We use One Identity Manager for user lifecycle management and access management.
Identity and Access Manager at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Automated processes streamline user access and improve security compliance
Pros and Cons
- "We are getting cost savings by automating system integrations."
- "The user interface can be confusing for end users, especially during attestations, as completed tasks simply disappear without indicating that there are no pending requests."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Since I am placed in the business organization, I see smooth processes for joiner, mover, and leaver, and a compliance perspective. We are getting cost savings by automating system integrations. Previously, people handled access rights manually for each system. Now, after integrating about half of our systems, we are saving approximately three FTEs, and expect it to double. Line managers can see team members' access rights and do attestations in one view. We have integrated requesting of access rights also to external systems via the web portal to remind leaders about access rights management also for leavers and movers. Automation of these processes improves security and compliance by meeting auditor requirements.
What needs improvement?
There are functionalities we needed to build ourselves, such as cleaning the direct entitlement assignments if inderect exists. The user interface can sometimes be a bit confusing for end users, for example during attestations, as completed tasks simply disappear without indicating that there are no pending requests left any more and therefore end-user is unsure if they have completed all theirs tasks.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have had it in production since autumn 2023, approximately one and a half years.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate stability around nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have around 8,200 employees using the system to request access rights. Scalability is not an issue, so I rate it a nine out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
I rate customer support at eight out of ten. The response time has room for improvement as it can take quite a long time in some cases.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously, we used an old Microsoft MIM solution. We transitioned to One Identity Manager for improved functionalities like handling mover situations and integrating external systems for better security compliance.
What about the implementation team?
We implemented it through Tietoevry, a partner. Initially, we had an unsatisfactory experience with a different partner, which delayed our project by a year. After switching to Tietoevry, the project improved significantly.
What was our ROI?
Annually, we have saved three full-time employees as a result of deploying One Identity Manager. We anticipate doubling this saving once all current integrations are completed and even more when we add Segregation of Duties rules.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend One Identity Manager due to the improved security and compliance it offers. We have achieved considerable productivity gains through automated processes. I rate One Identity Manager a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
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IAM Developer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
A highly customizable system that automates processes and demonstrates best practices
Pros and Cons
- "It is highly customizable, a feature that influenced our company's decision. We can easily customize it."
- "I find it user-friendly."
- "Their support can be better. They can also improve testing of their product before releasing new versions. We have had a few critical issues after upgrading to a newer version, which also caused problems with auditing."
- "Default connectors work fine, but certain connectors, such as SCIM to SAP Cloud Identity Services connector, have quite a few bugs."
What is our primary use case?
We are using One Identity Manager to change our previous old identity access management platform. Currently, the separation of duties is the most important aspect.
How has it helped my organization?
It delivers SAP-specialized workflows and business logic. It meets the needs of the most common use cases. It also supports customization for special cases.
Its biggest benefit as well as its biggest problem is that it is highly customizable. Usually, customers do too much customization, and then it is not great performance-wise.
We started to see how to optimize or support audit processes with One Identity Manager about a year ago. It has been helpful there. It saved quite a lot of time.
It did not help us to achieve an identity-centric Zero Trust model, but that is because we need more push from the business or management.
It helps automate processes. Our company uses One Identity as an enabler, which would be nice to change. It helps us save on license costs through effective license management.
What is most valuable?
It is highly customizable, a feature that influenced our company's decision. We can easily customize it.
I find it user-friendly. Once you have some experience, it demonstrates best practices and guides you on the correct way to use the tool.
What needs improvement?
Default connectors work fine, but certain connectors, such as SCIM to SAP Cloud Identity Services connector, have quite a few bugs. They are not so great.
Their support can be better. They can also improve testing of their product before releasing new versions. We have had a few critical issues after upgrading to a newer version, which also caused problems with auditing.
For how long have I used the solution?
Our company has been using One Identity Manager for around seven years, but I have personally used it for four years. I became its developer four years ago.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We are using it at one location. We have about 30,000 active identities. We have five people working with this solution.
How are customer service and support?
There is room for improvement. For each ticket, they require logs or traces from the system, even when the issue shows no logs. This requires sending the information back and forth, which consumes a lot of time. After submission, they contact the product team, which often takes one or two months to respond.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have not worked with other solutions.
How was the initial setup?
