EmpowerID Identity Governance vs Soffid Identity Governance Administration

EmpowerID Identity Governance manages identity lifecycles and access across cloud, on-premises, and SAP environments. It handles joiner, mover, and leaver changes, access requests, certifications, reviews, roles, delegated administration, and separation-of-duties remediation. The platform continuously compares actual access with policy, applies governed changes, and records policy, approval, fulfillment, remediation, and verification evidence. Automatic recalculation and fulfillment updates compliant access as people change roles or leave. EmpowerID lists more than 300 pre-built connectors, including Active Directory, Azure or Entra ID, SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, AWS, Oracle, and Windows Server. Supported protocols include SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, SCIM 2.0, and OAuth 2.0. The Identity Fabric can run as SaaS or in customer data centers, private, public, or sovereign clouds in dedicated single-tenant environments. It is self-hosted and web-accessible. Pricing is on request. Cloud Identity Service customers need the Cloud Gateway app on at least one on-premises Windows computer.

Soffid Identity Governance Administration (IGA) manages identity lifecycles, including account creation, changes, and deletion. Its governance tools include access requests, approval workflows, certification campaigns, recertification, and audit trails. IGA supports access policies, role-based access control, least privilege, and segregation of duties. It manages internal and external users as well as non-human identities such as applications, APIs, and services. Soffid describes prebuilt connectors for directories, cloud apps, and HR systems, along with a framework for custom integrations. Examples in its JSON REST connector documentation include Jira, Office 365, AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle Field Service Cloud. Deployment can be on customer servers or as a cloud-based solution. Soffid states it holds ENS High and Common Criteria EAL2 + ALC CCL certifications for identity management and names GDPR and SOX among regulations its capabilities address. Pricing is on request, though binary components are free with registration and source code downloads require no registration. Listed platforms are API, Linux, self-hosted, web, and Windows.