We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The two-factor authentication provides an additional layer of security for our organizational data, so Microsoft Authenticator plays a crucial role in making our confidential data more secure."
"It offers features that improve our security posture such as multifactor authentication, which is the second layer of protection that is used when we log into the cloud."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Entra ID is its security options, where we can provide highly effective security for user accounts during authentication."
"The single sign-on of the solution is the most valuable aspect."
"It has been stable, and we haven't had any issues since we started to use it."
"Azure Active Directory has been very useful for our company, it is not difficult to use."
"I like Entra's ability to integrate the Active Directory with third-party solutions. It's straightforward. I like the ability to define third-party systems and make the AD the primary identity provider."
"Privilege identity management is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours."
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability."
"It is reliable."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."
"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."
"The integration between the Azure active directory and the traditional active directory could be improved upon."
"Microsoft has so many different requirements and priorities that sometimes they don't invest all their energy into the products that you have expectations to investigate."
"My understanding is, in the future, they will be able to bring everything into one single platform and they are not there yet."
"I would like to dive into some of the things that we saw today around the workflows at this Microsoft event. I cannot say that they need to make it better because I do not have much experience with it, but something that is always applicable to Microsoft is that they need to be able to integrate with their competitors. If you look at IDP, they do not integrate with Okta."
"I had some issues with the Azure Active Directory on Windows XP. However, it worked well on Windows 7."
"Sometimes, what one customer may like, another may not like it. We have had customers asking, "Why is Microsoft forcing us to do this?" For example, when you use Exchange Server on-premise, then you can customize it for your company and these customizations are unlimited. However, if you use Exchange Online or with Microsoft 365, then your ability to make modifications is limited. So, only the cloud versus is limited."
"Its area of improvement is more about the synchronization of accounts and the intervals for that. Sometimes, there're customers with other network challenges, and it takes a while for synchronization to happen to the cloud. There is some component of their on-prem that is delaying things getting to the cloud. The turnaround time for these requests is very time-sensitive. I don't mean this as derogatory for this service, but in my experience, that happens a lot."
"The pricing is okay, however, it could always be better in the future."
"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."
"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."
"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."
"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
"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."
"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."
Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 190 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 13th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 69 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Saves us time and money and features Conditional Access policies, SSPR, and MFA". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Ping Identity Platform and Okta Workforce Identity, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with Ping Identity Platform, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, Auth0 and Red Hat Single Sign On. See our Microsoft Entra ID vs. Symantec Siteminder report.
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