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Top 9 SailPoint’s Lifecycle Management Software Alternatives

Tathagata Chakrabarti

15th February, 2023

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Your employees rely on fast technology access to complete their everyday tasks. Thus, it becomes essential for you to deliver rapid and appropriate access balancing productivity and security. To make these tasks easier, an efficient Lifecycle Management Software can be a better solution for you.

SailPoint is one such Lifecycle Management tool that provides an automated approach to provisioning access based on policies you set. It also gives IT teams complete visibility to monitor and manage all access in real time.

But if you are looking for LCM software, is SailPoint the only option available? Would it serve all your user provisioning and deprovisioning purposes?

Well, it might do for some organizations, but it has certain drawbacks you cannot afford to ignore in the long run. We have listed some of these drawbacks.

Drawbacks

• You might waste a lot of time setting up SailPoint. So, why stay stuck?

• It doesn't have a user-friendly interface which can interfere with user experience.

However, you don't have to worry about the advantages or waste time exploring a SailPoint alternative. We got you covered! This blog lists some of the efficient SailPoint alternatives that can benefit your organization in terms of employee efficiency and IT productivity.

List of SailPoint's Lifecycle Management Alternatives

Here are nine tools that can assist IT teams in streamlining the employee lifecycle management process i.e., onboarding and offboarding.

1. Zluri

Zluri, a SaaS management platform, automates an employee's entire lifecycle, i.e., onboarding, mid-lifecycle and offboarding. It allows IT teams/admin to create onboarding workflows with features such as contextual app recommendations and in-app suggestions. This makes it easier for the IT admin to provide application access to the new hire beforehand based on his/her department and role. In addition, you may schedule the onboarding tasks as a playbook and use/reuse it later, whenever required. 

Not just the onboarding, Zluri makes it easier to access the applications that you need during the mid-lifecycle changes. It provides employees with the Employee App Store (EAS), from which employees can ask for any app used within or outside the organization. You no longer need to get stuck with a ticket-based system.

Similarly, Zluri makes the tedious offboarding tasks simpler by automating them. For example, it allows you to create offboarding workflows that can revoke the app access with just a click. 

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.8/5

• Capterra- 4.9/5

2. Torii

Torii is a SaaS management platform that offers onboarding and offboarding capabilities to streamline workflows and eliminate redundancies. Its Autopilot feature provides a smooth employee onboarding experience and automates the offboarding process with a deprovisioning workflow that includes comprehensive reports on Shadow IT, teams, and roles.

Torii speeds up access to applications through its efficient provisioning and deprovisioning process. When a user is offboarded, Torii immediately removes them and can transfer their data to over a thousand applications. In addition, its native HRIS (human resource information system) automatically creates user workflows based on their department, role, and hierarchy within an organization's HR system, streamlining the employee lifecycle management process.

Pros

• It creates transparency between IT, HR, and finance departments.

• It helps in improving audit reporting of the company's applications.

Cons

• Manual upkeep is required as users must initially input SaaS tool data into Torii.

• Some screens may not be mobile-friendly, causing users difficulty accessing the app on their mobile phones.

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.5/5

• Capterra- 5/5

3. Zylo

Zylo is a SaaS management software that helps enterprises optimize their use of applications and save money on unused licenses. With full visibility of all SaaS apps, the platform allows admins to reassign and remove licenses where necessary.

The platform has step-by-step instructions for creating workflows for creating workflows that facilitate collaboration and automate tasks. After the workflows are created, Zylo immediately triggers them with its intelligence by understanding the license type, cost, and usage. This automation rightsizes the SaaS licenses and leaves no room for an unused license and risk of unauthorized access, making employee lifecycle management easy for the IT teams. 

Pros

• It can customize tools' classifications, making organising and managing the apps easier.

• It helps the user with the ability to add additional attributes for tools that help in supporting lifecycle management.

Cons

• The reporting dashboard may not be able to retrieve data from authentication applications.

• Due to insufficient user access details, IT admins fail to grant specific access to individual apps and are forced to either grant access to all apps or none at all.

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.7/5

• Capterra- 4.5/5

4. Productiv

Productiv is a SaaS management tool that provides a deep insight into SaaS usage with the help of its integrations. It manages the SaaS app lifecycle from one place by setting the app lifecycle stage, ownership, metadata, and governance policies under one view. Productiv allows employees to request and access their necessary tools through employee app access and workflows. 

The lifecycle management with productiv is easy to manage. It provides a clear view of the actual usage of the application and the access level of the employees. It also alerts for the renewal and recommendation of discounts and negotiations for the same license type. 

Pros

• It provides SaaS spending of both discovered and non-discovered applications, so it is easy to check all application usage and prevent access breaches.

• It provides complete visibility of SaaS contracts, including information on both in-contract and out-of-contract items.

Cons

• Its user interface could be more intuitive, and some features could be hidden.

• The tool needs more connectors for SaaS applications.

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.8/5

5. Okta Lifecycle Management

Okta lifecycle management software is a platform that automates the provisioning and deprovisioning of SaaS applications for employees, customers, suppliers, and partners. This helps the IT teams to focus on essential tasks and enables quick deprovisioning to free up licenses for new recruits. 

