffic interfering."
"The solution has a smooth and configurable user interface for single sign-on capabilities."
"Whatever business requirements we needed in the past three years, users were created, with the name of the user and they were not connected with the Active Directory. We were trying to in house in three years and with directory, but we were not able to achieve it."
"One thing that they need to improve is the cost."
"The technical support could improve by having a faster response time."
"It would be ideal if the solution moved to a passwordless type of environment. It's the future of authentification. It's also more secure and convenient."
"I think the documentation and configuration are both areas that need improvement."
"It would be good to have more clarity around licensing."
"I hope, in the roadmap, Microsoft eventually offers the same features as Okta. It will take some more time to mature."
"Compared to what we can do on-prem, Azure AD lacks a feature for multiple hierarchical groups. For example, Group A is part of group B. Group B is part of group C. Then, if I put someone into group A, which is part of already B, they get access to any system that group B has access to, and that provisioning is automatically there."
"The management console needs to be improved. PingID should revise it."
"We have encountered instances where it is not easy to do authentication."
"PingID's device management portal should be more easily accessible via a link. They provide no link to the portal like they do for the service. The passwordless functionality could be more comprehensive. You can't filter based on hardware devices. Having that filtering option would be great. Device authentication would be a great feature."
"I think that the connection with like Microsoft Word, especially for Office 365, is a weak point that could be improved."
"PingID should put a little more effort into making a pretty self-explanatory deck about their tech features and the services they offer."
"It has a long way to go until it is a cloud-based solution."
"In the beginning, the initial setup was very complex."
"The timing of the token validity, if it could be extended, would be great. I'm not sure if there is even an option to configure these types of settings."
Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Authentication Systems with 190 reviews while PingID is ranked 7th in Authentication Systems with 14 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while PingID is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Allows users to authenticate from home and has excellent integrations in a simple, stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PingID writes " A robust cloud-based multi-factor solution with a good customer support team". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Yubico YubiKey and Microsoft Entra Verified ID, whereas PingID is most compared with ForgeRock, PingFederate, SailPoint IdentityIQ, RSA SecurID and Symantec Siteminder. See our Microsoft Entra ID vs. PingID report.
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