One Identity Manager Reviews

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

Once you are past the learning curve of the product, the most valuable feature is the ease in which you can implement the product.

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.

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.

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.

We implement One Identity Manager for our customers.

It has helped to simplify compliance. We have multiple customers who now have a full overview of their accounts and users. They can use the reporting for GDPR compliance or accounts retention.

Flexibility: It has many features which can be combined and configured in a great way, then put together in projects and ways that developers didn't think were possible, which has been great.

The policy and role management features are very powerful and useful for our customers. You can do anything there.

The privileged account governance features are great from the overall governance look, the things which you can do with it, and the results that you can achieve from it.

The UI and user experience side of things needs improvement.

It is very stable. It has been running for years (for our customers). Even if it bugs up at some point, it is rather fast to fix and easy to get going again.

The scalability is very good. It scales well for companies, from small companies to very big ones worldwide.

The German technical support is great. We are a German partner, and we find them knowledgeable and fast, as they do their thing.

The complexity of the initial setup depends. While it's fast and easy to set up initially, the complexity can come once the solution starts to grow.

We have implement the following for our customers:

• SAP
• Cloud IT strategy.

Compare all the solutions and all the things that you can do on them: How easy you can set it up and how fast it can grow. Because identity management will grow with you, and you have to have a product which can grow with your organization.

We are using One Identity Manager to manage user access requests. Then we manage the provision, as well as the provision of those users. We get the identities from SAP and then we provide them whatever access they are requesting.

The biggest improvement has been the auditing. Now we have a record of what the users have, what the users have requested and when, and when things were approved. It's all in the same system.

The most valuable feature is the fact that we don't need paper anymore. We came from a paper solution and getting rid of the paper is valuable.

The solution is also flexible. We have customized our IT shop. Because we have so many applications, the solution, out-of-the-box, wasn't good enough for us. So we have customized all our workflows for approvals and it's working fine.

I have some doubts, not about the stability but when they released version 8 we were unsure about the roadmap that they were going to follow. We are waiting for 8.1 before we upgrade.

There's no problem with the scalability.

We have opened a couple of cases and we've had a really good response from the team. Initially, we contacted Professional Services a couple of times, and their answers were pretty good.

We didn't have any solution previously.

The initial setup was complex.

We used a partner. Our experience with them was difficult because the project was really difficult. We had our ups and downs but, in the end, it was good.

For this or any other similar solution, make sure you have the maturity to go forward with an identity management project. If you are at that point, this solution is a good option to look at because it's really flexible. It makes it possible to do a lot of things.

We are getting comfortable with the solution. We're just at the very beginning. We are in production but not for the whole company, so we are not enjoying all the benefits of the solution. In terms of the privileged account governance features, we are not there yet. We are now investigating them and they look fine but, we are progressing slowly.

The solution has helped to simplify compliance, but not as much as we would like because we haven't implemented all the options, all the features yet. We are in the middle of that.

We have integrated the solution with SAP, we need to get identities from it. The integration process with SAP has been the worst. It has been really difficult because our SAP is really customized. The standard connector hasn't been enough, so we have had to create a new connector and it's been really difficult.

I would rate it at eight out of ten. It's pretty new but they are making a great effort to be the best and to focus on the user.

We use it for meeting compliance requirements.

We were able to clear up some audit actions by providing evidence we have a proper, controlled approval process.

In addition, One Identity Manager has helped to increase employee productivity when it comes to provisioning users and systems.

Its flexibility is the most valuable feature, the way we can customize the user interface and the workflow processes. It helps us set up the correct approval processes.

Better support for version control and multi-threaded development would be helpful additional features. 

The support for DevOps could be improved with quick delivery cycles and multiple delivery streams.

We do have performance problems, but outside of that, it seems stable.

We have some performance problems, so pushing to scale is a challenge.

The technical support is acceptable. We get responses when we raise queries, but maybe not as fast as we'd like.

We worked with a third-party vendor, TCS. Our experience with them was okay but it was difficult to get skilled resources.

We have seen return on investment.

Think about what the out-of-the-box features are in the product and how those map into your business requirements. Perhaps look at revisiting the business requirements to better fit with the product.

