We performed a comparison between IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Entrust Datacard, Broadcom, OpenText and others in Web Access Management."IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is a good solution. It's both stable and scalable."
"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."
"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"It is reliable."
"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."
"It would be better if the administration and configurations were more straightforward. The architectural level is also quite complex."
"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."
"We're currently unable to find information about if the solution can do a full implementation with SQL. Some better and more accessible documentation for new users or those curious about the product would be helpful."
"The support could be faster."
"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."
"All the problems that we reported actually have never been resolved. We could not capture enough information for CA to be able to debug the problem."
"The tech support has not been very good for us so we don't use them anymore. We have had some issues. Nobody is perfect."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."
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IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is ranked 4th in Web Access Management with 1 review while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 2nd in Web Access Management with 69 reviews. IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is rated 8.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager writes "A stable and scalable web security and identity management solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is most compared with , whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingAccess and PingID.
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