We performed a comparison between PingAccess and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Auth0, Okta and others in Access Management."The solution is highly stable and scalable"
"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."
"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature"
"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."
"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."
"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns."
"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"The initial setup appears to be difficult in the beginning."
"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."
"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"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."
"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
"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."
"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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PingAccess is ranked 15th in Access Management with 1 review while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th in Access Management with 69 reviews. PingAccess is rated 10.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of PingAccess writes "A hybrid lightweight solution that simplifies web management ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". PingAccess is most compared with ForgeRock, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and Microsoft Entra ID.
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