Keycloak gives you the freedom to set up and operate your authentication management system following your needs. However, this requires trained security specialists as well as developers who are not only capable of setting up an IAM platform but also responsible of constantly managing and scaling the platform over time. Additionally, you need to implement the underlying IT infrastructure and maintain it over time.
Engity is offering you this managed as a service.
When having started a project you thought that you would not need support and were ready to manage the Keycloak platform yourself? While scaling, new questions and challenges came up regularly? Getting ad-hoc support has been difficult. Buying a subscription-based support model for 24/7 operations over the full 365 days year cycle is often expensive. Even with such support, you need to have own resources working 365 days to manage and implement updates and respond to challenges.
As hassle-free fully managed service, Engity is taking over this support and is also responding for you to security challenges and updates the solution regularly.
If you are satisfied with a standard roll-out, Keycloak may be enough for you. However, if you want e.g. to customize the look and feel of your login experience, to set certain access rules or to differentiate pricing depending on user login, Keycloak might not be the right option as it requests much investment in time and engineering resources as there is no clear customization handbook available to explain what needs to be done.
Engity instead is fully customizable within the look and feel, rule set and pricing. Additional flexibility is provided by the so called multi-tenants environments which allow to integrate several databases within one database despite having the same functionalities. Additionally, Engity is always at your service to support you in customizing your solution.
Keycloak offers a standard feature set for authentication out of the box. Even though features provided as username/password , Social Logins or Single Sign-On (SSO) are generally enough to start, a project may fall short over time if the customer is not willing to invest. Often a substantial amount of development work is needed to implement access features like multi-factor authentication or other login mechanisms
Engity provides an end-to-end platform with all classical and future authentication functionalities, e.g. username/password, Magic Link, Passkeys, Biometrics, Social Login, Single Sign-on, Multi-Factor-Authentication, etc. On top of this feature-rich portfolio, Engity offers some innovative solutions, e.g. multi-tenants environments or authentication without the need for an e-amil account. If a customer needs another authentication method tailored to their needs, Engity has already provided such innovative features.
If starting a project, scalability is most of the times not a real issue. However, when a project is growing the infrastructural set-up is often getting more complicated over-time. We heard from many CTOs who have used Keycloak’s toolset that the hardest thing about using Keycloak has been to scale the platform with the company’s growth.
Engity is providing a fully scalable solution which automatically grows with your needs.
Engity is a best-in-class Identity Provider which offer a GDPR compliant, fully managed, customizable, and fully scalable authentication solution as a service. Contrary to Keycloak’s open-source approach with no support, no operations, limited feature set, limited customization and scalability by the developing open source community, Engity offers a feature-rich IAM solution. This comes together with a forward looking customer support, a wide variety of customization services including an extensive implementation function as well as a full management and maintenance of the customers IT instances. Ensuring the continuous scalability together with the customer’s needs goes without saying. On top of this, Engity is ready to develop new features in cooperation with the customer to stay an innovative leader in the industry. Summarized, we take over all your authentication challenges and provide you with an hassle-free solution.
With growing needs and increasing operational complexity, Keycloak users often want to move to a managed Software-as-a-Service authentication solution.
Engity can help you migrate from Keycloak to Engity without any problems. Depending on your current setup and future needs, the migration path will be tailored to your requirements, but may look something like this:
