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."The product’s most valuable feature is multifactor authentication."
"I like the tool's workflows, which is user-friendly. It can integrate with different applications. I particularly like that users are delighted to access their applications without the hassle of entering their username and password each time. It truly enhances user-friendliness."
"The initial setup of Okta Workforce Identity is straightforward. I was able to get an environment ready within half a day."
"The most valuable features depend on a customer's needs. Our customers generally find multi-factor authentication very useful."
"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."
"Okta integrates well with other solutions. Once you have integrated an application into Okta and onboarded a user, they will be onboarded for just-in-time provisioning."
"The most valuable features are ease of operation and visibility."
"It's reliable and it does what it is advertised to do."
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"The most valuable feature is that it meets the requirements of the customer. You have a lot of features in the product. Every product has them, but the question is, are these products going to meet the requirement of the customer?"
"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."
"A valuable feature of Siteminder is the way it handles bulk traffic. The features it has, in terms of routing the traffic and load balancing, are good."
"It's quite scalable."
"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."
"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."
"The most valuable feature is the Federation part of Single Sign On, which is customizable and is easily integrated with any customer application or any third party application."
"Support could be a bit faster."
"It only facilitates provisioning and not de-provisioning."
"We had some implementation issues."
"I would appreciate it if Okta Workforce Identity becomes more user-friendly. Its API technology is complicated. Certain applications may pose challenges in terms of integration, especially when they require IDP technologies that aren't easily codable. While I can't provide specific examples, some applications may not integrate with Okta Workforce Identity."
"We have experienced some challenges in integrating this solution with Scope and Cognito."
"The training is too costly."
"It's not compatible with on-premises installations, unless you host it as a SaaS. We were not able to do that. For example, imagine a scenario where the cloud is not available. Then, Okta will not work for you. That use case will readily fail because it doesn't have an on-premises installation that you can use to authenticate or provide identity and access management. If you have a purely on-premises solution that is not connected to the internet, then this will not work. This is one area that can be improved."
"Okta doesn't have a partial push. It pushes down the full profile schema for lifecycle management or provisioning."
"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."
"The initial setup was complex, painful. But that is to be expected of any new setup. When you're a big bank like us, any kind of migration to a new product is hard. I expect it to be painful, and it was painful. But it's not something that you can avoid."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
"The technical support could be better."
"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."
"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."
"The support could be faster."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 4th 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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