IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

"IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is a good solution. It's both stable and scalable."

"Siteminder allows us to manage identity and portability control efficiently."

"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."

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

"The solution is easy to use for our managers."

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

"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."

"It's quite scalable."

"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."

"It would be better if the administration and configurations were more straightforward. The architectural level is also quite complex."

"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 technical support could be better."

"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."

"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 maintenance cost has increased significantly, and we are concerned about this."

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

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

"Our customers pay for the license every year or every three years. It's not available on a monthly basis."

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

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

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"The pricing is reasonable."

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

"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."

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