IBM Security Verify Access vs Omada Identity comparison

IBM and Omada are both solutions in the Identity Management (IM) category. IBM is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.0, while Omada is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.0. IBM holds a 1.5% mindshare in IAM, compared to Omada’s 3.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Omada users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 1, 2024

Omada Identity and IBM Security Verify Access are strong competitors in the identity and access management category. Omada Identity is generally favored for its cost-effectiveness and exceptional customer support, while IBM Security Verify Access is preferred for its comprehensive feature set, justifying its higher cost.

Features: Omada Identity offers robust identity governance, compliance management, and streamlined provisioning, providing customized workflows for role assignment and compliance reports. IBM Security Verify Access provides advanced authentication mechanisms, strong access policy enforcement, and seamless integration with existing infrastructures, emphasizing comprehensive security features over particular compliance capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Omada Identity could enhance real-time data synchronization, integration with non-Microsoft platforms, and improve the user interface for non-technological users. IBM Security Verify Access can focus on simplifying its deployment process, expanding its feature set to ease small business adaptability, and improving initial setup support to speed up implementation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Omada Identity is known for its straightforward deployment and extensive support options, offering a simplified implementation path. IBM Security Verify Access, although complex due to its extensive features, provides detailed documentation and reliable customer service to support technical queries efficiently.

Pricing and ROI: Omada Identity is cost-effective with strong ROI, offering affordable licensing and minimal setup costs. IBM Security Verify Access involves higher initial and subscription fees but offers substantial ROI through its comprehensive security features and scalability, presenting a trade-off between cost-efficiency and investment in robust security solutions.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Security Verify Access

Ranking in Identity Management (IM)

17th

Ranking in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)

16th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Single Sign-On (SSO) (15th), Access Management (13th)

Omada Identity

Ranking in Identity Management (IM)

5th

Ranking in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

User Provisioning Software (5th), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (6th), Identity Governance Administration (IGA) (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Identity Management (IM) category, the mindshare of IBM Security Verify Access is 1.5%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Omada Identity is 3.2%, down from 3.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Identity Management (IM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Omada Identity	3.2%
IBM Security Verify Access	1.5%
Other	95.3%

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Ateeq Rehman

Unit Head System Implementor at Allied Bank Limited

Has improved secure user access while managing development through multiple technologies

I have already explained this in my previous call; I don't handle financial terms and commercials. Pricing is generally managed by functional teams and management looking after licensing matters. In Pakistan, vendors such as Oracle and IBM manage account relationships with clients and have tailored pricing models, so I do not have sufficient insights into that aspect.IBM Security Verify Access installation process is not straightforward; it requires underlying specialized knowledge upon which the IBM products are based. The complexity and scalability of the architecture necessitate in-depth technical knowledge and understanding of the system. Thus, installation is not as simple as clicking through; it requires extensive configuration of the underlying application servers, such as IBM WebSphere, where these products are deployed and configured.

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Carsten Eiberg

Iam Security Specialist at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Identity analytics have strengthened security and automated role-based access for our workforce

Omada Identity provides 80% of functionality out of the box with standard features without requiring any special configuration. There are many templates available, so you can get up and running pretty fast. Omada Identity's identity analytics helped reduce the cost of my IGA program. This has affected my organization's security since I am also in the same department as the security team, so we are very focused on that. Especially if someone is having a case with fraud or supposed fraud, we can click the log out feature and then all accounts will be disabled immediately or at least within a few minutes. I am sure that has helped the security level.

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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

"Its stability and UI are most valuable."

"IBM Security Verify Access, formerly known as ISAM, IBM Security Access Manager, now renamed to ISVA, integrates with central directory services for our organization and provides user management functionality."

"The most valuable feature of IBM Security Access Manager, at least for my company, is multi-factor authentication. That's the only feature my company is using. The solution works well and has no glitches. IBM Security Access Manager is a very good solution, so my company is still using it."

"I have found this solution to be really practical and when a user wants to log in, it is effortless and runs smooth."

"It's a good solution for identification and access management."

"I have found this solution to be really practical and when a user wants to log in, it is effortless and runs smooth."

"From the integration point of view, it supports SAML, OIDC, and OAuth; for legacy applications that don't have support for SAML and other new protocols, it provides single sign-on access to end-users, and from the integration compatibility point of view, it is highly capable."

"IBM Security Access Manager is a very good solution, so my company is still using it."

