Saviynt vs Symantec Identity Governance and Administration comparison

Saviynt and Broadcom are both solutions in the Identity Management (IM) category. Saviynt is ranked #5 with an average rating of 7.3, while Broadcom is ranked #28 with an average rating of 6.0. Saviynt holds a 10.1% mindshare in IAM, compared to Broadcom’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 78% of Saviynt users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 81% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 6, 2024

Symantec Identity Governance and Administration and Saviynt compete in the identity management and governance category. Saviynt is generally seen as the preferred option due to its deeper integration capabilities and comprehensive features.

Features: Symantec provides comprehensive identity lifecycle management with automated account provisioning and user authentication, improving security and reducing costs. It supports seamless integration through connectors and built-in modules, and features Policy Xpress for identity policy scripting. Saviynt emphasizes ease of use with intuitive workflows, access certifications, and broad integration capabilities, offering flexibility for complex environments.

Room for Improvement: Symantec requires improvements in user education and usability as it is complex and demands expertise. Security features and intuitive role management are also areas needing enhancement. Saviynt lacks long-term maturity compared to some competitors and could benefit from greater customization, support, and training to leverage its features fully.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Symantec is primarily an on-premises solution, which limits scalability compared to Saviynt's flexible deployment options, including public, private, and hybrid clouds. Saviynt users experience slow support responses, whereas Symantec provides decent support but lacks proactive engagement for resolving complex issues.

Pricing and ROI: Symantec's pricing is competitive and considered mid-range, offering a reasonable ROI through automated user management and enhanced compliance. Saviynt, though more costly than some rivals like SailPoint, justifies its pricing with robust features. It uses a pay-as-you-go licensing model, emphasizing long-term data security and compliance as key ROI factors.

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Omada Identity

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Identity Management (IM) category, the mindshare of Omada Identity is 3.9%, down from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Saviynt is 10.1%, up from 9.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is 1.8%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Identity Management (IM)

Featured Reviews

Pernilla Hulth

IAM Project Manager (Independent) at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The interface is easy to use and gives you a solid overview

The cloud-based deployment was straightforward, but the on-prem deployment was in a highly complex ecosystem. Omada has matured since then. I wouldn't say that it isn't straightforward, but it depends on the customer. A standard deployment is relatively easy, but it can be more painful if you need a lot of customization. We deployed the cloud solution in around four months, nearly meeting the 12-week benchmark. The on-prem deployment took three years. It was a highly complex ecosystem that was dependent on other systems. Depending on the size of your environment, you need a product owner and some specialists for maintenance. My last customer was a university with a complex environment. They had around 12 people involved in maintenance at that organization. Typically, it's between 2-5 people.

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Wipro Limited

Thermal Technical Lead at MindTree

Offers a good alerting system and integrates with SIEM solutions but main difficulty was the integration process

The risk management capabilities have GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance). Saviynt has an alerting system and integrates with SIEM solutions. Those things are very helpful in terms of managing risk. It is easy to integrate it with third-party solutions. There were some troubleshooting issues, but we were able to resolve them successfully. It's not easy, but we were able to do it. The main difficulty was the integration process itself. But we were able to kind of work through it and fix it. We tried integrating with our HR system and other IBM solutions, like Microsoft Identity Management.

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Efrén Yanez

Security Manager & CM Specialist & Mainframe Specialist en eSoft at eSoft 2006

It has increased our automation and maintenance of SLA security functions, although I would like to see the human resource onboarding/offboarding processes improved.

