The Customer Identity Landscape
How Does Ping Identity Compare?
Ping Identity has unique advantages.
Ping Identity and ForgeRock (now part of Ping Identity) have unique advantages over other identity service providers. With Ping Identity, you will have a vast array of choices to manage and orchestrate your customers’ identity needs across all your software, dedicated tenant SaaS, and multi-tenant SaaS environments.
Out-of-the-box templates and drag-and-drop interfaces let you orchestrate your services—including those from select competitors mentioned in the table below—to optimize omnichannel customer identity journeys as you see fit, regardless of where your data resides.
Here’s how Ping Identity stacks up against select competitors:
| | Ping Identity | ForgeRock1 | Okta/ | MS Entra | Transmit | OneIdentity | SAP | Cisco |
| Software   Enhanced privacy, security, and data residency options | | | | | | | | |
| Dedicated Tenant SaaS Enhanced privacy, security, and data residency options | | | | | | | | |
| Multi-Tenant SaaS | | | | | | | | |
| Orchestration Manage user journeys on a drag-and-drop canvas | | | | | | | | |
| Orchestration Integration Nodes | 500+ | 100+ | <50 | | Unknown | | | |
| Open Orchestration Orchestrates competitive services | | | | | | | | |
| Authorization Control fine-grained authorization for all apps in one place | | | | | | | | |
| Lifecycle & Relationship Management Including IGA | | | | | | | | |
| MFA Ability to add a 2nd authentication factor, e.g. SMS or push notification | | | | | | | | |
| Passwordless No passwords for login/registration | | | | Partner Supported | | | | |
| Identity Verification/ ID Proofing Verify and connect digital IDs to real ones | | Partner Supported | Partner Supported | Partner Supported | | | | |
| Verifiable Credentials Allow users to store and control their own data and who has access | | | | Partner Supported | | | | |
| Threat Protection & Risk Signals that indicate risk during registration or login | | | | | | | | |
| Directory A directory to store user profile information | | | | | | | | |
| Availability/ | 99.99% | 99.99% | 99.99% | 99.99% | Unclear | 99.9% | 99.95% | 99.99% |
1 Ping Identity is a combination of both Ping Identity and ForgeRock.
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