We performed a comparison between Okta Workforce Identity and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is easy to use."
"It is a very stable solution."
"A solution that's easy to use, stable, and reliable."
"Enabled MFA to access federated applications as well as increased user satisfaction through improved provisioning times and more reliable processes."
"I find the provisioning features and the integration with other applications useful."
"Workforce Identity's best features include its user-friendliness and easy setup."
"Okta has introduced the Universal Directory. It has custom attribute capability and user permissions to read/write on their profiles or hide them. Profile sources and identity profile sourcing are two different components that I haven't seen in other products."
"Having a single sign-on to all our applications."
"The solution is easy to use for our managers."
"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."
"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."
"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."
"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 only facilitates provisioning and not de-provisioning."
"It is challenging to obtain a comprehensive backup."
"The training is too costly."
"We have experienced some challenges in integrating this solution with Scope and Cognito."
"SSO and MFA for improved end-user experience, and protection against password spray attacks, account password self-service."
"The only aspect in which it can be improved is that the interface could be cleaner. I found this even when I was trying to do my certification exam because the certification is hands-on. You find yourself fumbling around a little bit to find simple things. This happens even when you start to get familiar with the product."
"The initial setup can be complex at first."
"We've not had any problems with Okta."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"The Federation part of CA Single Sign On, it's a bit complex to implement because it involves the SSL certificates, exchange of certificates, and lot of technical details. The documentation misses some important parts of this, so that's the reason it took some time for us to go live."
"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."
"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
"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."
"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."
Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 3rd in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 59 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 13th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 69 reviews. Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.4, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud Identity, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, Saviynt and CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with Ping Identity Platform, ForgeRock, Auth0, Microsoft Entra ID and Red Hat Single Sign On. See our Okta Workforce Identity vs. Symantec Siteminder report.
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