In addition, Okta provides tight security through its user lifecycle process, which includes non-repudiation capability for transactions, logging and timestamping of payments, and easy integration with third-party apps.

Pros

• Adding integrations that are unavailable directly by manually using SAML (security assertion markup language) authentication is easy.

• It allows users to access frequently used tools in one place, making it convenient for IT administrators to grant access to new users.

Cons

• Notifications may not always appear while using other applications on a mobile phone, and the user may need to open the Okta app to view them.

• Resetting a forgotten Okta password can be time-consuming.

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.4/5

• Capterra- 4.6/5

6. Ivanti Identity Director

Ivanti Identity Director is an access management tool that securely automates employee onboarding and offboarding. It allows new employees access on their first day, reducing the waiting time for access approval and automatically adjusting access levels. When an employee's role changes or leaves the organization, Ivanti also revokes their permissions.

It also helps enforce policies and track access logs for easy auditing, which can be essential for ensuring compliance and security. Additionally, the identity warehouse feature allows the tool to gather data from external sources to help manage employee access and permissions more effectively. Overall, it is a valuable tool for organizations that streamline and improve employee access management processes.

Pros

• It facilitates easy collaboration among stakeholders, IT teams, and onboarding teams for efficient access management. This can speed up the onboarding process and protect data.

• It automates the renewal and change of roles based on the defined roles for onboarding to new apps or access levels.

Cons

• It may have integration problems at times.

• It stores all data and credentials on a database that is hosted on a third-party, public cloud, which is risky for organizations.

Customer Rating

• G2- 4/5

• Capterra-4.1/5

7. miniOrange

miniOrange is an IAM (identity access management) solution that allows organizations to securely provision cloud-based and on-site SaaS tools. It simplifies user account creation with its pre-integrated provisioning and deprovisioning capabilities and provides all the required access permissions and rights. 

IT teams can also use miniOrange to schedule provisioning regularly, such as hourly, daily, or weekly, by importing user accounts from a directory..ts access control feature ensures that inactive user access is removed from the identity provider (IDP) and automatically removes users from all enterprise apps.. Additionally, when new staff join the company, miniOrange updates their attributes across all company apps, except for email and username, allowing for efficient employee lifecycle management.

Pros

• The pre-built integrations with various applications make it easy to onboard new employees.

• It offers two-factor authentication for WordPress, which is not a feature that WordPress provides, making employee management more efficient.

Cons

• It doesn't support PHP (hypertext preprocessor) 7.1.2 or higher; thus, login in with PHP 7.1.2 can be difficult.

• It may not be possible to set default values in this application during mapping data. 

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.4/5

• Capterra- 4.3/5

8. Rippling

Rippling is a workforce management platform that automates onboarding employees in SaaS applications. It onboards recruits based on their role, department, seniority, change in the branch, and more on their first day of the job. In addition, the tools simplify the onboarding process by onboarding employees to Saas tools and in different channels within the app, such as Slack and its channels. They also provide access to Dropbox and its folders.

It also helps create a new user account and shortcuts like aliases in Gmail. Rippling also offers automated deprovisioning that revokes employee access to all organization tools when they are offboarded, reducing the workload for IT teams who no longer have to remember to disable inactive accounts.

Pros

• It displays all relevant information on a single dashboard, such as vacation time and medical records, making it easy to manage employees' lifecycles.

• It automates legal work for the company, eliminating the need for manual filing or reliance on cloud services and ensuring that the company is always up to date with its employees' legal status. 

Cons

• Its search function does not recognize certain words, which can be time-consuming.

• It is only compatible with Apple hardware, making it difficult for Windows users to use the system effectively.

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.8/5

• Capterra- 4.9/5

9. JumpCloud

JumpCloud is an SSO and active directory platform with ILM capabilities. The ILM usually uses several tools and other non-integrated processes across HR and IT units. JumpCloud is an open directory software that centrally manages one identity and a single set of credentials per user. It streamlines and automates the process of creating user identities, activating and deactivating accounts, and provisioning and deprovisioning.

Jumpcloud's automation helps with access changes that occur throughout the employee's lifecycle in the organization and terminates the permissions as they leave the company. In addition, the application integrates with enterprise HR tools or connects with other on-premises and cloud directories for providing unified lifecycle management operations. 

Pros

• It helps to manage devices and credentials centrally, ultimately making it easy for users to control the employee lifecycle.

• It has cloud integration for all services that enhances user experience.

Cons

• Installing custom apps may present challenges during onboarding.

• Application integration can be challenging at times.

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.6/5

• Capterra- 4.7/5

About the author

Tathagata Chakrabarti

Tathagata is a Technical Content Writer with 4+ of experience in the SaaS industry. He has a keen eye for research and understanding macro trends in the SaaS & AI-based technology space. He has worked across several marketing & strategy roles in various domains like banking, e-commerce, and education sectors. In his leisure time, Tathagata is a full-time PC gamer.