NetIQ Identity Manager Reviews

To my knowledge it is the only event based IDM system. Its supporting directory (eDirectory) also has event based replication. This makes it a very 'real time' system. In short, it is event based and not batch based.

Being event based, it allows data changes and passwords to propagate to applications in real time. This makes business workflows efficient and instant from both a process and technology perspective.

The user facing interfaces are not too friendly and they are also fairly hard to configure. Better alerting/monitoring of connectors/data would also be nice.

Three years

Not particularly. My advice would be to ensure ample time is spent on data quality and also on code testing.

Not really. A few issues now and then but patches generally come quick enough.

No, it seems to scale quite well.

Not too bad.

OK. Not up to par with bigger vendors like MS and Cisco.

No.

Any IDM will not be simple unless the environment is simple. We have a large complex environment, so setup was complex. Any IDM would have this.

We used and external systems integrator initially but they were not up to par so an internal team is now being built.

Be sure data quality and code quality is good from the start. Going back over a production environment just makes things hard.

• Identity Manager
• User Application

• Roles and Resource Management
• Segregation of Duties
• Approval Workflows
• Event Based Identity Synchronization.

• User Application
• UI
• Product Licensing

10 years.

No, the deployment is okay.

No, The product is quite stable.

Scales okay.

Never had a need to call customer service.

It was a pretty similar standard to what you would get somewhere else.

Yes, and we switched because NetIQ was easy to work, and low time to market.

I implemented it myself.

Yes we did.

I would recommend this product, Its quite flexible and quick to start with.