Symantec VIP Access Manager and F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager compete in the access management solutions category. Based on user feedback, F5 BIG-IP APM has the upper hand due to its feature-rich offerings and overall effectiveness.
Features: Symantec VIP Access Manager offers ease of integration, intuitive management features, and strong authentication methods. F5 BIG-IP APM provides advanced customization, scalability, and a broad range of features for complex environments.
Room for Improvement: Symantec VIP Access Manager could improve its reporting and analytics capabilities and enhance its user interface for better usability. F5 BIG-IP APM needs a more streamlined configuration process, improved documentation, and better initial setup support.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Symantec VIP Access Manager is known for quick deployment and responsive customer service. F5 BIG-IP APM has a steeper learning curve and longer deployment times, but its customer service is highly rated for complex troubleshooting.
Pricing and ROI: Symantec VIP Access Manager has competitive pricing and is cost-effective for small and medium enterprises. F5 BIG-IP APM has higher initial setup costs, but users report significant ROI due to its comprehensive features and capabilities.
F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is an access management proxy solution for managing global access to the enterprise networks, cloud providers, applications, and application programming interfaces (APIs). Through a single management interface, BIG-IP APM consolidates remote, mobile, network, virtual, and web access.
BIG-IP APM can also serve as a bridge between modern and classic authentication and authorization protocols and methods. For applications which are unable to support modern authentication and authorization protocols, like SAML and OAuth with OIDC, but which do support classic authentication methods, BIG-IP APM converts user credentials to the appropriate authentication standard supported by the application.
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Reviews from Real Users
Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by BIG-IP APM users.
Mahmmoud Rabie, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, writes that BIG-IP APM is "A highly stable solution for load balancing, but the initial setup is complex."
Clyde Livingston, Senior Process Specialist at Telstra, says that BIG-IP APM is "Easy to use, useful access remotely, but lacking stability."
Chris Lam, Senior Solution Consultant at Macroview Telecom Limited, states that BIG-IP APM is "Useful for remote access VPN and VPI integration with VMware.
Symantec VIP Access Manager is the next generation control platform that integrates Single Sign-On (SSO) with strong authentication, access control, and user management. It offers users and administrators control, convenience, and compliance for public and private cloud- based applications. Symantec VIP Access Manager solves cloud security problems using identity and/or context-based access control across multiple cloud applications. In the cloud, where a traditional enterprise perimeter doesn't exist, this solution fills the gap. Through Symantec VIP Access Manager, administrators can define policies that utilize the built-in user directory or existing identity management infrastructure to enforce security and compliance for applications without getting in the way of productivity. Symantec VIP Access Manager can also protect and consolidate access management for on-premise web applications. It also simplifies compliance auditing for cloud applications by consolidating logs across all applications it protects.
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