Microsoft AD Identity Management is clear Winner!

Zielbox conulting team used malitple Identity management solutions but AD and AAD are best in breed having all the features. It brings great integration with features so we only recommend AD and AAD in comparison to other product. Direct cost will look little higher in comparison to other vendors but if you see overall features and flexibility then ofcourse Microsoft Solutions are winner here.

Identity Management platform plays a very important role and a key component in our application and infrastructure management.

-> Microsoft captures the flag here and holds the major market share.
-> Microsoft AD holds the similar market share in the On-Prem world.
-> Azure AD is extension of Micrsoft AD to handle the growing needs of the Cloud market to handle SaaS based and other web app needs.
-> You can achive MFA using few single clicks.
-> AAD gives you the App Gallery functionality where you can host your multiple apps on single page to offer your services.
-> You can integrate your On-Prem AD with AAD as extension to full fill your growing needs.
-> AD Trust relationship building among different domains are also easy that fosters the culture of business collaboration and helps in Fedarated Authentication for SSO(Single Sign On).
-> You can easily get Tenant ID, Client ID, Client Secret and Scope(access level) from AAD portal and can easily configure in your Apps using various programming language specific MSAL Library to build your apps with solid Autentication and Authorization.
-> Microsoft Graph API exposes almost everything to you and you can leverage it in integration with AAD to get insight into your enterprise and build metric boards.
-> You can buy AAD as independent product besides buying Azure account or subscription. AAD is just plugged into Azure as a Service.
-> Technically Managed Identities are just Service Principal account of AAD.
-> You can migrate your Azure Subscription attached to one Domain to different domain with proper planning and only Managed Identities are the area where you need to be cautious as other wise it is just one click job to migrate to different domain.
-> You can easily build conditional Access like deny access from non supported location, client type etc.
-> AAD helps in building Zero Trust Model.
-> Authentication and Authorization are 2 major piece in Auth discussion and OpenID and OpenAuth are open standards talking in this category.
-> Microsoft Entra product category helps in multi cloud identity and access management.