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"Simplicity is the most valuable part of OneLogin.""The most valuable feature is the ease with which we can manage the sign-on feature.""One aspect I particularly appreciate is their exceptional customer support whenever I've needed assistance.""The solution's ability to save and manage of all my passwords is great.""In my role, the most valuable features are two-factor authentication and self-service password reset. The most helpful feature for the institution as a whole is probably the single sign-on. As an IT director, I care about security and ease of use.""The solution allows the user to search logs based on a specific time.""Ease of integration with AD.""Once I made the OneLogin ID, it would essentially make user names and passwords for every application that we had."

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"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?""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 Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that.""It's quite scalable.""It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security.""It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have.""All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time.""Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."

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"This product doesn't necessarily provide us with all of the functionality that we need, such as being able to share passwords with external users.""In terms of managing the users on a large scale, it would be easier if they had some kind of user management portal.""OneLogin offers a Virtual LDAP feature that we utilize, although it differs slightly from traditional LDAP servers.""I would like better reporting from SmartFactor Authentication when a user is not able to sign in due to a new location, new IP, new device, et cetera.""While I initially used OneLogin's desktop feature to extend SSO, I discontinued it two years ago due to limitations.""OneLogin needs to increase the number of connectors available out of the box to connect to the different endpoints. The number of out-of-box connectors should be increased.""More off-hour support.""The solution keeps going down for many hours, which impacts the entire company. You can't access any applications. OneLogin Desktop has a huge problem where it locks your computers and you need to reset the whole computer, which is pretty insane."

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"The technical support could be better.""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.""We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not.""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.""If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake.""They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting.""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.""I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Surprisingly expensive given the price of on-premise solutions."
  • "The pricing for OneLogin seems to be okay. The pricing and licensing are affordable. If you'd consider OneLogin to be expensive, it's worth it."
  • "The price of the licensing is fine."
  • "The pricing and licensing are reasonable. It is much cheaper than other products."
  • "We were happy with the price we got when we signed up, but I don't know what will happen when the time comes to renew because it is a different company now. We haven't seen any pricing models or had that discussion yet. My renewal is a year and a half away. It's worth what we're paying for it. There's no way we could provide the level of service for cheaper or try to do the same in-house."
  • "OneLogin's pricing, from the perspective of the education sector, seems quite reasonable for the value it delivers."
  • "While I wish OneLogin's pricing was more affordable, their licensing model, which is based on per user, is acceptable."
  • "It was cheap in the beginning, and then it became very expensive. We were initially charged $2 per user per month, which was fine, but by the second year, they increased it to $5 per user. That became very expensive for us because we had about 1,500 users. At $2 per user, it comes out to be $3,000 a month, which is $36,000 a year. If we move to $5 per user, it comes out to be $7,500 a month. That made its cost so high. That is why we removed the product because the cost was high."
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  • "The price is quite comparable to the other enterprise-level solutions in that market."
  • "I recommend conducting a PoC on every available product before choose one."
  • "CA solutions are generally expensive but for the customer the ROI is big."
  • "Symantec Siteminder is expensive; they could definitely do better on the price."
  • "The licensing is fair for this solution."
  • "Siteminder is a little costly. You pay for licensing, and they offer packages, so if you have less users, then you have to buy different products at different prices. If you have more of a user base, then the package is different. They also include other features—for example, if you have a database and you're using Siteminder, then it's good to use a Semantic-specific database, but if you are using less, then you have to purchase the database separately. Whereas if you are going for a bigger license, then it comes within the package. It depends on which plan you are using."
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    Also Known As
    OneLogin, OneLogin Workforce Identity
    Single Sign-On, SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder
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    Overview


    OneLogin by One Identity is a cloud-based access management solution for the modern enterprise. It delivers secure access for every user, every app and every device to meet an organization’s Workforce and Customer and Identity and Access Management (CIAM) needs.

    OneLogin provides secure single sign-on, multi-factor authentication (supporting a wide array of passwordless authentication factors), adaptive authentication, desktop-level MFA, directory integration with AD, LDAP, G Suite and other external directories, identity lifecycle management and much more. OneLogin advanced authentication capabilities provide multi-layer, context aware and risk-based protection, minimizing the most common attacks and resulting in increased security, a frictionless user experience, and compliance with regulatory requirements. Furthermore, OneLogin’s user-friendly interface and streamlined design make it easy for end users and IT administrators to navigate the platform and remain productive.

    Symantec® SiteMinder is designed to secure the modern enterprise through a unified access management platform that applies the appropriate authentication mechanism to positively identify users; provides single sign-on and identity federation for seamless access to any application; enforces granular security policies to stop unauthorized access to sensitive resources; and monitors and manages the entire user session to prevent session hijacking. Finally, Symantec SiteMinder is battle-tested and has been deployed in the largest IT environments in the world.

    Sample Customers
    OneLogin has thousands of customers across multiple industries and from around the globe such as Uber, Airbnb, Noom, Petco, Sony, Lucky Brand, Tesco, Airbus, Japan Airlines, Aetna, Compass, Kaplan, Susan G. Komen, AAA and PennyMac.
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    Non Tech Company7%
    Recreational Facilities/Services Company7%
    Non Profit7%
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    Computer Software Company26%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Comms Service Provider7%
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    Comms Service Provider7%
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    Midsize Enterprise18%
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    OneLogin by One Identity is ranked 5th in Access Management with 16 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 16th in Access Management. OneLogin by One Identity is rated 8.6, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OneLogin by One Identity writes "Integrated well and had a single pane of glass, but downtime and pricing were issues for us". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". OneLogin by One Identity is most compared with Auth0, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta Workforce Identity, LastPass and One Identity Manager, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and Microsoft Entra ID.

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