We performed a comparison between Okta Workforce Identity and VMware Identity Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's reliable and it does what it is advertised to do."
"The initial setup of Okta Workforce Identity is straightforward. I was able to get an environment ready within half a day."
"Okta controls all the users. It has context-based access from the user and type of device. It identifies the risk and can do a step of authentication when that user is trying to access some sensitive application from an unknown device."
"Valuable features include UD, SSO functionality, MFA and Adaptive MFA functionality, ability to link multiple Directory databases with UD."
"Having a single sign-on to all our applications."
"This solution has a lot of capabilities and features."
"The solution can scale very well."
"The most valuable features depend on a customer's needs. Our customers generally find multi-factor authentication very useful."
"Personally, VMware Identity Manager is useful for comparison purposes so that I can provide better solutions to my company's customers."
"Its value is when you use it with a Workspace ONE UEM solution as it is part of the ecosystem for VMware Workspace ONE."
"When we publish the applications, getting the credentials to log in and keep the application up or running is easy."
"The most valuable feature is single sign-on."
"Zero Trust implementation is a great feature."
"The solution is stable."
"One of the features that I enjoyed most was the integration with Azure AD because I could use VMware Identity Manager to standardize the User Principal Name coming from Active Directory. You have Azure AD Connect to do that. In between, if you have vIDM handling it, you can easily get the synchronization of users into your VM and standardize the User Principal Name. If you require quality assurance for handling it, you can actually count on the vIDM to do so. That was one of the main things I enjoyed about the product."
"The most valuable feature is the User Experience Designer, which has been very helpful for our project."
"The training is too costly."
"It only facilitates provisioning and not de-provisioning."
"SSO and MFA for improved end-user experience, and protection against password spray attacks, account password self-service."
"We experienced some technical glitches that need to be resolved."
"The integration with third-party tools needs to be improved."
"Okta doesn't have a partial push. It pushes down the full profile schema for lifecycle management or provisioning."
"It would be pricing, which is a tough one because it goes against Microsoft. A lot of companies say they're a Microsoft partner, and they get all their software for free. Okta is like a luxury product, and it's not the most affordable one. I would say if they could work on pricing, it would help. Other than that, they've done great strides in developing a product that is really good. The companies that do see the value tend to invest in it."
"In my country, there's a lot of stealing of mobile phones, and mobile phones are the authentication device through the Okta application. If someone should steal my mobile phone, which is very common in my country, he or she might have access to my company account. That's my concern."
"There is a need for better user lifecycle management within VMware Identity Manager, along with better user governance...The scalability of the product needs to improve."
"I would like better integration for deploying programs with binary files."
"The license could be better."
"The mobile SSO doesn't work as well on Android."
"it's very dependent on an active directory"
"I would like to have better support for multi-cloud sessions."
"We have a lot of problems when it comes to integrating with Active Directory."
"Many of the features that exist in Active Directory do not exist in Identity Manager, which means that people depend on Active Directory."
Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 2nd in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 59 reviews while VMware Identity Manager is ranked 17th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews. Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.4, while VMware Identity Manager is rated 7.6. 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 VMware Identity Manager writes "A tool that needs to improve scalability but is useful to manage user". Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud Identity, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Saviynt and Auth0, whereas VMware Identity Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and SailPoint IdentityIQ. See our Okta Workforce Identity vs. VMware Identity Manager report.
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