IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

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

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

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

"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."

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

"If you look at our organization, and really all financial institutions, we have a lot of legacy apps. So it really helps to get Single Sign-On."

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

"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."

"The self-service portal needs improvement."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"We're currently unable to find information about if the solution can do a full implementation with SQL. Some better and more accessible documentation for new users or those curious about the product would be helpful."

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

"All the problems that we reported actually have never been resolved. We could not capture enough information for CA to be able to debug the problem."

"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."

"The support could be faster."

"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."

"An area Siteminder could improve on is that there are a few limitations, in terms of new protocols for OpenID. If I want to have different scopes, the features are limited. They also do not have APIs exposed, which is a major drawback. API is a feature I would like to see included in the next release."

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

"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."

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

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

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

"The pricing is reasonable."

"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."