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"One standout feature is the capability to configure various authentication and authorization methods from diverse user directories.""The most valuable features are predominantly in the directory and development spaces."

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"Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable.""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.""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.""Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO.""The Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that.""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.""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.""It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."

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"It makes you more efficient, but you have to optimize what you're doing before you get into the software.""There's a need for effective group membership management, especially for corporate programs."

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"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.""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'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration.""To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly.""The support could be faster.""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.""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.""We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."

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  • "It's pretty cheap. I would rate the price as three out of five."
  • "While it may seem affordable for larger enterprises, it tends to become more expensive as you move up the scale."
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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."
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    Top Answer:One standout feature is the capability to configure various authentication and authorization methods from diverse user directories.
    Top Answer:The pricing ranges from low to medium. While it may seem affordable for larger enterprises, it tends to become more expensive as you move up the scale.
    Top Answer:Our main use case is for user management, especially in the context of developers. The focus is consolidating different user types, such as active and desktop users, and facilitating a unified user… more »
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    Also Known As
    Crowd
    Single Sign-On, SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder
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    Overview
    Atlassian Crowd is a single sign-on and user identity tool that's easy to use, administer, and integrate. Users can come from anywhere: Active Directory, LDAP, Crowd itself, or any mix thereof. Control permissions to all your applications in one place Ð Atlassian, Subversion, Google Apps, or your own apps.

    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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    Top Industries
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    University14%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Healthcare Company10%
    Energy/Utilities Company8%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm39%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Healthcare Company7%
    Retailer7%
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    Financial Services Firm33%
    Insurance Company11%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business35%
    Midsize Enterprise25%
    Large Enterprise39%
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    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise88%
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    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise82%
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    Atlassian Crowd is ranked 14th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 4 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 16th in Single Sign-On (SSO). Atlassian Crowd is rated 9.2, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Atlassian Crowd writes "Enhanced user management offering seamless single sign-on, scalability for large enterprises, and improved configurability through integration with various user sources and directories". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Atlassian Crowd is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and Microsoft Entra ID.

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