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."It's very easy to run and it's part of their ecosystem and I don't think it's going anywhere anytime soon."
"Don't delay implementing this solution, it's the best thing you can do for your identity protection."
"It is pretty good in terms of stability."
"The scalability capabilities are quite high."
"The security features, such as attack surface rules and conditional access rules, are the most valuable aspects of Azure AD."
"The solution scales well."
"The solution's ease of use is one of its most valuable features."
"It certainly centralizes usernames, and it certainly centralizes credentials. Companies have different tolerances for synchronizing those credentials versus redirecting to on-prem. The use case of maturing into the cloud helps from a SaaS adoption standpoint, and it also tends to be the jumping-off point for larger organizations to start doing PaaS and infrastructure as a service. So, platform as a service and infrastructure as a service kind of dovetail off the Active Directory synchronization piece and the email and SharePoint. It becomes a natural step for people, who wouldn't normally do infrastructure as a service, because they're already exposed to this, and they have already set up their email and SharePoint there. All of the components are there."
"The most valuable feature is the Federation part of Single Sign On, which is customizable and is easily integrated with any customer application or any third party application."
"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."
"It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate."
"The solution is easy to use for our managers."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."
"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"The Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that."
"Azure AD provides two types of features. One is Azure AD Excel and is already B2C. Out of both versions, Azure B2C requires some improvement, in terms of user management and role management, et cetera."
"It would be awesome to have a feature where you can see the permissions of a user in all their Azure subscriptions. Right now, you have to select a user, then you have to select the subscription to see which permissions the user has in their selected subscriptions. Sometimes, you just want to know, "Does that user have any permissions in any subscriptions?" That would be awesome if that would be available via the portal."
"The support is a bit slow."
"The technical support could improve by having a faster response time."
"It would be an improvement if Authenticator made it easier to recover the app if you reboot your cellphone and lose access."
"I would like to see a better delegation of access. For instance, we want to allow different groups within the company to manage different elements of Azure AD, but I need more granularity in delegating access."
"We have a lot of freedom in using the Group Policy Objects and, although Group Policy Objects are part of Azure Active Directory, there are still a lot of things that can be improved, such as providing local admin rights to a user. There are various, easy ways that I can do that in the on-premises version, but in the cloud version, it is a bit difficult. You have to create a bunch of policies to make it work."
"Its price should be improved. It is very expensive for Turkish people."
"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."
"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."
"The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."
"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."
"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."
Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 190 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 15th 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, Okta Workforce Identity and Cisco Duo, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingAccess and Auth0. See our Microsoft Entra ID vs. Symantec Siteminder report.
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