We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID 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."The scalability of the product is decent."
"We're using the whole suite: device management, user credentials, everything that's possible."
"Conditional Access, Geofencing, and Azure Multi-Factor Authentication are the major security features to secure resources."
"All of the features are amazing, such as identity governance and privileged identity management."
"It enhanced our end user experience quite a bit. Instead of the days of having to contact the service desk with challenges for choosing their password, users can go in and do it themselves locally, regardless of where they are in the world. This has certainly made it a better experience accessing their applications. Previously, a lot of times, they had to remember multiple usernames and passwords for different systems. This solution brings it all together, using a single sign-on experience."
"As an end-user, the access to shared resources that I get from using this product is very helpful."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the Conditional Access policies, SSPR, and MFA. Another good functionality is registering enterprise applications to provide access to external parties. These four features are precious and are the most used across different use cases for various clients and projects."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is multifactor authentication."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"PingFederate gives you granular control over the settings. There are many options for fine-tuning policies."
"Microsoft Entra ID should improve workload identities. It should set conditional access."
"There are issues using it with ADFS."
"Azure AD needs to be more in sync. The synchronization can be time-consuming."
"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."
"On-premise capabilities for information and identity management need improvement."
"Lacks integration between applications and phones."
"The solution can improve the educational portion because it is an administration cost."
"I would like to see improvements made when it comes to viewing audit logs, sign-in logs, and resource tags."
"It requires some expertise to set up and manage."
"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."
"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."
Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 190 reviews while PingFederate is ranked 10th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 4 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while PingFederate is rated 8.2. 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 PingFederate writes " A highly stable tool offering extremely helpful technical support to its users". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco Duo and Saviynt, whereas PingFederate is most compared with Symantec Siteminder, PingID, Microsoft Active Directory, CyberArk Identity and Red Hat Single Sign On. See our Microsoft Entra ID vs. PingFederate report.
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