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A feature-by-feature comparison of Akku IAM and Okta for Indian mid-market enterprises — covering implementation, compliance, pricing, and support.
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Akku IAM vs Okta — complete overview
| Feature |  | |
|---|---|---|
| Implementation Complexity | Employs microservices architecture for easy integration, customization and maintenance without business interruption. Provides a dedicated dashboard for Managed Services Providers (MSPs) to manage customers and their respective users, with user behavior analytics and metrics on authentication, authorization, and details on what applications are accessed by which user. Facilitates tenant and user creation with a step-by-step wizard requiring minimal to no training. Provides easily customizable mail notification templates. Offers cost-effective implementation plans. | Provides user-friendly with guided setup and no-code integration options. Requires expensive third-party vendor engagement for implementation. |
| Documentation & Support | Ensures cost-effective 24x7 support and provides detailed documentation. | Provides extensive documentation, training, and dedicated support, but support plans are expensive. |
| Infrastructure Deployment | Deployed on a highly secure environment utilizing Kubernetes clusters and an Istio service mesh to ensure all traffic flows through a secure tunnel. Includes robust backup and failover mechanisms for deployed cloud resources, along with a monitoring system that continuously tracks each cloud resource. Sends immediate notifications to the DevOps team in the event of an incident for rapid resolution, ensuring high application availability. | Provides cloud-based deployment with high availability and scalability. |
| Infrastructure Costs and Management | Manages all client instances through a K8s cluster environment allowing for ‘true' multi-tenant architecture that optimizes cost and facilitates efficient management of all the instances. | Offers flexible subscription plans with centralized management tools. |
| Nested Multi-Tenancy | Allows for multiple levels of sub-tenants within each tenant along with their own administration console | Provides a multi-tenant environment where organizations can create separate tenants (organization units) for different customers or divisions, but does not natively support nested multi-tenancy (a tenant creating sub-tenants). |
| Authenticate with existing Directory | Allows for authentication to the IAM platform using the organizations's existing directory service. | Allows for sync of user identities from the organization's existing directory to the platform's cloud directory. However, authentication happens with the platform's cloud directory. |
| Identity broker | Enables you to integrate with and leverage any existing identity provider in the organization. | While integration may be possible, authentication still has to be done using the platform's identity provider. |
| LDAP & AD Integration | Provides readily available connectors for AD and LDAP, and can be connected through Akku's wizard. | Supports LDAP and AD synchronization for seamless user management. |
| SAML Authentication | Provides a customized UX to facilitate easy configuration with no specific domain expertise required. | Supports SAML authentication for federated identity management. |
| OpenID | Provides a customized UX to facilitate easy configuration with no specific domain expertise required | Fully supports OpenID authentication for seamless user identity management. |
| OAuth2 | Provides a customized UX to facilitate easy configuration with no specific domain expertise required. | Supports OAuth2 for securing API access and authentication flows. |
| SSO | Provides plug-and-play SSO with white-label options. | Provides SSO, but white-label option is not available. |
| Single Logout | Enables single logout functionality, ensuring that when a user logs out of Akku, all integrated applications are automatically logged out. | Supports single logout for SAML and OpenID-based authentication. |
| Desktop SSO | Allows users to log in from their Windows laptop or desktop and seamlessly access configured service provider applications without requiring additional authentication. | Supports Windows and Mac desktop SSO for passwordless authentication. |
| SSO with Credential Replay | Allows for SSO to legacy apps that do not support federated authentication using Credential Replay | Available. |
| Configurable SSO App Dashboard | Allows the user to configure their SSO dashboard to add, remove, display or hide the listed apps. | Not available. |
| Configurable / Auto App Arragement in Dashboard | Allows users to arrange apps in the SSO dashboard into folders, ordered by most frequently used, alphabetically or based on user preference. | Not available. |
| Preferred Browser SSO | Allows the administrator or user to select the preferred browser on which each SSO application launches, based on which browser each app works best on. | Not available. |
| Auto Launch SSO Apps | Allows the administrator or user to select apps that have to be launched with SSO automatically when the machine starts. This requires Desktop SSO to be implemented. | Not available. |
| MFA | Provides multi-factor authentication (MFA) and adaptive MFA (AMFA) with a range of factors including push notification, face/touch, Google Authenticator and OTP based authentication. | Provides adaptive MFA with SMS, email, push notifications, and biometric options. |
| Password Policy | Enables comprehensive password policy management, including length, complexity, expiration, and prevention of reuse. | Supports strong password policy enforcement, including complexity and expiration rules. |
| Configurable Auto Account Unlock | Enables locked user accounts to be automatically unlocked within a specified duration | Not available. |
| Mobile Password Management | Allows users to manage their passwords using their mobile devices. | Not available. |
| Locked Out User Password Reset & Account Unlock | Allows locked out users to unlock their accounts or reset their passwords. | Not available. |
| Password Sync | Allows synchronization of users' passwords from the directory to all their apps that require credential replay for SSO. | Not available. |
| Roaming User Password Management | Allows for the password in the machine cache to be updated upon change or reset of password from outside the directory domain network. | Not available. |
| IP-based Restriction | Enables allowing access to applications only from authorized IPs through a simple configuration process. | Provides this functionality, but using the adaptive MFA feature instead of through a proper access manager. |
| Location-based Restriction | Provides a facility to restrict access to users from a particular location. | Provides this functionality, but using the adaptive MFA feature instead of through a proper access manager. |
| Device-based Restriction | Provides a dedicated access manager that enables allowing access only from authorized devices, and also allows integration with third party applications. | Supports device-based access control using FastPass authentication. |
| MDM | Enables authorization, blocking, and revocation of access on individual devices including enforcing passcodes and remote data wipe. | Available only through bolt-on third-party MDM solutions. |
| Provisioning / Deprovisioning of Applications | Provides application provisioning based on Akku's role-based access control (RBAC) as part of user onboarding, with single click deprovisioning across all applications. Provisioning is achieved through a dedicated provisioning engine with dedicated connectors to each target application. | Provides limited provisioning functionality using JIT provisioning or SCIM provisioning using a third party - not a reliable or recommended approach to provisioning. |
| Subscription & User Management of Third-party Apps | Provides this functionality, with SAML 2.0 integration already done with 100+ SaaS applications. | Supports third-party application management with SSO and user lifecycle automation. |
| Reports | Provides detailed audit logs for tracking all events related to access and session usage, enabling reports to be generated for specific time periods and for specific users and the applications they access. Also allows Build Your Own Reports at each tenant level. | Provides advanced reporting and analytics with detailed security insights. Does not provide Build Your Own Reports functionality. |
| SaaS Application Usage Analytics | Provides daily monitoring of user activity track effective usage. Provides usage statistics to the tenant administrator, enabling informed decisions on deprovisioning users who are not actively utilizing integrated applications, which directly relates to effective utilization and cost management of SaaS applications. | Provides usage analytics, but there is no specific intelligence provided to allow administrators to monitor and optimize licenses based on usage of SaaS applications. |
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