I was not involved when they started implementation, but it was complex. This complexity was not due to the difficulty of implementing One Identity Manager, but rather a lack of business support for our process decisions.
Deploying the One Identity Manager solution itself is easy. The documentation is clear.
You can do customizations. It can be customized, but it is hard to customize correctly without affecting the system.
What about the implementation team?
IPG is our partner. They have helped customize the solution for our needs.
Their support was alright. It is important that the partner advises to follow the standards because customizations can cause issues. It is better to change the process instead of going for customization.
We received very good support from them post-implementation. It is of high level. I would rate our One Identity Partner a ten out of ten in terms of value.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend One Identity Manager for sure. It is quite easy to use as long as you find a good partner who can facilitate changes in the process rather than customize it for every single case. Many issues arise from the misuse of the system due to extensive customizations. If used correctly, there would be fewer issues, and it would be a fast, quick system.
It can be a bit complex to learn for new users when there is a lot of customization.
It has a lot of potential. We try to use it as much as possible, but we are not using it to its full potential. The problem is business support.
Overall, I would rate One Identity Manager an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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IT and Information Security Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Streamlines access and provides robust security and customization features
Pros and Cons
- "In One Identity Manager, I appreciate the Synchronization Editor for onboarding different target system applications."
- "I would definitely recommend One Identity Manager."
- "A major area for improvement is Web Designer. If One Identity Manager advances this, it will greatly benefit all customers."
- "A major area for improvement is Web Designer. If One Identity Manager advances this, it will greatly benefit all customers. Web Designer is based on legacy Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET and HTML."
What is our primary use case?
We use One Identity Manager for access management and provisioning, as well as onboarding target system applications. It focuses on identity management and providing access.
We use different tools like Web Designer and Synchronization Editor, and we do implementation, customization, and configuration based on our requirements.
How has it helped my organization?
I can see many benefits, including granting the right access to the right people at the right time. It helps with enhancing security, validating identity types, and assigning initial rights based on the defined processes. Users follow request workflows inside the system to access, which is validated for correctness.
We use One Identity Manager to manage SAP target system applications. We generally use the SAP connector. We create the SAP onboarding project in Synchronization Editor. It is like a bridge between One Identity Manager and the target SAP system applications. It is able to meet our requirements.
It has had a Windows-based UI, and they are also moving to a web-based portal. One Identity Manager helps manage identities and accounts, and we can also see the pictorial representation of the identities there.
We do a lot of customization. It supports customization based on our needs. However, when it comes to Web Designer, customization can be a bit challenging.
We have onboarded 30 to 40 applications, including SuccessFactors, ServiceNow,. We are about to complete SuccessFactors' integration with One Identity. Previously, we used to get the identities in the form of a CSV file where the data was inserted inside One Identity to create the identities of new joiners and do the onboarding. It is now connected to the SuccessFactors application. It is also integrated with ServiceNow. If any incidents get raised, they can be routed to the respective operations or engineering teams for resolution.
One Identity Manager helps minimize gaps in governance coverage among test, dev, and production servers.
One Identity Manager helps streamline application access decisions, application compliance, and application auditing. We have dedicated teams focused on compliance and auditing.
One Identity Manager has helped us achieve an identity-centric Zero Trust model.
What is most valuable?
In One Identity Manager, I appreciate the Synchronization Editor for onboarding different target system applications. We have various connectors that allow customization. For instance, the Windows PowerShell connectors can connect to different services such as RESTful services, SOAP services, and Windows services. I like how data flows from the target system applications to One Identity. We explore technical aspects, write functions in PowerShell, and connect with APIs.
Another interesting feature is attestation, where we review and re-attest existing employees' rights. We create attestation policies, workflows, and schedules.
What needs improvement?
A major area for improvement is Web Designer. If One Identity Manager advances this, it will greatly benefit all customers. Web Designer is based on legacy Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET and HTML. I believe future improvements will resolve performance issues.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using One Identity Manager for the last six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is stable but need more improvements.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is scalable. I would rate it an eight out of ten for scalability.
How are customer service and support?
We use their regular support. Could be rate 7 or 8 out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
We do not handle the initial setup, but from what I have heard, it is not complex.
In terms of maintenance, mostly it requires monitoring and health checks to ensure everything in the infrastructure is working properly.
What other advice do I have?
