"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."
"It reduces the viral attacks on my website. It also allows certain users access to see what happens daily."
"Transparent login for users of privileged IDs (Linux, Windows). This prevents sharing of the password because it is never seen."
"It gives you list of servers, so you can see which users have access to which servers. This is really useful, so we can make sure nobody is getting extra access than what is needed."
"It is great for identity governance."
"One of the key things for us about the product is around its simplicity. Being able to put in the technology that allows the business to remove complexity and also allow the security improvements."
"The product is very scalable in terms of concurrent sessions that it can handle at a time, number of device it can support, accounts that it can manage, or number of nodes that you can deploy in a cluster."
"You can do A2A integration. You can have your own script, which can then run outside of PA to retrieve the password and perform other tasks."
"We have received good support from the tech support team."
"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."
"They should include some assignments in the test environment to explore the product's features."
"The support for other remote assistance tools would be excellent. Free included tools in Windows (Remote Assist) and Microsoft SCCM Configuration Manager (ConMgr Remote Control) allow companies to reduce the amount of RDP connections and expand the usage of the tools are frequently used by companies to provide technical support for remote assistance."
"They need to have zero tier and active-active setup with zero minimum downtime, which they are working on it. "
"We have to do a lot of manual work to automate features."
"We experience stability issues after every patch upgrade. This is a place where CA needs to improve drastically."
"I would like this solution to be simpler. It should have a one-click access that works together with AWS."
"Bring more technology into the portfolio and being able to collapse those products into a much more integrated way."
"I wish it could create local accounts on desktops."
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ObserveIT is ranked 2nd in User Activity Monitoring while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is ranked 18th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 50 reviews. ObserveIT is rated 8.4, while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of ObserveIT writes "Easy to implement and configure. Ticketing and incident workflow can be improved. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Privileged Access Manager writes "Allows IT and consultants to access the infrastructure environment but needs more security and better support". ObserveIT is most compared with Teramind, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Ekran System, Dtex Systems and One Identity Safeguard, whereas Symantec Privileged Access Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management, ARCON Privileged Access Management and Delinea Secret Server.
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