Oracle Access Manager vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

Oracle and Broadcom are both solutions in the Access Management category. Oracle is ranked #9 with an average rating of 9.3, while Broadcom is ranked #13 with an average rating of 6.8. Oracle holds a 2.0% mindshare in AM, compared to Broadcom’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 76% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

Oracle Access Manager

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76% willing to recommend

Symantec Siteminder

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91% willing to recommend

Oracle Access Manager

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 11, 2024

Symantec Siteminder and Oracle Access Manager are leading access management solutions. Oracle Access Manager generally has the upper hand in features and deployment efficiency, while Symantec Siteminder is appreciated for its pricing and customer service.

Features: User reviews highlight the robust security, policy management, and cost-effectiveness of Symantec Siteminder. Oracle Access Manager is praised for its comprehensive integration capabilities, advanced authentication methods, and wider feature set.

Room for Improvement: Symantec Siteminder needs better documentation, a more intuitive configuration process, and enhanced scalability. Oracle Access Manager's complexity can be a barrier, and users suggest making the interface more user-friendly and improving performance under high loads.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Symantec Siteminder scores higher on deployment simplicity, with users finding the setup straightforward. Oracle Access Manager, while more complex to deploy, benefits from extensive customer support that mitigates deployment challenges.

Pricing and ROI: Symantec Siteminder is cost-effective with quick ROI and lower setup costs. Oracle Access Manager, despite higher initial expenses, offers better long-term value due to its advanced capabilities and integration options, justifying the higher cost with superior ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Access Manager

Ranking in Access Management

9th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Symantec Siteminder

Ranking in Access Management

13th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Single Sign-On (SSO) (13th), Web Access Management (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Access Management category, the mindshare of Oracle Access Manager is 2.0%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Symantec Siteminder is 2.8%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Access Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Oracle Access Manager	2.0%
Symantec Siteminder	2.8%
Other	95.2%

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SurajShah

Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Offers strong support and consistent updates improve security features

It is a heavyweight application. The product deployment and installation takes time, and the environment details are complex. ForgeRock is very quick to deploy on Tomcat, but Oracle Access Manager must be deployed on WebLogic, a heavyweight server. You cannot deploy Oracle Access Manager on Tomcat. If an organization has sufficient budget to spend on servers, then it is useful. For organizations that do not want to spend too much money on Oracle Access Manager, maintenance and upgrades take time, whereas with ForgeRock, that is the opposite as fewer resources are required. Being a heavyweight application, it will take more time for deployment and installation compared to ForgeRock or Okta. Okta is cloud-based, so it does not take much time. ForgeRock on-premise only needs deployment on a Tomcat server, making it less complex as it is a lightweight application.

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Muzi Lubisi

Senior technical Consultant at CA Africa

Improved user experience with seamless integration and easy installation

The feature that I mostly valued is the ease of installation on different systems, especially on Windows. Additionally, it is very beneficial for deploying single sign-on sessions between different windows on a web browser, provided I am connected to the right identity provider. That seamless integration significantly improves user experience and efficiency.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most important functions of Oracle Access Manager are single sign-on and its integration capability with different applications."

"The MFA is the most valuable aspect."

"I find the authentication module, authentication scheme, and security policy most useful in Oracle Access Manager."

"Access Manager allows us to efficiently manage a broad spectrum of applications while ensuring secure, single-page application access."

"I rate Oracle Access Manager a nine out of ten."

"From a technical perspective, the solution is very good we can operate and control the user by ourselves."

"In general, the customization that is offered is very good. The company that I am working with currently is using this feature quite extensively."

"The product allows customization via custom code."

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"We needed to implement secure access, CA is a leader in this area, so we went naturally with the best, and we also chose CA because of the way they interact with customers, pitch new features to us, ask us for feedback, and provide us with support."

"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."

"Single Sign-On is the number one feature of SiteMinder that we're using."

"Once it works, it works really well."

"The features most valuable to us are its usability, the way you can customize it, and its supportability."

"It is a pretty complete product."

"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."

"Its flexibility and ease-of-use are the most valuable features."

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Cons

"May not integrate easily with non-Oracle products."

"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the interface."

"The technical support is not very good at all."

"Installation and deployment take time, but implementation is straightforward and easy, and they have very good support."

"There could be some improvements in the documentation and overall knowledge base of the solution."

"Sometimes if a session takes too long, you have to log in again."

"The mobile access to the solution isn't ideal. They should work to improve its functionality."

"The initial implementation can definitely be improved because you have to work on several components to configure it correctly."

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"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface, more like PingFederate's interface."

"The tech support has not been very good for us so we don't use them anymore."

"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."

"I would say it is a relatively complex setup. We have a relatively complex environment so with all of the availability requirements we have, it is quite complex but having said that, it is no more complex than any other enterprise systems that has to be highly available."

"We installed one version and there is a bug in it; from a customer perspective I would want that particular issue to be fixed rather than getting an answer that the bug will be fixed in the next version."

"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."

"Once you get past the first level, it’s good support. Typically once you’ve supported the CA product for a couple of years, you probably know more than first-level support, so it’s frustrating to explain to them the issue."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is a little expensive."

"The tool is affordable."

"I cannot comment on the exact pricing because Oracle has different licensing models for other clients, making it flexible."

"On a scale where one is a high price, and ten is a low price, I rate the solution a one. Purchasing a license for the solution is very expensive now."

"The price is really good and it is flexible because they have CPU licenses. The license is a one-time-only purchase."

"Can be expensive as a solution."

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

"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."

"CA solutions are generally expensive but for the customer the ROI is big."

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"Symantec Siteminder is expensive; they could definitely do better on the price."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Government

12%

Manufacturing Company

Marketing Services Firm

Financial Services Firm

23%

Insurance Company

Marketing Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	69

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Access Manager?

I am currently not exposed to the pricing issue, but I think Oracle Access Manager is more expensive than other products. I have not dealt with the setup cost concern as we have a team responsible ...

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What needs improvement with Oracle Access Manager?

For scalability, Oracle Access Manager demonstrates a high level due to high availability and scalability with redundant nodes to load balance across multiple nodes for Oracle Access Manager and Or...

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Access Manager?

My main use cases for Oracle Access Manager involve using it as an authentication server integrated with Oracle Internet Directory as LDAP, which contains the user store for authentication. We have...

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What do you like most about Symantec Siteminder?

It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Symantec Siteminder?

My experience with pricing is that it is all good.

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What needs improvement with Symantec Siteminder?

Symantec Siteminder needs to have adaptive authentication and multi-factor authentication as integrated features. Currently, multi-factor authentication is available as a separate solution, and it ...

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Also Known As

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SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder

Overview

Oracle Access Manager delivers risk-aware end-to-end user authentication, single sign-on, and authorization protection, enabling enterprises to secure access from mobile devices and seamlessly integrate social identities with applications.

Oracle

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.

Broadcom

Sample Customers

SekerBank, University of Melbourne

British Telecom, CoreBlox, DBS, HMS, Itera ASA and Simeo

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