IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

"The integration effort with the end application is quite straightforward and easy."

"SAML 2.0."

"Single Sign-On functionality is valuable because the core purpose of the product is to allow universal (or bespoke) SSO for application suites."

"OAuth 2 is now the de facto standard for API protection and scoped authorized delegation. IBM TAM now supports OAuth 2 and can act as fully compliant OAuth 2 authorization server."

"The Verify feature: A push method which customers are going for."

"The solution has features that allow you to easily distinguish between protected and unprotected resources."

"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."

"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."

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

"It's quite scalable."

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

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

"Looking at their roadmap, they have a broad grasp of the security features which the industry needs."

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

"The self-service portal needs improvement."

"The profiling element is incredibly robust, but also equally as complex, it requires an off-site course to be able to understand the context or the plethora of options available."

"An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for the newer appliance versions for hosting the virtual appliances on AWS will help."

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

"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."

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

"The technical support could be better."

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

"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."

"The support could be faster."

"The support team could work on their response time and overall competence."

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

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

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

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

"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 solution's pricing is competitive."

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

"The pricing is reasonable."

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