"The most valuable features of NetIQ Access Manager are SSO and Multi-Factor Authentication."
"The features that we have found most valuable with NetIQ Access Manager are its single sign-on and two factor two second factor database."
"The single sign-on feature is excellent."
"There are lots of options to customize the solution to your needs."
"It's very easy to integrate with applications."
"It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate."
"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."
"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."
"Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable."
"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature"
"It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."
"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?"
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"The application portal could be improved with more options and easier customization."
"Having the ability to easily extract and view and compare and version control configurations would be ideal."
"I would love to see the upgrade procedure handled more effectively. I would prefer to have OVS installation possibilities, although the upgrade procedures should include the OS as well. You should be able to use the whole application as an appliance."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the security of the infrastructure and the server and the working networking device."
"Classification of junctions and new versions of applications, such as APIs, can be added to enable the use of more devices that utilize biometrics for Multi-Factor Authentication to improve the solution."
"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
"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 GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."
"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 technical support could be better."
"The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur."
"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."
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NetIQ Access Manager is ranked 2nd in Web Access Management with 5 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 3rd in Web Access Management with 69 reviews. NetIQ Access Manager is rated 8.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NetIQ Access Manager writes "Multi-Factor Authentication, stable, and extremely scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". NetIQ Access Manager is most compared with Okta Workforce Identity, Microsoft Entra ID, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Auth0, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and IBM Security Verify Access.
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