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MicroStrategy Usher vs Okta Platform comparison

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Categories and Ranking

MicroStrategy Usher
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Mobile Identity (2nd)
Okta Platform
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
126
Ranking in other categories
Single Sign-On (SSO) (1st), Authentication Systems (3rd), Privileged Access Management (PAM) (3rd), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (2nd), Access Management (2nd), ZTNA as a Service (3rd), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (1st), AI IT Support (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

MicroStrategy Usher and Okta Platform aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. MicroStrategy Usher is designed for Mobile Identity and holds a mindshare of 18.4%, up 16.7% compared to last year.
Okta Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS), holds 8.5% mindshare, down 11.8% since last year.
Mobile Identity Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MicroStrategy Usher18.4%
Oracle Identity Governance23.3%
Salesforce Identity20.7%
Other37.599999999999994%
Mobile Identity
Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Okta Platform8.5%
Microsoft Entra ID16.6%
Google Cloud Identity10.6%
Other64.3%
Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

AO
System Implementer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Improved the way to exploit and analyze data and offers no interruptions in service when running
The most valuable aspect of the solution is it's non-stop application. It continues to run so there are no interruptions to customers. It's also able to reach many people. The solution has good analysis features to make sure there's good sizing (so that it's not too big or too small) and allows room for growth if a company needs it.
SN
Identity and Access Management Specialist at a university with 10,001+ employees
Automated lifecycle management has cut onboarding times and now drives secure, clean access
Although I am a fan of Okta Platform overall, there are areas where it could improve security outcomes and reduce admin friction. My top improvement areas include the system log and analytics upgrade, which are great for point troubleshooting, but trending and root cause analysis across large tenants still require exporting to SIEM. Verbose queries and long-range retention costs can add up. Additionally, while certificate rotations are better than most, the process is still manual for busy portfolios, especially concerning multi-SP SAML certificate rotations and app metadata drift. Two more buckets of potential improvements for Okta Platform involve user experience and security. There is the issue of push fatigue and prompt sprawl, where users receive multiple prompts across different apps and sessions. I arrived at the rating of eight because the core controls are strong and reliable, but a few operational UX and UI gaps prevent it from being rated higher. The reasons for not giving it a nine or ten include ongoing issues concerning safety and change safety, the complexity of group rules and mappings, and the lack of robustness in policy management. Additionally, there remains a need for more manual involvement than necessary, especially for large portfolios and dual certificate rotation, along with proactive SP data metadata validation.

Quotes from Members

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 ease of development in MicroStrategy."
"Most of my users are non-technical and usually a one-day hands-on session with the software allows them to easily begin to become analysts instead of report writers."
"The self-service and the dossier components as well as the hyper intelligence."
"It has a robust engine compared to other BI tools available in the market."
"The mobile identity features are great."
"The hyper-intelligence is the solution's most valuable feature."
"It allows self-service business intelligence, empowering the users and decreasing their dependency on the IT people."
"Overall, the solution is an easy product to use."
"The feature that is most valuable to me is the automated user provisioning that we set up using Okta as a major part of that process."
"Okta is a very compliant solution, and it is easy to deploy."
"Implementing Okta has reduced a lot of IT work; I would say it saves hours and hours of work when it comes to single sign-on and the same for user onboarding, offboarding, and group settings."
"It made things a lot easier, especially with passwords."
"Okta has more when it comes to the policy level. It has distinctive features where you can do a mix and combination to have users access applications for various business cases."
"Its integration components are most valuable. It integrates with everything in some way. There are some products, such as O365 or AD, with which it completely and 100% integrates. So, you can seamlessly create accounts across the board with some of these products. For some of the products with which it doesn't completely integrate, you can do some kind of interfacing."
"The most valuable feature of Okta Customer Identity is its SSO because it's very easy to use and it's user-friendly. Even the admin portal of the solution is very user-friendly, and you can walk through it with ease. Okta Customer Identity is not a complicated solution, and even the workflow automation feature is very, very easy to understand."
"Account creation and disabling people on time has made our team more productive."
 

Cons

"The user interface needs improvement. It needs to be more intuitive."
"In the dossier section, they have something called documents, which is very good, but they are implementing something called dossiers also. If we compare it with the BI tools like Tableau, the canvas which MicroStrategy provides is not that great. The formatting options are limited is dossiers. In terms of formatting and making the reports more presentable, it's lagging a little bit behind."
"Initial setup of the tool was very complex and challenging."
"Visual Insight/Desktop is trailing behind competitors such as Tableau or QlikView, which have more functionality."
"The documentation of how to make different connections to different databases needs to be more centralized."
"The Web Intelligence graphic capabilities can be improved."
"The pricing needs improvement."
"Right now, we have to apply many workarounds for the solution to do what we need it to do. There are a lot of bugs."
"I would not say Okta Platform is a cost-effective solution. It is an enterprise-grade solution, so it is comparatively on the higher side in terms of cost."
"If that phone or device gets stolen, somebody else can log into the system using that code."
"While there are limitations associated with Okta Platform regarding specific features and usage caps based on licensing, I personally have not encountered major issues."
"Okta should have at least a local peering partner for countries that align with or comply with GDPR, so there are no compliance or audit questions."
"Okta Platform could be improved by offering more out-of-the-box templates for advanced workflows and making the administration console faster when searching through a very large group of users."
"Better multi-factor authentication integration and support, it's around v2.0 and will need a 3.0 release for maturity."
"To improve Okta Platform, I suggest simplifying web manuals to be more understandable for non-technical users, making it easier for them to navigate both the API and user interface levels."
"The solution lacks an on-premises deployment model so it can't offer a hybrid solution. It would be ideal if clients had options that weren't just cloud-based."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Okta Customer Identity is not an expensive solution."
"The price of Okta Workforce Identity is reasonable."
"The licensing model is fine for general service usage. However, the charges for API features and API tokens can be quite high."
"Workforce Identity is well-priced."
"The price of the solution is fair for what it offers."
"This solution is costly. Pricing is decent if you have less users, but it significantly goes up the more users you have, with its cost not justified."
"It has a yearly subscription. As compared to its competitors, it is quite expensive. It also has a complex licensing model."
"Pricing might be high, but it comes down when the number of people using the product goes up."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business53
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise64
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Okta Workforce Identity?
Pricing for Okta is reasonably not that much, however, I don't have access to the commercial aspect.
What needs improvement with Okta Workforce Identity?
Currently, in Okta Workforce Identity we get the two-digit authentication code. Instead of getting the two-digit authentication code, if we had an option to do fingerprint verification, that would ...
What is your primary use case for Okta Workforce Identity?
I don't have many details about Okta Workforce Identity. I use the tool just to sign in to different applications that we have. We basically set up Okta Workforce Identity in our mobile phone. We d...
 

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Okta Customer Identity, Workforce Identity
 

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Sample Customers

Target, Hilton Worldwide, Gucci, Four Seasons, Facebook, Coach, Zurich, Adidas Group, eHarmony, Sonic Automotive
FedEx, Zoom, Takeda, Lululemon Athletica, GrunHub, jetBlue, McKensson, Bain & Company, Engie, Peloton, Sonos, T-Mobile, Hewlett Packard, MGM Resorts, Ally Financial, Priceline, Albertsons, Itercom, Classy, FICO, Kensho, Live Nation, Drata, Rotary, and others.
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