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    Clerk

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/APoor user management can stand between users and products. From forgotten passwords and failed account de-duplication, to broken and out-of-sync vendor integrations — there's a lot that can go wrong. Clerk is a software solution that aims to solve user management.

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    Okta

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AOkta is an enterprise grade identity management service, built in the cloud. IT can manage access across any application, person or device. Whether the people are employees, partners or customers or whether the applications are in the cloud, on premises or on a mobile device, Okta helps IT become more secure and maintain compliance. The Okta service provides directory services, single sign-on, authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built in reporting. ment systems.

    $6

    per month per user

    PingOne from Ping Identity

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe PingOne Cloud Platform from Ping Identity in Denver, Colorado is an identity management and access solution (IAM) for enterprises. Features of the products include single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, user management with directory, provisioning and deprovisioning. The solution is presented as a comprehensive, standards-based platform that allows users and devices to securely access any service, application or API from any device. Designed for hybrid IT…

    $20,000

    per year

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    ClerkOktaPingOne from Ping Identity
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    $6.00
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    $17.00
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    $20,000
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    $40,000
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    Free Trial
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    ClerkOktaPingOne from Ping Identity
    Considered Multiple Products
    Clerk
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    Okta
    Chose Okta
    Internal expertise was with Okta, we also considered total cost of ownership, admin overhead, and deployment/setup time.
    Incentivized
    Chose Okta
    We selected Okta since as I mentioned earlier, speed means a lot to our account. The reason behind that is because it enables us a lot faster and utilize our apps better. Do not get me wrong, PingOne is a great app, its just that the app itself does not have the processing …
    Incentivized
    Chose Okta
    We ended up going with OKTA has it had a wider breadth of services from a security perspective at the time so we felt like we were getting more bang for our buck. Not only were we able to take advatage of SSO for all of our apps but we were able to leverage the device trust …
    Incentivized
    Chose Okta
    The industry wide performance and reviews of Okta already made it stand out from the competitors. The customisable pricing model helped us to choose from a variety of models as per our needs. The depth and breadth of features and functionalities covered by Okta made it a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Okta
    Okta had competitive pricing, high ease of use, and a short time to implement. They also have a strong and active partner community which also aids in quick adaption. The technical capabilities of this space are leaning more and more toward standards shared by all, but Okta …
    Incentivized
    Chose Okta
    We evaluated Ping. We were able to secure a pricing package for Okta that aligned with our Accounting team's needs. Other services lacked features, or were too embedded in other ecosystems like Microsoft.
    Incentivized
    Chose Okta
    Okta is the best out of its competitors due to its ease of use, out of the box functionality, and opportunities for customization. It is a good company to work with and strives to be there for its customers. Administration is a breeze and the documentation is quite extensive.
    Incentivized
    Chose Okta
    I worked on Ping Identity Platform already. So Ping platform is an on-prem based solution. We needed to make sure that the servers where the application is hosted is up and running always. Patching needs to completed based on the vendor release. Ping solution needs more manual …
    Incentivized
    Chose Okta
    We briefly looked at Ping, but Okta was simply too good as a fit and they did everything to make the decision simple for us.
    Incentivized
    Chose Okta
    Siteminder---It is an on-premise application which is difficult to integrate with cloud-based applications. As Okta is a cloud application we can integrate both on-premise and cloud applications.
    Ping--It doesn't provide the applications templates which [are] provided by Okta. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Okta
    Preferred Okta's reputation as well as other internal factors (relationships) that led us to work with Okta.
    Incentivized
    Chose Okta
    Okta has the best dashboard for navigation and is very end-user friendly. Easy to navigate and configure applications and SSO and a very effective way of managing end-user issues.
    SSO-wise it is the best product in terms of end-user experience; [it's a] seamless process for the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Okta
    Okta has more robust support for Office 365 than Centrify (which we previously used), and it is easier to configure and administrate. It is cloud-based and easier to manage than Microsoft ADFS. It is similar to OneLogin and Ping but we've found the pricing and support options …
    Incentivized
    Chose Okta
    Easier to use. More standard implementation
    Incentivized
    Chose Okta
    Okta and Ping are similar but the future has been laid out for us by Okta and we believe that that is the correct path for our company and IT team to follow. We try to make sure that we are making progress that we can apply to everything we do and not limit ourselves. We feel …
