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We performed a comparison between i-Sprint AccessMatrix Universal Access Management and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that they are open to connecting with any token. For example, a year ago, we were looking for a soft token, and we started to look for alternatives. They are open to connecting with any token that we looking for.""The solution has high support capability."

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"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.""We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns.""A valuable feature of Siteminder is the way it handles bulk traffic. The features it has, in terms of routing the traffic and load balancing, are good.""Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO.""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.""It has considerably reduced the amount of time that new users would take to join into the organization. Previously, it was a lengthy, manual process because it's a very secure environment, where they need to verify the user before they can actually grant him a user-ID and password. Integrating with the built-in custom application, and exposing CA Single Sign On to the internet, we were able to get the employees onboard. The time that we gained was: previously it would generally take from four to eight weeks for each employee, we brought it to one to two days.""The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory.""It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."

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Cons
"The user interface is not quite good and easy to use. There are a lot of menus, and the look and feel is not modern like a modern app.""The tool needs to improve its cloud capability."

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"We're currently unable to find information about if the solution can do a full implementation with SQL. Some better and more accessible documentation for new users or those curious about the product would be helpful.""I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration.""The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur.""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.""The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA.""To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly.""The technical support could be better."

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  • "I would rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten. The tool's licensing is monthly."
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  • "The price is quite comparable to the other enterprise-level solutions in that market."
  • "I recommend conducting a PoC on every available product before choose one."
  • "CA solutions are generally expensive but for the customer the ROI is big."
  • "Symantec Siteminder is expensive; they could definitely do better on the price."
  • "The licensing is fair for this solution."
  • "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 pricing is reasonable."
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    Top Answer:It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate.
    Top Answer:It doesn't have a feature for... or maybe it has, but for modern authentication, like OAuth or OIDC. We haven't utilized that portion; we haven't really looked at it because our priority is LDAP… more »
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    Also Known As
    AccessMatrix Universal Access Management, i-Sprint Innovations AccessMatrix, AccessMatrix
    Single Sign-On, SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder
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    Overview

    AccessMatrix is a suite of integrated ICAM (Identity, Credential, Access Management and Versatile Authentication solutions) that enable organizations to effectively deploy versatile authentication, unified single sign-on, secure credential management services, flexible identity & role administration, externalized authorization, and provide comprehensive data analytics of access to important information assets.

    Symantec® SiteMinder is designed to secure the modern enterprise through a unified access management platform that applies the appropriate authentication mechanism to positively identify users; provides single sign-on and identity federation for seamless access to any application; enforces granular security policies to stop unauthorized access to sensitive resources; and monitors and manages the entire user session to prevent session hijacking. Finally, Symantec SiteMinder is battle-tested and has been deployed in the largest IT environments in the world.

    Sample Customers
    IRAS, Singapore Bank
    British Telecom, CoreBlox, DBS, HMS, Itera ASA and Simeo
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    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm39%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Healthcare Company7%
    Retailer7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm34%
    Insurance Company11%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company6%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise88%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise83%
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    i-Sprint AccessMatrix Universal Access Management is ranked 24th in Access Management with 2 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th in Access Management with 69 reviews. i-Sprint AccessMatrix Universal Access Management is rated 8.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of i-Sprint AccessMatrix Universal Access Management writes "A stable and scalable solution with reasonable pricing ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". i-Sprint AccessMatrix Universal Access Management is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and PingAccess.

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