We use it for all things related to identity in our organization.
Governance Team Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It allows you to build anything on top of it, but the web portal can be a bit muggy
Pros and Cons
- "It is a flexible because it is customizable. It allows you to build anything on top of it."
- "It is flexible because it is customizable, allowing you to build anything on top of it."
- "The web portal can be a bit muggy at times. This is one of the key complaints from our customers."
- "The web portal can be a bit muggy at times. This is one of the key complaints from our customers."
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
It will have an impact on our cloud IT strategy, as we are planning to move to the cloud. We are looking to go to Azure, but we will still have an on-premise product.
What is most valuable?
It is a flexible because it is customizable. It allows you to build anything on top of it.
What needs improvement?
The web portal can be a bit muggy at times. This is one of the key complaints from our customers. This is a major issue with version 6, and while version 7 is slightly better, I am hoping this is fixed in version 8.
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What other advice do I have?
I would rate it as a seven out of ten, because there is definitely room for improvement.
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IAM Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is fairly easy. To set up the workflows, you need good knowledge of the product.
Pros and Cons
- "The product is flexible. For example, it offers cloud features."
- "The product makes it easier for employees to be more productive."
- "The product makes it easier for employees to be more productive."
- "We are trying to get rid stability issues from the legacy version. We are now implementing version 8.2, which is so much better than version 6."
- "We would like the product to integrate with ServiceNow, since One Identity Manager and ServiceNow are two of our better tools."
- "We would like the product to integrate with ServiceNow, since One Identity Manager and ServiceNow are two of our better tools."
What is our primary use case?
We use it to facilitate our total identity and access management process, from HR to our target systems are using this product.
How has it helped my organization?
The product makes it easier for employees to be more productive.
What is most valuable?
The standard connectors are the most valuable feature.
The product is flexible. For example, it offers cloud features.
What needs improvement?
We would like the product to integrate with ServiceNow, since One Identity Manager and ServiceNow are two of our better tools. An integration between these two tools would be better for us.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The current product is stable. We are trying to get rid stability issues from the legacy version. We are now implementing version 8.2, which is so much better than version 6.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The product can grow with us.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is fairly easy. To set up the workflows, you need good knowledge of the product. One Identity could improve the setup documentation, as it does not support, "How do I start?"
What about the implementation team?
You need a good partner to assist with the implementation.
What other advice do I have?
We are trying to achieve more targeted systems in the future.
We do not use the policy and role management features.
We have not integrated with SAP.
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Consultant at igf-logic GmbH
It is easy to extend the product for custom purposes
Pros and Cons
- "It is easy to extend the product for custom purposes."
- "Overall, the product works well and is very good tool, which functions well."
- "There are several smaller parts of the tool that have room for improvement."
- "I am waiting to see the new API for the web."
What is our primary use case?
My primary use case for the solution for the last several years was migrating from version 6 or older to version 7 or 8. Most of the time, we implement new features, optimize existing features, or do project management for the customer.
How has it helped my organization?
Our customers have a higher degree of automation and compliance. The product has a good self-service portal, which makes the IT processes a lot better and easier for the end customer.
We have integrated the solution with SAP. Our customer wanted us to do the implementation for web-based administration. They wanted to have easier access to provision their accounts into their system. Because until then, most of the customers were inputted manually. Now, they can automate it, which makes it a lot easier. They can monitor the segregation of duties, such as the financial aspects of it, in SAP.
What is most valuable?
There are so many different connectors out-of-the-box, and the solution works fine. Overall, the product works well and is very good tool, which functions well.
It's pretty flexible because you can use it in almost every way you want. It is very open. It provides good insight on all the basic job chains, and you are free to use, extend, or change it.
What needs improvement?
I am waiting to see the new API for the web.
There are several smaller parts of the tool that have room for improvement. One Identity currently is in the development process of fixing these issues.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is quite stable if you know how to use it right. If you have a good implementation, it is really robust.
How are customer service and technical support?
The technical support is pretty good because we can reach the right person directly. We also get escalated quickly, if necessary, to the development team. So far, it has been a good experience.
There is a good support team if you have issues. There is a really nice path to get in touch with them.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was pretty straightforward because the documentation is really good. It was even easy to train junior employees in our company since the documentation is easy to read and straightforward.
What was our ROI?
This solution has helped to reduce help desk calls for a lot of customers because of the password reset. People can now reset their own passwords. That is a great benefit for customers.
