IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

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

"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."

"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?"

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

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

"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."

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

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

"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."

"Siteminder needs to improve its user experience."

"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."

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

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

"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."

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

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

"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."

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

"The pricing is reasonable."

"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 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."

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

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

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