We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID and SAP Access Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Auth0, Okta and others in Access Management."Entra ID can be deployed using a hybrid model for organizations with a significant on-premises presence, or in a fully cloud-based setup for those that do not."
"It's something we have to deal with every day. It is present. If you're in a domain environment, you'll need it to log in. If you work in a Microsoft-centric environment, you can't avoid it."
"The solution offers business to business and client to business support."
"Very stable and scalable IAM service with good SSO and authentication features."
"The most valuable feature is Conditional Access, and we use it extensively."
"The solution is free to use and you can use it for every service."
"The most beneficial feature would be the effectiveness of having a hybrid set-up."
"The best thing about Microsoft Entra ID is the ease of setup."
"It is an SAP product, so it integrates very well with other SAP products."
"The SSO MyApps interface is very basic and needs better customization capabilities."
"My understanding is, in the future, they will be able to bring everything into one single platform and they are not there yet."
"Microsoft is working with Microsoft Identity Manager for Active Directory on-premise. It will be very important to have these identity management solutions directly in Azure Active Directory. It's very important to have some kind of Azure identity manager as a technology for identity and access management for working both in the cloud and inside the Azure suite."
"Four years ago, we had an issue with Azure AD. We wanted to reverse sync from Azure AD to on-prem Active Directory, but we couldn't achieve this. Azure AD could connect only in one way, for example, from your site to Azure. If you needed to do the reverse and connect from Azure to on-prem, there was no way to achieve it. We asked Microsoft, and they told us that they don't support it."
"Certain aspects of the user interface can be rather clunky and slow. It can sometimes be circular in terms of clicking a link for a risky user sign-in and seeing what the risky login attempts were. It takes you in a circle back to where you started, so drilling down into details, especially if you are not in it every day and it is one of many tools that you use, can be difficult. It can be difficult to track down the source of an issue."
"There are issues using it with ADFS."
"Azure AD could be more robust and adopt a saturated model, where they can offer unlimited support for a multi-cloud environment."
"The licensing and support are expensive and have room for improvement."
"It would be better if we could also manage other systems with it. Currently, you have to purchase plugins for it to work with other non-SAP systems. It would be good if there is an easy way to integrate SAP Access Control with other non-SAP systems."
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Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Access Management with 190 reviews while SAP Access Control is ranked 23rd in Access Management. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while SAP Access Control is rated 7.0. 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 SAP Access Control writes "Automates our user provisioning process and integrates very well with other SAP products but needs better integration with non-SAP products". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Yubico YubiKey and Cisco Duo, whereas SAP Access Control is most compared with .
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