* The xPress technologies (connector xPress/Policy xPress/Config xPress) * Integration with API Management and other CA solutions * Facility to publish the web services of any task of Identity Manager * Ease of integration to leverage authentication processes managed by Identity Manager and called by external applications * You do not depend on the supplier to change screens and validate field, create notifications, etc. * True integration between CA Identity Manager and CA Identity Governance for better use of compliance approved roles, data exchange and improved customer experience * Availability to implement in the cloud * Take advantage of important features of Identity Manager and Identity Governance on the Portar offered by Identity Suite (best user experience) and less technicall knowlegde need What about Identity Governance and integration with Identity Manager? This solution makes a seamless integration, leveraging the power of Identity Manager connectors it import the data obtained to Identity Governance; in the opposite direction, the results campaigns from Governance have the ability to update in automatic way the information in Identity Manager, enabling materialization of privileges changes and fulfilling a RBAC model (It is the business strategy to the lowest level of privileges in applications) Through the implementation of "Identity Suite Virtual Appliance" have created a supremely quick and convenient way to install (Identity Manager / Governance / Portal) with even high availability. Multiple scenarios available on a single console.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"For me, the best feature of Omada Identity is its web interface because it's really easy for users to understand."

"When we started with identity and access management, we cleaned up and skipped 500 accounts. Therefore, there are a lot of people who are still in our system. Using this tool, we have cleaned up a lot of accounts for ourselves as well as our partners and suppliers. So, we can manage everything now."

"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."

"I appreciate all the support we receive from Omada."

"You can make resources. You can import them from Azure or Active Directory and put them in an application. For example, if there is an application that uses a lot of Active Directory groups, you can make the groups available for people. If they need to access that application, you can tell them the resource groups you have for that application. People can do everything by themselves. They do not need anybody else. They can just go to the Omada portal, and they can do it all by themselves. That is terrific."

"The support response time and the freedom from strange bugs and strange things happening in the software are valuable."

"It has a lot of out-of-the-box features. It is flexible, and there are a lot of possibilities to configure and extend it. It is user-friendly. It has an interface that is end-user or business-user friendly."

"The most valuable aspect of the product is that it is Microsoft-based and it supports all Microsoft technology."

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"Saviynt is used for the greenfield implementation for the whole IAM, IGA, MFA, SSO, and access management."

"One of the tool's advantages is its user-friendly interface, making it easier to manipulate from a GUI perspective. The graphical user interface for users and administrators is straightforward. While it may require more configuration initially, once set up, it becomes more accessible and easier to use."

"The feature that we use the most is the global, third-party user management."

"Some of the self-service capabilities are quite powerful."

"It's a highly functional system and a very well rounded solution. The onboarding of applications is solid. Their user access reviews are very good. Their role-based model and their identity life cycle stuff are solid. It's a very well rounded, strong product."

"The product is flexible to use."

"It gives very good and in-depth knowledge about a particular identity. Everything is through a single click. We get to know the workflows related to a particular identity with a single click."

"Saviynt is easy to configure and manage."

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"When comparing it to other products, you can set up CA IAM in a PoC very quickly to demonstrate its provisioning capabilities."

"Using the implementation guide, I was able to implement the solution with ease."

"Self-registration and self-service password management are valuable features. The role modeling feature is also very useful. It allows you to model your enterprise role."

"What I found most valuable in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is its simple GUI. It's also easy to deploy compared to other products. With other products, you have to install the Windows version inside the Windows machine on all units, but with Symantec Identity Governance and Administration, it can work offline, so the solution is a little bit easier than other systems."

"It has good endpoint support and endpoint connectivity to different versioning endpoints."

"The product is relatively easier to use than other identity management products."

"Governance."

"The most valuable aspects of Symantec Identity Governance and Administration are all the features, it is the most complete solution on the market. It has features, such as scanners and portals, it has everything."

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Cons

"The comprehensiveness of Omada's out-of-the-box connectors for the applications we use could be better. We are getting a new HR system called Cornerstone for which they do not have an out-of-the-box connector, so we have to take the REST connector and play around with it."

"The user interface could be improved. The interface between Omada and the user is mainly text-based."

"We are trying to use Omada's standards and to adapt our processes. But we have had some trouble with the bad documentation. This is something that they could improve on. It has not been possible for us to analyze some of the problems so far, based on the documentation. We always need consultants. The documentation should include some implementation hints and some guidelines for implementing the processes."

"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."

"The solution should be made more agile for customers to own or configure."

