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"IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is a good solution. It's both stable and scalable."

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"I would tell others that this solution is reliable. If they are looking for a solution that is reliable and that is scalable, then this is a good one.""From a technical perspective, the solution is very good we can operate and control the user by ourselves.""The product was built to be scalable.""Once it is set up, it is easy to use and it integrates with most of the products on the market.""Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.""The most valuable features of Oracle Access Manager are the single sign-on capability and is a very robust platform. It can take a high number of authentication, and authorization requests. It's very flexible.""Excellent SSO solution for Oracle products.""In general, the customization that is offered is very good. The company that I am working with currently is using this feature quite extensively."

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"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature""It's quite scalable.""Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO.""Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability.""SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account.""IWA is an out-of-the-box feature. The SAML-based federation is standard for all tools. However, CA Single Sign-On has made the federation configuration way too simple and handy to set up and use.""The most valuable feature is that it meets the requirements of the customer. You have a lot of features in the product. Every product has them, but the question is, are these products going to meet the requirement of the customer?""It has considerably reduced the amount of time that new users would take to join into the organization. Previously, it was a lengthy, manual process because it's a very secure environment, where they need to verify the user before they can actually grant him a user-ID and password. Integrating with the built-in custom application, and exposing CA Single Sign On to the internet, we were able to get the employees onboard. The time that we gained was: previously it would generally take from four to eight weeks for each employee, we brought it to one to two days."

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"It would be better if the administration and configurations were more straightforward. The architectural level is also quite complex."

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"The solution's lifecycle management is troublesome. Also, another area of issue in the solution is the part involving documentation of certain features.""There could be some improvements in the documentation and overall knowledge base of the solution.""The mobile access to the solution isn't ideal. They should work to improve its functionality.""The technical support is not very good at all.""The product is complicated and difficult to install and configure.""In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the interface.""In the next release, they should focus more on use cases related to customer access management, customer identity, and access management.""May not integrate easily with non-Oracle products."

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"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7.""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.""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.""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.""The support could be faster.""To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly.""I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration.""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."

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  • "Our customers pay for the license every year or every three years. It's not available on a monthly basis."
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  • "Can be expensive as a solution."
  • "The price is really good and it is flexible because they have CPU licenses. The license is a one-time-only purchase."
  • "On a scale where one is a high price, and ten is a low price, I rate the solution a one. Purchasing a license for the solution is very expensive now."
  • "The product is a little expensive."
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  • "The price is quite comparable to the other enterprise-level solutions in that market."
  • "I recommend conducting a PoC on every available product before choose one."
  • "CA solutions are generally expensive but for the customer the ROI is big."
  • "Symantec Siteminder is expensive; they could definitely do better on the price."
  • "The licensing is fair for this solution."
  • "Siteminder is a little costly. You pay for licensing, and they offer packages, so if you have less users, then you have to buy different products at different prices. If you have more of a user base, then the package is different. They also include other features—for example, if you have a database and you're using Siteminder, then it's good to use a Semantic-specific database, but if you are using less, then you have to purchase the database separately. Whereas if you are going for a bigger license, then it comes within the package. It depends on which plan you are using."
  • "The pricing is reasonable."
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    Also Known As
    Tivoli Federated Identity Manager
    Single Sign-On, SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder
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    Overview
    IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager provides web and federated single sign-on (SSO) to users across multiple applications. It uses federated SSO for security-rich information sharing for private, public and hybrid cloud deployments. With it you can enable security-rich business collaboration in the cloud.
    Oracle Access Manager delivers risk-aware end-to-end user authentication, single sign-on, and authorization protection, enabling enterprises to secure access from mobile devices and seamlessly integrate social identities with applications.

    Symantec® SiteMinder is designed to secure the modern enterprise through a unified access management platform that applies the appropriate authentication mechanism to positively identify users; provides single sign-on and identity federation for seamless access to any application; enforces granular security policies to stop unauthorized access to sensitive resources; and monitors and manages the entire user session to prevent session hijacking. Finally, Symantec SiteMinder is battle-tested and has been deployed in the largest IT environments in the world.

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