Clerk vs. Microsoft Entra External ID

Best suited for - Improving the conversions and users funnel, building actionable insights for user journey, deciding the performance of features, building personalised recommendations on search results and emails. Less appropriate for - Creating automated campaigns for user targeting, triggering and creating communication flows for user engagement and product journey

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It is not easy to calculate the actual ROI due to the difficult quantification of all factors, but it certainly contributed a lot in protecting, monitoring and controlling access to our system. It also made it much easier to detect vulnerable external users with simple and "easy to hack" passwords they use on multiple apps.

• Easy to integrate - perfect solution for search and recommendations.
• Allow website recommendations, website search and email recommendations, that help day after day obtain more data and use it to view the best product for every single customer.
• Improving conversion rate and the quality of the customer journey on the eCommerce.

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• One of the things that Microsoft Entra External ID does really well is creating user logins, accounts and profile. It is very easy to create them, manage them and delete them. It is fast and reliant.
• Limit access or authorization feature. We can allow different levels of authorization and access. So that not all the employees would have access to all the data. Only some relaible employees would have access and power to change anything.
• Mutli factor authentication feature is also a really good feature to secure data. Even overseas vendors need MFS to login which gives double protection to our data.

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• A function to export dashboard reports will help ease building analytics.
• It's a highly technical tool. One has to have very good technical knowledge to set it up.
• Build more payment options other than the credit card.

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• Troubleshooting diagnostic logs effectively requires VS Code
• Group and role management requires additional effort
• The programming model (XML) could use some developer experience love

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I find it easy to use. The usability is great. Every department uses it for different purposes. Everyone access information relevant to them. Since we've started to use this we have seen less security incidents.

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The cost of the contract is much better than the competitors. Customised options and packages to select from. Others weren't providing more options basis the usage and master user roles requirements. Provided free demo to help build confidence and train the team for using Clerk tool. Clerk customer solutions team is easily reachable and helps promptly resolve any issues.

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The best selling points for Azure Active Directory B2C that stand out from the competition are:

• Pricing, both at small and very large scale (and in between), is hard to beat
• The seamless integration with Azure should make Azure Active Directory B2C the first choice of CIAM platform for anyone building on Azure
• Full compatibility with Azure AD's audit log format means Azure Active Directory B2C can be easily integrated into your SIEM tooling

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• Improved user conversion by 20%
• Increased revenues by 15%
• Reduced reliance of operations for data tracking and analysis

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• Having monthly active users billing was cost-effective.
• Helped with the IT support that was already managing the Azure platform of the company; this helped to manage the costs better and optimize them.

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