This solution has helped to increase employee productivity when it comes to provisioning users.
What other advice do I have?
Look at one or two videos online on the One Identity YouTube channel. Get in touch with some of their people and possible get a short preview of their products. That is the easiest way, so you can set up a test environment pretty fast be shown how simple the processes work.
One Identity has a very strong community combined with the tool. They also have a very good relationship between partners, customers, and themselves.
It is easy to extend the product for custom purposes.
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Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It's very flexible; you can use it for almost every situation for every customer
Pros and Cons
- "It's very flexible. You can customize it to the fullest extent. You can use it for almost every situation for every customer."
- "It's very flexible."
- "The initial set up was quite complex. It takes quite some time to get use to this product because of its complexity."
- "The initial set up was quite complex. It takes quite some time to get use to this product because of its complexity."
What is our primary use case?
The primary use case is to allow users to quickly administrate their permissions and data.
How has it helped my organization?
As a consultant, it is a good product to sell.
It always helps to improve the processes of the customers.
What is most valuable?
- It's very flexible. You can customize it to the fullest extent. You can use it for almost every situation for every customer.
- The policy and role management features are very good. They have gotten better over time.
- The privileged accounts governance features are very good.
What needs improvement?
As consultants, it's a very complicated to learn it at first, which makes it hard to find people to work with it.
The Synchronization Editor has to become easier to use for us, as technical consultants, because sometimes it's very complicated. If, as a new feature, there would more connectors out of the box in the Synchronization Editor, this would help a lot.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is very stable. We did had some occasions where we had problems with the stability, but the stability is very good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is very scalable. We have customers with just a few users to customers with hundreds of thousands of users.
How was the initial setup?
The initial set up was quite complex. It takes quite some time to get use to this product because of its complexity. Then, you are able to customize it and do everything the customer needs.
What was our ROI?
It takes some time before we, as consultants, really receive benefits out of it. This applies to the customer, as well.
What other advice do I have?
It will impact the cloud strategy of a lot of customers in the future. We just started to implement this feature for customers, so it should have a huge impact in the future.
We have not integrated the solution with SAP.
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Product Specialist at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The solution is stable, but slow
Pros and Cons
- "We have seen a slight reduction in help desk calls, as this solution is a self-service product."
- "We have seen a slight reduction in help desk calls, as this solution is a self-service product."
- "The initial setup was complex. It is an extremely complicated thing to replace an entire self-built solution."
- "The tool to develop the web portal needs improvement."
- "The initial setup was complex. It is an extremely complicated thing to replace an entire self-built solution."
What is our primary use case?
The primary use case is to handle identities.
How has it helped my organization?
We have seen a slight reduction in help desk calls, as this solution is a self-service product.
What is most valuable?
- To get an overview.
- To get a good structure.
- To get a good automation process.
What needs improvement?
The tool to develop the web portal needs improvement.
We are pushing out a cloud strategy, but running this on-premise solution, and do not know what steps to take.
For how long have I used the solution?
Still implementing.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability depends a lot on the infrastructure, but it is pretty slow. For us, it is stable, but slow.
How are customer service and technical support?
I haven't used the technical support yet.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We are using a self-built solution. It would cost too much to get that up to the standard of what we need. In the long-term, it is cheaper to buy a solution that has what we need. Though, we are still running the previous solution, as we are still in the implementation phase. One Identity Manager is very limited in what we have live; we are not using it fully yet.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was complex. It is an extremely complicated thing to replace an entire self-built solution.
What about the implementation team?
We are using an implementer for the deployment.
What other advice do I have?
Think through what is most important and your strategy, especially your cloud strategy. Look at the different competitors in the market, including this one.
Our cloud strategy is impacting what we decide to roll out.
We have not implemented the privileged account governance features yet.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
CEO at IT Design Software Projects and Consulting
The solution solves our customers' compliance issues and optimizes their administration
Pros and Cons
- "The solution is flexible because you can realize the customer needs. Therefore, it is easy to upgrade specialized things. It provides the flexibly, so you can implement customers' use cases."
- "The solution solves our customers' compliance issues and optimizes their administration."
- "With technical support, it is always an issue to get the right person. They do have good technical people in support, but it is sometimes not so easy to get them."
- "With technical support, it is always an issue to get the right person."
What is our primary use case?
We use it for the identity lifecycle.
How has it helped my organization?
The solution solves our customers' compliance issues and optimizes their administration.
