You get what you pay for with Okta, it's expensive but it's great
February 04, 2025

You get what you pay for with Okta, it's expensive but it's great

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Single Sign-On

Overall Satisfaction with Okta

Single Sign On provider for our business so that users don't have to remember a bunch of passwords. Additionally, it has helped with our onboarding and offboarding workflow as it minimizes number of steps involved and provides a single pane of glass. Overall, a great product with no major issues or obnoxious quirks.

Pros

  • Improves onboarding and offboarding experience
  • Provides single pane of glass
  • Uptime
  • SSO

Cons

  • Integration with more partners
  • Making it easier for 3rd party to accept Okta as a sign on solution
  • When there is an issue with Okta the communication of impacted parties uses inside baseball terminology, e.g., "US Cell 14 is impacted." We can find what regions are in what cells by searching online, but why not just include that in the email itself rather than making users jump through hoops.
  • Improved security posture
  • Improved speed of onboarding/offboarding
  • Provides a single throat to choke for so much management
We've benefited greatly by having a single pane of glass for most of our platforms. Okta would be perfect if all our platforms supported it, so it would be nice if Okta could incentivize and proactively reach out to provide the tools for easy integration to anyone with a login/password for their website.
Overall, the support with Okta has been very good, they respond quickly and with useful information and next steps. They do not push you to a community forums website like other companies will for support.
It allows users to be able to do their jobs and to not working about a critical service being down. The only improvement is when there is an issue to communicate better who is being impacted, currently the language used is useless to those who don't work for Okta or have their cheat sheet nearby (e.g., US Cell 14 is having issues).

Do you think Okta delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Okta's feature set?

Yes

Did Okta live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Okta go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Okta again?

Yes

Okta would be less appropriate for very small companies where account management can still be done manually as Okta would be cost prohibitive to implement.

Okta is well suited for anyone with either a lot of platforms to manage that would integrate with Okta or for anyone with an org of 50+ employees.

Okta Feature Ratings

ID-Management Access Control
10
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)
10
Multi-Factor Authentication
10
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning
10
ID Management Workflow Automation
10

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