"They need to improve the cost for small companies."

"We are still on Omada on-prem, but I understand that when Omada is in the cloud, you cannot send an attachment via email. We have some emails with attachments for new employees because we have to explain to them how to register and do their multi-factor authentication. All that information is in the attachment. People have to do that before they are in our system. We cannot give them a link to our Intranet and SharePoint because they do not yet have access. They have to register before that, so I need to send the attachments, but this functionality is not there in the cloud."

"The security permission inside Omada needs improvement. It's tricky to set up."

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"Considering the shortcomings of the tool, I would say that the training part of the product needs improvement."

"The tool is difficult to migrate."

"The customer support and implementation services need to be improved."

"The configuration process at the beginning can be difficult, depending on the complexity of the company."

"The company needs to do more to establish standard practices within the product itself that are common in the industry."

"The product lacks a broad user base which makes it difficult sometimes to find answers to questions about the product."

"It should support more customizations. In SailPoint, we can do many customizations, but we are not able to do that in Saviynt. For workflows and other things, we can only use what is already in place. Saviynt has a lot of scope for improvement on the customization part."

"In terms of improvement, it's really just a matter of them getting more mature. It's a relatively new solution and they probably need to streamline a few of the processes as they mature. But there are not too many problems."

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"The solution is not the best or the fastest available."

"The development process to create this connector is not as easy as I would like."

"Reporting could be improved."

"The product works slowly while accessing cloud-native solutions."

"They should easier and better integration with other software."

"The drawback with the CA Identity Manager is they don't have a connector to HR systems like SAP, or PeopleSoft, or Workday. That's a major drawback with the CA Identity Manager. For that we have to do lots of custom quoting to get data from HR systems. And if they could connect it to GRC systems, that's good to have in an identity product."

"I find the API boring. I also faced issues while integrating with CA SSO."

"The product's technical support could be better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Being Dutch, I can only say that it is extremely expensive, but all software products are expensive. If you have 38,000 users, then even one dollar or one euro per person would amount to a significant amount of money. Because of the high number of users, anything gets expensive very fast here."

"Omada is too expensive. We are in the automotive industry. The pricing might be high because most of the other customers are in the insurance or banking sectors, but it's steep for an auto supply company."

"It is fairly priced for an on-premise environment, but for the cloud environment, I am not that happy with the pricing."

"Omada Identity offers a reasonable price point, but it will increase as we transition to the cloud."

"From an on-prem point of view, the cost is quite transparent and reasonable. The direct cost is primarily for licenses and maintenance on licenses."

"It's a fair price for the on-premises system. Compared with what we had before, it's much cheaper and we get all the modules in one. We tried to go with the cloud, but it was far too expensive."

"It is not cheap. None of these solutions are cheap, but we have good pricing at least for now from a licensing perspective."

"My client deals directly with the Omada Identity team in terms of licensing. I never look at pricing, so I'm not aware of how much the solution costs, but it's worth the money. Often, when you begin to use Omada Identity and it takes a while to set up, it'll be irreversible, and you'd depend on and focus more on the functionality of the solution, rather than its price tag."

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"We are not into the licensing part. The clients take care of the licensing part."

"The solution has a pay-as-you-go licensing model, and you can subscribe monthly or yearly."

"The price of the license for this product is quite expensive."

"The pricing is comparable to Azure Entra ID. Kind of the same"

"If you need to make any changes then there are additional fees."

"Saviynt has a competitive price."

"If you are investing in securing your data and avoiding any non-compliance issues, then yes, it is certainly recommended. To put it plainly, if you're willing to pay fines and aren't concerned about the misuse of data, then there might not be a problem. However, if you intend to safeguard the data of your employees, vendors, and customers, it becomes crucial. In this context, managing data security requires preventive and detective measures, such as enforcing segregation of duties and regularly reviewing permissions. Throughout an individual's life cycle within an organization or customer life cycle, various access permissions are granted. Without taking action on these permissions, there is a risk of exposure later on. If individuals retain access after leaving the organization, it poses a serious security threat. Implementing solutions like Saviynt can address these challenges, ensuring continuous access review, generating reports, alerts, and identifying potential risks."