I would definitely recommend One Identity Manager. It offers many opportunities for technical learning, implementation, and customization. One Identity Manager is a good solution for identity and access management, provisioning, and other IAM aspects.
I would rate it an eight out of ten.
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Presales Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Customization and integration capabilities have elevated identity governance and administration
Pros and Cons
- "One Identity Manager has improved our organization significantly; for instance, the automation of the provisioning workflow is very useful."
- "The solution's intuitiveness requires almost a complete redesigning in terms of user experience."
What is our primary use case?
My use case for One Identity Manager is identity governance and administration. I am an implementation partner for One Identity Manager.
How has it helped my organization?
One Identity Manager has improved our organization significantly; for instance, the automation of the provisioning workflow is very useful. Moreover, the de-provisioning usually represents a challenge in the provisioning process as it consumes time and working hours, wasting time for new employees or employees who require more privileges. It helped reduce pain in the business. In de-provisioning, this has helped significantly with risk management and removing potential threats for people who have more privileges than they should, and the attestation is crucial; attestations and attestation workflows are very crucial in this area.
One Identity Manager provides a single platform for the administration and governance of users, data, and accounts. It's quite comprehensive, which is a positive aspect.
One Identity Manager extends governance to cloud apps using StarLink integration, which benefits clients significantly despite some resistance due to additional licensing requirements.
The solution helps consolidate procurement and licensing with a straightforward process. It aids in achieving an identity-centric zero trust model, helping clients comply with regulations and minimize risks.
What is most valuable?
The best features in One Identity Manager, which I appreciate the most, are the ability to extend it and the capability for customization and integrating new target systems.
What needs improvement?
The ease of use of One Identity Manager could improve as the web portal is not the most user-friendly, and there are many places where the settings exist which can make it fuzzy and difficult to figure out the location of specific settings you want to configure.
The solution's intuitiveness requires almost a complete redesigning in terms of user experience. It needs a lot of work and updates to improve the user experience.
The solution helps minimize the gap in governance coverage for test, dev, and production servers, though migration between environments could be more straightforward.
There should also be more focus on the governance part, business, and marketing.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using One Identity Manager for approximately four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
One Identity Manager occasionally has bugs, but overall, it is pretty stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Regarding scalability, One Identity Manager rates a nine out of ten as it is suitable for enterprise clients.
How are customer service and support?
We rarely use their support. The support that the vendor provides has improved recently, but the documentation lacks significant information.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
How was the initial setup?
Its deployment is of moderate complexity. Deployment time for enterprise clients takes days.
The solution requires daily maintenance, with many clients requiring resident engineers for managed services.
What was our ROI?
One Identity Manager definitely saves time, money, and resources. Although the exact percentage is unclear; it is very helpful, similar to any identity and access management solution.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing for One Identity Manager is competitive in our region, so there is no issue with the license pricing. However, aside from the license for the StarLink apps, the cost is justified.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
When comparing One Identity Manager with other solutions, there is a challenge in the MENA region due to its weak presence, particularly in Egypt. SailPoint seems superior in terms of governance, but One Identity Manager is better in terms of administration. For provisioning, de-provisioning, and integration with different target systems, One Identity Manager is superior, while SailPoint excels in governance, attestations, and reporting.
What other advice do I have?
One of the most important functionalities is the business roles to map company structure and dynamic application provisioning, serving as a backbone for role administration and provisioning in general.
I believe it's easy to customize. I don’t have much experience with other solutions, so I can't compare it directly. However, it's not hard, but it's also not entirely easy. There are many ways it could be improved. That said, it's still quite decent overall.
I would recommend One Identity Manager for large-scale or medium enterprises in our region, but not for small companies due to cost considerations for licensing and services.
I would rate One Identity Manager an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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Flag as inappropriateChief Technology Officer at a tech company with 1-10 employees
Automation has transformed onboarding and compliance and now saves major time on user access
Pros and Cons
- "One Identity Manager has reduced errors significantly and reduced the time required for user management through automation."
- "One Identity Manager can be improved by enhancing customer support and addressing pricing concerns."
What is our primary use case?
One Identity Manager is used for core identity governance, primarily for onboarding and automating the onboarding of users and SaaS tool integration.
