IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

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

"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."

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

"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."

"It is reliable."

"You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours."

"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."

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

"The most valuable feature is the Federation part of Single Sign On, which is customizable and is easily integrated with any customer application or any third party application."

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

"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."

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

"The self-service portal needs improvement."

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

"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 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."

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

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

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

"The support could be faster."

"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 GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."

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

"The pricing is reasonable."

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"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."

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

"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."

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