We performed a comparison between AWS IAM Identity Center and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Auth0 and others in Single Sign-On (SSO)."The product is easy for beginners to learn and use."
"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns."
"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."
"The most valuable feature is the Federation part of Single Sign On, which is customizable and is easily integrated with any customer application or any third party application."
"You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours."
"It is reliable."
"If you look at our organization, and really all financial institutions, we have a lot of legacy apps. So it really helps to get Single Sign-On."
"The solution is easy to use for our managers."
"It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate."
"In the product, two groups cannot have the same name...In general, the tool does not allow for the duplication of names."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."
"I would like to see a move towards the newer technologies, which is what we are doing right now. I think that's in the roadmap that's coming, in the 12.8 and 14 releases, but we would like to have it sooner than later."
"The support could be faster."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"CA has reporting at the moment. With the reporting, every particular segmented product has a reporting engine. I would like to see centralized reporting for all of them together."
"Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved."
"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."
AWS IAM Identity Center is ranked 13th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 1 review while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 15th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 69 reviews. AWS IAM Identity Center is rated 9.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AWS IAM Identity Center writes "Helps users provide or revoke accesses whenever needed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". AWS IAM Identity Center is most compared with Red Hat Single Sign On, Microsoft Entra ID, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and PingFederate, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and PingAccess.
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