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

"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."

"I'm not using Omada, but the interface is easy to use and gives you a solid overview of your identities."

"The customer success and support teams have been crucial."

"The thing that I find most valuable is that Omada consists of building blocks, which means that you can configure almost anything you want without using custom code, making it pretty easy to do. It's possible to connect to multiple target systems and to create one role that consists of different permissions in the different target systems. So one role in Omada can make sure that you have an account in three different systems."

"As an administrator, we benefit from a lot of functionality that is available out of the box, but it is also configurable to meet our specific needs."

"Technically, the product does everything one would expect from an identity and access management platform. The product offers robust handling of Active Directory resources."

"The identity lifecycle support is definitely valuable because we are a complex organization, and there is a lot of onboarding, movement, and offboarding in our organization. We have 31,000 users, and there are a lot of users who are constantly onboarding, offboarding, and moving. So, we need to make sure that these activities are supported. In old times, we used to do everything manually. Everyone was onboarded, offboarded, or moved manually. So, from a business point of view and an economics point of view, identity lifecycle is most valuable. From a security point of view, access review is the most important feature for us."

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Cons

"Configuration could be simplified for the end-user."

"IBM Security Verify Access installation process is not straightforward; it requires underlying specialized knowledge upon which the IBM products are based."

"They can improve the single sign-on configuration for OIDC and OAuth. That is not very mature in this product, and they can improve it in this particular area. OIDC is a third-party integration that we do with the cloud platforms, and OAuth is an authorization mechanism for allowing a user having an account with Google or any other provider to access an application. Organizations these days are looking for just-in-time provisioning use cases, but IBM Security Access Manager is not very mature for such use cases. There are only a few applications that can be integrated, and this is where this product is lagging. However, in terms of configuration and single sign-on mechanisms, it is a great product."

"The user interface for users and administrators could be improved to make it easier. Automating some functions could also be beneficial."

"For small or medium-sized businesses they cannot afford this solution."

"What we'd like improved in IBM Security Access Manager is its onboarding process as it's complex, particularly when onboarding new applications. We need to be very, very careful during the onboarding. We have no issues with IBM Security Access Manager because the solution works fine, apart from the onboarding process and IBM's involvement in onboarding issues. If we need support related to the onboarding, we've noticed a pattern where support isn't available, or they don't have much experience, or we're not getting a response from them. We're facing the same issue with IBM Guardium. As we're just focusing on the multi-factor authentication feature of IBM Security Access Manager and we didn't explore any other features, we don't have additional features to suggest for the next release of the solution, but we're in discussion about exploring ID management and access management features, but those are just possibilities because right now, we're focused on exploring our domain."

"Configuration could be simplified for the end-user."

"There are a lot of areas that can be improved, but the main area is the lack of customization. You cannot easily customize anything in the product. It is not easy to tweak the functionality. It is challenging to change the out-of-the-box functionality."

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"We haven't seen much cost savings yet, so the return on investment could be better."

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

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

"The Omada Identity SaaS version doesn't provide all the features Omada Identity on-premise provides."

"Improved traceability would be helpful for administrators. For example, let's say a user's permission is being revoked. We can only see the system that has carried out a particular action but not what triggered it. If an event definition or something has changed in the criteria for the permission being removed or something like that, we don't have immediate access to that information. It takes a little detective work."

"If you're running Omada on a cloud service, you may have some issues deploying the newest release. Sometimes, the latest release doesn't adapt to the processes we have already installed. Identity Access Management is a critical system for our organization, and we need to ensure that everyone has the same access as they did before the release."

"There's a challenge with handling large amounts of data in this system."

"Documentation can be improved. I have already filed a few suggestions to make documentation more clear and more representative of reality."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license and costs depend on the amount range of users you have. For just approximately 2,000 users, the price is practical and fair. However, when you have 20,000 users, it starts to become really expensive, and the discount per user is not attractive enough to go ahead and purchase."

"It costs about 300K AED for a year. Its pricing is a bit on the higher end, but in comparison to other products in the market, its price is still better. There are lots of other products that are very costly."

"The product is not expensive. It depends on the number of users."

"The pricing is okay."

"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."

"There were a lot of administrator, partner, and supplier accounts for people who were no longer working for us but still in the system. So, we reduced the number of users no longer with the company, which saved us some money on licensing."

"The pricing is too high for SMBs."

"Omada Identity is competitively priced and delivers good value for our money."

