What is our primary use case?
Okta essentially helps us to onboard employees. We do have difficulty onboarding specific employees, as we're a growing company. Okta helps us provision the software as a service applications that we have in our company for the new hires. We do about 5% software as a service application. Once they join the company, it's a simpler process and a quick onboarding process for them.
How has it helped my organization?
The solution helps speed up and simplify the onboarding process for new hires.
What is most valuable?
The onboarding is the solution's most valuable aspect. It helps us save time in terms of creating a password for each of the SaaS applications versus Okta, where you have this one single pane of glass to see who has what application or who needs which application. It also alerts us to if we should provide that application to this person from that department.
They've improved their user interface, which is much better than previous versions.
The solution is very stable.
The product requires very little maintenance.
The pricing is fair.
The scalability is quite good.
What needs improvement?
The solution needs to improve its own marketing. It's a great solution, however, most people don't know what it does. It should be first in line for onboarding employees.
The solution should continue to work to improve its interface and make it more user-friendly.
The initial setup can be complex at first.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using the solution for a year and a half or so. It hasn't been that long.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is extremely stable. there are no bugs or glitches. it doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution scales well. It does so very quickly.
We have ten to 16 people on the solution so far.
How are customer service and technical support?
I've never been in touch with technical support. We are pretty well-versed enough to support ourselves. We do not require their services.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup, for new users, is a bit difficult. It does get easier with time and practice, however. It's complex in that when you jump into the dashboard and you look at the screen, it's either a mish-mash of information, or, it starts off with a single sign-on, and then you have to look at the other components. They force you to look for the other components within menus. Everything is hidden. It's not clearly defined when you open the dashboard. That's one of the hurdles that we've had when setting everything up. It's just not intuitive and not clear where all the elements are in the menus.
As a SaaS solution, the product does not require very much maintenance at all. Any maintenance is more around governance and administration.
What about the implementation team?
We are an integrator. We help our clients implement the solution.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is designed to be a software as a service, or SaaS. The pricing comes at a moderate cost. It's not the most expensive option on the market.
Their prices are publicly listed on the website. Any additional fees would definitely come into play if you need professional services from Okta themselves.
What other advice do I have?
We're integrators.
The solution is chopped up into modules. You'll sign on to the multifactor authentication and life cycle management components.
We're pretty satisfied with the product. It may be daunting at first, however, once you get the hang of it, it gets easier.
I'd rate the solution at a ten out of ten. It's checked all the boxes for our organization.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Integrator