We performed a comparison between IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Entrust Datacard, Broadcom, OpenText and others in Web Access Management."IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is a good solution. It's both stable and scalable."
"It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate."
"It has considerably reduced the amount of time that new users would take to join into the organization. Previously, it was a lengthy, manual process because it's a very secure environment, where they need to verify the user before they can actually grant him a user-ID and password. Integrating with the built-in custom application, and exposing CA Single Sign On to the internet, we were able to get the employees onboard. The time that we gained was: previously it would generally take from four to eight weeks for each employee, we brought it to one to two days."
"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?"
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability."
"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 is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known."
"It would be better if the administration and configurations were more straightforward. The architectural level is also quite complex."
"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."
"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."
"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."
"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
"CA has reporting at the moment. With the reporting, every particular segmented product has a reporting engine. I would like to see centralized reporting for all of them together."
"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."
"Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved."
"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."
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IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is ranked 4th in Web Access Management with 1 review while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 2nd in Web Access Management with 69 reviews. IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is rated 8.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager writes "A stable and scalable web security and identity management solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is most compared with , whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with Ping Identity Platform, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, Microsoft Entra ID and Auth0.
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