We performed a comparison between AWS IAM Identity Center and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Auth0 and others in Single Sign-On (SSO)."The product is easy for beginners to learn and use."
"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature"
"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 solution is easy to use for our managers."
"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."
"It's quite scalable."
"Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable."
"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours."
"In the product, two groups cannot have the same name...In general, the tool does not allow for the duplication of names."
"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."
"The Federation part of CA Single Sign On, it's a bit complex to implement because it involves the SSL certificates, exchange of certificates, and lot of technical details. The documentation misses some important parts of this, so that's the reason it took some time for us to go live."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
"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."
"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."
"I would like to see a move towards the newer technologies, which is what we are doing right now. I think that's in the roadmap that's coming, in the 12.8 and 14 releases, but we would like to have it sooner than later."
"The support could be faster."
Earn 20 points
AWS IAM Identity Center is ranked 21st in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 1 review while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 69 reviews. AWS IAM Identity Center is rated 9.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AWS IAM Identity Center writes "Helps users provide or revoke accesses whenever needed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". AWS IAM Identity Center is most compared with Red Hat Single Sign On, Microsoft Entra ID, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and PingFederate, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and PingAccess.
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