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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:
 

Categories and Ranking

Omada Identity
Sponsored
Ranking in User Provisioning Software
3rd
Ranking in Identity Management (IM)
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (5th), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (3rd)
Saviynt
Ranking in User Provisioning Software
4th
Ranking in Identity Management (IM)
5th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
Privileged Access Management (PAM) (11th), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (10th), Identity and Access Management (3rd)
Symantec Identity Governanc...
Ranking in User Provisioning Software
12th
Ranking in Identity Management (IM)
28th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Identity Management (IM) category, the mindshare of Omada Identity is 3.2%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Saviynt is 8.6%, up from 7.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is 1.4%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Identity Management (IM)
 

Featured Reviews

Pernilla Hulth - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
VinayM - PeerSpot reviewer
Used for IAM, IGA, MFA, SSO, and access management
The technical support team's response time could be improved. After the implementation, Saviynt should provide good support to their customers. While migrating from legacy applications to the cloud, Saviynt has many bugs. The lift and shift are not very seamless. There are a lot of customizations to be done and some development is required. From the migration point of view, the solution is a little buggy.
Efrén Yanez - PeerSpot reviewer
Identifies, debugs and models the privileges of your organization, adapting it to business strategies.
* Identifies, debugs and models the privileges of your organization, adapting it to business strategies. * Helps discover roles based on available patterns ("basic roles" / "Iterated Search" / "Characteristic Roles" / "Rule Hierarchies Roles" / "User Hierarchy Based Roles" / "Structured Search" / "Obvious Roles"). * Enables review campaigns to certify user privileges, roles and resources, activating the RACI model in the process. * Identity Governance comes with Connector Xpress but if you have Identity Manager you can use the integration between them and import the information that comes from CA Identity Manager and its connectors. * Allows the construction of segregation of rights (SoD) rules by definition of the client and enables “detective" and "corrective" levels for violations of business rules policies. * Provides a set of SoD rules for SAP in order to apply "best practices" to this type of "endpoint" (more than 3,000 rules / Consult CA Technologies if available in last version). * Helps to analyze privileges to find points of cleaning and improvement (Similar Roles / Roles Hierarchy / dual link / Suspect connections / Collectors, etc.). * Regulatory compliance is one of the objectives of the solution. * Covers the life cycle of enterprise privileges and maintains the role model "shallow" or "deep" / "functional" or "granular per application". * Helps you take advantage of the Identity Governance on the portal but better if you integrate with Identity Suite (best user experience). * You can enable LDAP authentication (AD/others) or integrate with CA Single Sign-On for portal access. * Real integration between CA Identity Manager and CA Identity Governance for better use of compliance approved roles, data exchange, and improved customer experience. * Data Transformation available using PDI (Pentaho Data Integration) * New functionality when integrating with Identity Portal.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"Support-wise, working with Omada has been good. We have very good direct interactions and fast responses."
"I appreciate all the support we receive from Omada."
"Its best feature is definitely the process design. It is quite easy and straightforward to design a process."
"Two valuable features of Omada Identity are the ability to discover accounts and link them to identities, and the automatic disabling of inactive accounts or identities."
"Surveying is a valuable feature because it allows us to import data and see who has access to what data, for example."
"The most valuable feature in Omada is the governance. We work with other products and other product vendors, but the sweet spot in the market for Omada is where things are heavy on governance."
"The most valuable functionality of the solution for us is that when employees stop working for the municipality, they are automatically disabled in Active Directory. Omada controls that 100 percent. They are disabled for 30 days, and after that time Omada deletes the Active Directory account. The same type of thing happens when we employ a new person. Their information is automatically imported to Omada and they are equipped with the roles and rights so they can do their jobs."
"We have found the implementation process to be very easy."
"It is a flexible tool because it works on JSON."
"Some of the self-service capabilities are quite powerful."
"Saviynt is used for the greenfield implementation for the whole IAM, IGA, MFA, SSO, and access management."
"The product is flexible to use."
"The feature that we use the most is the global, third-party user management."
"The most valuable features of Saviynt are database utility and report generation. These two features have a major impact, particularly when you are trying to create a report because, in other systems, you need to use a third-party utility such as a BI tool or any other reporting tool to fetch the data and send out the report to a third party team. In Saviynt, it's a system within a system, so you don't have to use any third-party tool because you can directly do your query and write that code on Saviynt and then send that report to the team."
"Saviynt has a lot of potential with many features available for users."
"The scalability potential is there if a company needs to expand."
"I've used it to manage users, create and update, delete users, change passwords, and assign and change rules."
"Governance."
"The automated provisioning feature has been very key from an identity management point of view."
"It's a very useful tool that has improved our client's security, from day one."
"Using the implementation guide, I was able to implement the solution with ease."
"Provisioning engine (on the back-end, separate from front-end components, that's part of layered architecture)."
"It is easy to use, and does not requires an extensive programming or development background."
 

