We performed a comparison between Azure Active Directory and SailPoint IdentityIQ based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Active Directory is the clear winner in this comparison. It is a feature-rich and powerful solution with an impressive ROI. It also received higher marks in the Deployment and Pricing categories.
"As an administrator, we benefit from a lot of functionality that is available out of the box, but it is also configurable to meet our specific needs."
"What I like most is that we can always find a solution, and we can also find the cause when something goes wrong. I like that the most because everything is in one way or another traceable. That is what I like most. I like its reliability."
"Omada's best feature is creating accounts, automatically assigning permissions, and distributing resources based on assignment policies."
"Surveying is a valuable feature because it allows us to import data and see who has access to what data, for example."
"The administrative features and SoD are valuable."
"I'm not using Omada, but the interface is easy to use and gives you a solid overview of your identities."
"For me, the best feature of Omada Identity is its web interface because it's really easy for users to understand."
"The customer success and support teams have been crucial."
"Overall, I think the support and the pictorial format of this web portal are very good."
"A couple of features are valuable, but the one that comes across the most to me is multi-factor authentication."
"The valuable features I use daily are enterprise application, conditional access, identity governance, password monitoring, and a password reset."
"It can be used to grant access at a granular level. It provides secure access and many ways to offer security to your user resources. It provides a good level of security for any access on Azure. It gives you options like multi-factor authentication where apart from your password, you can use other factors for authentication, such as a code is sent to your phone or the authenticator app that you can use login."
"The most valuable feature is Conditional Access, and we use it extensively."
"It also has features that help improve security posture. The most important of these features include multifactor authentication, which is very useful for connecting to the organization, especially from outside the boundaries of the organization. That is very helpful when it comes to user security."
"The portal version of the Azure active directory is pretty robust."
"It's a very scalable solution."
"Provides good authorization and authentication system functionality."
"Security and administration for any new/current access."
"Good life cycle management, segregation of duties, and analytics features."
"It provides a lot of out-of-the-box functionalities. You don't have to do too much custom development like other solutions such as Microsoft or NetIQ. It also has a lot of out-of-the-box connectors for different sources, directories, databases, etc. Its cloud version is working very well, and its pricing is okay. Its value for money is fine for most of the customers. It is also very flexible. They have frequent new releases and patches for fixing errors and things like that."
"The most selling modules for SailPoint are the compliance manager and the life cycle manager."
"The initial setup isn't so difficult."
"One of the most valuable aspects of SailPoint is its open integration interface."
"It offers a single source of truth. Everything can be handled from one tier."
"When you do a recalculation of an identity, it's hard to understand what was incorrect before you started the recalculation, and which values are actually updated... all you see are all the new fields that are provisioned, instead of seeing only the fields that are changed."
"I would like to see them expand the functionality of the tool to continue to be competitive with the monsters out there. For example, they could add functionality on the authentication side, functionality that Octa and SailPoint have. But they should do that while maintaining the same simplicity that makes Omada a product of choice today."
"I would like more training. As someone who is new to this world, I don't feel that the courses Omada provides are good enough. They should also improve the documentation. It is difficult to learn how to use the solution by yourself"
"What I would most like to see added to the product is role management, especially enterprise or business role management, and the processes around that."
"The user interface should have a more flexible design, where you can change it to your requirement."
"If you find an error and you need it fixed, you have to upgrade. It's not like they say, "Okay, we'll fix this problem for you." You have to upgrade. The last time we upgraded, because there was an error in a previous version, we had to pay 150,000 Danish Krone (about $24,000 at the time of this review) to upgrade our systems... That means that we have to pay to get errors fixed that Omada has made in programming the system. I hope they change this way of looking at things."
"I am not working with the product, but they have this BI tool for role-based mining, and I think that should be included in the core product rather than an add-on."
"Omada Identity has a steep learning curve."
"I had some issues with the Azure Active Directory on Windows XP. However, it worked well on Windows 7."
"The scalability of the solution is good."
"Sometimes, what one customer may like, another may not like it. We have had customers asking, "Why is Microsoft forcing us to do this?" For example, when you use Exchange Server on-premise, then you can customize it for your company and these customizations are unlimited. However, if you use Exchange Online or with Microsoft 365, then your ability to make modifications is limited. So, only the cloud versus is limited."
"They can improve how people manage their accounts. They can simplify and provide more information about adding or updating a phone number or email id in the MSA account. A lot of time users do get confused about where to go. For example, if I've changed my mobile number, where do I go and change my mobile number in the MSA account? A lot of time, employees think if they change the phone number in the HR database, it'll automatically get changed on the MSA account, which is not the case. Microsoft can simplify that and add these questions in the FAQ documents as well."
"In terms of stability, sometimes the more applications you integrate, the more it becomes a little bit unstable."
"The Azure AD Application Proxy, which helps you publish applications in a secure way, has room for improvement. We are moving from another solution into the Application Proxy and it's quite detailed. Depending on the role you're signing in as, you can end up at different websites, which wasn't an issue with our old solution."
"I would like it if Intune could manage MacOS or iOS directly. Right now, we have to use a third-party solution."
"The synchronization between my AD and Azure AD needs improvement."
"Certifications could include additional access levels or practices."
"If you compare Saviynt and Okta Workforce Identity versus SailPoint IdentityIQ, SailPoint IdentityIQ needs to improve its UI."
"It is not readily available and cannot be downloaded from the net."
"The solution, in general, is quite expensive."
"In the past, we had a lot of problems with SailPoint IdentityIQ, particularly in providing access and provisioning. There were some gaps in the operation of the solution because they were manual rather than automated, and the users and administrators were given access directly via Active Directory, and it wasn't appropriate for us at the time to use. In terms of integration, we could provide a more automated solution after a minimum number of years, but not in the SailPoint IdentityIQ platform, but there were problems in the registration, for example, with putting information inside ADP, but in general, we were able to solve those problems, and after implementing SailPoint IdentityIQ we had increased evaluations."
"The cost of this solution is high. The technical assistance center could be improved. They're very good, but considering the intricacies of the solution, they can further improve."
"SailPoint IdentityIQ needs to improve its customization. It should also incorporate some standardized tools for implementation."
"What it doesn't do is provide notice in the event of a vulnerability or offense from the security."
Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Identity Management (IM) with 190 reviews while SailPoint IdentityIQ is ranked 2nd in Identity Management (IM) with 61 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while SailPoint IdentityIQ 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 SailPoint IdentityIQ writes "Flexible, easy to customize, and not too difficult to set up". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco Duo and Auth0, whereas SailPoint IdentityIQ is most compared with Saviynt, One Identity Manager, ForgeRock, Microsoft Identity Manager and Oracle Identity Governance. See our Microsoft Entra ID vs. SailPoint IdentityIQ report.
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