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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Business Wire

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ABusiness Wire's public relations press release distribution platform includes the company's NewsTrak audience analytics and media monitoring reports.

    $2,595

    for five (5) non-earning releases

    Microsoft Entra ID

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Entra ID (formerly Microsoft Azure Active Directory or Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution supporting restricted access to applications with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) built-in, single sign-on (SSO), B2B collaboration controls, self-service password, and integration with Microsoft productivity and cloud storage (Office 365, OneDrive, etc) as well as 3rd party services.

    $6

    per user/per month

    Pricing
    Business WireMicrosoft Entra ID
    Editions & Modules
    Core
    $2595
    for five (5) non-earnings releases
    Advanced
    $3495
    for five (5) non-earnings releases
    Premium
    $4495
    for five (5) non-earnings releases
    Premium P1
    $6.00
    per user/per month
    Premium P2
    $9.00
    per user/per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Business WireMicrosoft Entra ID
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Business WireMicrosoft Entra ID
    Considered Both Products
    Business Wire
    No answer on this topic
    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    227 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    206 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    225 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    155 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    183 Answers
    Features
    Business WireMicrosoft Entra ID
    Identity Management
    Comparison of Identity Management features of Business Wire and Microsoft Entra ID
    Feature
    Business Wire
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Entra ID
    8.6
    123 Ratings
    5% above category average
    ID-Management Access Control00 Ratings9.1122 Ratings
    ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)00 Ratings9.5119 Ratings
    Multi-Factor Authentication00 Ratings9.2121 Ratings
    Password Management00 Ratings8.2113 Ratings
    Account Provisioning and De-provisioning00 Ratings8.5114 Ratings
    ID Management Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.290 Ratings
    ID Risk Management00 Ratings7.797 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Business WireMicrosoft Entra ID
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    8.9
    (241 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.8
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (57 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.1
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Business WireMicrosoft Entra ID
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Business Wire
    We are highly satisfied with this tool and according to me, it is favorable in all aspects for the people that want to strengthen their links with the Publics either internal or external. It has the capability to manage relations and disseminates information to the business community. But it is not suitable when it comes to reports and its customer service.
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    Microsoft
    Overall, the Microsoft Entra ID platform is best utilized by people looking to have one platform that manages all interactions between other platforms. The Microsoft Entra ID platform allows for a seemless SSO integration, and can also integrate with Intune for MDM. Additionally, and probably the most easy to understand integration, is the integration with Active Directory, and controls associated with that.
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    Pros
    Business Wire
    • Proofing - Business Wire proofs every single release with great precision, and calls you to let you know if they think anything looks like it might be a typo. They are extremely thorough and also check with you about the way you want images or video laid out with the release so that the final presentation is perfect.
    • Customer Service - Business Wire has some of the best customer service I've ever experienced. They are available 24 hours a day, and always have someone manning the phones to answer your questions, proof releases, and make sure your release gets across the wire at the right time.
    • Interface - The Business Wire site is very easy to use, and saves previously used information and images like logos. This is standard for most wire services, but Business Wire does a good job as well.
    • Reach - BW reaches a very wide range of outlets, and its relationships with VentureBeat, Yahoo! and MarketWatch are great. Clients really appreciate seeing their releases in those publications.
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    Microsoft
    • Application integration is really good for single sign-on and managing identity overall. The correlation with Active Directory on-prem is really good, so we can manage it in a single place. It's easy to manage the users and integrate other Microsoft products. It is the base of everything else.
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    Cons
    Business Wire
    • There have been a few times when a minor grammatical error has slipped by myself as well as the copy editors but it's very rare for this to happen.
    • The cost can get a bit high if your press release is long (as price is partially dictated by length) or if you want to add a logo, image, infographic, etc.
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    Microsoft
    • I would like more risk policy suggestions. I guess that situation where we had outsourced employees in a country where somehow their location was changing too often, that we would have room to go, “Hey, this needs to be a lower risk.” Or maybe having easier options to let people log in when they're deemed high risk. It’s tricky because I feel like it’s really easy to do that wrong, but it’s the main area that I think could be improved. I guess also a little bit tighter administrative integration with other Microsoft products.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Business Wire
