Lightning Tools DeliverPoint vs. Microsoft Entra External ID

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Lightning Tools DeliverPoint
Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
DeliverPoint supports reporting and managing SharePoint permissions. Site Owners, Site Collection Administrators, and SharePoint Administrators can run permission reports that reflect the permissions of every user. Site collections, Teams Channels, Hub Sites, SharePoint Sites, OneDrive, Lists, Folders and Items can all be reported on individually or in bulk. Permissions can be modified, transferred, copied or deleted between accounts as staff changes occur.
$2,500
per year per installation
Microsoft Entra External ID
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Entra External ID (formerly Azure Active Directory B2C, or alternately, Azure Active Directory External Identities) provides business-to-customer identity as a service. Customers can use their preferred social, enterprise, or local account identities to get single sign-on access to applications and APIs.
$0
per month per active users
Pricing
Lightning Tools DeliverPointMicrosoft Entra External ID
Editions & Modules
DeliverPoint OnPrem
From $1950
per year per installation
DeliverPoint OnPrem Enterprise Edition
POA
per year per installation
DeliverPoint Online
From $2500
per year per installation
DeliverPoint Online Enterprise Edition (>10,000 users)
POA
per year per installation
Premium P1 (for More than 50,000 MAU)
$0.00325
per month per active users
Premium P2 (for More than 50,000 MAU)
$0.01625
per month per active users
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Lightning Tools DeliverPointMicrosoft Entra External ID
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPrices listed are starting prices for "stock" product. $2.50 per user/year on top of base price Enterprise product is designed for 10,000+ users, and can be customised if required to meet business needs. Prices are based on 12 month contract from 1st purchase month. Installation included in price. Full technical support available. Online versions will have access to free product updates during contract period.A flat fee of $0.03 is billed for each SMS/Phone-based multi-factor authentication attempt.
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Features
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Identity Management
Comparison of Identity Management features of Product A and Product B
Lightning Tools DeliverPoint
7.7
1 Ratings
6% below category average
Microsoft Entra External ID
9.3
1 Ratings
13% above category average
ID-Management Access Control7.31 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning8.21 Ratings10.01 Ratings
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Multi-Factor Authentication00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Password Management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
ID Management Workflow Automation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
ID Risk Management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Lightning Tools DeliverPointMicrosoft Entra External ID
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(1 ratings)
9.9
(7 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Lightning Tools DeliverPointMicrosoft Entra External ID
Likelihood to Recommend
Lightning Tools
Copy user permissions through the whole sites of SharePoint farm
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Microsoft
It is not easy to calculate the actual ROI due to the difficult quantification of all factors, but it certainly contributed a lot in protecting, monitoring and controlling access to our system. It also made it much easier to detect vulnerable external users with simple and "easy to hack" passwords they use on multiple apps.
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Pros
Lightning Tools
  • Discover Site Permisions
  • Sheduled reports of required lists, libraries, sites...
  • Compact set of commands which works with user permissions
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Microsoft
  • One of the things that Microsoft Entra External ID does really well is creating user logins, accounts and profile. It is very easy to create them, manage them and delete them. It is fast and reliant.
  • Limit access or authorization feature. We can allow different levels of authorization and access. So that not all the employees would have access to all the data. Only some relaible employees would have access and power to change anything.
  • Mutli factor authentication feature is also a really good feature to secure data. Even overseas vendors need MFS to login which gives double protection to our data.
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Cons
Lightning Tools
  • Linking basic information to the object selected in the left panel (site structure view)
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Microsoft
  • Troubleshooting diagnostic logs effectively requires VS Code
  • Group and role management requires additional effort
  • The programming model (XML) could use some developer experience love
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Usability
Lightning Tools
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
I find it easy to use. The usability is great. Every department uses it for different purposes. Everyone access information relevant to them. Since we've started to use this we have seen less security incidents.
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Alternatives Considered
Lightning Tools
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
I really enjoy how simple it is to connect this Active Directory with other Microsoft Products to collaborate with colleagues and clients.
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Return on Investment
Lightning Tools
  • Speeds up the management of user permissions
  • Provides a comprehensive overview of permissions and settings of individual security levels across areas of company informations
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Microsoft
  • Having monthly active users billing was cost-effective.
  • Helped with the IT support that was already managing the Azure platform of the company; this helped to manage the costs better and optimize them.
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ScreenShots

Lightning Tools DeliverPoint Screenshots

Screenshot of CONTEXTUAL SHAREPOINT PERMISSION REPORTING
SharePoint Permissions are not just the responsibility of IT. Business Users (Content Owners) can create sites, lists, libraries and of course list and library content. The business user is capable of sharing the content with internal users, but perhaps also external users. Sharing such content can result in users gaining permissions to sites or content not intended to be shared. For example, if a site is shared, the user who the site is shared with becomes a member of the members group by default. That members group may have Edit permissions to other sites or content elsewhere within the site collection. DeliverPoint gives visibility of such permissions to support better SharePoint permission decisions from within the Site, List or Library itself.Screenshot of GRANULAR SHAREPOINT CONTENT PERMISSION REPORTS
The DeliverPoint Discover Permissions report displays a full transparent report of all users that have permissions to the site, list/library or item. This displays what permissions each account has to the selected object, as well as how the permissions were assigned. Filter can be used for each user to check for duplicate permissions, filter by Permission Level to see which users are granted each permission level, and also filter by the ‘Permissioned Via’ column to see who has received permissions via a particular SharePoint, Microsoft 365 Group, or Azure AD Security group. The Discover Permissions report can be executed against multiple documents or items, lists and within the site or subsites.Screenshot of EXTERNAL SHARING LINKS REPORTING AND MANAGEMENT
Within SharePoint, users can share links with anyone, internal users and external users. DeliverPoint provides an External Sharing Links report that can be used within a site or across sites. The user can see who shared the link, when they shared the link, and optionally remove the link if it’s required.Screenshot of REPORT AND MANAGE PERMISSIONS FROM WITHIN MICROSOFT TEAMS
DeliverPoint is also available within Microsoft Teams. Team Owners can produce Microsoft Teams Permission reports within their Teams Channels and across Private Channels. The reports provide confidence and assurance that permissions are set correctly and that sharing isn’t out of control. Changes to permissions can be made contextually within a Team or centrally across multiple Teams should permissions need to be removed or managed.Screenshot of MANAGE SHAREPOINT PERMISSIONS
Using DeliverPoint, Site Owners, Site Collection Administrators and Tenant Administrators can manage permissions across the objects that they have Full Control to. Within organizations, users change roles, leave organizations, or join organizations. Making permission changes to accounts to reflect these changes is time consuming. DeliverPoint can be used to simply select the scope to change, and perform the change as one operation. The operations include Transfer, Delete, Copy or Revoke Permissions.Screenshot of UNIQUE PERMISSION REPORTING
The DeliverPoint Unique Permissions Report enables Site Collection Administrators or SharePoint Administrators to view the permissions assigned to a specific user account or group throughout site collections. The report includes all Microsoft 365 Groups, SharePoint Groups and Active Directory Security Groups that the user is a member of. A list of Site Permissions, List Permissions and Item Permissions that the user has been assigned permissions to are listed, allowing  the permissions to be removed or transferred if they are incorrect.