IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

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

"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."

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

"SAML 2.0."

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

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

"Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known."

"Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability."

"It's quite scalable."

"It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."

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

"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."

"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns."

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

"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."

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

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

"I would like to see a move towards the newer technologies, which is what we are doing right now. I think that's in the roadmap that's coming, in the 12.8 and 14 releases, but we would like to have it sooner than later."

"The support could be faster."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

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