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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
7.7
Okta Workforce Identity boosts efficiency and security, offering significant time savings, improved ROI, and enhanced user satisfaction.
Sentiment score
6.4
Oracle Identity Governance offers customization and efficiency for complex needs but yields mixed financial benefits and operational cost concerns.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.4
Customers praise Okta Workforce Identity for excellent customer service with responsive, knowledgeable support and effective communication, despite occasional delays.
Sentiment score
5.4
Oracle Identity Governance support is inconsistent, often requiring persistence and community help, with mediocre customer service ratings around 6-7/10.
They are very supportive; they just open a ticket, and they support us very professionally.
We had an issue with the Okta Workforce Identity dashboard once in 2023 when we had an outage, but it recovered in a few minutes.
While they are familiar with me, the team is not large enough, which impacts their availability.
The team is not very knowledgeable and takes too long to respond.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Okta Workforce Identity is highly scalable and reliable, ideal for large user bases, despite some business perspective scalability critiques.
Sentiment score
6.9
Oracle Identity Governance is recommended for medium to large enterprises, praised for scalability but may require performance fine-tuning.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.2
Okta Workforce Identity offers exceptional stability with 99.999% uptime, rare downtime, and high user satisfaction ratings for performance.
Sentiment score
6.1
Users report mixed stability with Oracle Identity Governance, highlighting configuration, load management, and server dependency as key factors.
Okta Workforce Identity is a stable product.
 

Room For Improvement

Okta Workforce Identity requires enhanced user provisioning, third-party integration, identity governance, reporting, pricing, on-premises functionality, and documentation.
Oracle Identity Governance requires simplified architecture, better customization, improved integration, and user-friendly interface with lower infrastructure demands.
I believe that if we integrate the workflows section into the main Okta Workforce Identity dashboard, it can be very useful.
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.
Improvements could include making Oracle Identity Governance a simpler plug-and-play product.
 

Setup Cost

Okta's pricing is competitive but costly for large enterprises, with costs depending on user count and additional services.
Oracle Identity Governance is costly and complex, with high implementation expenses, but discounts may be available annually.
They sell the solution cheaply, but setting up and maintaining it becomes very expensive.
Oracle Identity Governance is very expensive.
 

Valuable Features

Okta Workforce Identity offers seamless app integration, automated provisioning, multifactor authentication, and user-friendly management for enhanced identity lifecycle.
Oracle Identity Governance enhances centralized identity management with automated provisioning, analytics, and seamless integration for robust access control and compliance.
You can only log in if you have the access, which protects the applications by avoiding cross-site scripting.
We can automate them as well, and we can provision users, groups, applications, and provision tools based on specific groups as well.
Any API can also be added, making it mature in terms of integrating with other identity providers, particularly Active Directory or Inter ID.
The solution's capabilities in provisioning, de-provisioning, terminations, and transfers are excellent.
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
7.1
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
Single Sign-On (SSO) (3rd), Authentication Systems (6th), Privileged Access Management (PAM) (7th), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (3rd), Access Management (4th), ZTNA as a Service (12th)
Oracle Identity Governance
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
69
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 12.6%, down 13.9% compared to last year.
Oracle Identity Governance, on the other hand, focuses on Identity Management (IM), holds 2.2% mindshare, down 2.9% 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
15%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
7%
Educational Organization
66%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Healthcare Company
2%
 

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?
Oracle Identity Governance is very expensive. Licensing is complex as database product licensing differs from other products, and connectors require separate licensing. There's a need for a combine...
What needs improvement with Oracle Identity Governance?
Oracle Identity Governance ( /categories/identity-management-im ) is complex and heavy from an implementation perspective. The configuration installations require going to the server and making man...
 

Also Known As

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

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Sample Customers

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