    Incentivized
    Ping Identity
    Chose PingOne from Ping Identity
    The Ping products work. They can integrate with any application. They are significantly more reliable. The vendor is responsive and works with us. Other solutions are unreliable, the vendors are inflexible, their solutions are inflexible, and their support is inflexible. These …
    Incentivized
    Chose PingOne from Ping Identity
    PingOne from Ping Identity is the clear winner here. I can say this because the cost of their service is very worth it, and their service offers more than their competitors. In addition to that, this software is still improving daily, which only means that there is still more …
    Incentivized
    Chose PingOne from Ping Identity
    This solution is selected before my time so, not much influence ,but product allow to customized and require decent ping skills to configure the solution. Okta and Other solutions are well suited in this category with some positive and some negative capabilities. it must say …
    Incentivized
    Chose PingOne from Ping Identity
    All contenders were capable, but we had scale concerns with NetIQ's architecture. In the end, what set Ping apart from the others was their level of engagement in understanding our use cases up front during the RFP stage and how they were focused on what we needed more than …
    Incentivized
    Chose PingOne from Ping Identity
    I found both platforms compelling from an ease of use and user experience perspective. The decider for me was cost driven as I had already used Ping to drive a self-service transformation in a prior organization, and I intended to do the same at this one. Okta had issues with …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    99%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Identity Management
    Comparison of Identity Management features of Clerk and Okta and PingOne from Ping Identity
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    Ratings
    Okta
    8.8
    159 Ratings
    7% above category average
    PingOne from Ping Identity
    9.1
    10 Ratings
    10% above category average
    ID-Management Access Control00 Ratings9.3146 Ratings9.38 Ratings
    ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)00 Ratings9.3158 Ratings9.710 Ratings
    Multi-Factor Authentication00 Ratings9.2154 Ratings9.310 Ratings
    Password Management00 Ratings7.9147 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Account Provisioning and De-provisioning00 Ratings8.7133 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    ID Management Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.5123 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    ID Risk Management00 Ratings8.6116 Ratings8.56 Ratings
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    Auth0
    Score8 out of 10
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8 out of 10
    OneLogin by One Identity
    Score9.4 out of 10
    OneLogin by One Identity
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    RSA Access Manager (Discontinued)
    Score10 out of 10
    RSA Access Manager (Discontinued)
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    User Ratings
    ClerkOktaPingOne from Ping Identity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (200 ratings)
    9.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    8.0
    (18 ratings)
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    Usability
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    9.0
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    8.6
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    Availability
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    10.0
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    Performance
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    9.0
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    10.0
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    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
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    1.0
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    Product Scalability
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    ClerkOktaPingOne from Ping Identity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Clerk
    Best suited for - Improving the conversions and users funnel, building actionable insights for user journey, deciding the performance of features, building personalised recommendations on search results and emails. Less appropriate for - Creating automated campaigns for user targeting, triggering and creating communication flows for user engagement and product journey
    Incentivized
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    Okta
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Ping Identity
    Really like [this] solution, it fits our requirements 100%. There are unlimited possibilities to extend the product, either by creating additional adapters or selectors. We really like the policy management level in PingFederate. It's extremely helpful when we can specify customer journey per many different requirements like user location, application type etc. As well, both StepUp and TopDown authentication flows were implemented [easily].
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    Pros
    Clerk
    • Easy to integrate - perfect solution for search and recommendations.
    • Allow website recommendations, website search and email recommendations, that help day after day obtain more data and use it to view the best product for every single customer.
    • Improving conversion rate and the quality of the customer journey on the eCommerce.
    Incentivized
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    Okta
    • 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
    Incentivized
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    Ping Identity
    • Based on open standards, we can use as much or as little of the Ping suite as we like, depending on which other technologies we've already implemented.
