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Auth0 Platform vs IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Auth0 Platform
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
Single Sign-On (SSO) (4th), Access Management (3rd), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (2nd), AI IT Support (3rd)
IBM Tivoli Access Manager [...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
3.8
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2805510 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner Account Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
Identity workflows have transformed how we secure logins and manage user access daily
There are different elements to the best features Auth0 Platform offers, and I have touched on them, particularly the ability to help applications authenticate and authorize their users and manage their identities. A big point is identity federation, allowing connections across multiple identity providers, enabling users to log in using existing accounts due to databases and enterprise identity systems. A strong security feature is provided, particularly with their MFA, multi-factor authentication, which includes bot detection and brute-force protection, along with breached password detection, which is really good as an added extra. Auth0 Platform has positively impacted our organization, particularly in terms of usability. While we are not selling it directly, I find the platform easy to use for authenticating different users. Our own services team handles the implementation, so I cannot comment on the ease of that process. However, whenever we have had contracts and bids to roll out services, it has been really easy. We have seen improved security due to the implementation of Auth0 Platform. User management, such as creating and deleting users, is all about enhancing the user experience, which is massive. We assist with password resets and account linking. The time to implement is shorter, and we maintain a consistent user experience with a secure login flow, benefiting from a faster implementation due to the universal login, providing a hosted login page customizable by developers.
it_user711612 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Reverse proxy provides central control over authentication and authorization.
It is a single product that caters for all the business needs throughout the organization. It provides a seamless integration that in turn encourages most of the applications to use the SSO features Reverse proxy is the most valuable feature as it provides central control over authentication and…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Auth0 supports over 30 social logins with support for the major ones such as Facebook, Twitter and Google, and also allows custom social connections through their extensions framework, which provides a great amount of flexibility to solution architects."
"Auth0 has the best support ever."
"It has a lot of customization and out-of-the-box features."
"It offers stronger security and flexibility with API keys, which are generated on runtime."
"Thanks to Auth0 Platform, we are ISO 27001 certified."
"After implementing Auth0 Platform, I have seen measurable improvements in scalability, security, and developer velocity with our cloud environments."
"Auth0 Platform has been working as expected, and we only need to scale our system."
"The most valuable feature of the product is scalability."
"OAuth 2 is now the de facto standard for API protection and scoped authorized delegation. IBM TAM now supports OAuth 2 and can act as fully compliant OAuth 2 authorization server."
"SAML 2.0."
"Before the solution was implemented it took around 2-3 weeks to get all the necessary account information for a new employee in my organization, and since implementation this now only takes a few minutes."
"It is a totally secure way of accessing clients through various application portals for more than ten EU countries, just by using single sign-on."
"Several SSO methods are supported out of box, federation based SSO (SAML / Oauth / OpenID etc) setup is easy, performance and scalability are very good, and the internal STS token service can be used for custom SSO tokens."
"It is a good solution for anyone to take to their enterprise and get a buy in."
"This product is highly recommended to meet access management and web single sign-on requirements."
"I like the primary function of this product allowing the administration of user/network accounts with a fair amount of ease."
 

Cons

"Auth0 Platform has an extension in the marketplace to see whatever applications I have assigned to the user. It would be easier if, as developed in Okta, they had an end-user dashboard integrated directly with Auth0 Platform's dashboard itself."
"There are indeed areas where the product could improve. For instance, Okta offers various application configurations, enabling access management, which the tool could consider implementing."
"The product could use a more flexible administration structure in the next release."
"Better documentation for Salesforce integration is suggested."
"There could be easy integration with IoT devices for the product."
"Scalability is quite vast, but it does lead to higher pricing as usage increases."
"This is a costly solution and the price of it should be reduced."
"In my previous experience a couple of months ago, I checked and the permissions assigned to the user were not working, but then I had to update it by going to its company and then providing the particular permissions."
"Yes, because there are so many moving parts it can often be difficult getting it right first time."
"The product has not been updated with emerging technologies over the years specifically around AJAX, REST and Mobile app integration."
"Older TAM versions are not compatible for connecting to a DB."
"The self-service portal needs improvement."
"The initial set-up is a bit complex for a novice as the Linux version of it needs you to be somewhat good with Linux."
"An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for the newer appliance versions for hosting the virtual appliances on AWS will help."
"There were endless issues with stability in version 8.0.1."
"Redundant Policy servers had to be manually configured using LB."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a relatively inexpensive product in the industry."
"Pricing of Auth0 is a pain point. Their pricing model is very confusing, at least for an enterprise. I don't like their pricing model. I think it's too aggressive. It's not very cheap for a service that only does authentication."
"The tool is cheaper compared to competing solutions. Those alternatives tended to be more expensive. Consequently, Okta purchased it because it was considerably cheaper. The solution even offered some free services while still providing excellent functionality."
"I am pretty happy with the pricing model of Auth0. It is very clear for me. Considering our scale, the features that we are using, and additional features that we bought, we still find it great. If you split the costs for the whole year and calculate the number of people you needed to hire, it always comes out to be much lesser than what we would have spent on building our own solution."
"There are different price levels: B2B, B2C, and enterprise. The basic plan is about $1,500 per month."
"The IBM prices are, as ever, extortionate, even with a business partnership, and high levels of discounts."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise14
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise18
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Auth0?
The experience with the pricing aspect of Auth0 Platform is that when it comes to pricing, I would make reference to AWS, it is pay as you go. The number of things I use is what I pay for. On that ...
What needs improvement with Auth0?
For API integration, sometimes it gets challenging, especially with custom applications, because you do not know exactly how the attributes need to be synced or what data exactly needs to be on the...
What is your primary use case for Auth0?
For the past two years, I have been working with Auth0 Platform for CIAM requirements, which is customer identity and access management. Basically, for my requirement, we needed to have SSO impleme...
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Also Known As

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Tivoli Access Manager, IBM Security Access Manager
 

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Sample Customers

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