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"From a technical perspective, the solution is very good we can operate and control the user by ourselves.""The most valuable features of Oracle Access Manager are the single sign-on capability and is a very robust platform. It can take a high number of authentication, and authorization requests. It's very flexible.""Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.""The product was built to be scalable.""The scalability of the solution is good. We haven't felt we've been restricted from expanding as necessary and we haven't heard of any issues from our clients.""In general, the customization that is offered is very good. The company that I am working with currently is using this feature quite extensively.""Once it is set up, it is easy to use and it integrates with most of the products on the market.""The product supports customization."

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"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory.""Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability.""As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable.""It's quite scalable.""We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns.""Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known.""A valuable feature of Siteminder is the way it handles bulk traffic. The features it has, in terms of routing the traffic and load balancing, are good.""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?"

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"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the interface.""The initial implementation can definitely be improved because you have to work on several components to configure it correctly.""May not integrate easily with non-Oracle products.""There are problems with stability.""Multi-factor authentication requires a lot of processes and technicalities.""The solution's lifecycle management is troublesome. Also, another area of issue in the solution is the part involving documentation of certain features.""The product is complicated and difficult to install and configure.""The mobile access to the solution isn't ideal. They should work to improve its functionality."

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"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface.""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.""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.""If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake.""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 technical support could be better.""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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  • "Can be expensive as a solution."
  • "The price is really good and it is flexible because they have CPU licenses. The license is a one-time-only purchase."
  • "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 product is a little expensive."
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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."
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    Also Known As
    Single Sign-On, SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder
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    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.

    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
    SekerBank, University of Melbourne
    British Telecom, CoreBlox, DBS, HMS, Itera ASA and Simeo
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm16%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government12%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Financial Services Firm39%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Healthcare Company7%
    Retailer7%
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    Financial Services Firm33%
    Insurance Company11%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business67%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise24%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise77%
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    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise88%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise82%
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    Oracle Access Manager is ranked 10th in Access Management with 15 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 16th in Access Management. Oracle Access Manager is rated 7.6, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle Access Manager writes "A convenient solution that supports customization and provides many features in a single suite". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Oracle Access Manager is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta Workforce Identity, ForgeRock and F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity and PingID.

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