Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Access
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Access is a database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools.
$139.99
per PC
Okta
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Okta 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
SAP HANA Cloud
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
SAP HANA is an application that uses in-memory database technology to process very large amounts of real-time data from relational databases, both SAP and non-SAP, in a very short time. The in-memory computing engine allows HANA to process data stored in RAM as opposed to reading it from a disk which means that the data can be accessed in real time by the applications using HANA. The product is sold both as an appliance and as a cloud-based software solution.
$0.95
per month Capacity Units
Pricing
Microsoft AccessOktaSAP HANA Cloud
Editions & Modules
Microsoft Access
$139.99
per PC
Starter
$6.00
per month per user
Essentials
$17.00
per month per user
Professional
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Per User Per Month
Enterprise
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Per User Per Month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft AccessOktaSAP HANA Cloud
Free Trial
NoYesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsIncludes a one year free trial.
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Community Pulse
Microsoft AccessOktaSAP HANA Cloud
Considered Multiple Products
Microsoft Access

No answer on this topic

Okta
Chose Okta
I have used Oracle and Microsoft and honestly, the user interface is much more user-friendly than it's competitors. It is very intuitive and there isn't really a ton of messing around with features that need to be done in Okta. It is pretty much ready to use as soon as it's set …
SAP HANA Cloud
Chose SAP HANA Cloud
SAP HANA uses the sheer power of in memory analytics based on columnar compression of data in the back-end resulting in an overall decreased footprint of the data resulting in a paradigm shift. The traditional RDBMS database would rely heavily on additional indexes to retrieve …
Chose SAP HANA Cloud
Best suited for quite a few enterprise apps built on SAP ERP systems. With many products being IT-oriented, it takes forever for businesses to leverage functionality without being dependent on IT. However, compared to the Oracle Database, this is extremely flexible in terms of …
Chose SAP HANA Cloud
It is best suited for Enterprise applications to build on SAP ERP system. Other applications are very technical products and do not have business goals embedded. For example, SAP Hana has am application functional library as well as inbuilt support for R which is very useful. …
Features
Microsoft AccessOktaSAP HANA Cloud
Relational Databases
Comparison of Relational Databases features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Access
7.7
3 Ratings
3% below category average
Okta
-
Ratings
SAP HANA Cloud
7.6
37 Ratings
4% below category average
ACID compliance7.02 Ratings00 Ratings8.225 Ratings
Database monitoring8.02 Ratings00 Ratings7.535 Ratings
Database locking8.03 Ratings00 Ratings7.629 Ratings
Encryption7.02 Ratings00 Ratings7.231 Ratings
Disaster recovery7.73 Ratings00 Ratings7.930 Ratings
Flexible deployment8.02 Ratings00 Ratings7.332 Ratings
Multiple datatypes8.03 Ratings00 Ratings7.333 Ratings
Identity Management
Comparison of Identity Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Access
-
Ratings
Okta
8.8
156 Ratings
6% above category average
SAP HANA Cloud
-
Ratings
ID-Management Access Control00 Ratings9.2144 Ratings00 Ratings
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)00 Ratings9.3155 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Factor Authentication00 Ratings9.0151 Ratings00 Ratings
Password Management00 Ratings8.0144 Ratings00 Ratings
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning00 Ratings8.8130 Ratings00 Ratings
ID Management Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.5121 Ratings00 Ratings
ID Risk Management00 Ratings8.6114 Ratings00 Ratings
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Microsoft AccessOktaSAP HANA Cloud
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Score 8.0 out of 10
Dashlane Password Manager
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Score 9.1 out of 10
InterSystems IRIS
InterSystems IRIS
Score 8.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
InterSystems IRIS
InterSystems IRIS
Score 8.0 out of 10
RSA Access Manager (Discontinued)
RSA Access Manager (Discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
InterSystems IRIS
InterSystems IRIS
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises
SAP IQ
SAP IQ
Score 10.0 out of 10
RSA Access Manager (Discontinued)
RSA Access Manager (Discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
SAP IQ
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Microsoft AccessOktaSAP HANA Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
5.0
(99 ratings)
8.8
(183 ratings)
9.6
(308 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(15 ratings)
8.0
(18 ratings)
10.0
(11 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(5 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.6
(29 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
3.6
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
3.6
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
6.4
(5 ratings)
10.0
(12 ratings)
9.1
(251 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
3.6
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
5.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
4.5
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
4.5
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
3.6
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft AccessOktaSAP HANA Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
As a Material Purchasing/Planning/inventory tracking application, Microsoft Access serves its purpose well. It's presentation is clean, data entry is simple and the ability to customize search fields is welcome. It does, however, come with some caveats; namely, when setting search filters and the need arises to back up a step or two, with Microsoft Access you have to reset, or "clear all", adding extra steps/time to a query.
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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.
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SAP
I think if you have a large organization, it's probably the product and the marketplace to go to. We're a large management consulting firm operating in four to seven countries. And generally speaking, I think that's the size and the scope where it scales best. I can't speak to smaller companies, but I can't see smaller companies leveraging the benefits as much as a larger organization can.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Very easy to create entity-relationship diagrams for various tables and designing mock layouts.
