"IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is a good solution. It's both stable and scalable."
"Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable."
"It is reliable."
"The Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that."
"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"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's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate."
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."
"It would be better if the administration and configurations were more straightforward. The architectural level is also quite complex."
"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."
"All the problems that we reported actually have never been resolved. We could not capture enough information for CA to be able to debug the problem."
"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."
"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."
"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."
"The tech support has not been very good for us so we don't use them anymore. We have had some issues. Nobody is perfect."
"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."
"The technical support could be better."
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IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is ranked 4th in Web Access Management with 1 review while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 2nd in Web Access Management with 69 reviews. IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is rated 8.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager writes "A stable and scalable web security and identity management solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is most compared with , whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with Ping Identity Platform, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, Auth0 and Microsoft Entra ID.
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