We performed a comparison between IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Entrust Datacard, Broadcom, OpenText and others in Web Access Management."IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is a good solution. It's both stable and scalable."
"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."
"It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."
"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."
"Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable."
"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns."
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."
"Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability."
"It would be better if the administration and configurations were more straightforward. The architectural level is also quite complex."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
"The initial setup was complex, painful. But that is to be expected of any new setup. When you're a big bank like us, any kind of migration to a new product is hard. I expect it to be painful, and it was painful. But it's not something that you can avoid."
"CA has reporting at the moment. With the reporting, every particular segmented product has a reporting engine. I would like to see centralized reporting for all of them together."
"The support could be faster."
"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."
"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."
"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 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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