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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Podium

    Score7 out of 10
    N/APodium, formerly Repdrive, is a ratings and review management platform from the company of the same name in Provo, Utah.N/A
    Pricing
    Microsoft Entra IDPodium
    Editions & Modules
    Premium P1
    $6.00
    per user/per month
    Premium P2
    $9.00
    per user/per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft Entra IDPodium
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft Entra IDPodium
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Podium
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    227 Answers
    58%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    206 Answers
    58%
    Delivers good value for the price
    15 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    225 Answers
    64%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    155 Answers
    52%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    183 Answers
    59%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft Entra IDPodium
    Identity Management
    Comparison of Identity Management features of Microsoft Entra ID and Podium
    Feature
    Microsoft Entra ID
    8.6
    123 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    ID-Management Access Control9.1122 Ratings00 Ratings
    ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)9.5119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Factor Authentication9.2121 Ratings00 Ratings
    Password Management8.2113 Ratings00 Ratings
    Account Provisioning and De-provisioning8.5114 Ratings00 Ratings
    ID Management Workflow Automation8.290 Ratings00 Ratings
    ID Risk Management7.797 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Microsoft Entra IDPodium
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    JumpCloud
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    OneLogin by One Identity
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    Score7.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RSA Access Manager (Discontinued)
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Entra IDPodium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (241 ratings)
    6.9
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.8
    (16 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (57 ratings)
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.1
    (21 ratings)
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Online Training
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Entra IDPodium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Podium
    Podium is well suited for several types of businesses. If you are an entrepreneur or small business owner, Podium would be a great way for you to ask that customers leave you a review online sharing their awesome experience. For medium to large businesses, Podium review invites can be automated through the company's customer management system, allowing the use of Podium to be simple and not timely, even with a large customer base. It may not be appropriate for a large company to manually send out individual review invites
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    Pros
    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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    Podium
    • Maintains conversations indefinitely, so we are able to go back to confirm details from conversations.
    • Provides the ability for our company to have a 'team' messaging platform where we can communicate with one another via single person to a single person, groups where we can add/subtract members of the group... this is invaluable to our organization.
    • Until today(!), we could 'share' or forward a message to one another; oddly, that feature disappeared just today, so I'm hoping it's a glitch!
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    Cons
    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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    Podium
    • Account manager communications: I had been asking my Podium account manager for integration with our CRM tool for over 8 months before my account manager fell silent. After another 6 months, I proactively reached out only to find out that the integration had been in Beta for months and 8 other companies had already integrated. It was frustrating that my account manager did not remember a key request and make the Beta available to me the minute that it was open.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Podium
    Again, Podium has been so wonderful in the year and a half we have been using it, we are able to integrate it with our CRM and use alot of the available features. The most helpful has been getting TONS of reviews on MULTIPLE sites through Podium!
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    Usability
    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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    Podium
    While giving our clients the ability to leave a review was there, we had much worse results and got fewer reviews through the Podium portal than we did by sending our clients simple email requests, or simply having our service staff ask for a review while still on the clients' job sites.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    There has been a handful of outages but they have been either minimal or rarely severe
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    Podium
    We haven't had any outages or issues whenever we need it over the last few years of use
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    Performance
    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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    Podium
    It moves quickly and has no issues with delays. Performance is good as it is a web-based tool
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    Support Rating
    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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    Podium
    I have to send an email to get information. They have a chat system but I end up having to go through my rep for account questions. It was a little frustrating to not have a direct phone number to call with questions. I would like to see a helpline added.
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    Online Training
    Microsoft
    Most training was internally produced
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    Podium
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    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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    Podium
    We only had a hard time getting our technicians to remember to send the review invites.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Podium
    We use Digital Air Strike at our two GM dealerships because it is one of a small list of reputation management companies authorized by GM as part of their SFE program. Digital Air Strike surveys our customers and invites them to write a review about our dealership. It is not as effective or flexible as Podium so we have been using Podium at those dealerships alongside Digital Air Strike. We also recently started a trial use of ReplyPro which is a service that monitors review sites and writes customized responses to positive reviews and suggested responses to negative reviews. I'd like to see Podium add this as part of their service so we can consolidate 3rd party vendors and manage every aspect of online reputation management from one place.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    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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    Podium
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Microsoft
    Scalability is pretty trival for Entra ID. It's not difficult to manage a few or many accounts.
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    Podium
    Its easy to scale to different departments as needed. We initially began using it to solve one problem and as new features became available it was easy to scale this and include other departments who could benefit from its tools
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    Professional Services
    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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    Podium
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    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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    Podium
    • I am glad there are card readers now, sales team members too often try to just send a request instead of taking payment onsite.
    • It's made capturing messaging leads much easier.
    • It's worth the cost but if it did a few more things it would be worth a lot more to us. Document signatures, surveying after jobs, even geotagging of photos/reviews for SEO
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