Omnissa Identity Services vs. Symantec IGA

Workspace ONE Access is a good fit for a variety of corporate scenarios, such as the need for businesses to provide secure access to their data and applications, the need to lower the costs associated with managing multiple user identities, and the need to boost employee productivity by streamlining access to corporate resources. It is less appropriate if you are not using all of its function and just use it for a particular function undermining its capabilities for example in our organization the use case is primarily restricted to giving staff members safe access to company information and applications which debunks its other features such as compliance and product support that it provides.

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If an organization is looking for a good comprehensive identity management/governance suite that is easy to implement, CA identity manager may be a good/robust product. It is best to understand specific use case for your organization and try out the product before a final purchase decision as is the case with all sw products.

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• It provides an "SSO" type experience for access to applications and data. Users sign in to one "portal" and then have access to whatever university systems they need to do their job.
• It greatly simplifies securing these types of access. Firewall rulesets can be made much simpler and easier to manage, as well.

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• It has complete identity management and governance capabilities equipped with a simple, intuitive user experience and helps simplify processes such as user access requests and access certifications. This in turn helps in improved productivity and user satisfaction.

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• Support for more Single Sign-On (SSO) protocols.
• More comprehensive dashboards and reporting.
• Greater integration with other VMware products.

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• Bringing on new users and removing existing user when new employee/contractors join or leave an organization can be improved by linking directly to HR module.
• The slightly complicated GUI makes drill down difficult for a new user.

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We also examined several other options, particularly Lenovo Unified Workspace. The Lenovo product had some advantages over the VMWare product, particularly in the areas of customization of the look / feel and user experience. However, we have been a longtime VMWare customer, and we have VMWare VDI and other product implementations in place now that paired very well with the VMWare product.

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The final contenders were CA and Oracle - Oracle was tedious to implement and maintain while on the other hand CA was easy to implement and maintain and came at a much lower price.

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• Better control over organization data and its applications.
• The software has frequently allowed us to save money on application security and mobile device management.
• It offers a lot of features that may be adjusted to meet the requirements of our particular business demands, which has increased efficiency and security for our organization.

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• For us, it was a fairly easy implementation over 60 day period that provided ROI fairly quickly

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