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"Security is the best feature of Microsoft Azure Sentinel. It has its own base security. Our customers like that the security is available in Azure.""The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and its robustness."

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"The solution is easy to use for our managers.""It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers.""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 Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that.""Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known.""The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory.""It is reliable.""Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability."

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"The shortcomings in the stability need improvement.""We had some feedback from customers who have said it was a confusing product. The product is confusing to use for the end-user. For example, they do not know how to migrate the Azure Sentinel, but others have liked the product that has started working on it."

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"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.""In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication.""They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting.""To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly.""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.""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.""The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur.""Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."

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  • "Users need to pay either annually or on a multi-year basis towards the licensing costs of the product."
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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
    Sentillion eXpresso, MS Sentillion eXpresso
    Single Sign-On, SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder
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    Overview

    eXpresso is a hosted workspace for Microsoft Office communities. eXpresso is exclusively designed to support Excel and does not offer a generic or browser-based spreadsheet, and it serves as a collaborative platform specifically for Excel business users.

    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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    Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, NHS GGC, Nantes University Hospital Center, Fullerton Healthcare Group
    British Telecom, CoreBlox, DBS, HMS, Itera ASA and Simeo
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    Financial Services Firm39%
    Insurance Company7%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Healthcare Company7%
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    Financial Services Firm34%
    Insurance Company11%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company6%
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    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise88%
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    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise5%
    Large Enterprise83%
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    Microsoft Sentillion eXpresso is ranked 15th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 3 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 69 reviews. Microsoft Sentillion eXpresso is rated 9.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Sentillion eXpresso writes "Offers robustness and ease of use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Microsoft Sentillion eXpresso is most compared with , whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and PingAccess.

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