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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
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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
6.7
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
Privileged Access Management (PAM) (11th), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (9th), Identity and Access Management (3rd)
Symantec Identity Governanc...
Ranking in User Provisioning Software
12th
Ranking in Identity Management (IM)
27th
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 April 2025, in the Identity Management (IM) category, the mindshare of Omada Identity is 3.3%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Saviynt is 8.8%, up from 8.0% 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

"Support-wise, working with Omada has been good. We have very good direct interactions and fast responses."
"The support response time and the freedom from strange bugs and strange things happening in the software are valuable."
"It has a very user-friendly interface compared to what we are used to, and it is highly configurable. In the old solution, when we needed to do something, we had to have a programmer sitting next to us, whereas, in Omada Identity, everything is configurable."
"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."
"The Governance and self-service that can be set up so you can use them yourself to work in the system are the most valuable features. End users can be enabled to help themselves."
"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."
"It scales in terms of numbers and types of identities. It can govern the on-premise applications as well as the cloud applications. So, it can manage hybrid environments with all types of identities and various load amounts."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic provisioning and reconciliation of things like the Active Directory groups and memberships."
"The dedicated Freshdesk platform is a user community and a step in the right direction for offering learning resources."
"The feature that we use the most is the global, third-party user management."
"The most valuable aspect of Saviynt is its market acceptance."
"The repository has many features where you can define primary and secondary owners."
"Saviynt has better integration with enterprise systems like SAP, Microsoft, Adobe, and AWS."
"It gives very good and in-depth knowledge about a particular identity. Everything is through a single click. We get to know the workflows related to a particular identity with a single click."
"The product's initial setup phase is simple."
"It is very easy to use. It addresses most of the trends in identity governance and risk management."
"It's a very useful tool that has improved our client's security, from day one."
"Provisioning engine (on the back-end, separate from front-end components, that's part of layered architecture)."
"It has good endpoint support and endpoint connectivity to different versioning endpoints."
"I've used it to manage users, create and update, delete users, change passwords, and assign and change rules."
"​It has improved our user management. It is definitely streamlined​."
"Word mining and risk campaigns are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The product is relatively easier to use than other identity management products."
"Out-of-the-box the product has a lot of opportunity for configuration and sophisticated identity management capability."
 

Cons

"It is not possible to customize reports on Omada Identity."
"The Omada support response time has room for improvement."
"Documentation can be improved. I have already filed a few suggestions to make documentation more clear and more representative of reality."
"Omada Identity has a steep learning curve."
"They need to improve the cost for small companies."
"There's a challenge with handling large amounts of data in this system."
"The reporting and importing have room for improvement."
"The reporting on the warehouse data and the import process both have room for improvement."
"The main difficulty was the integration process itself. But we were able to kind of work through it and fix it. We tried integrating with our HR system and other IBM solutions, like Microsoft Identity Management."
"UI and support could be improved. The frequent updates and version changes can be disruptive for large organizations. Not every month, a large organization can go with the changes. Saviynt needs to consider this carefully."
"The product's stability is not easy to maintain."
"The company needs to do more to establish standard practices within the product itself that are common in the industry."
"Considering the shortcomings of the tool, I would say that the training part of the product needs improvement."
"The configuration process at the beginning can be difficult, depending on the complexity of the company."
"We sometimes experience performance issues when the solution fails to process the data between two different applications."
"Both SailPoint IdentityNow and Saviynt have some bugs, but SailPoint is considered more mature with fewer bugs due to its longer establishment in the market since around 2005. SailPoint had its share of bugs in the early days, but they have resolved them over time, resulting in a stable product. Saviynt, on the other hand, was launched around 2013 or 2014 and is actively working to improve its product. Despite having some bugs, Saviynt is making progress and aims to build a stable product, but it is not there yet."
"Reporting could be improved."
"Provisioning has a dependency on Windows.​"
"The Identity tool needs to do more kinds of reporting for audit purposes. It doesn't really track any of the metrics that are useful to us, at this point."
"They should easier and better integration with other software."
"The directory has room for improvement. Also, the dashboards and, in particular, the KPI dashboard that shows the current user’s information needs reworking."
"The product works slowly while accessing cloud-native solutions."
"We would like to see integration with analytics. Also, for them to be more efficient regarding discovering and implementing new rules."
"They provide a framework to develop your own connectors. A connector is a piece of software that integrates with the solutions that are not a part of the support matrix. Currently, it is difficult to create these connectors in this solution. Other solutions, such as NetIQ Identity, provide a better way to create your own connector. Currently, there is no cloud version. It should have a cloud version."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is okay."
"Omada isn't cheap or expensive. The licensing model is flexible. I've only had limited interactions with the Omada sales team, but they were positive. They don't sell the customers more licenses than they need. It's important to accurately forecast future usage. For example, we have many licenses that we don't use because we don't have the identities yet. We pay extra, which isn't good."
"It is not cheap. It is expensive, but compared to what we did almost three years ago, it is value for money. It is worth it."
"While Omada Identity carries a premium price tag, it proves to be cost-effective."
"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 is expensive."
"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."
"The product is less expensive than one of the competitors."
"Saviynt has a competitive price."
"If you need to make any changes then there are additional fees."
"Saviynt's pricing is acceptable and licensing costs are yearly."
"Saviynt's pricing is reasonable."
"The price of the license for this product is quite expensive."
"We are not into the licensing part. The clients take care of the licensing part."
"The solution has a pay-as-you-go licensing model, and you can subscribe monthly or yearly."
"The price is flexible for our existing customers."
"Symantec keeps increasing the price. I rate its pricing a seven on a scale of ten."
"Compared to other options, CA products are not that expensive."
"The price is based on the number of users."
"I do not recall the approximate prices or licensing models, although I do so that it was priced per user number."
"The product has a good price in competition with another product with the same solution."
"Pricing and licensing models are adequate and reasonable."
"The connector is free, and bundled with the product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
Computer Software Company
28%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Real Estate/Law Firm
8%
 

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?
Saviynt is very affordable compared to its competitors. It is cloud-based, making it significantly cheaper than on-pr...
What needs improvement with Saviynt?
We are in the deployment stage, so it's too early to determine specific improvement areas. However, bringing more peo...
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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