We integrated the solution with SAP, given that we already had a significant SAP deployment for our financial services. Because I wasn't involved in that I can't comment on how that process went.

In terms of our cloud strategy, One Identity Manager hasn't impacted it. The solution will fit within that strategy.

I would rate it at eight out of ten. It meets most of our business requirements. We can deliver functionality the users want, but it does need some improvements, in the performance and support for a DevOps-type quick SOC release.

We mostly use One Identity Manager for the tasks of onboarding and offboarding business roles, assigning permissions, and ensuring that we have a record in auditing to fill out compliance needs.

It allows us to do a lot more tasks in an automated way. Previously, we had to do a lot of things manually. Because of the automation, it allows us to assign a resource. We just have to name a resource. This allows us to transfer some tasks to the first line of the service desk, allowing our IT to concentrate more on other tasks and the needs of the business.

The most valuable feature is the configuration of users, especially onboarding and offboarding SAP roles. It is very important this is done in a fast way, especially in connection to the SAP HR system, where we can get a user onboarded as soon as they have the information recorded in HR.

Connections with more clouds systems is already planned. The more that we can use One Identity to connect with other systems to manage all the applications accessed throughout One Identity, the better. I would expect to have more connections and setups to other systems.

Visually, I would like it to be more user-friendly. Version 8 looks visually like version 6, so this still needs improvement in later versions.

The performance is quite bad, but this is because we have a very old version.

We only use the privileged account governance to identify the type of the account where there are no functions designed behind it. This will probably be something that we will develop more in version 8. Because in our current version, we don't want to add more functions with the performance already being poor.

It is not an all or nothing scenario. It's very good that you can choose exactly what fits your business.

We used a partner. So, we don't use the support service directly from One Identity. All the support that we need is done through our partner.

We didn't have a solution to manage identities previously. The need to have an identity management system came from auditing, our SAP needs to have monitoring, and the need to control SAP accounts and roles.

One of the main reasons, in the beginning, to go with One Identity Manager is to have integration with SAP. It's very important to have our business roles and privileged access monitor always up-to-date, especially if you have privileged users and firefighters. You need to monitor their access very carefully.

For version 6, the SAP integration out-of-the-box can be quite exceptional. The configuration might be a bit harder to do in the beginning, but then the functionality and the way it works is very easy and straightforward to use. 

We have reduced about 60 percent of our help desk calls, especially for onboarding and simple tasks that do One Identity automation.

The solution has helped us increase employee productivity when it comes to provisioning users and systems. Now, we have standardization for all countries, where we are in 36 countries, presently. It is very important to be standard in the way you work with the solution. 

Because we have implemented automation to our tasks, we have probably reduced time from a few days to a few hours.

The product is quite flexible. In my previous company, I worked with Microsoft products. Now, I am using One Identity. Its functions are easier to use and more intuitive. You also have more functions available to businesses.

Check the big picture and what exactly the company needs. 

Choose the partner wisely. It's always important to make a successful implementation. 

One Identity Manager is good because it allows you to choose at a granular level exactly what you need for the business.

This is not how it's implemented currently with us, but especially in compliance GDPR and privacy settings, you can have more granular permissions on privileged accounts and be able to monitor who makes changes on the accounts in IDN.

We only have very basic functions now. However, the solution will have an impact on the roadmap of the company and on our company's roadmap of IT solutions to come.

We use it to give the right access to the right resources.

It has made us much more effective and efficient in providing access to users and in managing certain processes. It has definitely helped to increase employee productivity when it comes to provisioning users and systems. It's difficult to estimate how much their productivity has increased because we already had some identity management systems. I don't know how much this solution has helped us compared to the other systems, but it has definitely helped.

Workflow management is an important feature. With other identity management products, there was no workflow management so we had to build it ourselves. That's one of the reasons we selected One Identity.

We have also found the solution to be flexible. We can customize a lot of things and arrange most things within the product.

It has also definitely helped simplify compliance.

I would like to see a lot more integration with our platforms, more on the connector side. We are still using version 7.1. There are a lot of new features in 8.1, so we will look forward to using that.

The product is good, it's stable.

I'm relatively new in this role and I haven't figured out how scalable it is. That's one of the use cases I'm working on with my engineers right now.