A specific example of how One Identity Manager is used for onboarding and integrating with SaaS tools is when a new user joins the privileged user team. HR adds and creates the user, and the automated system applies the user configuration to all systems without manual intervention.
One Identity Manager includes an automated compliance system which reports everything about user access, including why users have access and details about that access.
How has it helped my organization?
One Identity Manager has reduced errors significantly and reduced the time required for user management through automation. It has also implemented detailed compliance audits for all organizational activities.
What is most valuable?
One Identity Manager's best features are the automatic onboarding and offboarding system, the compliance system, automatic compliance reporting system, and the integration system with other One Identity tools such as One Identity Safeguard.
The integration system with tools such as One Identity Safeguard is reliable and automatically connects without requiring manual configuration. Whenever a new privileged user is added to any service, they log in through it and gain access to everything they require.
One Identity Manager has positively impacted the organization by automating processes that were previously performed manually, eliminating the need to add every user to all systems individually.
What needs improvement?
One Identity Manager can be improved by enhancing customer support and addressing pricing concerns. The setup cost can be high initially, but it becomes more cost-effective over time.
The UI is very complicated and could be simplified for better usability.
For how long have I used the solution?
One Identity Manager has been in use for approximately eight to nine months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
One Identity Manager is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
One Identity Manager demonstrates efficient scalability, and scaling is straightforward. Whenever the number of users increases, scaling is easy to accomplish.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support is rated five out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
No different solution was previously used; the organization relied mostly on manual processes.
What was our ROI?
Return on investment has been primarily realized through time savings of approximately fifty to sixty percent, as most processes were manual and are now automated through this platform.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The upfront cost was high, but over time it has been much lower than using simple custom scripts and other SaaS configurations. Licensing was transparent.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing One Identity Manager, other options were evaluated including SailPoint IdentityIQ, Microsoft Entra, and a few others such as Okta.
What other advice do I have?
One Identity Manager is fast and mostly automated, which is the most significant advantage of the platform. One Identity Manager is costly, but it is better than performing everything manually. One Identity Manager has been rated eight out of ten in this review.
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Last updated: Jan 13, 2026
Flag as inappropriateSolution Architect at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Unified, comprehensive, and customizable
Pros and Cons
- "When it comes to ease of customization, there are a lot of different object types. I can create my own object types."
- "One Identity Manager needs better documentation and more examples, especially for beginners, as it has a steep learning curve."
What is our primary use case?
I am certified as both Technical Specialist and Implementation Professional on the product.
I assist various clients in diverse sectors, mostly finance, industry companies and municipalities. I have quite a broad background in implementing it in different scenarios.
How has it helped my organization?
When it comes to ease of customization, the product is outstanding. I can extend the schema with new tables, columns, etc. Usually, we use OOTB tables to keep it simple, same goes for processes. There are a lot of blocks or components that can be used and I do not need to code everything on my own to make JML possible. I have not seen something that we could not do.
In terms of business roles, there are numerous possibilities with assignments and inheritance like top-down or bottom-up. It works very well because you can also break the inheritance if you want at a certain level. Soft transition is a great feature where you can move to a new role (primary) but also keep the other one (secondary).
I have mostly implemented the product on-prem. Integrations has been both on-prem systems and cloud like Azure AD or Entra. To make use of Saas applications it is possible using the Starling Connect connector.
One Identity Manager helps streamline application access decisions. If you set it up, you can do some kind of campaigns or attestations to check the correctness of permissions. You can then take appropriate action. For instance, if you see that there are ten people who have never used this application, you can deny it. There is also something called Recommendations that will make use of risk and previous decisions (like peer-group) to determine if to approve or not.
The application governance module enables application owners or line-of-business managers to make application governance decisions without IT. Application governance is possible within the web portal. You can set up ownerships. You can assign permissions depending on how you set up your permissions in the product. With appropriate permissions, you can assign an owner for a specific application and you can also set the owner or responsible person on each access so that they can decide. This means if you have set up a pilot project and are starting with one unit, they can grow from there and help each other. This is quite a new feature from the 9.2 version.
