We performed a comparison between Oracle Identity Governance and Symantec Identity Governance and Administration based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Identity Management (IM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"Omada's best feature is creating accounts, automatically assigning permissions, and distributing resources based on assignment policies."
"The customer success and support teams have been crucial."
"Omada's most valuable aspect is its usability."
"User-friendly solution."
"What I like most is that we can always find a solution, and we can also find the cause when something goes wrong. I like that the most because everything is in one way or another traceable. That is what I like most. I like its reliability."
"When we started with identity and access management, we cleaned up and skipped 500 accounts. Therefore, there are a lot of people who are still in our system. Using this tool, we have cleaned up a lot of accounts for ourselves as well as our partners and suppliers. So, we can manage everything now."
"Omada offers a technical solution that addresses both our needs."
"Omada's onboarding features reflect our processes for onboarding new employees well. That is the primary reason we use this solution. We use role-based access control. I'm not sure how much it has improved our security posture, but it's made managing identities more convenient."
"The support service of Oracle is good. We use it a lot and their response is quick."
"The most valuable feature is the set of out-of-the-box connectors."
"I have found the OIM Connector framework, based on ICF, to be the most valuable feature."
"Role-based access control (RBAC) has been crucial for role-based management in my current company. Granular access restrictions based on role-based policies were beneficial."
"The proactive controls which can be configured to a granular level allowing the organization the flexibility to meet the changing demands of the workforce."
"Its most valuable feature is its scalability."
"It's a stable and scalable solution."
"What I like most about Oracle Identity Governance is that it is a very flexible tool. It allows you to do any customization on Java as it is built on Java and you can write any customization code using Java. I also like that Oracle Identity Governance is pretty much stable. In my company, there are a lot of users, so my company prefers this solution."
"It has good endpoint support and endpoint connectivity to different versioning endpoints."
"The product’s most valuable feature is flexibility. It can be customized as per the customer’s requirements."
"There are many valuable features within the solution. The product is easy to customize. It’s also highly secure."
"The most valuable aspects of Symantec Identity Governance and Administration are all the features, it is the most complete solution on the market. It has features, such as scanners and portals, it has everything."
"Automated provisioning removes manual labor and manual provisioning."
"Streamlines user access, consolidates applications."
"Self-registration and self-service password management are valuable features. The role modeling feature is also very useful. It allows you to model your enterprise role."
"The most valuable features are role-based access and identity provisioning, which allow a single point of user access to multiple places."
"The comprehensiveness of Omada's out-of-the-box connectors for the applications we use could be better. We are getting a new HR system called Cornerstone for which they do not have an out-of-the-box connector, so we have to take the REST connector and play around with it."
"I would like to see them expand the functionality of the tool to continue to be competitive with the monsters out there. For example, they could add functionality on the authentication side, functionality that Octa and SailPoint have. But they should do that while maintaining the same simplicity that makes Omada a product of choice today."
"If you find an error and you need it fixed, you have to upgrade. It's not like they say, "Okay, we'll fix this problem for you." You have to upgrade. The last time we upgraded, because there was an error in a previous version, we had to pay 150,000 Danish Krone (about $24,000 at the time of this review) to upgrade our systems... That means that we have to pay to get errors fixed that Omada has made in programming the system. I hope they change this way of looking at things."
"The web GUI can be improved."
"When making a process, you should be able to use some coding to do some advanced calculations. The calculations you can currently do are too basic. I would also like some additional script features."
"The current reporting tools in Omada are limited, but we expect significant improvements in the new version."
"The Omada support response time has room for improvement."
"When the re-certification process is launched that makes Omada very slow. There are performance issues in the current version."
"It's a complex solution, so it will take time in terms of deployment."
"It responds fast but because of the bugs we have already had some major incidents and complete unavailability."
"Identity Governance is a difficult tool to work with. You have to input many models to understand what is happening with the logins. The user interface is not so good. And a lot of the features we use aren't available out of the box."
"The cost of this product needs to be reduced."
"The user-friendliness of Oracle Identity Governance can be improved compared to other products."
"Automation of validation exercises performed by humans over Recon Exceptions generated as a result of an access synchronization event over a user's need for access or not."
"It would be great if the Oracle Fusion Middleware team worked on making it compatible with other application servers, as it exists in OIM9.x."
"The development and the administration side could be a lot more intuitive and easier to use than it currently is, in terms of functionality and what it tries to achieve as a Single Sign-On entity for an enterprise environment."
"The drawback with the CA Identity Manager is they don't have a connector to HR systems like SAP, or PeopleSoft, or Workday. That's a major drawback with the CA Identity Manager. For that we have to do lots of custom quoting to get data from HR systems. And if they could connect it to GRC systems, that's good to have in an identity product."
"In the next release, there should be provisioning of your certifications."
"The reporting functions."
"The product has a lot of need for improvement. Our issues are being raised back to the vendor as enhancements."
"A better information display for the approvals within the workflow would give them more information and the ability to comment back on a request as to why they're rejecting it. We've been telling them we'd like this improvement, and we hope to see it."
"Although the capabilities are there, the user interface needs to be redesigned and the opportunities for integration should be improved."
"There are several areas for improvement in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration. They have no proper documentation on how to do backups. They also have a lengthy workflow process where we have to make some configurations to manage automation in the rules and in our tasks which takes time. We have to manually configure all the configuration files, and we cannot export users because there's no export system in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration. What we'd like to see in the next release of the solution is for them to make configuration and integration with other systems their top priorities. We have many API systems to manage, so hopefully, if they make these enhancements shortly, we can directly connect with our API systems when using Symantec Identity Governance and Administration."
"They should easier and better integration with other software."
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Oracle Identity Governance is ranked 10th in Identity Management (IM) with 66 reviews while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is ranked 20th in Identity Management (IM) with 65 reviews. Oracle Identity Governance is rated 7.4, while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Oracle Identity Governance writes "A scalable solution designed to meet the requirements of medium and large-sized companies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Identity Governance and Administration writes "Works well on-premises and has partial capabilities but lacks many feaures". Oracle Identity Governance is most compared with SailPoint IdentityIQ, One Identity Manager, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Saviynt and ForgeRock, whereas Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is most compared with SailPoint IdentityIQ, AlertEnterprise Enterprise Guardian, SAP Identity Management, Microsoft Identity Manager and Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine). See our Oracle Identity Governance vs. Symantec Identity Governance and Administration report.
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