IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

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

"That seamless integration significantly improves user experience and efficiency."

"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."

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

"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns."

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

"It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."

"Symantec Siteminder has simplified user access for our customers from user login to their web applications."

"The solution is easy to use for our managers."

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

"The Federation part of CA Single Sign On, it's a bit complex to implement because it involves the SSL certificates, exchange of certificates, and lot of technical details. The documentation misses some important parts of this, so that's the reason it took some time for us to go live."

"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."

"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."

"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."

"The initial setup of Symantec SiteMinder was a bit tricky. I would rate it a seven on a scale of one to ten, where ten indicates an easy setup."

"Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved."

"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."

"The technical support could be better."

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

"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 solution's pricing is competitive."

"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 pricing is reasonable."

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

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