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Fischer Identity Governance vs IBM Tivoli Identity Manager [EOL] comparison

Fischer International and IBM are both solutions in the Identity Management (IM) category. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution.
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Categories and Ranking

Fischer Identity Governance
Average Rating
6.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Identity Management (IM) (45th)
IBM Tivoli Identity Manager...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

it_user186309 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user186309
Identity Management Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Initial setup was a bit complex because we needed to implement lots of workflows.
Self-service Workflow building Audit For the time when we have to implement re-certification for special accounts this was the best for our requirements. It would be better to have a PowerShell connector Documentation can be improved Performance tuning should be better I have been working on…
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it_user711912 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user711912
Founder at a tech services company
Ease of configuration is the most valuable feature.
The engine is getting a bit long in the tooth, the UI should be redone to be a bit more modern and flexible. The software has been running pretty much on the same UI for a long time. The self-service UI was not a good enough improvement due to the "self-only" part. Lately there's been improvement, but other vendors seem to have much slicker UIs. Users want wizard-like UIs nowadays (in my experience). They don't want to navigate endless menus and selections. The engine is still the same clump of Java it was long ago as Enrole. But now it's a notably larger collection of extensions, and IBM has it reasonably documented. When done correctly, customizations are stable, but when done incorrectly they may cause hangs in the database that are difficult to resolve. Outside of that, the Adapter Development Tool (ADT), an old and (officially) unsupported tool made and maintained by an IBMer seems to no longer be maintained. A lot of people used this tool to create customized adapters for ITIM, expanding it further than IBM ever could. Now it seems all gone.
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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"For the time when we have to implement re-certification for special accounts this was the best for our requirements."
"When correctly configured and tuned, it can scale up to 100,000 operations per day with a simple HA infrastructure."
"It is a very good product and easy to maintain accounts and easy to integrate with target system."
"Go for it as it is one the best solutions in its class for identity management."
"Customer Service: 10/10 - the best."
"IBM Tivoli Identity Manager, now known as IBM Security Identity Manager, is a very well established and well rounded identity management solution."
"GUI has improved significantly from the previous version Role management has improved"
"The provisioning is now automated via TIM."
"It is a big repository of identities, allowing administrators to manage them and their accounts."
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Cons

"Performance tuning should be better."
"Little complicated - needs technical skills to setup - later version are being moved to appliances."
"The product is complex to install, configure and maintain."
"There is no way to clone or copy policies."
"It's highly dependent on the database connection, if there would be even a slight network glitch in the connection between Tivoli and, mostly DB2, databases and the system was not able to recover and re-establish the connection, it would require a complete environment restart."
"Sometimes ITIM bus doesn't configure properly. Need to monitor the system health periodically."
"Customer Service: 5 out of 10. Technical Support: 4 out of 10."
"Handling bulk requests is very difficult to configure as it creates a lot of issues."
"For 5.1 version (older version) of Tivoli the user interfaces were not as user-friendly as other products on the market at that time."
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Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise11
 

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Also Known As

Fischer Identity, Fischer International Fischer Identity Suite, Fischer Identity Suite
Tivoli Identity Manager, IBM Security Identity Manager
 

Overview

Fischer Identity enables organizational effectiveness and agility, mitigates risk, controls costs and enables regulatory compliance. Fischer delivers rapid time to value and predictable outcomes by making identity and access management, governance and compliance fast and simple to deploy, operate and use.
Fischer International
IBM Security Identity Manager enables organizations to drive effective identity management and governance across the enterprise for improved security and compliance. Now available as a virtual appliance, IBM Security Identity Manager automates the creation, modification, recertification and termination of identities throughout the user lifecycle.
IBM
 

Sample Customers

Maryland Institute College of Art
Whirlpool Corporation, EXA Corporation, Arla Foods, Iceland Government
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