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."
"It's quite scalable."
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"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."
"The Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that."
"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."
"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."
"Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known."
"It would be better if the administration and configurations were more straightforward. The architectural level is also quite complex."
"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."
"Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved."
"The support could be faster."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."
"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."
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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 PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingAccess and PingID.
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