I have been in several projects with primary focus on implementing SAP. Usually a simple SAP implementation is to integrate one dev-instance, one ref/test-instance and one production instance. However, for one customer, a public-listed company in Sweden, we had to develop some kind of SAP fabric to onboard a lot of SAP clients and transaction objects. During the project they also migrated from SAP R/3 to S4HANA. It was a journey to make this happen, but the SAP-connector worked quite well and the technical team was very happy about it. We synchronized SAP roles and profiles and assigned those to business roles to use automation. We also set up some kind of identity audit for the SAP roles. At that time (v8.x), we could not have inheritance of SAP profiles through System Roles. That was a drawback, but in a later version, that was resolved.
What is most valuable?
It has a full feature set with certain tools for certain things.
I use the Designer a lot because I do a lot of customization (processes, scripts etc) and I would say it is pretty comprehensive. I am a Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) veteran, which is an old product that still has end-of-life support. One Identity Manager is the next generation of IGA platforms because almost everything can be customized and extended and still keep a solid metacatalogue. I can test and evaluate the data, even at a property level, and be sure that it is going to work before pushing my changes into production.
The next one would be the Manager because that is where we review the data and orchestrate things like approval workflows and attestations. We can use different models for entitlements such as system roles and business roles. Then we can assign these to an IT shop for the end user.
Then, of course, none of these tools would be useful if we do not have any data coming from a target system such as HR. Here we use the powerful Synchronization Editor that comes with a lot of OOTB-connectors, also called sync projects. Within a sync project, mapping and workflow is set up to synchronize the data and provision changes to, for instance, an Active Directory target system. It is also possible to develop custom connectors.
We are also using the Job Queue which is a tool that displays ongoing processes (Jobs) and possible errors. We can look at history jobs and also get a health check of our Job Servers and Web Servers.
I also use the Object Browser which is an abstraction of the SQL tables. This tool is more technical than Manager but powerful in its own way with possibilities to trigger events, filter data and even more.
Finally, the Database Transporter that is used to transfer objects or custom changes between One Identity Manager databases. These changes are mostly something called "change labels" that could be work I have done in the Designer, objects created in the Manager or other information I want push to a specific environment using a transport package.
What needs improvement?
One Identity Manager needs better documentation and more examples, especially for beginners, as it has a steep learning curve. They have rich forum but it often contain outdated information that could be improved for better guidance. If something is not working, we need to easily find out if it is a product defect.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using One Identity Manager for more than five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
How are customer service and support?
The support is good but could be better. It could take a day or some hours depending on the case or the customer.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
How was the initial setup?
The initial deployment is easy, a huge benefit compared to different solutions. It takes about one day to set up a development environment. Great UI-wizards with multiple verification steps.
What other advice do I have?
With the acquisition of OneLogin, they are now the leader when it comes to a unified identity platform. Every product in their portfolio serves a purpose.
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IT Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Offers a user-friendly experience with an intuitive interface and makes customization a breeze
Pros and Cons
- "One Identity Manager stands out for its extensive functionality."
- "Transitioning from legacy technologies, like for a seasoned web designer moving to Angular, can be challenging and requires dedicated learning."
What is our primary use case?
One Identity Manager streamlines our entire identity lifecycle management. It handles onboarding new joiners, assigning and controlling roles with role-based access control, and automates user access reviews twice a year. Additionally, the system facilitates reporting for audits, providing auditors with necessary information on demand. This centralized system acts as a one-stop shop, managing everything from onboarding and role assignment to offboarding and emergency access control.
How has it helped my organization?
With centralized user management, data is effortlessly pulled from various systems like SOAR and HR, simplifying user creation and data maintenance. This allows for easy user editing, role assignment based on HR attributes or department affiliation, and streamlined account allocation based on review levels, departments, or the entire organizational structure.
Our Access Control in One Identity Manager is 99 percent automated saving us nearly 100 percent of our time.
One Identity Manager simplifies SAP administration by providing a centralized view of even logically disconnected SAP accounts. It offers a flexible helpdesk approach. We can either leverage its built-in model or create our own UI accessible to specific teams based on their applications. This ensures each team sees only relevant tickets for their area, streamlining access management for disconnected applications.
One Identity Manager can connect SAP accounts to employee identities under governance.
One Identity Manager simplifies Identity Governance and Administration for SAP, a complex system to manage in this regard. It empowers us to effectively manage SAP profiles, roles, and groups, ensuring their proper assignment to corresponding SAP accounts.
The solution delivers SAP-specialized workflows and business logic.
