IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

"SAML 2.0."

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

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

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

"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."

"The authentication and single sign-on features of Symantec Siteminder are valuable."

"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."

"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."

"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."

"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."

"Federation is valuable, for sure, because we have a lot of third-party vendors that we need to integrate with, and this is a turnkey solution in some ways."

"Symantec Siteminder has simplified user access for our customers from user login to their web applications."

"Multi-factor authentication with social integration needs to improve."

"The self-service portal needs improvement."

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

"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."

"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."

"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."

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

"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."

"The support could be faster."

"Siteminder needs to improve its user experience."

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

"While I have some integration with a few major providers, support for more would be advantageous."

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

"The pricing is reasonable."

"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 solution's pricing is competitive."

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

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

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"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."