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

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

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

"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."

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

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

"Symantec Siteminder has simplified user access for our customers from user login to their web applications."

"Federation is valuable, for sure, because we have a lot of third-party vendors that we need to integrate with, and this is a turnkey solution in some ways."

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

"The initial setup of Symantec SiteMinder was a bit tricky. I would rate it a seven on a scale of one to ten, where ten indicates an easy setup."

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

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

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

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

"I think they need to integrate some of the newer types of authentication into the product. I'm not seeing the innovation when it comes to biometrics in the product."

"The support could be faster."

"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."

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

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

"The pricing is reasonable."

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

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

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

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"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."