We performed a comparison between Okta Workforce Identity and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Access Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its integration components are most valuable. It integrates with everything in some way. There are some products, such as O365 or AD, with which it completely and 100% integrates. So, you can seamlessly create accounts across the board with some of these products. For some of the products with which it doesn't completely integrate, you can do some kind of interfacing."
"Workforce Identity's best features include its user-friendliness and easy setup."
"The initial setup of Okta Workforce Identity is straightforward. I was able to get an environment ready within half a day."
"The ease of deployment, ease of use, and speed of delivery is what I like about Okta Workforce Identity. It is very easy to use. For a lot of software, you need to be trained extensively and have a very technical background. Okta Workforce Identity is quite simple. You can integrate any software into Okta. They've got a network of 7,000 applications that easily integrate into it."
"A solution that's easy to use, stable, and reliable."
"It made things a lot easier, especially with passwords."
"Workforce Identity offers a comprehensive access management solution with multi-factor authentication, total control, and features like app access management, identity governance, and administration tools such as certification and access request management. These are typically found in identity management solutions, but Okta integrates them seamlessly into its user interface."
"The most valuable feature in Okta Workforce Identity is the single sign-on, universal directory, and lifecycle management."
"Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable."
"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature"
"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"I liked the debugging part. There are only two files (trace file and log file) that you need to look into while performing debugging, and the logs give you the exact info on where and what needs to be fixed."
"IWA is an out-of-the-box feature. The SAML-based federation is standard for all tools. However, CA Single Sign-On has made the federation configuration way too simple and handy to set up and use."
"Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability."
"If you look at our organization, and really all financial institutions, we have a lot of legacy apps. So it really helps to get Single Sign-On."
"The solution’s policies are difficult to understand due to the policy methods. They use authentication. The solution’s workflow is also difficult and not very active. They need to have proper documentation on it. In the next release, I would like to see the workflows being more digestible."
"The lifecycle management part can be improved. It should also have identity governance and the ability to choose a specific factor authentication at the application level. Its licensing and pricing can also be improved."
"The stability could be better."
"We still had to write several internal programs/scripts to complete the user-provisioning process. Okta does not have the ability to provision mailbox accounts for on-premise Exchange or in a hybrid O365 environment. The Group Push function from Okta to AD did not work reliably in our environment."
"The only area of concern in the solution stems from the fact that my company needs some help regarding the setup phase from a partner."
"Its pricing needs improvement."
"SSO and MFA for improved end-user experience, and protection against password spray attacks, account password self-service."
"It is challenging to obtain a comprehensive backup."
"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."
"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."
"The support could be faster."
"CA has reporting at the moment. With the reporting, every particular segmented product has a reporting engine. I would like to see centralized reporting for all of them together."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."
"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."
"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 3rd in Access Management with 56 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 12th in Access Management with 69 reviews. Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.6, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud Identity, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Saviynt and IBM Security Verify Access, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, PingAccess, PingID and Microsoft Entra ID. See our Okta Workforce Identity vs. Symantec Siteminder report.
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