Cons

"Omada Identity has a steep learning curve."
"The solution should be made more agile for customers to own or configure."
"Omada could make it a bit more convenient to send emails based on events automatically. Having that functionality is critical for us to maintain transparency."
"The biggest issue, which is the reason why we are transitioning from their product to SailPoint, is the overall user experience. From a technical perspective, it is a very good product, but from an end-user experience perspective, it significantly lacks."
"Omada could communicate better with us about the product roadmap. We haven't gotten any updates about it. The user interface is often a bit difficult to understand. It isn't optimized for small screens, so it doesn't display all of the information clearly, so users need to scroll a lot."
"If I had to name one thing, it would be the user interface (UI)."
"The reporting and importing have room for improvement."
"Omada Identity has two main issues that need to be solved or improved the most. One is its setup or installation process because it's complex and cumbersome. I'm talking about the process for on-premises deployment because I've never tried the cloud version of Omada Identity. Setting up the cloud version should be much easier. The second area for improvement in Omada Identity is that it's piggybacking on Microsoft's complex way of having all kinds of add-ons, extensions, or setups, whether small or large, such as the new SQL Server, and it's cumbersome to make sure that everything works. Omada Identity is a complex solution and could still be improved."
"It is time-consuming to troubleshoot issues."
"Saviynt cannot customize based on customer needs."
"According to feedback I've received, some users prefer SailPoint over Saviynt in real complex environments. SailPoint has its provisioning platform. Complex integrations may pose challenges in scenarios like a large bank with thousands of users, making SailPoint a preferred choice for some."
"The UI doesn’t enhance the user experience."
"The custom application integration is a little complex, and this tool doesn't provide so many plugins or additional applications."
"Considering the shortcomings of the tool, I would say that the training part of the product needs improvement."
"The technical support team's response time could be improved."
"The solution does not work very well as the number of users increases."
"There are several areas for improvement in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration. They have no proper documentation on how to do backups. They also have a lengthy workflow process where we have to make some configurations to manage automation in the rules and in our tasks which takes time. We have to manually configure all the configuration files, and we cannot export users because there's no export system in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration. What we'd like to see in the next release of the solution is for them to make configuration and integration with other systems their top priorities. We have many API systems to manage, so hopefully, if they make these enhancements shortly, we can directly connect with our API systems when using Symantec Identity Governance and Administration."
"It has a large footprint which you'd expect to be much, much smaller. Just to run basic services, we have 10 different servers. Also, if it were easier to manage, that'd be useful."
"They should easier and better integration with other software."
"Provisioning has a dependency on Windows.​"
"I find the API boring. I also faced issues while integrating with CA SSO."
"The product's technical support could be better."
"The product works slowly while accessing cloud-native solutions."
"Identity Manager has a lack of entitlement support, unlike other products that I have worked with."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"It is licensed per managed user per year."
"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."
"Omada is expensive."
"The pricing is too high for SMBs."
"The pricing for Omada Identity is fair."
"It is fairly priced for an on-premise environment, but for the cloud environment, I am not that happy with the pricing."
"Saviynt's pricing is reasonable."
"The product is less expensive than one of the competitors."
"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."
"We are not into the licensing part. The clients take care of the licensing part."
"Saviynt's pricing is acceptable and licensing costs are yearly."
"Saviynt has a competitive price."
"The price of the license for this product is quite expensive."
"If you need to make any changes then there are additional fees."
"Symantec keeps increasing the price. I rate its pricing a seven on a scale of ten."
"The connector is free, and bundled with the product."
"The product has a good price in competition with another product with the same solution."
"The price is based on the number of users."
"Pricing and licensing models are adequate and reasonable."
"I do not recall the approximate prices or licensing models, although I do so that it was priced per user number."
"The price is flexible for our existing customers."
"Compared to other options, CA products are not that expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
Computer Software Company
27%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Omada Identity Cloud?
As an administrator, we benefit from a lot of functionality that is available out of the box, but it is also configur...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Omada Identity Cloud?
They are positioned at a good price point. They are lower than some of their competitors.
What needs improvement with Omada Identity Cloud?
The biggest issue, which is the reason why we are transitioning from their product to SailPoint, is the overall user ...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
 

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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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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