Brivo vs. Okta vs. Verkada

We maintain a trash district for five buildings and we have recently undergone a trash audit with the city of Santa Cruz and an independent auditor to accurately bill the tenants of the district by type of business and usage. Brivo has been instrumental in providing access reports and video event capture to assist in tenant usage as well as identifying the type of refuge each tenant is disposing of. The system is easily set up to allow limited access to outside users for projects like this. The ability to run reports at any given time and by select dates has been a useful tool.

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Should be well-suited for a SaaS business organisation as they have a lot of internal applications and need a role-based authentication system between the various teams, improving security and audit log system to account for any breaches. It integrates well with internal applications such as Salesforce and Oracle. Best when need of SSO.

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They need to be powered where there is ethernet. This makes it hard for areas outside in larger fields and such (that are not tied to that). But for a hard-wired business, that wants to do away from home run copper back to the on-prem box, this is a great alternative.

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• Tracking who is coming and going and at what time.
• Video monitoring capabilities.
• Intuitive software for trouble shooting or programming schedules.
• Generating usage reports.

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• Centralized control of enterprise passwords
• Extensive customization of acceptable password criteria
• One system for Identity and Access Management to learn
• Scalable throughout the university for all central services
• Uniform login experience for students, faculty, and staff
• Single point of response to address termination of access
• Ability to use FastPass for lower priority systems
• Excellent support of multi-factor requirements

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• Brivo is currently upgrading its UI and there have been some minor hiccups.

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• I'm not sure it's really a room for improvement thing, but due to the granularity offered by Okta, sometimes it can be challenging to find exactly what you're looking for.
• There was an instance in which we had issues getting SAML configured for an application. I feel this challenge was mostly user error (on our part) because we didn't realize the SAML instructions were SPECIFIC to each app integration and changed (codes) each time. We attempted to mirror the settings/configurations of an existing app (same app, but different domain). I think having a note somewhere that indicated that the instructions were unique to each integration would have saved us a bit of time. Again, I'm not sure this is really an issue with Okta though, more of a user learning curve thing.
• Sometimes searching for things is a challenge (without the "Rockstar" add-in). For example, if you have a user group called "Okta_users_everyone", searching for "everyone" will not find it. You have to search for the beginning of the object name (not just any part of it). The ability to search partial or wildcard would greatly enhance search functionality.

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• Vape sensing archive downloads don't tie in with contextual camera.

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Okta has a passion to provide secure and scalable identity solution. Their passion has come across as advocacy in a way that has deepened my knowledge of the field of authentication. I took identity for granted before but after seeing features such as external authentication I know that Okta can enable my business to reach new heights

It is very straightforward

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Some of its features are great and some are slightly complex and not easy without vendor support.

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The Okta Identity Cloud advertises 4 9's of reliability and I would go as far to say that it may even do better than that. As a true Global organization that operates in just about every region of the world, we have yet to have an issue with The Okta Identity Cloud that has impacted our business operations.

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From my perspective, for the things that my group uses it for, Okta is very fast. It is as least as fast as the local password database methods that it replaces on our campus enterprise services. I do not believe that it slows anything down at all. In fact, not having to think too much about the login, because they all look the same, probably speeds things up somewhat.

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We've had a few support cases over the years and every case has been handled by the Okta support team beautifully. We received clear answers to questions we had regarding setup and even were provided simple to follow guides on how to setup their product to use with custom applications.

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At the time, Kisi did not allow for differing access based on elevator floors, but this may have changed.

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Okta is far superior in terms of integrations, user interface, automation, and connectivity. Additionally, Okta offers better support and availability, and a more robust solution across every capacity Entra competes in. Okta simply works, whereas Microsoft Entra has a large overhead that is difficult to use when configuring things.

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We looked at Meraki/Cisco cameras, as well as various on-prem servers. Nothing really stacked up when it came to features, cost, and ease of use. Meraki/Cisco came the closest but the licensing was not ideal.

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Being a cloud native application, The Okta Identity Cloud is extremely scalable and easy to setup. By integrating into existing directories and applications via standard techniques and protocols, it is very easy to both initially setup and add additional users as required. Once all the necessary integrations are setup, it's a simple rinse and repeat process to onboard additional users (which can be automated with imports as well)

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• Saves so much time.
• Keeps us organized.
• Tenants are asking us to deploy to their spaces, helping us transition from physical keys.

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• Reduces password fatigue and keeps all my apps together in a central location for easy access throughout the day. Adding new apps is simple.
• I am more productive by using the centralized app's portal rather than logging in to lots of different applications.
• Nothing is automated through OKTA but it does improve our security.

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• It was initially cheaper to get the system install.
• Time savings for myself has paid over ten times it's worth.
• All positive ROI.

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