We performed a comparison between NetIQ Access Manager and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Access Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."There are lots of options to customize the solution to your needs."
"The features that we have found most valuable with NetIQ Access Manager are its single sign-on and two factor two second factor database."
"The single sign-on feature is excellent."
"The most valuable features of NetIQ Access Manager are SSO and Multi-Factor Authentication."
"It's very easy to integrate with applications."
"Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable."
"It is reliable."
"The Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that."
"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."
"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."
"Federation is valuable, for sure, because we have a lot of third-party vendors that we need to integrate with, and this is a turnkey solution in some ways."
"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the security of the infrastructure and the server and the working networking device."
"I would love to see the upgrade procedure handled more effectively. I would prefer to have OVS installation possibilities, although the upgrade procedures should include the OS as well. You should be able to use the whole application as an appliance."
"Classification of junctions and new versions of applications, such as APIs, can be added to enable the use of more devices that utilize biometrics for Multi-Factor Authentication to improve the solution."
"The application portal could be improved with more options and easier customization."
"Having the ability to easily extract and view and compare and version control configurations would be ideal."
"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."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
"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."
"CA has reporting at the moment. With the reporting, every particular segmented product has a reporting engine. I would like to see centralized reporting for all of them together."
"Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved."
"An area Siteminder could improve on is that there are a few limitations, in terms of new protocols for OpenID. If I want to have different scopes, the features are limited. They also do not have APIs exposed, which is a major drawback. API is a feature I would like to see included in the next release."
"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."
"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."
NetIQ Access Manager is ranked 3rd in Web Access Management with 5 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 2nd in Web Access Management with 69 reviews. NetIQ Access Manager is rated 8.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NetIQ Access Manager writes "A mature, powerful product with good integration capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". NetIQ Access Manager is most compared with Okta Workforce Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Microsoft Entra ID and Auth0, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingAccess and IBM Security Verify Access. See our NetIQ Access Manager vs. Symantec Siteminder report.
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