The solution helps to reduce help desk calls in the areas of password resets and misunderstanding requests.
What is most valuable?
It is highly integrated with our clients.
The policy and role management features are good.
The solution is flexible because you can realize the customer needs. Therefore, it is easy to upgrade specialized things. It provides the flexibly, so you can implement customers' use cases.
What needs improvement?
The connectivity to the cloud with the cloud identity need improvement. The whole security story in the area of access management along with the possibility to get access is part of this improvement process. This is the cloud access manager (CAM), and it isn't as it should be, but it's a very good long-term solution.
It is important to get the cloud integrated. One Identity is stalling about this in America, and we need it in Europe.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is fine. It works for our use, and the customer is satisfied with it.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is good. We use it in smaller customer suites, but also in larger ones.
How are customer service and technical support?
With technical support, it is always an issue to get the right person. They do have good technical people in support, but it is sometimes not so easy to get them.
How was the initial setup?
The solution is easy to set up, but it requires customization, which is not easy for identity management.
What was our ROI?
When many people are coming or leaving the company, the process is optimized. The productivity is higher because the process can be done faster and easier.
What other advice do I have?
The solution is used very often in the market. There are a lot of satisfied customers using the product.
They are a lot of partners who can help you implement it, if you are interested.
We know few other products in this industry. The flexibility, long term plan, and roadmap are very good. Also, its future is looking good.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner.
Lead Solution Architect at Tieto Sweden AB
You can scale it quite big, which is good, and it has good sizing
Pros and Cons
- "It brings simplicity into complex matters."
- "You can scale it quite big, which is good. It has good sizing."
- "I think it's one of the best solutions on the market."
- "It is a large solution where you need to learn how to work in a certain way for it to provide the best benefit."
- "I would like some access management features to be added. We have some customers with a small need to do authentication as a service, and there are other solutions on the market which offer this."
- "It is a large solution where you need to learn how to work in a certain way for it to provide the best benefit."
What is our primary use case?
We using it internally. We are also offering it to our customers as a managed service.
How has it helped my organization?
I have heard that the overall security is much better, although we still have slow processes going on within the company. Internally, this is what I have heard, since I work more on the customer side.
Since we are ISO 27001 compliant and GDPR compliant, the product has probably helped with this.
What is most valuable?
It brings simplicity into complex matters.
What needs improvement?
I would like some access management features to be added. We have some customers with a small need to do authentication as a service, and there are other solutions on the market which offer this.
It is a large solution where you need to learn how to work in a certain way for it to provide the best benefit. On the other hand, it's really a structured way so you should work in a structure way, as it is a compliant to other frameworks.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I haven't heard any complaints regarding stability.
There was some slowness when we implemented it, but I haven't heard anything since.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
You can scale it quite big, which is good. It has good sizing.
We have some smaller customers where the solution is too big, but that is an IAM world issue.
We have 15,000 people working for us.
How are customer service and technical support?
I've been happy with the technical support. When I previously worked in another company implementing One Identity Manager, I was pretty happy with support.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup for us is quite simple, and we have done some measures internally to make it even easier.
What about the implementation team?
We have used other partners to help with our own implementation.
What was our ROI?
We're using it to monitor the customer environments, which has helped us increase employee productivity when it comes to provisioning users and systems.
It has helped to reduce help desk calls quite a lot, since not we are using the Access Manager which looks into our web services.
What other advice do I have?
I think it's one of the best solutions on the market.
It is a big task to implement alone, so ask a lot of questions if looking to implement.
You can see and do a quite a lot. It is really open in that way, but going out and trying to do stuff which it isn't meant to do, that's much harder. I wouldn't go there. However, it's gives you a good framework to work and build on.
The policy and role management features work. They are getting better all the time. I don't really have a better experience from other solutions.
I am just learning the privileged account governance features and how they work.
We don't have SAP internally. We offer it as a service, as a company, to our customers, but we don't use it.
We are managed service providers, so we cannot have our own private cloud.
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Owner at UY IAM Consultancy
The policy and role management features are superb
Pros and Cons
- "The policy and role management features are superb. If you have a customer who is willing to go somewhere with role management, then the possibilities are endless with the product. It is well-structured, and the architecture is well-defined."
- "The policy and role management features are superb, and if you have a customer who is willing to go somewhere with role management, then the possibilities are endless with the product."
