We performed a comparison between Akamai Enterprise Application Access and Okta Workforce Identity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Access Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is very convenient and stable because you don't have to worry about attacks to public IPs or public networks."
"The capability of Akamai Enterprise Application Access is what you're looking for, it's giving you the service that you're looking for. It's simple and doesn't use an agent. It uses LCSD responders, and they have a lot of services around the globe. That's the reason that we were very interested in using it because it has a lot of coverage. This is because it's under the GDS umbrella."
"Application Access's most valuable feature is the accessibility of enterprise tech protection."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"Okta has introduced the Universal Directory. It has custom attribute capability and user permissions to read/write on their profiles or hide them. Profile sources and identity profile sourcing are two different components that I haven't seen in other products."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are the integration with external websites one-factor authentication."
"It made things a lot easier, especially with passwords."
"Enabled MFA to access federated applications as well as increased user satisfaction through improved provisioning times and more reliable processes."
"First of all, the solution is very simple."
"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 features are ease of operation and visibility."
"The technical enablement sessions are quite limited, and Akamai could help by providing more of them."
"The solution has two agents so should combine its enterprise application and security access into one agent."
"We need another approach to bring the solution to the cloud. In addition to Access Management, we would like to see if we can jump into Directories. I think ADs are going to go away and everything is going to be cloud-based and minimize the use of ADs because of the cost and some other dependencies to the cloud. Every time you buy AD it is more hardware, and everything's changing to software. The network's changing, the applications are changing, and for IT it is hard to keep up with it."
"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."
"Support could be a bit faster."
"SSO and MFA for improved end-user experience, and protection against password spray attacks, account password self-service."
"On the admin side, we can create our own passwords instead of generating one, which is usually difficult to explain to a user."
"Okta Workforce Identity could improve the way passwords are reset and how it interfaces with Microsoft."
"The solution's user interface needs to be improved and made easy."
"A room for improvement in Okta Workforce Identity is its price. It could be cheaper. The biggest benefit of the solution is that everything works securely without extra steps, so you're saving on your workforce's time and effort because your applications work smoothly and securely, but you'd need to pay some amount of money for that. Another area that could be improved, though not necessarily regarding Okta Workforce Identity, is the SSO applications because so many of the source applications charge extra money to put the SSO to work, which means you have to buy a more expensive license. Nowadays, SSO is a mainstream functionality and it should be out-of-the-box in those applications because it's so easy to set up."
"Application updates are lacking. Customer support needs to be improved."
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Akamai Enterprise Application Access is ranked 18th in Access Management with 3 reviews while Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 3rd in Access Management with 59 reviews. Akamai Enterprise Application Access is rated 9.0, while Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Akamai Enterprise Application Access writes "Very scalable, convenient, and stable protection against attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". Akamai Enterprise Application Access is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Zscaler Internet Access, Appgate SDP, Netskope and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, whereas Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud Identity, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, Saviynt and Auth0. See our Akamai Enterprise Application Access vs. Okta Workforce Identity report.
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