We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID and VMware Identity Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The tool's most valuable features are security and integration with other tenants."
"The solution has a variety of tools. Two of the most valuable features are the ability to create users and to replicate the user account from on-premise to the cloud."
"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."
"It offers good Microsoft integration capabilities."
"The best thing about Microsoft Entra ID is the ease of setup."
"We have the ability to define the email user in the designated field."
"I like Entra's ability to integrate the Active Directory with third-party solutions. It's straightforward. I like the ability to define third-party systems and make the AD the primary identity provider."
"Microsoft Entra ID Protection and Microsoft Sentinel are both excellent monitoring features for Microsoft Entra ID."
"The most valuable feature is the User Experience Designer, which has been very helpful for our project."
"Personally, VMware Identity Manager is useful for comparison purposes so that I can provide better solutions to my company's customers."
"The most valuable feature is single sign-on."
"Its value is when you use it with a Workspace ONE UEM solution as it is part of the ecosystem for VMware Workspace ONE."
"When we publish the applications, getting the credentials to log in and keep the application up or running is easy."
"One of the features that I enjoyed most was the integration with Azure AD because I could use VMware Identity Manager to standardize the User Principal Name coming from Active Directory. You have Azure AD Connect to do that. In between, if you have vIDM handling it, you can easily get the synchronization of users into your VM and standardize the User Principal Name. If you require quality assurance for handling it, you can actually count on the vIDM to do so. That was one of the main things I enjoyed about the product."
"The most valuable features in VMware Identity Manager for me are the control groups and rules."
"Zero Trust implementation is a great feature."
"Customers should be informed that public review features are not intended for production use."
"The price has room for improvement."
"I think the solution can improve by making the consumption of that data easier for our customers."
"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."
"Technical support could be faster."
"The downside of using a single password to access the entire system is that if those credentials are compromised, the hacker will have full access."
"From an admin perspective, I would like to see improvement in the Microsoft Graph API."
"The solution could be improved when it comes to monitoring and logging as these are the most critical areas in case something was to go wrong."
"We have a lot of problems when it comes to integrating with Active Directory."
"The mobile SSO doesn't work as well on Android."
"The license could be better."
"vIDM could be improved with the multi-tenant capabilities that VMware tends to offer—features like customization branding and the integration of the app catalog based on the branding. Since the integration has been at top-level OGs, you were not able to then do rebranding if you were required to use specific user groups to highlight specific applications. At the time, I was personally opening feature requests for these things. I haven't worked with the latest release, so I don't know if these features were already deployed or not."
"it's very dependent on an active directory"
"The security features could always use improvement, although there has already been a huge improvement from years ago."
"Many of the features that exist in Active Directory do not exist in Identity Manager, which means that people depend on Active Directory."
"There are a lot of difficulties whenever people have a lot of configurations in it, basically related to security certificate configurations and integration with VMware Horizon."
Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 190 reviews while VMware Identity Manager is ranked 19th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while VMware Identity Manager is rated 7.6. 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 VMware Identity Manager writes "A tool that needs to improve scalability but is useful to manage user". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Ping Identity Platform and Okta Workforce Identity, whereas VMware Identity Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Okta Workforce Identity and SailPoint Identity Security Cloud. See our Microsoft Entra ID vs. VMware Identity Manager report.
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