Likelihood to Recommend I would definitely suggest this tool to my colleagues. When it comes to single sign to integrate all our applications under one umbrella, this will be the tool to go for sure. In our company, when we were moving our applications to the cloud one by one, we wanted one tool that could serve as a platform for all the applications with one password and with enhanced multi factor authentication and we choose The Okta Identity Cloud. When it comes to SAP, integration with The Okta Identity Cloud was a little tedious.
Read full review Workspace ONE Access is a good fit for a variety of corporate scenarios, such as the need for businesses to provide secure access to their data and applications, the need to lower the costs associated with managing multiple user identities, and the need to boost employee productivity by streamlining access to corporate resources. It is less appropriate if you are not using all of its function and just use it for a particular function undermining its capabilities for example in our organization the use case is primarily restricted to giving staff members safe access to company information and applications which debunks its other features such as compliance and product support that it provides.
Read full review Pros RBAC is simple, straight forward and easy to manage Integrations of Social Login are simple to configure and the Auth0 documentation shows step by step how to configure it Rules/Hooks provide customization to the Auth0 flow, making it a great solution to define how we allow our users to login into our applications Read full review It provides an "SSO" type experience for access to applications and data. Users sign in to one "portal" and then have access to whatever university systems they need to do their job. It greatly simplifies securing these types of access. Firewall rulesets can be made much simpler and easier to manage, as well. Read full review Cons The user interface of Okta is basic and needs improvement. There's some learning curve for new users. One time integration effort is high for the initial setup. Took us around 3 weeks. Okta times out pretty quick making us login multiple times in the day. Read full review Support for more Single Sign-On (SSO) protocols. More comprehensive dashboards and reporting. Greater integration with other VMware products. Read full review Likelihood to Renew 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
Read full review Usability Some of its features are great and some are slightly complex and not easy without vendor support.
Read full review Reliability and Availability 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.
Read full review Performance The Okta Identity Cloud performance is very good and there is never any reports from the user community or from the IT administrative team of slow response or sluggishness. In addition, integrations with other systems does not slow them down and everything works seamlessly. The only other feedback is that once in a while there is a slight delay in receiving a second factor on a mobile device but this is likely due to a phone endpoint issue and not the The Okta Identity Cloud service.
Read full review Support Rating There isn't a clear method to get a hold of support when trouble arises if you're on their standard plan. You can file a support ticket and they generally are responsive. I've often been able to find similar questions to the questions I've had when it comes to support in their ticket history, however, some have been closed without a satisfactory conclusion for the original poster.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Okta was the most expensive choise between than, but still our best bet. This was caused because they were able to integrate with 90% of our software without any headache and 10% with some studies - this work would be higher and requires more working hours from our engineers if we opted to their competitors.
Read full review We also examined several other options, particularly Lenovo Unified Workspace. The Lenovo product had some advantages over the VMWare product, particularly in the areas of customization of the look / feel and user experience. However, we have been a longtime VMWare customer, and we have VMWare VDI and other product implementations in place now that paired very well with the VMWare product.
Read full review Scalability 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)
Read full review Return on Investment Customer experience has been a big win for us. Extremely minimal issues reported. We did not have a PAM in place at all until The Okta Identity Cloud Relatively easy to deploy. No major downtimes to deploy was a nice bonus. Read full review Better control over organization data and its applications. The software has frequently allowed us to save money on application security and mobile device management. It offers a lot of features that may be adjusted to meet the requirements of our particular business demands, which has increased efficiency and security for our organization. Read full review ScreenShots