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We performed a comparison between Microsoft Sentillion eXpresso and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"Security is the best feature of Microsoft Azure Sentinel. It has its own base security. Our customers like that the security is available in Azure.""The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and its robustness."

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"The most valuable feature is the Federation part of Single Sign On, which is customizable and is easily integrated with any customer application or any third party application.""All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time.""It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate.""It is reliable.""Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known.""Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable.""You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours.""The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."

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Cons
"The shortcomings in the stability need improvement.""We had some feedback from customers who have said it was a confusing product. The product is confusing to use for the end-user. For example, they do not know how to migrate the Azure Sentinel, but others have liked the product that has started working on it."

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"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.""The initial setup was complex, painful. But that is to be expected of any new setup. When you're a big bank like us, any kind of migration to a new product is hard. I expect it to be painful, and it was painful. But it's not something that you can avoid.""Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved.""We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them.""If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake.""They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting.""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 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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Users need to pay either annually or on a multi-year basis towards the licensing costs of the product."
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  • "The price is quite comparable to the other enterprise-level solutions in that market."
  • "I recommend conducting a PoC on every available product before choose one."
  • "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."
  • "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."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and its robustness.
    Top Answer:The product already offers an extensive reach to its users, so I have not come across a case where I felt that something was missing from the product. The shortcomings in the stability need… more »
    Top Answer:The product improves our organization's daily healthcare tasks since the use of the tool reduces a lot of support calls, and its users remember many passports that keep on changing. Writing down the… more »
    Top Answer:It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate.
    Top Answer:It doesn't have a feature for... or maybe it has, but for modern authentication, like OAuth or OIDC. We haven't utilized that portion; we haven't really looked at it because our priority is LDAP… more »
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    Also Known As
    Sentillion eXpresso, MS Sentillion eXpresso
    Single Sign-On, SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder
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    Overview

    eXpresso is a hosted workspace for Microsoft Office communities. eXpresso is exclusively designed to support Excel and does not offer a generic or browser-based spreadsheet, and it serves as a collaborative platform specifically for Excel business users.

    Symantec® SiteMinder is designed to secure the modern enterprise through a unified access management platform that applies the appropriate authentication mechanism to positively identify users; provides single sign-on and identity federation for seamless access to any application; enforces granular security policies to stop unauthorized access to sensitive resources; and monitors and manages the entire user session to prevent session hijacking. Finally, Symantec SiteMinder is battle-tested and has been deployed in the largest IT environments in the world.

    Sample Customers
    Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, NHS GGC, Nantes University Hospital Center, Fullerton Healthcare Group
    British Telecom, CoreBlox, DBS, HMS, Itera ASA and Simeo
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    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm39%
    Insurance Company7%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Healthcare Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm35%
    Insurance Company11%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company6%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise88%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise82%
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    Microsoft Sentillion eXpresso is ranked 18th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 3 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 15th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 69 reviews. Microsoft Sentillion eXpresso is rated 9.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Sentillion eXpresso writes "Offers robustness and ease of use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Microsoft Sentillion eXpresso is most compared with , whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingAccess and PingID.

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