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 Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Enabled MFA to access federated applications as well as increased user satisfaction through improved provisioning times and more reliable processes."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The feature that is most valuable to me is the automated user provisioning that we set up using Okta as a major part of that process."
"The support for YubiKey is really good because you don't actually have to type in your username and password."
"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."
"This solution has a lot of capabilities and features."
"The provisioning functionality has been the most valuable. This solution has good performance, fast integration and is very responsive."
"It is reliable."
"Federation is valuable, for sure, because we have a lot of third-party vendors that we need to integrate with, and this is a turnkey solution in some ways."
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns."
"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"It has considerably reduced the amount of time that new users would take to join into the organization. Previously, it was a lengthy, manual process because it's a very secure environment, where they need to verify the user before they can actually grant him a user-ID and password. Integrating with the built-in custom application, and exposing CA Single Sign On to the internet, we were able to get the employees onboard. The time that we gained was: previously it would generally take from four to eight weeks for each employee, we brought it to one to two days."
"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."
"Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability."
"The product does not offer enough integration capabilities."
"Okta Workforce Identity could improve the support system, they are too slow."
"We experienced some technical glitches that need to be resolved."
"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."
"It only facilitates provisioning and not de-provisioning."
"It can have more API integrations."
"We've not had any problems with Okta."
"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."
"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."
"As we are moving in to the mobility space, this is where we really see SiteMinder and their other product really come together to provide a solution base to a different area where the IoT is coming, the different business communications are happening. All of those things require authentication and we really want to see this product grow into that role."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."
"An area Siteminder could improve on is that there are a few limitations, in terms of new protocols for OpenID. If I want to have different scopes, the features are limited. They also do not have APIs exposed, which is a major drawback. API is a feature I would like to see included in the next release."
"I think they need to integrate some of the newer types of authentication into the product. I'm not seeing the innovation when it comes to biometrics in the product."
"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
"I would like to see a move towards the newer technologies, which is what we are doing right now. I think that's in the roadmap that's coming, in the 12.8 and 14 releases, but we would like to have it sooner than later."
Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 3rd in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 59 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 13th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 69 reviews. Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.4, 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 Identity Security Cloud, Saviynt and CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with Ping Identity Platform, ForgeRock, Auth0, Microsoft Entra ID and Red Hat Single Sign On. See our Okta Workforce Identity vs. Symantec Siteminder report.
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