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CA Identity Suite [EOL] vs Oracle Identity Governance comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

CA Identity Suite [EOL]
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle Identity Governance
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
72
Ranking in other categories
User Provisioning Software (6th), Identity Management (IM) (10th), Mobile Identity (1st), Identity Governance Administration (IGA) (6th)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user732822 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Manager at Future systems
The identity manager, governance, and identity portal features are especially valuable and helpful
I found all of the features to be quite valuable, especially the identity manager, governance, and identity portal. All of the features are helpful The connectors for the identity and governance part could use some improvement, by way of adding more areas. They need more development to cover more…
Ziad Khawam - PeerSpot reviewer
Company Manager at cloudbreak
Identity workflows have delivered strong governance but remain complex to install and customize
I would describe the installation of Oracle Identity Governance on-premises as quite complex. Very complex. To install the product, it took us maybe three or four days to get it up and running just to go through the installation procedures. I repeated the same exercise in 2017 because I also migrated from 11c to 12c. That was the migration in 2017 that I managed. The migration took a long time. It took two to three years to be able to literally migrate all the code that I had. So it was quite complex. To summarize it quickly, I would describe the product as complete, very powerful, and very capable. However, it is extremely complex because Oracle relies on their own framework to customize and develop and fine-tune the functionalities. It is not Java, it is not some public framework. It is Java-based more or less, but it has their own Oracle framework for development and that makes the product quite complex to harness.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the re-certification campaign capabilities."
"I found all of them quite valuable, especially the identity manager, governance, and identity portal. All the features are helpful."
"Easy and quick integration of CA Identity Suite with company systems improves security and provides a quicker ROI by decreasing the time we need to spend on these tasks."
"Additionally, the CA Identity Suite was able to replace our old mainframe based identity suite with a newer generation, more rapid development tool, which helped us to achieve our roadmap and reach the destination which we were looking for."
"Technical support is quite efficient, and if we have a very critical issue, all we need to do is raise it."
"You can spin up IDM or Identity Suite in a few hours and it is ready to use."
"Single Sign-On is valuable."
"I find the UI much simpler than the previous version."
"We are a pharmaceutical company; we use E-Business Suite and Identity Manager to bind into E-Business Suite, giving us the ability to carry out an e-signature so that we can track and trace anything going on in the database back to what user signed for a particular step in a manufacturing sequence and when they signed for it."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Identity Governance is user lifecycle management. Certification is also a valuable feature of the solution. Oracle Identity Governance allows you to assign who has access to what, which is its basic feature."
"Understanding what a customer is using, what they are looking for, and allowing permissions is a challenge. We use the information we get in order to understand the behavior of the customer beyond the security and to understand what they have been doing in the last month. It's a nice way to understand what is attracting the customer and what they are clicking. That could be implemented by using this kind of application."
"Its most valuable feature is its scalability."
"It brings centralized management of all the identities for the E-Business Suite; that's the central feature."
"The user-level management has improved when you have this solution in place."
"OIM is the right product and it is a good fit for enterprise deployments."
"What I like most about Oracle Identity Governance is that it is a very flexible tool. It allows you to do any customization on Java as it is built on Java and you can write any customization code using Java. I also like that Oracle Identity Governance is pretty much stable. In my company, there are a lot of users, so my company prefers this solution."
 

Cons

"If there was a seamless integration between portal and IdentityMinder, then that would help a bit."
"For Identity Manager, I’d give it 5/10 process wise it’s stable but they need to come up with better instructions on how to integrate it with different types of data sources."
"The documentation can be improved because sometimes we have some technical issues that were not documented and we have to rely on support to solve them."
"I would like synchronization when a mapping is added between end points. Currently, the synchronization is not complete. It would be great if this synchronization happened immediately."
"I would like synchronization when a mapping is added between end points. Currently, the synchronization is not complete."
"The key feature I would like to see is close loop remediation, which is in conjunction with CA Identity Governance today."
"If there was a seamless integration between portal and IdentityMinder, then that would help a bit, but I don't see many challenges yet."
"The connectors for the identity and governance part could use some improvement, by way of adding more areas."
"Everybody's been moving onto the cloud, and it's not a cloud-based solution."
"Our issues with the solution have to do with the integration with different applications."
"The implementation process for Oracle Identity Governance is also a bit more complex than how you implement competitor products, and this is another area for improvement in the solution."
"Simplify and add more functionality to Identity Cloud Service (IDCS)."
"In this area, I don't see great support."
"I did not give it 10 out of 10 because of the time it takes for new versions to mature before they are bug free. The product is excessively resource intensive (i.e., hardware requirements) especially in the later versions."
"I would like to see automation in the solution. We need also integration with the Identity Manager. The solution needs to improve in the application integrations part. It also needs to focus on application deployment as well."
"My contacts with them have been very poor in terms of resolution and complication."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Price-wise, the tool is a little bit costly."
"Oracle Identity Governance is an expensive solution."
"The cost of support and upgrading to the next release are both expensive."
"Oracle licenses are expensive. I suggest making pricing and licensing decisions that align with architectural requirements and the project's budget."
"The price is based on the number of users per year."
"The licensing cost for Oracle Identity Governance is very high, so I'd rate it two out of five."
"The licensing is expensive."
"Oracle Identity Governance is expensive."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise46
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Identity Governance?
Whether Oracle Identity Governance is affordable or slightly expensive depends on the category. For a small-scale company or organization, I don't think it will be useful, but for a large-scale ent...
What needs improvement with Oracle Identity Governance?
I would describe the installation of Oracle Identity Governance on-premises as quite complex. Very complex. To install the product, it took us maybe three or four days to get it up and running just...
What is your primary use case for Oracle Identity Governance?
I am currently working on Oracle Identity Governance and Oracle Access Manager (OAM), as I am specialized in the IAM sphere and working on these two particular products from Oracle. I have implemen...
 

Also Known As

IdMLogic SIGMA
Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle IAM, Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite
 

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