IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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 is pretty easy to learn."

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

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

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

"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."

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

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

"The support could be faster."

"Siteminder needs to improve its user experience."

"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."

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

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

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

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

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

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

"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."

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