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Atos DirX Directory vs One Identity Manager comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Atos DirX Directory
Average Rating
6.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Application Infrastructure (19th)
One Identity Manager
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
119
Ranking in other categories
User Provisioning Software (2nd), Identity Management (IM) (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Atos DirX Directory and One Identity Manager aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Atos DirX Directory is designed for Application Infrastructure and holds a mindshare of 0.5%, up 0.2% compared to last year.
One Identity Manager, on the other hand, focuses on Identity Management (IM), holds 6.4% mindshare, up 6.2% since last year.
Application Infrastructure
Identity Management (IM)
 

Featured Reviews

Kleber Fernandes - PeerSpot reviewer
An identity management system with valuable knowledge
We use Atos DirX Directory for cybersecurity with Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solutions Atos DirX Directory helps take care of attacks and manage responses. It also has artificial intelligence to mitigate any attack. The most valuable feature is its knowledge. The price could be…
Dnyandev Garad - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers a user-friendly experience with an intuitive interface and makes customization a breeze
With centralized user management, data is effortlessly pulled from various systems like SOAR and HR, simplifying user creation and data maintenance. This allows for easy user editing, role assignment based on HR attributes or department affiliation, and streamlined account allocation based on review levels, departments, or the entire organizational structure. Our Access Control in One Identity Manager is 99 percent automated saving us nearly 100 percent of our time. One Identity Manager simplifies SAP administration by providing a centralized view of even logically disconnected SAP accounts. It offers a flexible helpdesk approach. We can either leverage its built-in model or create our own UI accessible to specific teams based on their applications. This ensures each team sees only relevant tickets for their area, streamlining access management for disconnected applications. One Identity Manager can connect SAP accounts to employee identities under governance. One Identity Manager simplifies Identity Governance and Administration for SAP, a complex system to manage in this regard. It empowers us to effectively manage SAP profiles, roles, and groups, ensuring their proper assignment to corresponding SAP accounts. The solution delivers SAP-specialized workflows and business logic. One Identity Manager integrates with its Privilege Access Management solution to provide more granular control. This means we can define different account types within One Identity Manager, such as normal, admin, and privileged accounts. By assigning privileged access only to designated accounts, we can restrict access and permissions and enhance overall security control. One Identity Manager offers a user-friendly experience with an intuitive interface. It even provides a webshop for end users, allowing them to easily request new roles or accounts in various systems with a simple two-click process. Having the right resources makes customization a breeze. While understanding customer needs and translating them into technical specifications requires some processing upfront, One Identity's suite of tools simplifies the actual back-end work. From drag-and-drop interfaces for workflows and reports to scripting and C# coding supported by existing SDKs, customization options cater to all users. This dynamic application provisioning solution uses business roles to map our company's organizational structure. In other words, access to applications is determined solely by our assigned role within the company hierarchy. This role-based approach ensures users only receive the permissions they need based on their specific function, preventing unnecessary access. One Identity Manager streamlines our cloud governance by providing a centralized platform to manage user access permissions across all connected cloud applications. This eliminates the need for individual provisioning for each app, ensuring efficient authorization control. We have significantly improved our compliance posture with One Identity Manager. Previously, auditors identified numerous findings during manual audits, requiring extensive time and resources to address. With One Identity Manager, we've automated the onboarding, offboarding, and joiner processes, achieving a 95 percent closure rate on audit points. This centralized solution streamlines the auditor experience, allowing them to efficiently obtain information from the IAM team, saving both the organization and auditors valuable time. We have minimized inconsistencies in how our governance policies are applied across test, development, and production environments. One Identity Manager helps us create a privileged governance stance to close the security gap between privileged users and standard users by managing those accounts separately. This segregation prevents unauthorized access, as standard accounts cannot hold privileged rights and vice versa. This clear separation helps to close the security gap between these user types. One Identity Manager streamlines our procurement and licensing processes, allowing our initially large operations team to focus on more strategic tasks. By automating license management for connected applications like SAP and Azure Active Directory, the solution eliminates the risk of human error – forgotten access removals for unused licenses are a thing of the past. Now, licenses are automatically assigned and reclaimed based on user activity, ensuring efficient resource allocation. This means new hires receive immediate access, and vacated licenses become readily available, freeing the operations team from manual license management headaches. One Identity Manager streamlines application access decisions by automating the provisioning and de-provisioning of user access based on HR data. This eliminates manual intervention and delays for both HR and department personnel. When an employee changes departments, their access permissions are automatically updated in the identity management system, granting them the necessary tools to perform their new duties immediately. It also streamlines the automation of identity and access controls, making it easier to implement a zero-trust security model where every user and device is verified before granting access. While our audit processes were once cumbersome, requiring auditors to chase down reports from individual SAP administrators, everything is now centralized. One Identity Manager stores all application and database information in a single location, streamlining reconciliation efforts.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"DirX Directory is the best feature of the product: a very fast, stable LDAP directory."
"The most valuable feature is its knowledge."
"The solution offers high performance."
"The role and attribute-based access control has been greatly improved."
"For the recertification and segregation of duties, it's easier to know all the information about our employees. If we need to delete some information, we can do it from a central point, then it can be deleted on all our searches. This is very good for GDPR."
"It is flexible with APIs and the customizing of a portal."
"It is very comprehensive. There are a lot of features in the product. The strong points are that you can model your organization in One Identity Manager and create roles."
"I like the customer-facing portal because it is simple to use for end users."
"One Identity's biggest benefit is application integration."
"One of the best features of One Identity Manager is its high level of customization."
"Nobody has to put people in AD groups by hand anymore. It goes automatically and that's very good. It's also very flexible. It's quite easy to customize and we have customized it a lot."
"Even without any customization, if you install it, configure it, it's ready... It's very powerful. Without any customization, it starts working."
 

