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One Identity Manager pros and cons

Vendor: One Identity

4.1 out of 5

133 reviews
91% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

One Identity Manager offers extensive customization for organizational needs, centralizing identity management with integration across multiple systems. Automation features enhance efficiency and compliance, supporting robust security with auditing capabilities. Challenges include a complex initial setup and difficult integrations, particularly with SAP and ServiceNow. The presence of deprecated functions and inadequate technical support, along with poor documentation, complicates customization and maintenance, impacting effective utilization of its features.

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Prominent pros & cons

PROS

One Identity Manager offers extensive customization options, allowing organizations to tailor the system to their specific needs and processes.

Integration with multiple target systems enables One Identity Manager to serve as a central component in identity management, facilitating seamless connectivity and provisioning across platforms.

Centralized identity management and access governance features streamline operations, making workflows efficient and reducing the need for manual interventions.

Automation features in One Identity Manager help reduce response times for account creations, access approval, and provisioning tasks, and deliver time and resource savings.

One Identity Manager enhances organizational compliance and data security by supporting robust auditing, reporting, and identity-centric security measures.

CONS

Some internal structures remain due to deprecated functions, complicating current implementations and support.

One Identity Manager's initial setup is complex, often requiring extensive customization, making it hard to upgrade and maintain.

Integration with other systems, such as SAP and ServiceNow, is often difficult and requires substantial customization work.

Technical support is described as inadequate, with delays in response and insufficient guidance on complex issues.

Documentation is lacking, making it difficult for users to utilize features effectively and hindering proper customization and integration with other systems.

One Identity Manager Pros review quotes

owner at Butschke IT Services

Sep 19, 2017

The Data Importer is a great tool to create an ETL. It generates code which is easy to maintain later without the tool.

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Riyas Abdulkhader

Security Architect, InfoSec Consultant at Confidential ( Sensitive Industry)

Nov 14, 2018

Quest One IDM allows for large customization.

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Identity Access Management Specialist at linde

Apr 3, 2019

Even without any customization, if you install it, configure it, it's ready... It's very powerful. Without any customization, it starts working.

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Product Owner at dm-drogerie markt GmbH + Co. KG

Apr 3, 2019

This solution has helped to increase employee productivity when it comes to provisioning users in our systems. This solution has been really been effective with our retail workers. It wouldn't be possible to onboard and manage our 40,000 store employees without it. The management of the solution is pretty automated.

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IT Business Process Specialist at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Apr 3, 2019

With this product, we been able to bring together HR, IT, and lifecycle management. It is very helpful for managing the Joiner/Mover/Leaver process. We also use it for compliance on all the audits which are around.

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IAM / IGA Architect - Associate Director at PRIZM

Apr 4, 2019

For the recertification and segregation of duties, it's easier to know all the information about our employees. If we need to delete some information, we can do it from a central point, then it can be deleted on all our searches. This is very good for GDPR.

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reviewer1056453

COO at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

Apr 4, 2019

We no longer keep users who shouldn't exist.

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Tadej Grebensek

IT Engineer at Gorenje Vertriebs GmbH

Apr 4, 2019

The solution is flexible. You can customize it a lot. You can can build connectors, connecting them to a new application, and so on.

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Solution Designer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 4, 2019

The most valuable features of this solution are its handling and that it is easy to maintain and manage the data.

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reviewer1056465

Service Owner Identity & Access Management at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Apr 4, 2019

Workflow management is an important feature. With other identity management products, there was no workflow management so we had to build it ourselves.

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One Identity Manager Cons review quotes

owner at Butschke IT Services

Sep 19, 2017

Some internal structures are in place because of already depreciated functions back from the time when the solution was used for software deployment and as a help desk.

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Riyas Abdulkhader

Security Architect, InfoSec Consultant at Confidential ( Sensitive Industry)

Nov 14, 2018

Quest Software should provide notes and documents to customers before they buy the product and license.

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Identity Access Management Specialist at linde

Apr 3, 2019

One Identity has a self-service portal but many customers need a helpdesk where they can go in and request. To make that happen we need to do a lot of customization. Maybe that could be improved...

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Product Owner at dm-drogerie markt GmbH + Co. KG

Apr 3, 2019

They could make the product more user-friendly. It takes a lot of work to build technical and business cases with the product. The solution is more complex than you think to use.

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IT Business Process Specialist at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Apr 3, 2019

The technical support is non-existent. It is not worth talking about.

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IAM / IGA Architect - Associate Director at PRIZM

Apr 4, 2019

The product is quite scalable, except for the database which is not highly available. This is where scalability could be improved.

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COO at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

Apr 4, 2019

I would like to have more extensive out-of-the-box reports.

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Tadej Grebensek

IT Engineer at Gorenje Vertriebs GmbH

Apr 4, 2019

The initial setup was quite complex because you run into some existing policies that the company already had. There was some trouble with some inconsequential policies.

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Solution Designer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 4, 2019

It would be nice to have more functionality in terms of connecting SAP systems, provisioning user accounts through SAP systems, and provisioning additional attributes.

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reviewer1056465

Service Owner Identity & Access Management at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Apr 4, 2019

I would like to see a lot more integration with our platforms, more on the connector side.

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