We performed a comparison between Okta Workforce Identity and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Okta Workforce Identity is easy to use and has a lot of components."
"I like the tool's workflows, which is user-friendly. It can integrate with different applications. I particularly like that users are delighted to access their applications without the hassle of entering their username and password each time. It truly enhances user-friendliness."
"Other than Okta being an easy and awesome integration tool, one of the best features it has is the provisioning and deprovisioning, which makes management way easier. You don't need to be too technical to understand how it works."
"The provisioning functionality has been the most valuable. This solution has good performance, fast integration and is very responsive."
"A solution that's easy to use, stable, and reliable."
"The solution so far has been very stable."
"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."
"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."
"It has considerably reduced the amount of time that new users would take to join into the organization. Previously, it was a lengthy, manual process because it's a very secure environment, where they need to verify the user before they can actually grant him a user-ID and password. Integrating with the built-in custom application, and exposing CA Single Sign On to the internet, we were able to get the employees onboard. The time that we gained was: previously it would generally take from four to eight weeks for each employee, we brought it to one to two days."
"The Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that."
"I liked the debugging part. There are only two files (trace file and log file) that you need to look into while performing debugging, and the logs give you the exact info on where and what needs to be fixed."
"The solution is easy to use for our managers."
"A valuable feature of Siteminder is the way it handles bulk traffic. The features it has, in terms of routing the traffic and load balancing, are good."
"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"The most valuable feature is that it meets the requirements of the customer. You have a lot of features in the product. Every product has them, but the question is, are these products going to meet the requirement of the customer?"
"Okta Workforce Identity could improve the way passwords are reset and how it interfaces with Microsoft."
"The pricing could be improved."
"It only facilitates provisioning and not de-provisioning."
"Support could be a bit faster."
"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 training is too costly."
"Its pricing needs improvement."
"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."
"The tech support has not been very good for us so we don't use them anymore. We have had some issues. Nobody is perfect."
"We're currently unable to find information about if the solution can do a full implementation with SQL. Some better and more accessible documentation for new users or those curious about the product would be helpful."
"I would like to see a move towards the newer technologies, which is what we are doing right now. I think that's in the roadmap that's coming, in the 12.8 and 14 releases, but we would like to have it sooner than later."
"The support could be faster."
"The initial setup was complex, painful. But that is to be expected of any new setup. When you're a big bank like us, any kind of migration to a new product is hard. I expect it to be painful, and it was painful. But it's not something that you can avoid."
"As we are moving in to the mobility space, this is where we really see SiteMinder and their other product really come together to provide a solution base to a different area where the IoT is coming, the different business communications are happening. All of those things require authentication and we really want to see this product grow into that role."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
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Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 3rd in Access Management with 54 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 16th in Access Management. Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.4, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. 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 Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Google Cloud Identity, Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Saviynt and OneLogin by One Identity, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, PingID, Microsoft Entra ID and PingAccess.
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