IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

"IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is a good solution. It's both stable and scalable."

"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."

"Siteminder allows us to manage identity and portability control efficiently."

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

"Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable."

"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."

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

"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?"

"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."

"It would be better if the administration and configurations were more straightforward. The architectural level is also quite complex."

"The technical support could be better."

"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."

"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."

"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."

"The tech support has not been very good for us so we don't use them anymore. We have had some issues. Nobody is perfect."

"Symantec SiteMinder is not easy to set up and maintain at an infrastructure level."

"I would like to see a move towards the newer technologies, which is what we are doing right now. I think that's in the roadmap that's coming, in the 12.8 and 14 releases, but we would like to have it sooner than later."

"While I have some integration with a few major providers, support for more would be advantageous."

"Our customers pay for the license every year or every three years. It's not available on a monthly basis."

"I recommend conducting a PoC on every available product before choose one."

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

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

"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."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

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

"The price is quite comparable to the other enterprise-level solutions in that market."