Technical support is good.

We were using several solutions for access and we finally selected One Identity as the best solution for our purposes. We had a home-grown identity management solution, but because of the complexity of it we selected One Identity Manager as our future-looking identity management product. 

The setup was complex but it was mostly because of our environment. We have a very complex environment. We have a lot of ancient systems.

All the big ones were on our list. We chose One Identity because of the possibilities that were already present in the system. There were more than in the other ones.

It's a good product which provides great opportunities.

Regarding the policy and role management features, I hear they're good. I don't know that part as well, but I have heard from the engineers they're pretty okay.

We have integrated One Identity Manager with SAP, but we're moving from SAP as an HR system to the Workday system. We're in the middle of that integration right now. The original integration with SAP was done before I started using the product, but I from what I heard it was pretty okay. But you have to have a lot of knowledge of One Identity Manager before you can start implementing it, and knowledge of it is a bit of a problem.

The solution hasn't yet impacted our cloud strategy because we are not working hard on cloud strategy right. We're thinking about moving some pieces but we have not yet implemented it.

We know that version 8 is much better than the version 7 we use. But the version we use is about a seven out of ten because we have had some real difficulties with the integration part, from the old systems.

The primary use case for us is to follow the identity lifecycle, starting from feature improvement up to many accounts along with targeted systems.

It has improved the way of operations functions. 

It has partly helped with GDPR, especially with HR.

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

The solution is flexible in connection with the controls. For example, it's easy to implement, easy to handle, and understandable to configure.

The user interface needs improvement.

I would like a secondary account approach out-of-the-box, as this would be really useful. Additionally, it would be nice to have more functionality in terms of connecting SAP systems, provisioning user accounts through SAP systems, and provisioning additional attributes. 

The stability has improved over time. 

It is easy to scale up. However, obtaining additional resources additional are an issue.

We have not been much in touch with their technical support, which is a good sign for the product, since it mostly working.

Our previous solution (IBM) was outdated.  

The complexity of the initial setup varies. The Active Directory may be considered less complex then connecting a SAP system.

We have a consultant, who helps us in wrapping up solutions and connecting the current systems to one another.

This solution helped us to increase employee productivity when it comes to provisioning users or systems. It is what the solution was designed for. In some cases, it has gone down from days to hours/minutes.

To a certain extent, it has helped us reduce help desk calls by five to ten percent.

It helps us save on licenses for applications because we are following the account lifecycle, as well as account reactivation.

We had a shortlist of three vendors: SailPoint IdentityIQ, IBM, and One Identity. We looked at functionalities, what came out-of-the-box with each product, and what needed configuring.

The product is a nine out of ten because 80 to 90 percent of our requirements are out-of-the-box.

Consider the speed of implementation, amount of customization, and the authentications if you are comparing between tools. Operations is also a topic: Is it easy to operate and is there a dedicated operational team? 

We have integrated with SAP because SAP has connected systems.

I like the integrated approach of the privileged account governance features. 

We use it to manage identities, We have around 12,000 employees who need to be managed, which is a lot of people worldwide. It is sort of stressful to manage proactively unless you have automated systems.

We have an SAP connector since we have integrated the solution with our HR database.

Simulation mode of One Identity Manager for company policies, station policies, business roles, etc.

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

There are some good things about the policy and role management features, but you can't really use them to their full potential. A lot of customizing that we have to go through to implement new processes and new customized policies could be better. Though, overall, it is great.

They need to implement a lot of best practices for this solution.

The stability is okay. It really depends on if there have been changes made on the database where you are trying to obtain your data.

I haven't had much contact with the solution's tech support. My partner contacts them.

Our company didn't have any of this type of solution before, so it's a totally new process that we're going through at this very moment.

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.

We used our partners, who are an integrator. Everything is in one box.

The solution has helped us increase employee productivity when it comes to provisioning user interface systems. Our employees get everything that they need the day that they start.

Build a strong team for this solution because there will be a lot of issues that you will have to go through, especially on your HR database. Build a team that knows how to listen and how to act.

The SAP integration process was quite interesting. You have to search for the answers in the right department with the right people. After that, it becomes easy.

We are currently not on the cloud.