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 most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."
"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."
"The solution is easy to use for our managers."
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"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."
"Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable."
"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."
"The initial setup appears to be difficult in the beginning."
"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"The technical support could be better."
"The support could be faster."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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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