NetIQ by OpenText vs. Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On Suite Plus

• An organization who needs a way of managing their entire user lifecycle.
• If an organization needed a solid Identity Management (IDM) solution that could do Single Sign-On (SS) and provisioning for services both internally and in the cloud.

Incentivized

Good if you want a temporary solution to too many passwords.

Incentivized

• Easy to use workflow for creating users.
• The self-service portal for resetting passwords etc., is easy to deploy.
• Has strong user activity monitoring.

Incentivized

• Flexible to work with most web sites and thick clients
• Avoids users having to type their passwords repeatedly
• Fairly performant

Incentivized

• The interface is a bit outdated.
• It would be nice to be able to customize the self-service portal more.
• It would be great if it integrated with more products.

Incentivized

• This tool is essentially a hack, making the user experience pretty weak. For example, we use it in an application which has a box to type your password. Every time you enter some data, ESSO steals the focus and types your password into the box, even if you aren't about to submit the form requiring the password.
• This tool creates a 2nd CN in the directory and this broke some of our applications which were only expecting a single CN per user in the directory. Why can't it use a traditional database instead?
• This tool caused performance issues with Putty. It would peg our CPUs at 100% if the user had Putty running. It took a very long time to resolve the issue.

Incentivized

There's no substitute for properly developed applications that delegate authentication to an external system like Active Directory or a cloud identity provider. That way, the issues with screen scraping and constantly-breaking integration are solved permanently.

Incentivized

• ROI
• Self-Service
• Easy Install

Incentivized

• We spent a lot of time implementing it on different applications. However, because it uses screen scraping, every time our apps upgraded, it broke the integration with ESSO, so we had to keep fixing the integration. After a few years, we have stopped integrating new apps with it due to this headache.

Incentivized