Azure Active Directory vs WSO2 Identity Server

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are opening a shop and you need software to get the ball rolling compared to Google. Microsoft is the go-to vendor in my opinion. You can get your active directory services, mail, and collaboration tools like teams and offices from one vendor. Anyone with minimal knowledge of IT can actually configure all of these services to get you up to speed. The product is very versatile so in the future if you would like to have cloud servers and services this product have you covered. As your organization grows you can easily integrate the best MFA solutions with Azure AD to keep your organization safe. This is not the product that you should invest in if your organization does not have that many windows devices. For instance, if your company owns Macs other than products like MS Office, Share Point, etc you don't need to get Azure active directory.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Computer & Network Security Company, 11-50 employees

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If your systems are using standard authentication models then it is well suited. OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0 etc are all supported.

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C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Pros

Conditional Access -- this is one of the biggest tools that any admin needs when it comes to securing when, where, and how users are accessing information. Especially if the information contains sensitive data types.
Multi-factor Authentication -- we have all our employees configured for MFA. This is incredibly easy to configure with Azure, as well as defining when MFA should be used through Conditional Access.
Audit Logs -- being able to track and identify a user's activity is pretty critical, especially when in incident response mode.

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Caleb Reinhardt

CIO (Chief Information Officer)

Calloway Co School DistrictPrimary/Secondary Education, 201-500 employees

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It's open source so is highly configurable
WSO2 provides their own paid support which is an essential add-on
Implementation is straightforward and conforms to all major standards

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cons

The UI can be cumbersome to use - bulk edits for instance are best handled using powershell.
Documentation can be hard to find when integrating AD into web apps
Some settings in AD can be confusing with no obvious explanation - for instance, setting up custom scopes for an application is confusing.

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Gordon Lo

Digital Solutions Architect

DynacareHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

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Overall, the product works well but does take time and effort to implement in highly complex environments. However, I do not believe this is unique to WS02.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$6 per user/per month

Azure Active Directory Editions & Modules

Edition

Premium P1	$6.00¹
Premium P2	$9.00¹

per user/per month

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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

Starting Price

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WSO2 Identity Server Editions & Modules

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Support Rating

Azure Active Directory 7.7

Based on 29 answers

Microsoft has offered Azure Active Directory as a solution for a couple of decades now, so they have seen and anticipated almost any issue that an organization may face and can therefore help. The cloud offering of Azure Active Directory offers some additional "self healing" or monitoring services that can minimize the need for a service call. However, as with most large companies supporting a fast growing market, there may be some gaps in service knowledge (and particularly processing) from the front line / tier one staff as they follow a corporate script at first contact.

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Matt Varney

Intranet Administrator

KCTCSHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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No score

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Alternatives Considered

In our particular scenario, we chose [Microsoft] Azure Active Directory because it has integration with tools and applications we use on a day to day basis, such as inTune, Autopilot, Office 365, Exchange Online, Dynamics 365, just to named a few.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Government Relations Company, 201-500 employees

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It's Oracle. Highly expensive and limited options

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Return on Investment

It has helped us evaluate our future in the cloud as we plan to migrate
It allows us to scale down our on-premise infrastructure resulting in cost-savings
It has put a bigger workload on some, adding to statement of work, in terms of evaluation

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Aviation & Aerospace Company, 10,001+ employees

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WSO2 works well when you need specific user sign-up information and allows you to then tailor the access, for example, to the job role or area of discipline. We use this to tailor the learning offered to a user upon initial login.

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C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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