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What is your preferred alternative?
by PaulWaldman 3y ago
What is your preferred alternative?
- dijit 3y agoOut of interest, why would you not just use the directory services that you get bundled with google workspace, azureAD (Now: Entra) or freeipa/keycloak? All of these support oauth2 and SAML, and dynamic groups for less than the cost of each and okta (it seems to be the case everywhere I have seen okta used, another of the above providers is used additionally).
- samcat116 3y agoIf you have AzureAD you don’t typically also have Okta. Also the features you listed are like 20% of Okta’s functionality here.
- patmorgan23 3y agoIf you have office licenses you have AzureAD. Lots of places have office licenses for all of or most of their employees and still have Okta.
- samcat116 3y agoAzureAD licenses near the feature equivalent of Okta are much more expensive than base office licenses that only give you access to the office apps and cloud storage.
- latchkey 3y agoI kind of wondered the same thing the last time they were hacked... someone answered with this: "Okta: comprehensive scim allowing your IT instead of random application admins throughout your company to manage user provisioning / deprovisioning. Start pages that don't require users to remember urls but instead show them a list of applications they can use. Adaptive MFA with IT-administered settings (though Google's super-enterprisey solutions may have sth here.)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37995670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37995670 Personally, I just go with the Google Workspace and call it a day. Start page is one of those nice to have, but not required features in my book.