    It's the best service we have used. We have tried a competitor and everyone prefers Business Wire.
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    Microsoft
    MSFT Entra ID has been essential for managing our geographically dispersed team. We're confident that it will scale with us as grow, and we'll be able to take advantage of additional security and ID management features as they become necessary. Being able to centrally manage our user access from anywhere with a small support team is such a relief.
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    Usability
    Business Wire
    I gave it this rating because the Business Wire website is very user-friendly. Being able to navigate the platform on my own without technical assistance made it possible for me to quickly and easily submit news release distributions, which can be critical at times, such as during hurricane season when we need to get information out to the news media and our customers quickly.
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    Microsoft
    From a user perspective, 10. From an admin perspective, 7 or 8. From the user perspective, it's very easy to use, but from the admin perspective, there's a lot of things that are not easily clear, testable, or verifiable without just trying a whole bunch of scenarios.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Business Wire
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    There has been a handful of outages but they have been either minimal or rarely severe
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    Performance
    Business Wire
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    I could probably rate this a 10 but I'm always conservative on giving out perfect scored bt performance has not been a problem for us using Entra ID.
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    Support Rating
    Business Wire
    The team members are very quick to respond and do their absolute best to help resolve issues quickly. I also like that I can have one of them proofread my press releases before they are distributed. It always helps to have another set of eyes on the content. There have been a few times that they've caught an error that nobody else did so it's worth the extra couple minutes that it takes!
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    Microsoft
    I have not needed to engage support for anything at this time. I have been able to find the answers either online or in a knowledgebase. I tried to skip the question but it would not let me, so I rated a 9 based on other interactions with Microsoft support I have had
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    Online Training
    Business Wire
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Most training was internally produced
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    Implementation Rating
    Business Wire
    Business Wire is very easy to implement. This isn't a requirement, but it's recommended that you begin to set up saved distributions for different clients so that you don't have to start over from scratch. Rather than doing all this work on the front end, you can just do it as you send out your first piece of news for each client.
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    Microsoft
    Make sure you use a good partner. Our implementation was a bit longer and more problematic than we expected. Our partner got it done, but, in my opinion, some of their inexperience and staffing issues were evident.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Business Wire
    I like both services very much, but I prefer the topics, trends, and companies that Business Wire prioritizes. I also like the resources that Business Wire offers such as the tools under the "education" tab. PR Newswire doesn't quite offer the same resources. Overall, I prefer Business Wire over PR Newswire. I have not tried other similar services.
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    Microsoft
    We've done stuff with Okta for Identity and Duo. Those would probably be the two big ones that I would say that people would recognize and stuff. There's some other smaller players we've talked to, but those are the two big ones that we play with. We're still using it. So, because it was integrated into everything we've already done, it just made it almost indispensable.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Business Wire
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    The features are getting addresses per requirements and their value for Money. The proposed ROI and actual ROI build confidence.
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    Scalability
    Business Wire
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Scalability is pretty trival for Entra ID. It's not difficult to manage a few or many accounts.
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    Professional Services
    Business Wire
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Professional Services' technical knowledge is appreciable as consultants design the solution as per customer requirements. Mapping of features per user specifications and assisting Customer IT engineers to implement so they can manage and administer the services.
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    Return on Investment
    Business Wire
    • Staying updated on business news in my team's industry
    • Helps my team generate story ideas for our publication, allowing us to do our jobs more efficiently
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    Microsoft
    • We are doing a lot of sign-ins and working on it, and it worked quite well. We do have Microsoft support, so yes, we can handle all of the small issues we are sometimes having. But if you want to define it, I would say yes, we like it. Overall positive.
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