We performed a comparison between Microsoft Active Directory and PingFederate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Audit, authentication and authorization are the best features."
"The solution’s management capability is very good. The tool is also very scalable. You can add any number of users that you want to operate. Moreover, you can easily organize the solution."
"We can also have separate domain controllers in different Active Directory sites based on their location."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Active Directory is the group policies."
"The scalability of the solution is high...The initial setup of the solution is easy, and I would rate it an eight or nine out of ten on a scale of one to ten, where one being difficult and ten being easy."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Active Directory are the management of user and group policies."
"The most valuable features are it is easy to use, manage, create a repository, and create the OM."
"The user-friendliness of Microsoft Active Directory is a valuable feature."
"PingFederate gives you granular control over the settings. There are many options for fine-tuning policies."
"PingFederate is very flexible. We can do many customizations, and it also provides an SDK to tailor it to our specific requirements. There are also numerous plugins available. I've worked with tools like ForgeRock and Okta, but I find PingFederate to be the most customizable."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is multifactor authentication."
"The security features could be improved."
"I did not have a good experience with the product's tech support. First-level support takes a lot of time since they ask many questions."
"UI is not very user-friendly."
"It could be more scalable. We still need another software solution to monitor the network in addition to Active Directory and OpManager, our domain controller. We use SolarWinds."
"I would like to see more integration with cloud-based applications. This would make it easier to manage users and devices across multiple platforms."
"There could be enough material to learn about the product."
"Active Directory's user experience is a little dated. Group policy management should be more customizable."
"Microsoft Active Directory fails to provide MFA. MFA, which is also known as multi-factor authentication on top of the password and username, is what I would like to see in the product's future releases."
"It requires some expertise to set up and manage."
"Notifications and monitoring are two areas with shortcomings in the solution that need improvement."
"Currently, the main integration is SAML-based, but other integration methodologies need to be supported."
"PingFederate's UI could be streamlined. They have recently made several improvements, but it's still too complex. It's a common complaint. The configuration should be simplified because the learning curve is too steep."
Microsoft Active Directory is ranked 6th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 36 reviews while PingFederate is ranked 10th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 4 reviews. Microsoft Active Directory is rated 8.6, while PingFederate is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Active Directory writes "A solution that easily merges with cloud-based ADs and provides superior data security". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PingFederate writes " A highly stable tool offering extremely helpful technical support to its users". Microsoft Active Directory is most compared with Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Microsoft Entra ID, ManageEngine ADManager Plus and Auth0, whereas PingFederate is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Symantec Siteminder, PingID, CyberArk Identity and Red Hat Single Sign On. See our Microsoft Active Directory vs. PingFederate report.
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