"Saviynt's pricing is acceptable and licensing costs are yearly."

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"Pricing and licensing models are adequate and reasonable."

"The connector is free, and bundled with the product."

"Compared to other options, CA products are not that expensive."

"The price is based on the number of users."

"The price is flexible for our existing customers."

"The product has a good price in competition with another product with the same solution."

"I do not recall the approximate prices or licensing models, although I do so that it was priced per user number."

"Symantec keeps increasing the price. I rate its pricing a seven on a scale of ten."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

26%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

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Questions from the Community

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...

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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 rec...

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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 d...

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What do you like most about Saviynt?

It is very easy to use. It addresses most of the trends in identity governance and risk management.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Saviynt?

The pricing is comparable to Azure Entra ID. Kind of the same. So, the pricing is okay.

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What needs improvement with Saviynt?

Considering the shortcomings of the tool, I would say that the training part of the product needs improvement. The in...

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What do you like most about Symantec Identity Governance and Administration?

The product’s most valuable feature is flexibility. It can be customized as per the customer’s requirements.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Symantec Identity Governance and Administration?

The pricing has been very reasonable, but licensing costs vary based on the customer. It follows a user-based licensi...

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What needs improvement with Symantec Identity Governance and Administration?

Symantec should develop a SaaS solution for cloud environments to make the solution available in various marketplaces...

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Comparisons

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 33% of the time

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Compared 14% of the time

CyberArk Privileged Access Manager vs Saviynt

Compared 8% of the time

Okta Workforce Identity vs Saviynt

Compared 8% of the time

Microsoft Identity Manager vs Saviynt

Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 31% of the time

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Compared 15% of the time

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Compared 14% of the time

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Also Known As

Omada Identity Suite, Omada Identity Cloud

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CA Identity Suite, Symantec IGA, Layer7 Identity Suite, CA Identity Manager (CA IDM), CA Identity Minder, CA IAM, CA Identity Manager (CA IDM), CA Identity Governance

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Overview

Omada Identity is an identity governance and administration (IGA) solution designed to help organizations manage and secure digital identities and access across their IT environments. It focuses on enhancing security, compliance, and efficiency by automating identity management processes.

Omada Identity offers a robust set of features that streamline identity lifecycle management, access governance, and compliance reporting. It integrates with a wide range of IT systems, applications, and data sources, providing a centralized platform for managing user identities and access rights. The solution enables organizations to enforce security policies, ensure regulatory compliance, and reduce the risk of unauthorized access.

What are the critical features of Omada Identity?

Identity Lifecycle Management: Automates the process of creating, updating, and deactivating user identities throughout their lifecycle.
Access Governance: Ensures that users have appropriate access rights, enabling continuous monitoring and recertification of access.
Compliance Reporting: Provides comprehensive reporting capabilities to demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements.
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Simplifies the assignment and management of access rights based on user roles within the organization.
Self-Service Access Requests: Empowers users to request access to resources through a user-friendly portal, reducing administrative burden.
Integration Capabilities: Seamlessly integrates with various systems, applications, and data sources for unified identity and access management.

What benefits or ROI items should users look for in the reviews when evaluating Omada Identity?

Improved Security: By ensuring that only authorized users have access to sensitive information, Omada Identity enhances overall security posture.
Regulatory Compliance: Helps organizations meet compliance requirements by providing detailed audit trails and reporting features.
Operational Efficiency: Automates routine identity management tasks, reducing manual effort and freeing up IT resources for strategic initiatives.
User Productivity: Streamlines access management processes, enabling users to quickly obtain the resources they need to perform their jobs.
Reduced Risk: Minimizes the risk of data breaches and insider threats by enforcing strict access controls and continuous monitoring.

