IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

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

"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."

"It is pretty easy to learn."

"It has considerably reduced the amount of time that new users would take to join into the organization. Previously, it was a lengthy, manual process because it's a very secure environment, where they need to verify the user before they can actually grant him a user-ID and password. Integrating with the built-in custom application, and exposing CA Single Sign On to the internet, we were able to get the employees onboard. The time that we gained was: previously it would generally take from four to eight weeks for each employee, we brought it to one to two days."

"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"The technical support could be better."

"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."

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

"We're currently unable to find information about if the solution can do a full implementation with SQL. Some better and more accessible documentation for new users or those curious about the product would be helpful."

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

"As we are moving in to the mobility space, this is where we really see SiteMinder and their other product really come together to provide a solution base to a different area where the IoT is coming, the different business communications are happening. All of those things require authentication and we really want to see this product grow into that role."

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

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

"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."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"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."

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