Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued) vs. PingOne from Ping Identity

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Forefront Identity Manager is a Microsoft's legacy identity management solution. In 2016 Microsoft released Microsoft Identity Manager, an updated IAM solution. Support for Forefront Identity Manager ended October 2017.N/A
PingOne from Ping Identity
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
The PingOne Cloud Platform from Ping Identity in Denver, Colorado is an identity management and access solution (IAM) for enterprises. Features of the products include single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, user management with directory, provisioning and deprovisioning. The solution is presented as a comprehensive, standards-based platform that allows users and devices to securely access any service, application or API from any device. Designed for hybrid IT…
$20,000
per year
Pricing
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$20,000
per year
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$40,000
per year
Premium
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)PingOne from Ping Identity
Identity Management
Comparison of Identity Management features of Product A and Product B
Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)
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Ratings
PingOne from Ping Identity
9.3
9 Ratings
12% above category average
ID-Management Access Control00 Ratings10.07 Ratings
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Multi-Factor Authentication00 Ratings9.59 Ratings
Password Management00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
ID Management Workflow Automation00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
ID Risk Management00 Ratings8.56 Ratings
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User Ratings
Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)PingOne from Ping Identity
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(4 ratings)
7.9
(8 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)PingOne from Ping Identity
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
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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Ping Identity
Really like [this] solution, it fits our requirements 100%. There are unlimited possibilities to extend the product, either by creating additional adapters or selectors. We really like the policy management level in PingFederate. It's extremely helpful when we can specify customer journey per many different requirements like user location, application type etc. As well, both StepUp and TopDown authentication flows were implemented [easily].
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Authentication
  • Security
  • Identity Management
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Ping Identity
  • Based on open standards, we can use as much or as little of the Ping suite as we like, depending on which other technologies we've already implemented.
  • Continuous innovation and product enhancements have ensured their products continue to meet our rapidly evolving needs.
  • Ping Identity has been an outstanding partner, starting with the RFP process and continuing to this day, years after the sale. They are focused on our success at every level of the company and are highly responsive to our needs, issues, and product suggestions.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • For Windows Server 2008 R2 Servers is a great tool to set a codeless provisioning over new objects.
  • Can easily integrate with Active Directory and Exchange Servers, improving the identity sync between the final user and the lifecycle management.
  • Improvements in the areas of performance, simplified deployment easing the troubleshooting tasks, better documentation knowledge base, and more language support.
  • The codeless provisioning provided in FIM can sustain a variety from high demand to mid-size scenarios for account lifecycle management.
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Ping Identity
  • Solutions are attractive to engineers but harder to sell to upper management.
  • Support was initially a challenge but has improved immensely.
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Usability
Discontinued Products
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Ping Identity
As I mentioned earlier, efficiency and security are this software's bread and butter. The usability is very simple and straightforward, very user-friendly. As a result, it is efficient in a way that we can provide faster quality service to our merchants, and security in a way that our credentials will never leak since PingOne always values Personal Identifiable Information.
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Support Rating
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Ping Identity
Ping's support is willing and attentive, but if I am in a position to engage them I am often at a point where most of the usual support engineers would not be in a position to answer the questions I have. However, Ping has been more than willing to engage their product and development teams with our organization as we take advanced deployment and use case challenges to them.
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
It is Microsoft. We are a Microsoft shop, primarily. It integrates deeply with Active Directory making it good for Microsoft Active Directory shops.
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Ping Identity
This solution is selected before my time so, not much influence ,but product allow to customized and require decent ping skills to configure the solution. Okta and Other solutions are well suited in this category with some positive and some negative capabilities. it must say that Auth0 is the best option with Azure Identity to move ahead.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • 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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Ping Identity
  • Decreased overall number of help desk calls for password reset.
  • Reduced time need for authentication; user[s] now have to authenticate once to be able to use more than 20 applications, instead of authenticating 20 times (per app).
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