cidaas the best alternative to Ping Identity
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Ping Identity – from on-premise to cloud and now to ForgeRock? – a merger that raises questions.
Ping Identity has been active in the field of Identity & Access Management since 2002, offering functions such as single sign-on, multi-factor authentication or API security. Ping Identity offers both on-premise and software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, but in recent years has been trying to position its own software-as-a-service solution PingOne in particular. The recent merger with ForgeRock has raised questions about the integration of the two platforms and future product strategy, creating additional uncertainty for existing and potential customers.
How complex is Ping Identity’s PingOne platform?
Ping Identity markets its software-as-a-service offering under the name PingOne. PingOne offers three different plans for both Workforce and Customer Identity and access Management, which differ in their feature set – the Essential, Plus and Premium Plans.
Although PingOne offers a wide variety of IAM features, successful implementation and management of the platform requires deeper expertise in this area. It is not easy to operate “out-of-the-box”, and even experienced IT teams may have difficulty using all the features without a steep learning curve.
In contrast, competitive products like cidaas offer a simpler, more user-friendly experience, as well as many out-of-the-box functionalities that can be incorporated in a plug-and-play approach. Solutions like cidaas can often be implemented and deployed quickly without specialized IAM knowledge, making them particularly attractive to innovative and agile companies of any size. Thus, cidaas offers an efficient and straightforward alternative to Ping Identity.
What can Ping Identity customers expect after the merger?
The acquisition of ForgeRock by Thoma Bravo and the now following merger create a lot of uncertainty among customers. Ping Identity and ForgeRock have been competitors for years and the product portfolios overlap almost completely, whereas the strategic directions differ. In a merged company, there will be no room for two identical product portfolios and it will be a challenge to align the strategic directions.
Customers have invested heavily and created deep integration between product implementations due to the complexity of Identity & Access Management and in particular the two solutions from Ping Identity and ForgeRock. These now need to be questioned and probably replaced soon.
What makes cidaas the best alternative
to Ping Identity?
cidaas as the leading European Cloud Identity & Access Management offers a feature-complete platform for Customer as well as Workforce IAM. The comprehensive feature set includes single sign-on or multi-factor authentication as well as consent management, sophisticated group and role management and identity verification with the AutoIdent of the cidaas ID validator. As a European cloud platform, we not only offer GDPR compliance but also understand the requirements and stand by our customers as a local European partner. In doing so, reliability and sustainability are important factors and make cidaas the best alternative to Ping Identity, which you should definitely consider with the merger of Ping Identity and ForgeRock.
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Thoma Bravo wants to build a leading Identity and access Management company with Ping Identity & ForgeRock. However, this neglects the fact that Ping Identity & ForgeRock as competitors offer almost completely overlapping product ranges. It will be a challenge to merge the product portfolios and also the strategic direction. There is no textbook or pattern on how to master this merger, on the contrary there are essentially examples that show how not to do it. One of the most frightening decisions to make is which customer base to alienate.
Through no fault of their own, customers now face some difficult choices and will likely look for alternatives.
The migration path from Ping Identity to cidaas
If a Ping Identity customer has decided to exit Ping Identity or PingOne, the question is how to migrate from Ping Identity or PingOne to cidaas and take advantage of the cidaas platform. The migration path includes 3 steps:
- Set up the cidaas environment and configure the functions as desired.
- Migration of user data from Azure AD B2C to cidaas. Due to the many migration projects, here we offer an out-of-the-box migration that can easily migrate user data. Request a user export with password hash from Azure AD B2C Support.
- Integration of cidaas into the applications.Since cidaas and Azure AD B2C use OAuth2 and OpenID Connect for the integration, a simple and straightforward migration of applications is also possible.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Ping Identity?
Ping Identity has been active in the field of Identity & Access Management since 2002, offering functions such as single sign-on, multi-factor authentication or API security. Ping Identity offers both on-premise and software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, but in recent years has been trying to position its own software-as-a-service solution PingOne in particular.
What does the merger of Ping Identity & ForgeRock mean?
The acquisition of ForgeRock by Thoma Bravo and the now following merger create a lot of uncertainty among customers. Ping Identity and ForgeRock have been competitors for years and the product portfolios overlap almost completely, whereas the strategic directions differ. In a merged company, there will be no room for two identical product portfolios and it will be a challenge to align the strategic directions.
Will Ping Identity be discontinued?
It is not yet clear what a merger of two equivalent product portfolios will look like. However, it is clear that a merger of both software solutions is planned, because there is no room for two identical product portfolios in one company. It can be assumed that at least parts of the Ping Identity solutions will be discontinued.
Why is cidaas the best alternative to Ping Identity?
cidaas as the leading European Cloud Identity & Access Management offers a feature-complete platform for Customer as well as Workforce IAM. The comprehensive feature set includes single sign-on or multi-factor authentication as well as consent management, sophisticated group and role management and identity verification with the AutoIdent of the cidaas ID validator. As a European cloud platform, we not only offer DSGVO compliance, but also understand the requirements and stand by our customers as a local European partner. Reliability and sustainability are important factors that speak for cidaas.
cidaas - Cloud Identity & Access Management (Cloud IAM)
- Focus on user-friendly management of digital identities in any form.
- Unique, secure user experience with modern 2-factor authentication.
- GDPR-compliant, customizable consent management.