Imprivata Enterprise Access Management vs. Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On Suite Plus

Imprivata is a clear market leader for authentication management for healthcare. They don't have a whole lot of competition, and the few competitors that are out there don't really match up.

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Good if you want a temporary solution to too many passwords.

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• Password management
• Quick access while moving from workstation to workstation
• Auto-login to applications and websites

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• Flexible to work with most web sites and thick clients
• Avoids users having to type their passwords repeatedly
• Fairly performant

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• The agent process was sometime slow.
• System health was an issue and the tool really needs a maintenance process to allow for a system restart when not in use, we accomplished it with secondary scripts.
• Disconnect with Citrix was sometimes an issue but we were running an older version of the application server. The logging and troubleshooting was cumbersome to comb through.

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• This tool is essentially a hack, making the user experience pretty weak. For example, we use it in an application which has a box to type your password. Every time you enter some data, ESSO steals the focus and types your password into the box, even if you aren't about to submit the form requiring the password.
• This tool creates a 2nd CN in the directory and this broke some of our applications which were only expecting a single CN per user in the directory. Why can't it use a traditional database instead?
• This tool caused performance issues with Putty. It would peg our CPUs at 100% if the user had Putty running. It took a very long time to resolve the issue.

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It's easy to deploy and the total cost of ownership is lesser compared to other products. Have dedicated support team who helps you out when there is any technical issue.The Admin console very easy and intuitive to use; this makes any new user to manage the tool very easily with less hand holding.

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There's no substitute for properly developed applications that delegate authentication to an external system like Active Directory or a cloud identity provider. That way, the issues with screen scraping and constantly-breaking integration are solved permanently.

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• Simplified the user log in experience.
• Reclaimed staff time and efficiency in the daily operations.
• Helped us maintain industry required compliance mandates.

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• We spent a lot of time implementing it on different applications. However, because it uses screen scraping, every time our apps upgraded, it broke the integration with ESSO, so we had to keep fixing the integration. After a few years, we have stopped integrating new apps with it due to this headache.

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