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 that it meets the requirements of the customer. You have a lot of features in the product. Every product has them, but the question is, are these products going to meet the requirement of the customer?"

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

"It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."

"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."

"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."

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

"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's quite scalable."

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

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

"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."

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

"The support could be faster."

"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."

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

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

"Symantec Siteminder needs to have adaptive authentication and multi-factor authentication as integrated features."

"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 pricing is reasonable."

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"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."

"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."

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

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