One Identity Manager integrates with its Privilege Access Management solution to provide more granular control. This means we can define different account types within One Identity Manager, such as normal, admin, and privileged accounts. By assigning privileged access only to designated accounts, we can restrict access and permissions and enhance overall security control.
One Identity Manager offers a user-friendly experience with an intuitive interface. It even provides a webshop for end users, allowing them to easily request new roles or accounts in various systems with a simple two-click process.
Having the right resources makes customization a breeze. While understanding customer needs and translating them into technical specifications requires some processing upfront, One Identity's suite of tools simplifies the actual back-end work. From drag-and-drop interfaces for workflows and reports to scripting and C# coding supported by existing SDKs, customization options cater to all users.
This dynamic application provisioning solution uses business roles to map our company's organizational structure. In other words, access to applications is determined solely by our assigned role within the company hierarchy. This role-based approach ensures users only receive the permissions they need based on their specific function, preventing unnecessary access.
One Identity Manager streamlines our cloud governance by providing a centralized platform to manage user access permissions across all connected cloud applications. This eliminates the need for individual provisioning for each app, ensuring efficient authorization control.
We have significantly improved our compliance posture with One Identity Manager. Previously, auditors identified numerous findings during manual audits, requiring extensive time and resources to address. With One Identity Manager, we've automated the onboarding, offboarding, and joiner processes, achieving a 95 percent closure rate on audit points. This centralized solution streamlines the auditor experience, allowing them to efficiently obtain information from the IAM team, saving both the organization and auditors valuable time.
We have minimized inconsistencies in how our governance policies are applied across test, development, and production environments.
One Identity Manager helps us create a privileged governance stance to close the security gap between privileged users and standard users by managing those accounts separately. This segregation prevents unauthorized access, as standard accounts cannot hold privileged rights and vice versa. This clear separation helps to close the security gap between these user types.
One Identity Manager streamlines our procurement and licensing processes, allowing our initially large operations team to focus on more strategic tasks. By automating license management for connected applications like SAP and Azure Active Directory, the solution eliminates the risk of human error – forgotten access removals for unused licenses are a thing of the past. Now, licenses are automatically assigned and reclaimed based on user activity, ensuring efficient resource allocation. This means new hires receive immediate access, and vacated licenses become readily available, freeing the operations team from manual license management headaches.
One Identity Manager streamlines application access decisions by automating the provisioning and de-provisioning of user access based on HR data. This eliminates manual intervention and delays for both HR and department personnel. When an employee changes departments, their access permissions are automatically updated in the identity management system, granting them the necessary tools to perform their new duties immediately.
It also streamlines the automation of identity and access controls, making it easier to implement a zero-trust security model where every user and device is verified before granting access.
While our audit processes were once cumbersome, requiring auditors to chase down reports from individual SAP administrators, everything is now centralized. One Identity Manager stores all application and database information in a single location, streamlining reconciliation efforts.
What is most valuable?
One Identity Manager stands out for its extensive functionality. It allows us to perform nearly any customization a customer might require, unlike other products with limited customization options. One Identity Manager's wide scope for tailoring configurations makes it a versatile tool. It can connect to various target systems, including Active Directory and schema-based systems like REST APIs. This makes One Identity Manager a great fit for our organization's end-to-end needs, from user provisioning and auditing to onboarding new joiners. It seamlessly fits all our requirements.
What needs improvement?
Transitioning from legacy technologies, like for a seasoned web designer moving to Angular, can be challenging and requires dedicated learning. To ease this shift, One Identity Manager could provide reusable components, similar to other systems, which would streamline the learning process and allow for greater customization.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using One Identity Manager for almost ten years.
Offers a user-friendly experience with an intuitive interface and makes customization a breeze
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability of One Identity Manager ten out of ten.
One Identity Manager is highly stable when used with its built-in features, but customized scripting introduces an element of user responsibility - any instability caused by custom code would be due to how it's written, not the software itself.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the scalability of One Identity Manager ten out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
You only need premium support if your One Identity software is outdated. Standard technical support, which comes with your license, covers the current version and usually the one before it.
The technical support offers a good experience. They provide a portal to submit issues, collect all necessary information, and have an L1 team address them. If the L1 team can't resolve the problem, they typically escalate it to the L2 or L3 teams for further assistance, demonstrating a commitment to finding a solution.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We migrated from Oracle Identity Governance to One Identity Manager due to licensing costs, limited functionality, and Oracle's decision to retire the product.
