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"It's very easy to integrate with applications.""The most valuable features of NetIQ Access Manager are SSO and Multi-Factor Authentication.""The features that we have found most valuable with NetIQ Access Manager are its single sign-on and two factor two second factor database.""The single sign-on feature is excellent.""There are lots of options to customize the solution to your needs."

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"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.""We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns.""As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable.""Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO.""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.""All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time.""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."

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"I would love to see the upgrade procedure handled more effectively. I would prefer to have OVS installation possibilities, although the upgrade procedures should include the OS as well. You should be able to use the whole application as an appliance.""The application portal could be improved with more options and easier customization.""Having the ability to easily extract and view and compare and version control configurations would be ideal.""Classification of junctions and new versions of applications, such as APIs, can be added to enable the use of more devices that utilize biometrics for Multi-Factor Authentication to improve the solution.""In terms of what could be improved, I would say the security of the infrastructure and the server and the working networking device."

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"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.""If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake.""Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved.""We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them.""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.""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.""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."

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  • "The price of the solution is average."
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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:The most valuable features of NetIQ Access Manager are SSO and Multi-Factor Authentication.
    Top Answer:The number of legacy applications and classifications has room for improvement. Classification of junctions and new versions of applications, such as APIs, can be added to enable the use of more… more »
    Top Answer:I use NetIQ Access Manager to protect one single application with Multi-Factor Authentication. The solution is deployed on both cloud and on-prem.
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    Also Known As
    Single Sign-On, SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder
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    Overview
    Access Manager provides a simple yet secure and scalable solution that can handle all your web access needs both internal as well as in the cloud.

    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.

    Sample Customers
    Bancomext, Bouwend Nederland, Camera dei Deputati, CGT, Coopservice Group, Court of Appeals of Georgia, Etnic, European Automotive Manufacturer, FDM Document Dynamics, Hainan Province Information Center, Highland Community College, Huntington Bank, Johnsonville Sausage, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Mazars, Mexico's Tax Administration Service, Owens Community College, Pasco Risk, RDC, School District of Hartford, Senckenberg Nature Research Society, Sheetz, Spanish Public Employment Service, SUNY Orange County Community College, Swisscard, The Municipality of Siena, The University of Westminster, UMB Financial Corporation Invests in Identity Management, University of Dayton, University of Groningen, Vodacom, World Wide Technology
    British Telecom, CoreBlox, DBS, HMS, Itera ASA and Simeo
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Educational Organization12%
    Government12%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm39%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Healthcare Company7%
    Retailer7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm33%
    Insurance Company11%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise63%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise88%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise82%

    NetIQ Access Manager is ranked 2nd in Web Access Management with 5 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 3rd in Web Access Management. NetIQ Access Manager is rated 8.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NetIQ Access Manager writes "Multi-Factor Authentication, stable, and extremely scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". NetIQ Access Manager is most compared with Okta Workforce Identity, Microsoft Entra ID, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Auth0, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager.

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