We performed a comparison between PingAccess 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 solution is highly stable and scalable"
"The Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that."
"It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."
"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."
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"It's quite scalable."
"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known."
"The solution is easy to use for our managers."
"The initial setup appears to be difficult in the beginning."
"The support could be faster."
"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."
"As we are moving in to the mobility space, this is where we really see SiteMinder and their other product really come together to provide a solution base to a different area where the IoT is coming, the different business communications are happening. All of those things require authentication and we really want to see this product grow into that role."
"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 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."
"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."
"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."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
PingAccess is ranked 15th in Access Management with 1 review while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 12th in Access Management with 69 reviews. PingAccess is rated 10.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of PingAccess writes "A hybrid lightweight solution that simplifies web management ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". PingAccess is most compared with ForgeRock, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and Microsoft Entra ID.
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