    • Continuous innovation and product enhancements have ensured their products continue to meet our rapidly evolving needs.
    • Ping Identity has been an outstanding partner, starting with the RFP process and continuing to this day, years after the sale. They are focused on our success at every level of the company and are highly responsive to our needs, issues, and product suggestions.
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    Cons
    Clerk
    • A function to export dashboard reports will help ease building analytics.
    • It's a highly technical tool. One has to have very good technical knowledge to set it up.
    • Build more payment options other than the credit card.
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    Okta
    • I do have to reset my password quite frequently. However, I don't think there is really a way to improve this, as it's a good security measure.
    • It makes me re-sign in a couple of times a day, sometimes if I haven't used my laptop for a couple of hours, and sometimes just randomly throughout the day.
    • It doesn't remember my devices, either my laptop or phone. so it always calls that out.
    Incentivized
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    Ping Identity
    • PingID has some limitations when used as the MFA for some LDAP implementations. You need to use it as a RADIUS password credential validator to solve for some of those limitations, which in turn causes challenges with our ephemeral cloud deployment model of PingFederate.
    • The basic logon services within PingFederate are adequate and well-documented, but simple features like disabling user input after entering credentials would help with some of the additional customization required to support real world failure modes.
    • PingCentral authorization models and configuration remain unpolished compared to other products, and now the features seem to be shifting toward onboarding PingAccess and PingDirectory over improving baseline administrative functionality/operations.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Clerk
    No answers on this topic
    Okta
    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
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    Ping Identity
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Clerk
    No answers on this topic
    Okta
    Some of its features are great and some are slightly complex and not easy without vendor support.
    Incentivized
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    Ping Identity
    Ping's solutions are a powerful tool, but with that comes the need for skills to operate them. It's not easy for inexperienced engineers to run. From the end-user perspective, it is fully customizable and can be as seamless as you need.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Clerk
    No answers on this topic
    Okta
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Ping Identity
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Clerk
    No answers on this topic
    Okta
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Ping Identity
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Clerk
    No answers on this topic
    Okta
    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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    Ping Identity
    Really good customer support, we always receive what we need. Sometimes instead of [a] solution (which have to be developed) we are receiving [a] work around, which is helping ad hoc. Then after time [needed for support to] develop fix we are receiving full fix or we [are] just waiting for new version of the product where our "bugs" are fixed.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Clerk
    The cost of the contract is much better than the competitors. Customised options and packages to select from. Others weren't providing more options basis the usage and master user roles requirements. Provided free demo to help build confidence and train the team for using Clerk tool. Clerk customer solutions team is easily reachable and helps promptly resolve any issues.
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    Okta
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Ping Identity
    PingOne from Ping Identity is the clear winner here. I can say this because the cost of their service is very worth it, and their service offers more than their competitors. In addition to that, this software is still improving daily, which only means that there is still more to come, and their Developers are giving their fair share of service to keep their software the best.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Clerk
    No answers on this topic
    Okta
    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)
    Incentivized
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    Ping Identity
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Clerk
    • Improved user conversion by 20%
    • Increased revenues by 15%
    • Reduced reliance of operations for data tracking and analysis
    Incentivized
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    Okta
    • Increased user productivity - not fighting with IT all the time!
    • Though there could be a bit more on the 'lost/broken phone' front, the self-service eliminates time that would typically be spent waiting for IT support/admins.
    • An Okta account under a certain domain allows proper access from the get-go, and under certain apps (such as our HRIS), adding members is easy.
    • Improved security - deactivating Okta removes all account access across multiple platforms instantly for leavers.
    Incentivized
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    Ping Identity
    • The TCO for our deployment of Ping will be over a million dollars/year less to operate compared to the systems it replaces.
    • Moving the organization to federated protocols allows greater flexibility in our cloud migration strategy and zero trust designs.
    • Operating with federated protocols internally facilitates M&A and divestiture activities.
    Incentivized
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