- "Some features aren't supported by the technical support. It is based on your own risk, which I can accept, but I would be happier if they would provide me some additional information about them anyway, e.g., deleting tables or columns."
- "Some features aren't supported by the technical support. It is based on your own risk, which I can accept, but I would be happier if they would provide me some additional information about them anyway, e.g., deleting tables or columns."
What is our primary use case?
The primary use case for this solution is implementing them at the customer site, according to the customer's business needs. E.g., certain customers needs an attestation case.
The reason for implementing this solution is the need to become somewhat more in control. There is also the ease of use for connecting products to target systems, like an Active Directory or Exchange.
How has it helped my organization?
I had an organization which had no idea of their user accounts and who owned them. It took me two weeks, and out of those two weeks, most of the time was spent waiting for the user accounts to connect to the Active Directory. Within two weeks, we knew exactly how many orphaned accounts that they had. This was a huge deal for the customer. They never realized that within such a short time frame that they could be able to better view their Active Directory, who owned which account, and how they could start cleaning it up. This is a very basic feature within the product, but to the customer, it is a huge leap.
What is most valuable?
The policy and role management features are superb. If you have a customer who is willing to go somewhere with role management, then the possibilities are endless with the product. It is well-structured, and the architecture is well-defined. I am quite content with it.
The solution is flexible. It is based on modules. Depending on the customer's needs, you can implement the different modules, which are accompanied with it.
What needs improvement?
I would like better integration with cloud apps, but I just learned this week that there is already a pretty advanced cloud integration. So, what I would like to see is already implemented, but I just need to start using it.
When I first started using it, way before version 7, the manual wasn't comprehensive.
The UX design needs improvement, but I have noticed that people are working very hard behind the curtains to make sure that UX is designed in such a way that the end user is going to have a much easier time using the product in future releases. My ideal was a product designed by IT guys with an IT guy mindset, not without realizing thousands of people in an IT portal would be using the product. Therefore, it took my customers many hours to find the correct links to order something from the IT shop, but I know One Identity is working very hard to improve this as well. If they could improve the UX within the Manager tool, this would be another huge upgrade in just lowering the learning curve of how to use the product.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
If well-implemented, the solution is extremely stable. What I have been confronted with is I am usually joining an ongoing project, which has been implemented quite messily:
- The basic features of the product usually aren't used.
- Customization is too spread out, and in a very inefficient way, making the product very unstable.
It should be implement with the out-of-the-box features. When used with its features, it is extremely stable.
How are customer service and technical support?
With the technical support, I create a case, then within a few hours I receive a reply. So, I'm very pleased with the technical support. However, some features aren't supported. It is based on your own risk, which I can accept, but I would be happier if they would provide me some additional information about them anyway, e.g., deleting tables or columns.
How was the initial setup?
You need a bit more knowledge than with the One Identity Manager product. You also need to be knowledgeable about servers and IIS servers for the web server. However, if you just follow the manual, you will get very far. Sometimes, you just need to Google somethings.
The SAP integration is extremely easy. The first time that I used it, I picked up the user manual, and typed in some user account system clients and passwords, then I was connected. It doesn't get any easier than that.
What about the implementation team?
Once you are past the learning curve of the product, the most valuable feature is the ease in which you can implement the product.
What was our ROI?
It has helped to reduce customer costs.
For the customers that I have worked with, this solution has helped increase employee productivity when it comes to provisioning users. For example, if someone joins the company, then someone else will need to realize a member has joined the company. They need to create a ticket or call someone they know within the Active Directory team. This usually takes at least three to four weeks before they are able to make someone work efficiently. With One Identity Manager, within a few months, you can reduce four weeks time to a few days or even hours.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It needs flexibility in the licensing or packaging, because you buy the entire package at once, and sometimes the customers are a bit overwhelmed with whatever they get. I would like if they could cut the licensing or packaging into somewhat smaller things.
What other advice do I have?
It isn't that hard of a product to use. It's actually very easy to set up. Your business case is much easier than you think, forget the word complex. Just use the product as it is meant to be used, and it will make your life easier. It will also make your customers much happier, reducing the time to implement something or making the company grow.
I have done some basic SAP integrations just using the out-of-the-box connectors. After connecting it, the customers with their own technical teams go in and clean up SAP.
The customers that I am working with haven't moved to the cloud yet or are just starting move to the cloud. I am pleased to see many steps are being taken to make cloud integration much easier from version 8 and up.
I am interested in finding more out about the privileged account governance features.
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