IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

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

"SAML 2.0."

"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."

"The most valuable feature is that it meets the requirements of the customer. You have a lot of features in the product. Every product has them, but the question is, are these products going to meet the requirement of the customer?"

"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 solution is easy to use for our managers."

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

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

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

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

"I liked the debugging part. There are only two files (trace file and log file) that you need to look into while performing debugging, and the logs give you the exact info on where and what needs to be fixed."

"The self-service portal needs improvement."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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 technical support could be better."

"Symantec SiteMinder is not easy to set up and maintain at an infrastructure level."

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

"The initial setup of Symantec SiteMinder was a bit tricky. I would rate it a seven on a scale of one to ten, where ten indicates an easy setup."

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

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

"The pricing is reasonable."

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

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

"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."

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

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

"The licensing is fair for this solution."