  • Really easy to navigate as it hold[s] the classic Microsoft UI. Another good thing is that it comes with the complete MS Office Suite.
  • It is really fast when joining multiple tables no matter what type of join.
  • Works on pretty much same SQL scripts so no need to learn a new language!
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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
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SAP
  • Real-time reporting and analytics on data: because of its in-memory architecture, it is perfect for businesses that need to make quick decisions based on current information.
  • Managing workload with complex data: it can handle a vast range of data types, including relational, documental, geospatial, graph, vector, and time series data.
  • Developing and deploying intelligent data applications: it provides various tools for such applications and can be used for machine learning and artificial intelligence to automate tasks, gain insights from data, and make predictions.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Microsoft Access has not really changed at all for several years. It might be nice to see some upgrades and changes.
  • The help info is often not helpful. Need more tutorials for Microsoft Access to show how to do specific things.
  • Be careful naming objects such as tables, forms, etc. Names that are too long can get cut off in dialog boxes to choose a table, form, report, etc. So, I wish they would have resizable dialog boxes to allow you to see objects with long names.
  • I wish it could show me objects that are not in use in the database for current queries, tables, reports, forms, and macros. That way unused objects can be deleted without worrying about losing a report or query because you deleted the underlying object.
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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.
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SAP
  • Requires higher processing power, otherwise it won't fly. How ever computing costs are lower. Incase you are migrating to cloud please do not select the highest config available in that series . Upgrading it later against a reserved instance can cost you dearly with a series change
  • Lack of clarity on licensing is one major challenge
  • Unless S/4 with additional features are enabled mere migration HANA DB is not a rewarding journey. Power is in S/4
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
I and the rest of my team will renew our Microsoft Access in the future because we use and maintain many different applications and databases created using Microsoft Access so we will need to maintain them in the future. Additionally, it is a standard at our place of work so it is at $0 cost to us to use. Another reason for renewing Microsoft Access is that we just don' t have the resources needed to extend into a network of users so we need to remain a single-desktop application at this time.
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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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SAP
We would rate our likelihood of renewing at 9/10. SAP HANA Cloud has proven to be a highly reliable and scalable data platform that consistently delivers strong performance. Its seamless integration with our overall SAP landscape, combined with improved analytics and real-time data capabilities, makes it a core part of our long-term technology strategy.
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Usability
Microsoft
Microsoft Access is easy to use. It is compatible with spreadsheets. It is a very good data management tool. There is scope to save a large amount of data in one place. For using this database, one does not need much training, can be shared among multiple users. This database has to sort and filtering features which seem to be very useful.
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Okta
Some of its features are great and some are slightly complex and not easy without vendor support.
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SAP
It is very useful solution which provides you speedier data processing, real-time analytics. It helps you manage diverse data types. It also offers you excellent disaster management. It has user friendly interface which helps you navigate system and transactions easily and perform task smoothly.
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
I don't think the program has ever failed me. It is one of those programs where there is always a solution if you know where to look.
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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.
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SAP
so far, we didn't get any outage
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Performance
Microsoft
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.
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SAP
so far good
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Support Rating
Microsoft
While I have never contacted Microsoft directly for product support, for some reason there's a real prejudice against MS Access among most IT support professionals. They are usually discouraging when it comes to using MS Access. Most of this is due to their lack of understanding of MS Access and how it can improve one's productivity. If Microsoft invested more resources towards enhancing and promoting the use of MS Access then maybe things would be different.
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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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SAP
However, I am not the right person to answer this as we have another department to handle support and contact the service provider for any support required. Although i will say that they are the quick respondent and knows how to handle querry of the customers and provide quick and better support.
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Implementation Rating
Microsoft
there is no key idea, since it is easy to implement Microsoft Access
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Okta
No answers on this topic
SAP
Professional GIS people are some of the most risk-averse there are, and it's difficult to get them to move to HANA in one step. Start with small projects building to 80% use of HANA spatial over time.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Excel is a fantastic - robust application that can do so much so easily. Its easy to train and understand. However - excel does not provide a reporting function and that is typically where we will suggest a move to [Microsoft] Access. [Microsoft] Access requires a little more knowledge of data manipulation.
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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.
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SAP
I have deep knowledge of other disk based DBMSs. They are venerable technology, but the attempts to extend them to current architectures belie the fact they are built on 40 year old technology. There are some good columnar in-memory databases but they lack the completeness of capability present in the HANA platform.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Okta
No answers on this topic
SAP
I don't have visibility in licensing
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Scalability
Microsoft
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)
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SAP
Limitation of training deliverable by organization
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Professional Services
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Okta
No answers on this topic
SAP
We are still in process for the first applciaiton
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Not having to recreate queries or reports every time you want to use them.
  • Once an item is created and saved as part of the database, you save manpower by not having to recreate them.
  • ROI from a usability standpoint is great. Solid product with great functionality that requires low maintenance usually.
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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.
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SAP
  • ROI has always been high in terms of the functionality that it offers and the security features it comes with.
  • Managing large volumes of data in real-time is not an easy task, but it does it pretty well with faster data processing.
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