IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

"Single Sign-On functionality is valuable because the core purpose of the product is to allow universal (or bespoke) SSO for application suites."

"SAML 2.0."

"The Verify feature: A push method which customers are going for."

"The integration effort with the end application is quite straightforward and easy."

"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."

"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 feature that I mostly valued is the ease of installation on different systems, especially on Windows."

"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."

"You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours."

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

"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 solution has features that allow you to easily distinguish between protected and unprotected resources."

"An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for the newer appliance versions for hosting the virtual appliances on AWS will help."

"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."

"Looking at their roadmap, they have a broad grasp of the security features which the industry needs."

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

"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."

"The technical support could be better."

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

"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."

"The support team could work on their response time and overall competence."

"I think they need to integrate some of the newer types of authentication into the product. I'm not seeing the innovation when it comes to biometrics in the product."

"Siteminder needs to improve its user experience."

"The IBM prices are, as ever, extortionate, even with a business partnership, and high levels of discounts."

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

"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."

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

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

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

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

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"The pricing is reasonable."