Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued) vs Tivoli Identity Manager

Likelihood to Recommend

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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It's probably really best suited if you have a business where you have disparate systems but need a way to synchronize the user account information including the passwords between them. If you just have a Windows Active Directory environment only, there probably is no real need for something like this, but if you do this will help manage them easily.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Restaurants Company, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)

Tivoli Identity Manager

ID-Management Access Control

ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)

Password Management

Account Provisioning and De-provisioning

Pros

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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Easily create and manage user accounts from a web interface.
Intuitive GUI.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Restaurants Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

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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Victor Arana

IT Manager

Stoneleaf Construction LLCConstruction, 51-200 employees

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Sometimes it feels unresponsive and we have to restart the services.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Restaurants Company, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Tivoli Identity Manager 9.0

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Besides the random issue where it gets unresponsive and we have to restart the services or reboot the server, it's been really solid. I've only had to contact support 1 time in the 15 years I've used it which is saying more than most other software. The cost of maintenance is also very cheap compared to some of the other software we use.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Restaurants Company, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

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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Verified User

Project Manager in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

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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It has helped us all these years to not have to waste time managing users on multiple systems.
It controls our password policy for our domain.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Restaurants Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)

Tivoli Identity Manager

Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)

Tivoli Identity Manager