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."
"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns."
"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"The solution is easy to use for our managers."
"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."
"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."
"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."
"You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours."
"It would be better if the administration and configurations were more straightforward. The architectural level is also quite complex."
"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."
"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."
"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."
"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."
"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."
"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 prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
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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, Microsoft Entra ID and Auth0.
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