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We performed a comparison between IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL], ManageEngine Password Manager Pro, and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"The integration effort with the end application is quite straightforward and easy.""The Verify feature: A push method which customers are going for.""Single Sign-On functionality is valuable because the core purpose of the product is to allow universal (or bespoke) SSO for application suites.""OAuth 2 is now the de facto standard for API protection and scoped authorized delegation. IBM TAM now supports OAuth 2 and can act as fully compliant OAuth 2 authorization server.""SAML 2.0."

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"It is user-friendly. Someone who doesn’t have a lot of IT knowledge can work with the product easily.""It is very safe and we haven't had any security issues.""The support from the customer service team is good, they respond on time, and they always seem to be quite knowledgeable.""The security provided is very enhanced and it does a great job of keeping passwords safe."

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"The Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that.""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.""Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO.""We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns.""It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have.""The solution is easy to use for our managers.""It's quite scalable.""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."

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Cons
"Looking at their roadmap, they have a broad grasp of the security features which the industry needs.""The self-service portal needs improvement.""Multi-factor authentication with social integration needs to improve.""The profiling element is incredibly robust, but also equally as complex, it requires an off-site course to be able to understand the context or the plethora of options available.""An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for the newer appliance versions for hosting the virtual appliances on AWS will help."

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"It's a pretty technical solution. It's designed for more technical people.""There is room for improvement in making the UI more user-friendly.""The user interface could be improved and made more user friendly."

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"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not.""An area Siteminder could improve on is that there are a few limitations, in terms of new protocols for OpenID. If I want to have different scopes, the features are limited. They also do not have APIs exposed, which is a major drawback. API is a feature I would like to see included in the next release.""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.""They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting.""To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly.""I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface.""The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur.""In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The IBM prices are, as ever, extortionate, even with a business partnership, and high levels of discounts."
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  • "On a scale of one to five, with one being expensive and five being competitive, I would rate the pricing of this solution as a five."
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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:The support from the customer service team is good, they respond on time, and they always seem to be quite… more »
    Top Answer:There is room for improvement in making the UI more user-friendly. When you search for a password, there are some things… more »
    Top Answer:We use the solution as a password vault to store our passwords so that the IT team can access them.
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    Also Known As
    Tivoli Access Manager, IBM Security Access Manager
    Password Manager Pro
    Single Sign-On, SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder
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    Overview
    IBM Tivoli Access Manager is a robust and secure centralized policy management solution for e-business and distributed applications. IBM Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL is a high performance, multi-threaded Web server that applies fine-grained security policy to the Tivoli Access Manager protected Web object space. WebSEAL can provide single sign-on solutions and incorporate back-end Web application server resources into its security policy.

    Password Manager Pro is a secure vault for storing and managing shared sensitive information such as passwords, documents and digital identities of enterprises.

    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
    Essex Technology Group Inc.
    Australian Catholic University
    British Telecom, CoreBlox, DBS, HMS, Itera ASA and Simeo
    Top Industries
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    Government25%
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Insurance Company25%
    Energy/Utilities Company13%
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    Educational Organization30%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Financial Services Firm5%
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    Financial Services Firm39%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Healthcare Company7%
    Retailer7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm35%
    Insurance Company10%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise62%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise38%
    Large Enterprise42%
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    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise88%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise82%
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