"It is licensed per managed user per year."

"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 continues to be very competitive on pricing, especially on the Omada cloud product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	45

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with IBM Security Access Manager?

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What is your primary use case for IBM Security Access Manager?

We are still using the IBM BPM platform to automate the processes for our organization.I generally use Microsoft Project for project planning and schedule management, especially in relation to Orac...

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What advice do you have for others considering IBM Security Access Manager?

My current domain is leading project development, overseeing both technical and functional areas in process automation and orchestration, along with the hands-on implementation of process automatio...

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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 configurable to meet our specific needs.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Omada Identity Cloud?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that I think they are the same as all the competitors. It would be great if they gave more insight into the real costs because that is typic...

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What needs improvement with Omada Identity Cloud?

Omada Identity can always be improved. It has an ideas portal for customers and partners. Since we are a partner, we have been providing them with positive insights on improvements. I would love to...

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Also Known As

IBM Security Verify Access (SVA), IBM Security Access Manager, ISAM

Omada Identity Suite, Omada Identity Cloud

Overview

IBM Security Verify Access offers adaptable access management with multi-factor authentication, seamless protocol integration, and strong user management, suitable for cloud and on-premises environments.

IBM Security Verify Access provides multi-factor authentication, seamless integration with protocols like SAML and OAuth, and features including password vaults and single sign-on. Its adaptable nature allows for deployment both in cloud and on-premises settings. Users appreciate its quick setup, reliable authorization, and efficient user management, especially when integrated with Active Directory. The intuitive interface enhances security with mobile features like QR code enrollment, making it suitable for diverse environments. However, cloud deployment could be simpler, and the interface could use enhancements for better ease. Onboarding applications and support availability need improvements, and configuration for OIDC and OAuth should mature. More comprehensive documentation and simplified installation are also needed, along with automation to reduce resource consumption.

What are the key features of IBM Security Verify Access?

Multi-Factor Authentication: Offers robust multi-layered security.
Integration with Protocols: Works with SAML and OAuth for seamless connectivity.
Password Vaults: Secure storage for user credentials.
Single Sign-On: Streamlines access across platforms.
Active Directory Integration: Ensures efficient user management.
Mobile Features: Includes QR code enrollment for enhanced security.

What benefits or ROI can users expect to find in the reviews?

Rapid Setup: Quick deployment in cloud and on-premises environments.
Reliable Authorization: Trustworthy access control and management.
Security Enhancements: Through multi-factor authentication and mobile features.
Streamlined Processes: Simplified access management with single sign-on.

IBM Security Verify Access is widely used in the banking and educational sectors for access management, supporting activities like single sign-on and control across different user groups. Many in these industries utilize it for customer authentication and integrate it with mobile systems to enhance security. Its adaptability allows it to serve complex needs, particularly useful in environments such as universities and financial institutions.

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Omada Identity offers robust governance, user lifecycle management, and seamless provisioning with Active Directory integration, simplifying access management with a user-friendly, self-service interface.

Omada Identity combines strict governance with easy configuration, offering automation that excels in user lifecycle management. Its integration capabilities with systems like Active Directory provide seamless provisioning. The platform features a user-friendly self-service interface, enabling efficient process design without coding, which simplifies access management. Role-based access control, reporting, and compliance features elevate security and operational efficiency. Omada Identity is adaptable to evolving requirements, ensuring scalability while maintaining ease of use and rapid response in support services.

What are the key features of Omada Identity?

Governance and Compliance: Ensures security and regulatory compliance with robust policies.
User Lifecycle Management: Automates onboarding and offboarding processes.
Seamless Integration: Works with systems like Active Directory and SAP for efficient provisioning.
User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies access management with no coding required.
Role-Based Access Control: Tailors access rights for different user roles.

What benefits are gained from using Omada Identity?

Scalability: Adapts to growing business needs.
Operational Efficiency: Reduces manual processes with automation.
Security Enhancement: Implements strict access controls and reviews.
Compliance Assurance: Aligns with industry regulations easily.

Industries implement Omada Identity to streamline identity lifecycles, provisioning, and certification processes. It supports cloud and on-premises environments, enhancing security, governance, and compliance. Automated access reviews and security policy enforcement are critical for managing diverse user groups. Organizations in sectors such as finance, healthcare, and retail leverage these capabilities to ensure smooth operations and safeguard sensitive data.

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

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