We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Identity and Okta WorkForce Identity based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Okta WorkForce Identity is the preferred choice when it comes to Identity and Access Management solutions. Okta is easy to use, offers great integrations with numerous solutions, and is a safe, secure, and robust solution. Additionally, it is very fast, responsive, and has great performance. The SSO, MFA, and other beneficial feature sets make it a complete and reliable product. The only downside is the price.
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The Cloud Identity is well advanced in terms of features, applications, and the components that it is offering."
"Google Cloud Identity uses what they call organizational units (OUs) instead of the security groups you'd find in Microsoft's Entra."
"One of the most useful features was the single sign-on. You can use it as an identity provider or service provider. And you can use their organization unit feature to enable or disable some of the features for a specific group of users."
"The solution is moderate to difficult to use. I found the approach was practical. Following the steps made it very easy to use."
"I think the first thing that is great is that it gives you a lot of features, like login, and then vaulted passwords and secure LDAP. It becomes easier for the end customer to leverage all those features without going to a higher SKU of G Suite."
"It's easy to set up."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Enabled MFA to access federated applications as well as increased user satisfaction through improved provisioning times and more reliable processes."
"It offers very helpful support. The technical team is very helpful."
"The most valuable features are ease of operation and visibility."
"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."
"We face no challenges in integrating the product with our legacy systems."
"It is flexible and easy to install."
"The most valuable features of Okta Workforce Identity are SSO, MFA, and beneficial feature sets."
"Its simplicity and its integration with various vendor-agnostic platforms are the most valuable features."
"The integration should be made easier."
"They are going ahead and adding a few more things to the Google Cloud premium edition. Their stock management and remote computer management can be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the configuration of their security policies. It seems quite basic."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"To improve the product, the integration with third-party products could always be smoother."
"In the next release, I would like to see integration with different systems, mainly wireless SIEMS and other analytical systems that we want to introduce."
"Google Cloud Identity the UI could improve."
"Google Cloud Identify could make the technology used easier to understand as a layman making it more user-friendly."
"It only facilitates provisioning and not de-provisioning."
"RESTful Web Service calls and their response seem a bit slow."
"It is challenging to obtain a comprehensive backup."
"We've not had any problems with Okta."
"The guest user access could be improved."
"In some setup cases, there are issues with attributes not going in properly."
"Okta doesn't have a partial push. It pushes down the full profile schema for lifecycle management or provisioning."
"We have experienced some challenges in integrating this solution with Scope and Cognito."
Google Cloud Identity is ranked 4th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 21 reviews while Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 2nd in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 59 reviews. Google Cloud Identity is rated 7.6, while Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google Cloud Identity writes " A stable solution that can help with collaboration and productivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". Google Cloud Identity is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Entra ID, JumpCloud, VMware Workspace ONE and ManageEngine Endpoint Central, whereas Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, Saviynt, Auth0 and IBM Security Verify Access. See our Google Cloud Identity vs. Okta Workforce Identity report.
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