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 Federation part of Single Sign On, which is customizable and is easily integrated with any customer application or any third party application."

"It is pretty easy to learn."

"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."

"IWA is an out-of-the-box feature. The SAML-based federation is standard for all tools. However, CA Single Sign-On has made the federation configuration way too simple and handy to set up and use."

"It's quite scalable."

"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."

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

"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."

"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."

"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."

"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."

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

"The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur."

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

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

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

"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 pricing is reasonable."

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

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"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 solution's pricing is competitive."

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