Entrust GetAccess vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

"The most valuable feature of Entrust GetAccess is its performance."

"The Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that."

"It is reliable."

"Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability."

"I liked the debugging part. There are only two files (trace file and log file) that you need to look into while performing debugging, and the logs give you the exact info on where and what needs to be fixed."

"It is pretty easy to learn."

"It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."

"IWA is an out-of-the-box feature. The SAML-based federation is standard for all tools. However, CA Single Sign-On has made the federation configuration way too simple and handy to set up and use."

"Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known."

"Entrust GetAccess is a very expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."

"Symantec SiteMinder is not easy to set up and maintain at an infrastructure level."

"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."

"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."

"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."

"As we are moving in to the mobility space, this is where we really see SiteMinder and their other product really come together to provide a solution base to a different area where the IoT is coming, the different business communications are happening. All of those things require authentication and we really want to see this product grow into that role."

"The Federation part of CA Single Sign On, it's a bit complex to implement because it involves the SSL certificates, exchange of certificates, and lot of technical details. The documentation misses some important parts of this, so that's the reason it took some time for us to go live."

"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."

"The tech support has not been very good for us so we don't use them anymore. We have had some issues. Nobody is perfect."

"We need to pay a yearly licensing fee for Entrust GetAccess, which is very expensive."

"CA solutions are generally expensive but for the customer the ROI is big."

"I recommend conducting a PoC on every available product before choose one."

"Symantec Siteminder is expensive; they could definitely do better on the price."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

"Siteminder is a little costly. You pay for licensing, and they offer packages, so if you have less users, then you have to buy different products at different prices. If you have more of a user base, then the package is different. They also include other features—for example, if you have a database and you're using Siteminder, then it's good to use a Semantic-specific database, but if you are using less, then you have to purchase the database separately. Whereas if you are going for a bigger license, then it comes within the package. It depends on which plan you are using."

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"The price is quite comparable to the other enterprise-level solutions in that market."