We performed a comparison between Oracle Access Manager and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Auth0, Okta and others in Access Management."The product was built to be scalable."
"The scalability of the solution is good. We haven't felt we've been restricted from expanding as necessary and we haven't heard of any issues from our clients."
"From a technical perspective, the solution is very good we can operate and control the user by ourselves."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Access Manager are the single sign-on capability and is a very robust platform. It can take a high number of authentication, and authorization requests. It's very flexible."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"My company has used most features of Oracle Access Manager for various implementations, but the most helpful feature of the solution for the business and customers is single sign-on."
"The MFA is the most valuable aspect."
"Excellent SSO solution for Oracle products."
"Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability."
"You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours."
"Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known."
"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."
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"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."
"I liked the debugging part. There are only two files (trace file and log file) that you need to look into while performing debugging, and the logs give you the exact info on where and what needs to be fixed."
"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."
"There are problems with stability."
"The technical support is not very good at all."
"May not integrate easily with non-Oracle products."
"Sometimes if a session takes too long, you have to log in again."
"The mobile access to the solution isn't ideal. They should work to improve its functionality."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the interface."
"Multi-factor authentication requires a lot of processes and technicalities."
"The product is complicated and difficult to install and configure."
"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."
"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."
"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."
"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."
"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."
"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 would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
"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."
Oracle Access Manager is ranked 10th in Access Management with 15 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 12th in Access Management with 69 reviews. Oracle Access Manager is rated 7.6, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle Access Manager writes "A convenient solution that supports customization and provides many features in a single suite". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Oracle Access Manager is most compared with Okta Workforce Identity, Microsoft Entra ID, ForgeRock, Auth0 and F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingAccess and PingID.
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