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NetIQ Identity Manager vs Omada Identity comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 6, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.2
NetIQ Identity Manager customer service ratings vary, with mixed technical support experiences and significant concerns about response times and availability.
Sentiment score
7.6
Omada Identity's technical support is praised for responsiveness, but outdated documentation and inconsistent response times pose challenges.
We do not contact their technical support directly because we have a service agreement already in place with them with some dedicated and some non-dedicated resources.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
4.5
NetIQ Identity Manager needs better documentation, modern interface, simplified use, and seamless Active Directory integration, particularly for educational access.
Sentiment score
4.6
Omada Identity needs UI improvements, better scalability, integration, documentation, and cost-effective upgrades, with enhanced API and automation.
The biggest issue, which is the reason why we are transitioning from their product to SailPoint, is the overall user experience.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.1
NetIQ Identity Manager offers good scalability but faces challenges with bulk uploads, licensing costs, and complex scaling adjustments.
Sentiment score
8.1
Omada Identity is praised for its scalability in cloud and hybrid environments, despite minor performance and customization feedback.
 

Setup Cost

Sentiment score
5.5
NetIQ Identity Manager costs vary, with high initial and annual fees; competitive and sector-specific pricing options are available.
No sentiment score available
Omada Identity offers cost-effective on-premises pricing, though cloud options are pricier, with flexible negotiations available for enterprises.
They are lower than some of their competitors.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
NetIQ Identity Manager is generally stable with a rating of 8/10, occasionally encountering bugs and crashes, especially on Windows servers.
Sentiment score
7.6
Omada Identity is stable, with minimal issues, occasional bugs, and high ratings for reliability and performance.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
7.8
NetIQ Identity Manager provides real-time synchronization, automated workflows, and supports over a billion users with prebuilt security configurations.
Sentiment score
8.2
Omada Identity provides governance, customization, integration, and automation for efficient identity lifecycle management with advanced reporting and strong API connectivity.
Technically, the product does everything one would expect from an identity and access management platform.
 

Categories and Ranking

NetIQ Identity Manager
Ranking in User Provisioning Software
9th
Ranking in Identity Management (IM)
17th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Omada Identity
Ranking in User Provisioning Software
3rd
Ranking in Identity Management (IM)
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Identity Management (IM) category, the mindshare of NetIQ Identity Manager is 2.3%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Omada Identity is 4.1%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Identity Management (IM)
 

Featured Reviews

SYAMSUL SALAM - PeerSpot reviewer
The product is affordable and easy to use, but the technical support must be improved
The solution is used to manage SSO and login for internal applications The product enables detailed user management. The product is easy to use. Our users found it easier than Microsoft Identity Manager. The solution must add more configurations. There are different types of user identity in…
Espen Bago - PeerSpot reviewer
Has the ability to give people access, but it should include more analytics capabilities
Omada Identity is quite good at providing a clear roadmap for getting additional features deployed. We've always been able to have good discussions with Omada's product managers about the features we would like to have. It's a good environment for discussion, and I've heard from others that Omada is good at listening to customers and getting features into production within a year or so. Omada partially helped us to deploy IGA. However, the company I was working for needed to take more charge and do things a bit differently. It was not possible for Omada to do that for us. Omada did help, and it was not Omada's fault that it took longer. It's too early to say if the solution's identity analytics has affected the manual overhead involved with our identity management. It should have had a positive effect because it should be easier to request more things automatically. Since that's not in production yet, we couldn't measure the effect, but it looked promising. Our Omada solution is set up to remove an employee's access as soon as that employee leaves our organization. This setup has positively affected our organization's security because we have less overall access. Omada Identity was deployed as a SaaS solution in our organization. I think Omada Identity is flexible enough to be used by both smaller and bigger companies. Based on what I've seen, Omada's out-of-the-box connectors are more than sufficient. I advise users to assess their data quality and make a clear cleanup plan before using the solution because Omada is not well-suited as a cleanup tool. Overall, I rate Omada Identity a seven out of ten.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about NetIQ Identity Manager?
The most valuable feature of NetIQ Identity Manager for identity synchronization is the ability to provide users with all necessary access on day one through automated provisioning, facilitated by ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetIQ Identity Manager?
The pricing depends on whether we buy the solution as a service or a license. The license is expensive. If we buy it as a service for a large number of users, it is the cheapest tool we can get. Th...
What needs improvement with NetIQ Identity Manager?
The tool is used mostly in big systems to understand what is happening. There are not many technicians who know how to use the product. The vendor must provide an easier console for configuring thi...
What do you like most about Omada Identity?
We don't have to go in and do a lot of the work that we did before. It may have saved us somewhere in the range of 10 to 30 percent of the time we spent on provisioning access.
What needs improvement with Omada Identity?
There are some technical bits and pieces that we have looked at that could be better. For instance, when you do a recalculation of an identity, it's hard to understand what was incorrect before you...
What is your primary use case for Omada Identity?
We wanted a solution that could help us make HR the master of identities. We wanted a solution that could take that data and direct it into all our other directories and Active Directory.
 

Also Known As

Novell Identity Manager
Omada Identity Suite, Omada Identity Cloud
 

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Sample Customers

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Bayer, ECCO Shoes, Vattenfall, NuStar Energy, Unicredit, Schiphol Group, BMW Group, Deutsche Leasing
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