We performed a comparison between Okta Workforce Identity and PingFederate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"They have good push authentications."
"The most valuable features depend on a customer's needs. Our customers generally find multi-factor authentication very useful."
"We face no challenges in integrating the product with our legacy systems."
"Okta integrates well with other solutions. Once you have integrated an application into Okta and onboarded a user, they will be onboarded for just-in-time provisioning."
"This solution has a lot of capabilities and features."
"We can automate the process of adding users to Okta if they are activated in Active Directory, or if they are added to the database of applications or Active Directory in the last couple of days."
"It made things a lot easier, especially with passwords."
"The support for YubiKey is really good because you don't actually have to type in your username and password."
"The most valuable feature is multifactor authentication."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"PingFederate is very flexible. We can do many customizations, and it also provides an SDK to tailor it to our specific requirements. There are also numerous plugins available. I've worked with tools like ForgeRock and Okta, but I find PingFederate to be the most customizable."
"PingFederate gives you granular control over the settings. There are many options for fine-tuning policies."
"It only facilitates provisioning and not de-provisioning."
"The only area of concern in the solution stems from the fact that my company needs some help regarding the setup phase from a partner."
"A room for improvement in Okta Workforce Identity is its price. It could be cheaper. The biggest benefit of the solution is that everything works securely without extra steps, so you're saving on your workforce's time and effort because your applications work smoothly and securely, but you'd need to pay some amount of money for that. Another area that could be improved, though not necessarily regarding Okta Workforce Identity, is the SSO applications because so many of the source applications charge extra money to put the SSO to work, which means you have to buy a more expensive license. Nowadays, SSO is a mainstream functionality and it should be out-of-the-box in those applications because it's so easy to set up."
"SSO and MFA for improved end-user experience, and protection against password spray attacks, account password self-service."
"It can have more API integrations."
"Its pricing needs improvement."
"Therefore, if you have 10 million users, that's almost 100 million, so it is costly."
"RESTful Web Service calls and their response seem a bit slow."
"PingFederate's UI could be streamlined. They have recently made several improvements, but it's still too complex. It's a common complaint. The configuration should be simplified because the learning curve is too steep."
"Currently, the main integration is SAML-based, but other integration methodologies need to be supported."
"It requires some expertise to set up and manage."
"Notifications and monitoring are two areas with shortcomings in the solution that need improvement."
Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 4th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 58 reviews while PingFederate is ranked 10th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 4 reviews. Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.4, while PingFederate is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PingFederate writes " A highly stable tool offering extremely helpful technical support to its users". Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud Identity, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Saviynt and Auth0, whereas PingFederate is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Symantec Siteminder, PingID, Microsoft Active Directory and CyberArk Identity. See our Okta Workforce Identity vs. PingFederate report.
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