IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] vs i-Sprint AccessMatrix Universal Access Management comparison

i-Sprint Innovations and IBM are both solutions in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category. Additionally, 100% of i-Sprint Innovations users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

i-Sprint AccessMatrix Unive...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Single Sign-On (SSO) (25th), Authentication Systems (29th), Access Management (28th)

IBM Tivoli Access Manager [...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

3.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Featured Reviews

Nobuyuki Ohkawa

CEO at ABILITY LIMITED

A stable and scalable solution with reasonable pricing

The solution has high support capability. The tool needs to improve its cloud service capability. I have been working with the solution for 15 years. I would rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten. I would rate the tool's scalability a ten out of ten since it is highly scalable. We…

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it_user711612

Senior Consultant at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Reverse proxy provides central control over authentication and authorization.

It is a single product that caters for all the business needs throughout the organization. It provides a seamless integration that in turn encourages most of the applications to use the SSO features Reverse proxy is the most valuable feature as it provides central control over authentication and…

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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 product is quite good, and from my point of view, it can serve our requirements."

"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that they are open to connecting with any token. For example, a year ago, we were looking for a soft token, and we started to look for alternatives. They are open to connecting with any token that we looking for."

"The solution has high support capability."

"The WebSEAL reverse proxy is great for protecting your critical systems."

"Tivoli Access Manager's proxy product (WebSEAL) is extremely fast."

"Tivoli Access Manger lets you separate security from applications and manage at one place."

"The SSO, URL-based access control, OAuth 2 and OIDC are the most valuable features."

"The combination of TAM with IDM in IBM Tivoli Identity Manager helped us to realize robust and secure authentication infrastructure in accordance with industry regulations and laws."

"Provided more secure computing."

"Tivoli Access Manager (or IBM Security Access Manager) is a fully featured web authentication, sso and authorization product."

"It provides good scalability and reliability, not to mention the overall availability of the service."

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Cons

"The user interface is not quite good and easy to use. There are a lot of menus, and the look and feel is not modern like a modern app."

"The tool needs to improve its cloud capability."

"The user interface is not quite good and easy to use. There are a lot of menus, and the look and feel is not modern like a modern app."

"The self-service portal needs improvement."

"Installation and configuration. If you don’t know the requirements of the supporting components, it could be complicated to install and this has been improved in the later versions that are renamed to IBM Tivoli Security Access Manager."

"Multi-factor authentication with social integration needs to improve."

"The whole product could be made into one suite instead of multiple components which are essentially a part of the same infrastructure."

"There is Java process that hangs in WebSphere almost every month."

"The user interface looks like it was designed for technical personnel only."

"The pricing is always costly."

"Sometimes, there are long running support tickets (for 6-8 months) and that is unacceptable from the customer's point of view."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten. The tool's licensing is monthly."

"The IBM prices are, as ever, extortionate, even with a business partnership, and high levels of discounts."

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	18

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Also Known As

AccessMatrix Universal Access Management

Tivoli Access Manager, IBM Security Access Manager

Overview

AccessMatrix is a suite of integrated ICAM (Identity, Credential, Access Management and Versatile Authentication solutions) that enable organizations to effectively deploy versatile authentication, unified single sign-on, secure credential management services, flexible identity & role administration, externalized authorization, and provide comprehensive data analytics of access to important information assets.

i-Sprint Innovations

IBM Tivoli Access Manager is a robust and secure centralized policy management solution for e-business and distributed applications. IBM Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL is a high performance, multi-threaded Web server that applies fine-grained security policy to the Tivoli Access Manager protected Web object space. WebSEAL can provide single sign-on solutions and incorporate back-end Web application server resources into its security policy.

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Sample Customers

IRAS, Singapore Bank

Essex Technology Group Inc.

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