Omada Identity is widely adopted across various industries, including healthcare, finance, and manufacturing. In healthcare, it helps protect patient data and comply with regulations like HIPAA. In finance, it ensures compliance with SOX and other financial regulations. In manufacturing, it secures access to sensitive production data and intellectual property.

Pricing and licensing for Omada Identity are typically based on the number of users and the specific features required. Customer support is available through various channels, including online resources, support tickets, and professional services for implementation and customization.

In summary, Omada Identity is a comprehensive IGA solution that enhances security, compliance, and efficiency in managing digital identities and access.

Saviynt is an intelligent, cloud-first identity governance & access management solution. The solution is designed to help organizations quickly scale cloud initiatives and solve security and compliance challenges. Saviynt offers identity governance, granular application access, cloud security, and privileged access to secure your company’s ecosystem and provide a seamless user experience.

Saviynt Features

Saviynt has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Mobile enablement: Saviynt provides a powerful mobile app to manage business operations such as initiating a request, managing approvals, completing certifications, viewing dashboards, and taking actions in a timely manner.

Scalability and Flexibility: Saviynt is built for enterprise scale & flexibility with an industry-leading cloud architecture.

Cloud-based: Saviynt provides you with the ability to quickly deploy and seamlessly integrate with multiple critical applications within your environment to manage risks effectively.

Rapid application & identity onboarding: With Saviynt application and identity onboarding is easy. Saviynt offers pre-built templates and discovery of unmanaged assets & applications to help speed up the process.

AI & ML powered identity analytics: By leveraging the power of AI and machine learning, Saviynt is able to identify risk and duplicate identities, and can also close access gaps.

Actionable insights: Saviynt provides actionable insights for identity management, compliance, and security via the Control Center.

Saviynt Benefits

There are several benefits to implementing Saviynt. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Frictionless access requests: With Saviynt you can request access from anywhere, at any time.

Policy violation and SoD conflict detection: Saviynt helps your organization prevent risky access by understanding violations and conflicts for any request.

Governance: Saviynt provides governance for all human and machine identities – including third parties.

Easier provisioning: Saviynt enables you to automate lifecycle tasks in order to make cross-application provisioning easier and more efficient.

Out-of-the-box rulesets: With Saviynt’s out-of-the-box rulesets, you can automatically connect security roles to security tasks.

User friendly: Saviynt is designed with a modern web interface and has a mobile app and browser plug-in along with a ServiceNow app to make it easy to use.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Saviynt users.

An Identity and Access Management Specialist at a non-tech company states, "The dedicated Freshdesk platform is a user community and a step in the right direction for offering learning resources. Saviynt has a lot of potential with many features available for users."

A Principal Consultant at a tech services company says, "It's a highly functional system and a very well rounded solution. The onboarding of applications is solid. Their user access reviews are very good. Their role-based model and their identity life cycle stuff are solid.”

PeerSpot user Amimesh A., Senior Associate at a tech services company, mentions, “The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation. This product works well out of the box and if you don’t want to do a lot of configuration then this is the best tool. The reporting features are good.”

Irappa H., Manager at a computer software company, comments, “The most valuable features are the workflows and certification.”

The Symantec Identity Governance and Administration (formerly CA Identity Suite) provides comprehensive identity management and governance capabilities with a simple, intuitive user experience. This user experience can dramatically simplify processes such as user access requests and access certifications, resulting in improved productivity and user satisfaction. In addition, the Symantec Identity Governance and Administration performs risk analysis and certification and enables remediation actions in real-time during the access provisioning steps, thereby improving audit performance and risk posture with preventive policy enforcement.

While providing these business and governance-centric capabilities for business users, the Symantec Identity Governance and Administration also delivers core enterprise-grade identity management and governance capabilities, including broad provisioning support for on-premise and cloud apps, extensibility and flexibility to integrate with other IT systems and consumer-grade scale. This means organizations are not forced to choose between usability and performance. With the Symantec Identity Governance and Administration, they can have both.

Sample Customers

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

Shell, McKesson, Kimberly-Clark, Ingram Micro, Intermountain Health Care, Forterra, CoreLogic

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