We performed a comparison between Ilex Sign&go and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Auth0 and others in Single Sign-On (SSO)."The on-premises deployment meets restrictions and the end-user is able to control all the configuration in their own IT environment."
"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."
"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 is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns."
"You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours."
"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."
"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's quite scalable."
"There is no software as a service or PaaS (Platform as a Service) offering from Ilex. The only option is on-premises integration."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
"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."
"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."
"The Federation part of CA Single Sign On, it's a bit complex to implement because it involves the SSL certificates, exchange of certificates, and lot of technical details. The documentation misses some important parts of this, so that's the reason it took some time for us to go live."
"The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur."
"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."
"Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
Earn 20 points
Ilex Sign&go is ranked 24th in Single Sign-On (SSO) while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 69 reviews. Ilex Sign&go is rated 8.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Ilex Sign&go writes "Strong single sign on security comes packaged with simplicity in this on-premises-only solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Ilex Sign&go is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta Workforce Identity and Auth0, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and PingAccess.
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