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Okta Workforce Identity vs Oracle Identity Governance comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
8.0
Okta Workforce Identity boosts productivity with enhanced security and automation, saving time but ROI varies with company size.
Sentiment score
6.4
Oracle Identity Governance offers flexibility, but mixed ROI due to high costs and varied performance improvements compared to competitors.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.4
Okta Workforce Identity's support is generally praised as fast, effective, and reliable, despite occasional issues with responsiveness and clarity.
Sentiment score
5.5
Oracle Identity Governance's customer service varies, with regional differences affecting response times; forums often provide better solutions.
They are very supportive; they just open a ticket, and they support us very professionally.
The team is not very knowledgeable and takes too long to respond.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Okta Workforce Identity offers scalable solutions for large enterprises, ensuring ease of expansion and adaptability across cloud and on-premises environments.
Sentiment score
6.9
Oracle Identity Governance is scalable for large enterprises but may face performance challenges and cost concerns under heavy loads.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.2
Okta Workforce Identity offers reliable performance with 99.9% uptime, minor issues related to internet dependency, and responsive support.
Sentiment score
6.1
Oracle Identity Governance's stability varies, with mixed user feedback on performance, requiring adjustments and ongoing maintenance for optimal functioning.
 

Room For Improvement

Okta Workforce Identity needs better integration, usability, lifecycle management, support, pricing, and enhanced API capabilities for third-party tools.
Oracle Identity Governance faces complexity, lacking integration, features, support, and cloud capabilities, making it resource-intensive with usability 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.
Incorporating AI to reduce manual work would be beneficial.
 

Setup Cost

Okta Workforce Identity's pricing is considered competitive yet costly, with scalability benefits but improvements needed for small and medium businesses.
Oracle Identity Governance is costly for SMEs, with high licensing and implementation fees, but fiscal year-end discounts are available.
They sell the solution cheaply, but setting up and maintaining it becomes very expensive.
 

Valuable Features

Okta Workforce Identity offers user-friendly identity management with seamless integration, robust security, and streamlined provisioning and deprovisioning.
Oracle Identity Governance offers scalable, customizable identity management with role-based access, user provisioning, and extensive integration capabilities.
You can only log in if you have the access, which protects the applications by avoiding cross-site scripting.
Okta enables multi-factor authentication, which enhances security, especially for SaaS applications.
The features I find most effective in Oracle Identity Governance include size and scale management, which is good for large organizations.
 

Categories and Ranking

Okta Workforce Identity
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
Single Sign-On (SSO) (3rd), Authentication Systems (5th), Privileged Access Management (PAM) (6th), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (2nd), Access Management (2nd), ZTNA as a Service (10th)
Oracle Identity Governance
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
68
Ranking in other categories
User Provisioning Software (8th), Identity Management (IM) (17th), Mobile Identity (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Identity and Access Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Okta Workforce Identity is designed for Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) and holds a mindshare of 13.3%, up 13.3% compared to last year.
Oracle Identity Governance, on the other hand, focuses on Identity Management (IM), holds 1.9% mindshare, down 3.0% since last year.
Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)
Identity Management (IM)
 

Featured Reviews

Tor Nordhagen - PeerSpot reviewer
Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced
The drawback of this solution is that in our shops, many staff members sometimes have to be borrowed from one shop to another and the solution does not really support having multiple roles. The user experience we would like to have when a person works in shop A which pays their salary is that they should have access to pretty much everything. Maybe you have somebody who is a manager in that shop A, he should be able to order new wear, he should be able to change the pricing, he should be able to empty the cash registry, and ship it to the bank. But when for instance, in COVID, people had to fill in for people in shops where a lot of people were sick, then they had to actually use user accounts of people that work in shop B. If you were employed in shop A, you could not work in shop B without borrowing somebody else's user ID and password. Which is really bad. We haven't been able to work around that and Okta Workforce Identity does not have a solution for it. We are now piloting their identity governance solution. Obviously, it's easy to give somebody access, give them an account, and give them roles, but it's hard to maintain that. For example, if you moved from, say working in a shop to working in a warehouse. But why do you still have all this shop access? The solution has until now not had anything to really support the process of taking away access. But now we are in a better release program of Okta's identity governance solution. Although it's very basic, the solution has started on a journey, but identity governance is something that Okta Workforce Identity really needs to improve. The ability or the options in the solution for changing the look and feel are not good enough because in our partner portal, essentially what they have is an ugly admin interface. The admin interface is good enough for us technical people because that's all we need. We work with the product and we're able to see the data but when it comes to presenting the service portal, Okta Workforce Identity does not have any capabilities really for making it look pretty. To add branding and different graphical user interface elements than Okta basic for essentially delegated admin for the business-to-business portal is horrifying because you're essentially using the tech admin. The only option we had and used, was to take the tech admin console and strip it. so that a vendor that has some goods that are sold in the shops, when they want to add a user on their side, say a driver or a packer on their side who should know how much they've packed in a truck to come to our warehouse, then the user interface that this vendor is using, these functional people will then have to use an extremely basic user interface.
Amimesh Anand - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers reliability through features associated with RBAC
Upgrading and making changes to the product is very difficult. It is difficult when you are upgrading the product because sometimes you cannot directly upgrade from one version to another version. You have to go to the lower version and then upgrade to the higher version, which is the biggest drawback of Oracle products. There are no additional features in the tool currently, and it has been the same for the last ten years. I want to see AI features in the tool so it becomes easy for implementers. There should be a change in the installation and deployment part, which is very heavy, due to which the team requires a lot of time, like two to three weeks. It should be easy to implement the tool in two or three days.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
7%
Educational Organization
79%
Computer Software Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
4%
Healthcare Company
1%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Okta Workforce Identity?
Okta has introduced the Universal Directory. It has custom attribute capability and user permissions to read/write on their profiles or hide them. Profile sources and identity profile sourcing are ...
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?
Okta should have at least a local presense for countries that align with or comply with GDPR or data sovereignty, so there are no compliance or audit questions. There are integration issues with Of...
What do you like most about Oracle Identity Governance?
Role-based access control (RBAC) has been crucial for role-based management in my current company. Granular access restrictions based on role-based policies were beneficial.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Identity Governance?
They sell the solution cheaply, but setting up and maintaining it becomes very expensive. The initial pricing becomes insignificant due to high ongoing expenses. Overall, I would rate it a five out...
What needs improvement with Oracle Identity Governance?
The solution requires too much infrastructure and should be less code-heavy. It should have more automatic deployments and automatic configurations. Incorporating AI to reduce manual work would be ...
 

Also Known As

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

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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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