IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

"IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is a good solution. It's both stable and scalable."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature"

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

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

"Siteminder allows us to manage identity and portability control efficiently."

"It would be better if the administration and configurations were more straightforward. The architectural level is also quite complex."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"The technical support could be better."

"Our customers pay for the license every year or every three years. It's not available on a monthly basis."

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

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"The pricing is reasonable."

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

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