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, Ping Identity and others in Access Management."The solution allows users to authenticate from home, and the Office 360 integration is advantageous."
"Azure Active Directory provides us with identity-based authentication, which secures access at the user level and also integrates with conditional access policies and multi-factor authentication helping to increase the identity security for that person. So, the hacking and leaking of passwords is a secondary problem because you will not authenticate a person with one factor. There is a second factor of authentication available to increase the security premise for your company."
"I like the way it communicates to the cloud."
"With Azure Active Directory we were able to manage with different options the access for different users."
"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."
"I like Azure AD's conditional access policies. Microsoft Entra provides a single pane of glass for managing user access, improving the overall user experience."
"Azure Active Directory provides access to resources in a very secure manner. We can detect which user is logging in to access resources on the cloud. It gives us a comprehensive audit trace in terms of from where a user signed in and whether a sign-in is a risky sign-in or a normal sign-in. So, there is a lot of security around the access to resources, which helps us in realizing that a particular sign-in is not a normal sign-in. If a sign-in is not normal, Azure Active Directory automatically blocks it for us and sends us an email, and unless we allow that user, he or she won't be able to log in. So, the User Identity Protection feature is the most liked feature for me in Azure Active Directory."
"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."
"It is an SAP product, so it integrates very well with other SAP products."
"When you start to deal with legacy applications, provisioning is not as intuitive."
"I faced difficulties from Micorosft's end and during the transition from Microsoft Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID. Sometimes, some of Microsoft's documentation could be a little outdated."
"Our users sometimes experience issues from having multiple Microsoft accounts, which can cause some confusion and hassle."
"Azure AD provides two types of features. One is Azure AD Excel and is already B2C. Out of both versions, Azure B2C requires some improvement, in terms of user management and role management, et cetera."
"At the free or basic level of service, Azure should provide identity protection features including single sign-on and multifactor authentication."
"The management interface has some areas that need improvement."
"The product needs to be more user-friendly."
"Documentation I think is always the worst part with what Azure's doing right now across the board."
"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 "Saves us time and money and features Conditional Access policies, SSPR, and MFA". 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, Ping Identity Platform and Okta Workforce Identity, whereas SAP Access Control is most compared with .
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