We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"F5 BIG-IP APM is relatively easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the virtual IP creation. It's our most frequently used feature."
"The product allows us to create customized portals for your users."
"The load balancing features are valuable."
"The performance of the solution is valuable."
"The portal access was very good."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"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."
"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 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."
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"The solution is easy to use for our managers."
"It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate."
"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"If you look at our organization, and really all financial institutions, we have a lot of legacy apps. So it really helps to get Single Sign-On."
"F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager has room for improvement in integration with other products."
"In my opinion, the GUI side needs some improvement based on my usage. Sometimes, it doesn't work as efficiently as the CLI side."
"Cloud services are something that F5 Access Policy Manager could do better"
"The solution’s GUI looks very old."
"The initial setup was complex."
"The operational deployment is not great."
"Integrating identity providers and single sign-on solutions can simplify user authentication and access control."
"We do not have knowledgeable support teams locally."
"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."
"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."
"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."
"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."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."
"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
"The support could be faster."
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F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is ranked 5th in Access Management with 13 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 12th in Access Management with 69 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is rated 8.2, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) writes " Facilitates packet inspection, modification, and offloading and offers visibility and troubleshooting capabilities, allowing for pre-production server testing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is most compared with Citrix Gateway, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Ivanti Connect Secure, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingAccess and PingID.
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