IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

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

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

"SAML 2.0."

"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."

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

"It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."

"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 Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that."

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

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

"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."

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

"The self-service portal needs improvement."

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

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

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

"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."

"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."

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

"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."

"Symantec Siteminder needs to have adaptive authentication and multi-factor authentication as integrated features."

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

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

"The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur."

"The support could be faster."

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

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

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

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

"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 pricing is reasonable."

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

"The solution's pricing is competitive."