How was the initial setup?
The deployment took one week and required five people.
What about the implementation team?
VMDH assisted us with the initial setup, and for any future support, we can contact One Identity directly or reach out through their authorized partner.
What was our ROI?
One Identity Manager has positively influenced our ROI in terms of security and compliance.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
One Identity Manager is cost-efficient. The license is based on the number of identities we have.
We use a One Identity partner, VMDH for our licensing.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate One Identity Manager nine out of ten.
We have 3,000 front-end users in our organization. While we only have a single instance of One Identity Manager, for redundancy purposes our servers are spread across different data centers. This means if one data center experiences an outage, the application can fail over to the remaining servers in another location, ensuring continued functionality.
One Identity's partner, VMDH did a good job training our staff on the solution.
Six years ago, VMDH provided us with initial assistance customizing One Identity Manager. We have since developed our expert team and now primarily rely on them for our One Identity needs. We only contact VMDH in critical situations when we require immediate help from One Identity experts. In such cases, we typically reach out to One Identity directly, but if there are delays, we will then connect with them through VMDH.
One Identity's partner was on standby in case we required any post-implementation support.
The customer service we received from the One Identity partner was good.
I found the One Identity partner to be valuable, rating them a nine out of ten.
One Identity Manager is designed for low maintenance, requiring infrequent patches and updates to keep it running smoothly.
One Identity Manager offers a unified approach to identity and access management. It eliminates the need to cobble together multiple products from different vendors for functionalities like Identity Access Management or Privileged Access Management. This saves your organization's time and resources.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Consultant at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Unified identity access has transformed onboarding speed and strengthened governance controls
Pros and Cons
- "One Identity Manager has positively impacted the organization by reducing account creation and access approval times from days or weeks to minutes or hours through automated workflows."
- "One Identity Manager can be improved in the areas of documentation and training, both of which are severely lacking."
What is our primary use case?
One Identity Manager has been integrated and in use for two years. The primary focus is on integrating One Identity Manager for other customers, particularly mid-sized financial institutions. The implementation targets unifying user access across internal applications, cloud platforms, and third-party partner systems.
While specific details cannot be shared due to NDA agreements, one organization had multiple identity systems: one for internal employees, one for external employees such as contractors, and another for partners. This fragmentation caused inconsistent access, security vulnerabilities, and slow onboarding and offboarding processes. One Identity Manager was implemented to consolidate these systems, resulting in significantly faster operations.
What is most valuable?
One Identity Manager's best features include fast setup with the ability to be configured locally for direct database access. The solution provides specific procedures for onboarding and offboarding, and supports the use of custom connectors.
One Identity Manager has positively impacted the organization by reducing account creation and access approval times from days or weeks to minutes or hours through automated workflows. Self-service access requests are routed through a central portal with defined approval paths, which minimized manual work and accelerated onboarding. Governance functions such as attestations and access reviews are now enforced consistently, which was not the case previously.
What needs improvement?
One Identity Manager can be improved in the areas of documentation and training, both of which are severely lacking.
For how long have I used the solution?
Three years have been spent working in the current field.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
One Identity Manager is genuinely stable, particularly the LTS versions.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
One Identity Manager's scalability performs comparably to other One Identity products and scales effectively from very small organizations to large financial companies, including major banks and other large entities.
How are customer service and support?
One Identity Manager's customer support is good. Response times average four to five days, sometimes extending to six days, but the support team has been genuinely helpful in addressing cases in a timely manner.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
A different solution was not previously used, as the customer specifically requested One Identity Manager.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Specific details regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing cannot be shared. However, One Identity is quite affordable, particularly with partner status.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Other options were not evaluated before choosing One Identity Manager.
What other advice do I have?
One Identity Manager is the industry standard for valid reasons, which demonstrates its quality. It is backed by a large and reputable company and is genuinely easy to learn and implement. The documentation is adequate. One Identity Manager's onboarding and offboarding processes are considerably faster than previous methods, resulting in significant time savings that translate to cost savings. The overall impression of One Identity Manager is positive, and a rating of 8 out of 10 reflects the value and effectiveness of this solution.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Executive partners
Last updated: Dec 26, 2025
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