Oracle Access Manager vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

Oracle and Broadcom are both solutions in the Access Management category. Oracle is ranked #15 with an average rating of 9.3, while Broadcom is ranked #11 with an average rating of 6.8. Oracle holds a 2.2% mindshare in AM, compared to Broadcom’s 3.0% mindshare. Additionally, 76% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

Oracle Access Manager

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76% willing to recommend

Symantec Siteminder

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91% willing to recommend

Oracle Access Manager

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 11, 2024

Symantec Siteminder and Oracle Access Manager are leading access management solutions. Oracle Access Manager generally has the upper hand in features and deployment efficiency, while Symantec Siteminder is appreciated for its pricing and customer service.

Features: User reviews highlight the robust security, policy management, and cost-effectiveness of Symantec Siteminder. Oracle Access Manager is praised for its comprehensive integration capabilities, advanced authentication methods, and wider feature set.

Room for Improvement: Symantec Siteminder needs better documentation, a more intuitive configuration process, and enhanced scalability. Oracle Access Manager's complexity can be a barrier, and users suggest making the interface more user-friendly and improving performance under high loads.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Symantec Siteminder scores higher on deployment simplicity, with users finding the setup straightforward. Oracle Access Manager, while more complex to deploy, benefits from extensive customer support that mitigates deployment challenges.

Pricing and ROI: Symantec Siteminder is cost-effective with quick ROI and lower setup costs. Oracle Access Manager, despite higher initial expenses, offers better long-term value due to its advanced capabilities and integration options, justifying the higher cost with superior ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Access Manager

Ranking in Access Management

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Symantec Siteminder

Ranking in Access Management

11th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Single Sign-On (SSO) (13th), Web Access Management (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Access Management category, the mindshare of Oracle Access Manager is 2.2%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Symantec Siteminder is 3.0%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Access Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Symantec Siteminder	3.0%
Oracle Access Manager	2.2%
Other	94.8%

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SurajShah

Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Offers strong support and consistent updates improve security features

It is a heavyweight application. The product deployment and installation takes time, and the environment details are complex. ForgeRock is very quick to deploy on Tomcat, but Oracle Access Manager must be deployed on WebLogic, a heavyweight server. You cannot deploy Oracle Access Manager on Tomcat. If an organization has sufficient budget to spend on servers, then it is useful. For organizations that do not want to spend too much money on Oracle Access Manager, maintenance and upgrades take time, whereas with ForgeRock, that is the opposite as fewer resources are required. Being a heavyweight application, it will take more time for deployment and installation compared to ForgeRock or Okta. Okta is cloud-based, so it does not take much time. ForgeRock on-premise only needs deployment on a Tomcat server, making it less complex as it is a lightweight application.

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Muzi Lubisi

Senior technical Consultant at CA Africa

Improved user experience with seamless integration and easy installation

The feature that I mostly valued is the ease of installation on different systems, especially on Windows. Additionally, it is very beneficial for deploying single sign-on sessions between different windows on a web browser, provided I am connected to the right identity provider. That seamless integration significantly improves user experience and efficiency.

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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

"In general, the customization that is offered is very good. The company that I am working with currently is using this feature quite extensively."

"The product supports customization."

"The product was built to be scalable."

"The solution is able to save time and resources for my clients."

"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."

"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."

"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."

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"The feature that I mostly valued is the ease of installation on different systems, especially on Windows."

"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns."

"IWA is an out-of-the-box feature. The SAML-based federation is standard for all tools. However, CA Single Sign-On has made the federation configuration way too simple and handy to set up and use."

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

"It's quite scalable."

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

"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."

"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."

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Cons

"May not integrate easily with non-Oracle products."

"Multi-factor authentication requires a lot of processes and technicalities."

"The initial implementation can definitely be improved because you have to work on several components to configure it correctly."

"The pricing of the solution is in need of improvement. Oracle products are very expensive."

"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the interface."

"The technical support is not very good at all."

"Although Oracle Access Manager is generally stable, we experienced issues with multi-domain configurations and web agent settings."

"There could be some improvements in the documentation and overall knowledge base of the solution."

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"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."

"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."

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

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

"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."

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

"The initial setup was complex, painful. But that is to be expected of any new setup. When you're a big bank like us, any kind of migration to a new product is hard. I expect it to be painful, and it was painful. But it's not something that you can avoid."

"The support could be faster."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 tool is affordable."

"I cannot comment on the exact pricing because Oracle has different licensing models for other clients, making it flexible."

"The product is a little expensive."

"Can be expensive as a solution."

"The pricing is reasonable."

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

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

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

"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."

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

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Government

12%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

26%

Insurance Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	69

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Access Manager?

I am currently not exposed to the pricing issue, but I think Oracle Access Manager is more expensive than other products. I have not dealt with the setup cost concern as we have a team responsible ...

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What needs improvement with Oracle Access Manager?

For scalability, Oracle Access Manager demonstrates a high level due to high availability and scalability with redundant nodes to load balance across multiple nodes for Oracle Access Manager and Or...

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Access Manager?

My main use cases for Oracle Access Manager involve using it as an authentication server integrated with Oracle Internet Directory as LDAP, which contains the user store for authentication. We have...

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What do you like most about Symantec Siteminder?

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

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Symantec Siteminder?

My experience with pricing is that it is all good.

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What needs improvement with Symantec Siteminder?

Symantec Siteminder needs to have adaptive authentication and multi-factor authentication as integrated features. Currently, multi-factor authentication is available as a separate solution, and it ...

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Also Known As

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SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder

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.

Oracle

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.

Broadcom

Sample Customers

SekerBank, University of Melbourne

British Telecom, CoreBlox, DBS, HMS, Itera ASA and Simeo

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