IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

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

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

"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."

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

"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature"

"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."

"It is pretty easy to learn."

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

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

"Siteminder needs to improve its user experience."

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

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

"As we are moving in to the mobility space, this is where we really see SiteMinder and their other product really come together to provide a solution base to a different area where the IoT is coming, the different business communications are happening. All of those things require authentication and we really want to see this product grow into that role."

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

"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."

"CA has reporting at the moment. With the reporting, every particular segmented product has a reporting engine. I would like to see centralized reporting for all of them together."

"I would like to see a move towards the newer technologies, which is what we are doing right now. I think that's in the roadmap that's coming, in the 12.8 and 14 releases, but we would like to have it sooner than later."

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

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

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

"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 pricing is reasonable."

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

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