Cons

"The user interface could be more convenient for people that don't know the tool too intensively."
"The price could be better. It would be better if they developed a better endpoint solution in the next release."
"The Self-Service Portal is old school and it lacks easy accessibility for users."
"Needs more available consultants and implementation partners."
"An overall modernization of the product is required in order to keep up with newer products."
"Default connectors work fine, but certain connectors, such as SCIM to SAP Cloud Identity Services connector, have quite a few bugs."
"One Identity Manager can be made more user-friendly for end users."
"The system role manager, or some of the roles that are inside Identity Manager, are limited to one user. It would be more flexible if these responsibility roles could be attached to many people."
"How One Identity Manager deals with disconnected systems needs improvement."
"The initial setup was complex. It is an extremely complicated thing to replace an entire self-built solution."
"The downside of the product is it is complex and you need an implementation partner to help you develop it. You can't do it on your own."
"One area that could be improved is the speed of performance - it's often a bit slower because of the size of its database."
"In regards to the front end, the portal that is offered to our users needs improvement. There is room for improvement on that side, particularly in user experience."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price could be better."
"The price of One Identity Manager is cheaper than SailPoint."
"It's costlier that some other products, and there is nothing that fits every solution."
"There are old processes that are really great for some people and look like pieces of artwork. However, the maintenance of them is really expensive."
"I believe the pricing is fair."
"One Identity Manager is fairly priced."
"One Identity Manager is fairly priced."
"One Identity is cost-efficient from a licensing perspective. However, one drawback is that it's expensive on the hardware side for the customer to set up. One Identity's professional services team recommends various components. They lose some of the cost advantage because the hardware is expensive and requires maintenance."
"My clients have been using it for a long time now. They have looked at other products as well, so it seems worth the price."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
17%
Government
14%
Energy/Utilities Company
8%
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Atos DirX Directory?
The most valuable feature is its knowledge.
What needs improvement with Atos DirX Directory?
The price could be better. It would be better if they developed a better endpoint solution in the next release.
What do you like most about One Identity Manager?
The One Identity birthright process has helped generate user accounts more accurately and quickly.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for One Identity Manager?
One Identity Manager is positioned as a premium product. It falls between middle and high in terms of cost, approximately a six to seven if ten is expensive.
What needs improvement with One Identity Manager?
The user experience has been a concern in the past, particularly with the web interface, but improvements are expected with the transition to Angular. The support from One Identity is very poor. Th...
 

Also Known As

DirX Directory
Quest One Identity Manager
 

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Sample Customers

National Savings and Investments, Vehicle and Operator Services Agency
Texas A&M, Sky Media, BHF Bank, Swiss Post, Union Investment, Wayne State University. More at OneIdentity.com/casestudies
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