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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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"You can spin up IDM or Identity Suite in a few hours and it is ready to use."
"I found all of the features to be quite valuable, especially the identity manager, governance, and identity portal."
"Single Sign-On is valuable."
"The most important thing with CA is that they go beyond their capability, beyond their commitments, to make the customer successful."
"The most valuable feature is the speed of implementation. Now with the Virtual Appliance, it's much faster. In the past, to implement this kind of solution, it would take so many weeks. Now, it takes one day, or minutes, and we have the deployment ready."
"I found all of them quite valuable, especially the identity manager, governance, and identity portal. All the features are helpful."
"I find the UI much simpler than the previous version."
"My favorite feature of the suite is, of course, the provisioning aspect of it, as it allows you to provision accounts within minutes instead of waiting weeks, which is a huge benefit for business at the end of the day so that you can get your workers up and running in a timely fashion."
"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."
"Oracle Identity manager is the best tool in the market for access managers."
"One thing for sure, is that it is the most comprehensive solution out there in the market."
"Customer Identity Management is a challenge that we are working on in our company and I think it's the star of the Identity Management space."
"For our customers it saves time, helps the user management and after implemented the company’s help desk is trained to support their employees."
"There are many valuable features, most notably Single Sign-On, Identity Management, and Identity Connector Framework, which can be implemented to provision with diverse interfaces."
"Good features are the RBAC and UI customization."
"The most valuable features in Oracle Identity Governance are identity and access management."
 

Cons

"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 target applications."
"However, although it's a lot easier than some other tools that we've worked with, we always want more training."
"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."
"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 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. Then there are issues around getting the architecture, but it's challenging to get the architecture."
"The key feature I would like to see is close loop remediation, which is in conjunction with CA Identity Governance today."
"I think CA is too heavy and can't do some things out-of-the-box, so I can't tell you that I love Identity Suite, because right now I don't."
"If there was a seamless integration between portal and IdentityMinder, then that would help a bit."
"Most areas need improvements, all the way from the GUI to core functionality, logging, traceability, configuration, and bugs causing crashes."
"They need to improve their backup strategy."
"I have yet to see its full functionality exercised in my organization."
"The solution requires too much infrastructure and should be less code-heavy."
"In customer identity management, the product suffers performance issues when scaled up to large numbers of users."
"Dealing with Oracle support is separate from the product team, and dealing with support can be very challenging a lot of times."
"The management of workflows could use some improvement as well as the overall performance of the product."
"The most important point is that Oracle hasn't adjusted itself to the current market, they are still doing the same thing they've done for the last 10 years."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."
"Price-wise, the tool is a little bit costly."
"The price of the implementation of Oracle Identity Governance is more of a concern than the cost of the solution. The effort that you have to do to put the solution in place is higher than the license cost."
"The licensing is expensive."
"The licensing cost for Oracle Identity Governance is very high, so I'd rate it two out of five."
"Oracle Identity Governance is an expensive solution."
"I do not know specific pricing but the product is expensive when compared to other OIM products."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
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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