1Password vs Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)

Likelihood to Recommend

1Password should be used to store any information securely, including logins/passwords, credit card and bank information, drivers licenses, software licenses, notes and documents, and many other things. You shouldn't really use the same password for multiple sites, and 1Password is great for generating random passwords, storing them, and making them easy to retrieve. The group plans work great for sharing information between people as well. It really works best on a Mac. I've used 1Password on Windows a bit, and it works just fine, but it doesn't seem to work as well as on the Mac.

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Nate Dillon

Front-End Web Developer, Office of Mediated Education

Kansas State UniversityHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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I think that MIM is great for compliance since it reduces the number of logins that are required by users. Most offices have post-it notes with logins floating around because there are so many to remember or there are "shared" logins. This reduces the number of logins to 1 and you can easily revoke access in one fell swoop. This prevents gaps and holes with terminations and updates to select groups are super simple.

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Brad Ranks

Director of Technology

MeMD, IncHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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Pros

Sharing login details safely within the organization, with no plain text version exposed anywhere.
Having my own login details pop up after typing in a secure master password - I only have to remember one complicated and good password.
Generating secure passwords when I register to a new website.

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Verified User

Manager in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising Company, 1-10 employees

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Authentication
Security
Identity Management

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Price: 1Password is the best app in the industry for this functionality, and as such, the price tag is also among the highest.
Browser extensions: this may be more of a function of constantly shifting browser technology, but at times the auto-fill functionality can feel glitchy, leading to confusion

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Matt Heerema

Director

Mere AgencyInternet, 1-10 employees

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Lack of documentation
No Windows Server 2012 Integration

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 11-50 employees

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Usability

1Password 10.0

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The 1Password app design is top notch, much better than a couple other password managers I've looked at. The app and service are very flexible, allowing for many different types of data storage. The browser extensions generally work very well, allowing for easy access to login information while using pretty much any modern web browser.

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Nate Dillon

Front-End Web Developer, Office of Mediated Education

Kansas State UniversityHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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Support

1Password 10.0

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I haven't had a lot of issues with 1Password in the past, but I have browsed the 1Password support forums a bit when I have needed an answer for something. The support staff seems to be very responsive. They seem to respond to pretty much everything posted in the support forums.

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Nate Dillon

Front-End Web Developer, Office of Mediated Education

Kansas State UniversityHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

LastPass is a very similar app and we also recommend it as a second option. 1Password has more features, a better interface (in my opinion), and has been around longer. 1P knows the game better than any company out there

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Matt Heerema

Director

Mere AgencyInternet, 1-10 employees

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I've selected FIM because we use Windows Server 2008 R2 for terminal connections and it gives me a decent security layer to manage the identity lifecycle deployment from a single interface reducing the time and effort investment, and avoid dealing with extend coding procedures and long deployments stages, but also grants the opportunity to learn with an outstanding simplified troubleshooting path.

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Victor Arana

IT Manager

Stoneleaf Construction LLCConstruction, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Time saving: it is very simple to securely create, store, and share passwords across the team and with clients
Brain-space-saving! I don't ever have to think about passwords anymore.
Risk-mitigation - Account compromising and identity theft becomes a near non-factor, and it is simple to change out passwords for services that have been compromised at the their company level, rather than our account level.

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Matt Heerema

Director

Mere AgencyInternet, 1-10 employees

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We see a positive impact simply in the time savings alone. Chasing accounts around is time-consuming and prone to error.
The cost to us is negligible to the value it provides.

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Brad Ranks

Director of Technology

MeMD, IncHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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1Password vs Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)

1Password

Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)

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Free Trial

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Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

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Entry-level set up fee?

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