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

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 7, 2026

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

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
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

it_user186309 - PeerSpot reviewer
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…
it_user711912 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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."
"Tivoli is one of the best available products in the market of Identity Management, implementation and management is quite straight-forward."
"The ROI of IAM projects and platforms is to enable our employees to work on their application in a short time."
"Ease of configuration is the most valuable feature, most things work with clicks and the rest with JavaScript."
"When correctly configured and tuned, it can scale up to 100,000 operations per day with a simple HA infrastructure."
"Customer Service: 10/10 - the best."
"Go for it as it is one the best solutions in its class for identity management."
"This product is mainly used to implement secure access of web applications,"
"The provisioning is now automated via TIM."
 

Cons

"Performance tuning should be better."
"The technical support is slow and inflexible."
"UI needs to be more customizable."
"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."
"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."
"The product is complex to install, configure and maintain."
"Sometimes ITIM bus doesn't configure properly. Need to monitor the system health periodically."
"Handling bulk requests is very difficult to configure as it creates a lot of issues."
"Little complicated - needs technical skills to setup - later version are being moved to appliances."
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Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise11
 

Also Known As

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

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Sample Customers

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