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One Identity Active Roles vs Oracle Identity Governance comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 6, 2024

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
7.4
One Identity Active Roles enhances efficiency and security, reduces workload and risks, delivering quick returns and increased 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.
One Identity Active Roles provides excellent reporting and auditing functionality, allowing administrators to track permissions, actions, and responsibilities effectively.
It has saved 90% of the time compared to before.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.7
One Identity Active Roles support is responsive and effective, with occasional delays; users rate it between seven and ten.
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.
One Identity's support is great.
I rate customer service and support as a seven because, although they are helpful when needed, there can be delays in responding to tickets and finding necessary fixes.
Sometimes having a fix for a bug takes too much time.
The team is not very knowledgeable and takes too long to respond.
While they are familiar with me, the team is not large enough, which impacts their availability.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
One Identity Active Roles is scalable for large user bases, efficiently managing multiple directories and automating tasks.
Sentiment score
6.9
Oracle Identity Governance is recommended for medium to large enterprises, praised for scalability but may require performance fine-tuning.
It is very beneficial for large and complex environments.
If you are a major enterprise customer, it is a matter of scaling out on resources with more memory, disk, and CPU power.
The solution is highly scalable, with a scalability rating of nine.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
One Identity Active Roles is generally stable with minimal maintenance, but occasional performance lags and updates are needed.
Sentiment score
6.1
Users report mixed stability with Oracle Identity Governance, highlighting configuration, load management, and server dependency as key factors.
There were no major problems with One Identity Active Roles.
We haven't had any glitches.
I would rate the stability as a seven because there are sometimes performance issues, which require restarting the services.
 

Room For Improvement

One Identity Active Roles needs better web interface customization, scripting support, integration, user interface scalability, and improved workflows and security.
Oracle Identity Governance requires simplified architecture, better customization, improved integration, and user-friendly interface with lower infrastructure demands.
A way to connect to various directories and integrate with cloud directories would be beneficial.
Enhancements to the console are also necessary because it is more confusing than the web interface.
The user interface needs to be more modern and scalable.
Incorporating AI to reduce manual work would be beneficial.
Improvements could include making Oracle Identity Governance a simpler plug-and-play product.
 

Setup Cost

One Identity Active Roles uses a user-based licensing model with high costs but offers significant ROI and flexibility.
Oracle Identity Governance is costly and complex, with high implementation expenses, but discounts may be available annually.
It is quite expensive, costing more than 50 euros per identity.
The pricing is high.
The pricing of One Identity Active Roles is expensive, but the return on investment justifies the cost, allowing for savings in other areas.
They sell the solution cheaply, but setting up and maintaining it becomes very expensive.
Oracle Identity Governance is very expensive.
 

Valuable Features

One Identity Active Roles enhances security and management with robust access control, automation, integration, and centralized directory management.
Oracle Identity Governance enhances centralized identity management with automated provisioning, analytics, and seamless integration for robust access control and compliance.
It's improved our security posture. It has limited access to our crown jewels, where all our identities lie within Active Directory.
It helps in removing custom Active Directory delegation, which enhances security by eliminating unnecessary privileges, addressing identity-based breaches by reducing the number of Active Directory delegations.
It is very intuitive and close to the native tools.
The features I find most effective in Oracle Identity Governance include size and scale management, which is good for large organizations.
The solution's capabilities in provisioning, de-provisioning, terminations, and transfers are excellent.
 

Categories and Ranking

One Identity Active Roles
Ranking in User Provisioning Software
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
Active Directory Management (5th), Non-Human Identity Management (NHIM) (5th)
Oracle Identity Governance
Ranking in User Provisioning Software
8th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
69
Ranking in other categories
Identity Management (IM) (17th), Mobile Identity (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the User Provisioning Software category, the mindshare of One Identity Active Roles is 4.3%, up from 4.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Identity Governance is 4.2%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
User Provisioning Software
 

Featured Reviews

Grzegorz Kosela - PeerSpot reviewer
Task automation simplifies user and delegation management while offering a customizable interface
Currently, task automation, like provisioning, deprovisioning, and reprovisioning, is very effective. When a user moves from one organization to another, it automatically changes their group membership and performs similar functions. Secondly, the granular delegation feature is very nice and much simpler and easier than it is natively in Microsoft. Two years ago, One Identity Active Roles was under Dell. It was quite poor. However, now, there have been notable improvements, such as faster system processing, better logging, enhanced information, and a more user-friendly interface. Once it was sold by Dell, things got better. The interface became a bit more user-friendly. The Angular user interface is much more flexible for adjusting to customer needs, and a completely new and customizable one can be created, aligning with all settings and scripts required by a customer. The ease of managing on-prem and cloud-based directories through a single pane of glass is good. I'd rate it nine out of ten. The solution's ability to provision and deprovision resources and directories like Azure AD is very simple, especially when you can integrate with the HR system and grab some data from HR. It's actually fully automatic. I don't need to even touch it. It's helped increase operational efficiency by 50%. It's helped decrease security problems around privileged accounts. We were able to decrease the number of privileged accounts and have been able to delegate more effectively. We decreased the number of high-level permissions that administrators had. For example, if someone is a DNS administrator, he has access only as far as the specific actions he needs to handle. We don't need to give away such high privileges for such a daily job. It's helped clarify roles and access. It's helped reduce identity-based breaches. If someone leaves a company, we can easily undo provisioning and close accounts. We can generate reports to see which people have which permissions and at what times. We've just integrated with our HR system. It helps us follow activated and deactivated users. I'd rate the granular controls on offer ten out of ten. We've saved on manpower in terms of the work of the administrators. There's good reporting and functionality, and it's very transparent. You can connect more than one directory and manage everything from one pane. You can do many things from one 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
17%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Healthcare Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Educational Organization
75%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
5%
Healthcare Company
1%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for One Identity Active Roles?
The product is expensive, but if you want to save money, the delegation set-up process is quite easy. After setting up Active Roles once, defining the delegation model, it is very efficient, almost...
What needs improvement with One Identity Active Roles?
One area for improvement would be the Entra ID side, including better delegation for Entra ID objects and more granular permissions. We would also like to see better Entra ID license management usi...
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

Quest Active Roles
Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle IAM, Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

City of Frankfurt, Moore Public Schools, George Washington University, Transavia Airlines, Howard County, MD. See all stories at OneIdentity.com/casestudies
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