We performed a comparison between Microsoft Active Directory and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ability for a single sign-on for applications."
"It is very user-friendly."
"The solution is easy to install and has good reliability."
"The most valuable features are it is easy to use, manage, create a repository, and create the OM."
"We can also have separate domain controllers in different Active Directory sites based on their location."
"Audit, authentication and authorization are the best features."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The scalability of the solution is high...The initial setup of the solution is easy, and I would rate it an eight or nine out of ten on a scale of one to ten, where one being difficult and ten being easy."
"The solution is easy to use for our managers."
"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 single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature"
"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?"
"Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable."
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"It's quite scalable."
"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"Microsoft Active Directory restricts most of the features our company's employees want to use since they are involved in research and development activities."
"The scalability of the solution needs improvement."
"There has been a change in the layout of the user information. Previously, I had to go to properties to view the information, but now it is displayed directly below the search results. It takes some time to get used to."
"Microsoft Active Directory could improve by having better integration with other solutions."
"Microsoft Active Directory fails to provide MFA. MFA, which is also known as multi-factor authentication on top of the password and username, is what I would like to see in the product's future releases."
"The security features could be improved."
"The solution needs to be simplified to navigate."
"I would like to see the integration with Mac and IOS products improved."
"The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"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 would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
"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."
"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."
"The technical support could be better."
"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."
Microsoft Active Directory is ranked 6th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 36 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 15th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 69 reviews. Microsoft Active Directory is rated 8.6, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Active Directory writes "A solution that easily merges with cloud-based ADs and provides superior data security". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Microsoft Active Directory is most compared with PingFederate, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Microsoft Entra ID, ManageEngine ADManager Plus and Auth0, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingAccess and PingID. See our Microsoft Active Directory vs. Symantec Siteminder report.
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