We performed a comparison between SAP Access Control and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Auth0, Okta and others in Access Management."It is an SAP product, so it integrates very well with other SAP products."
"It's quite scalable."
"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."
"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"It would be better if we could also manage other systems with it. Currently, you have to purchase plugins for it to work with other non-SAP systems. It would be good if there is an easy way to integrate SAP Access Control with other non-SAP systems."
"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."
"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."
"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."
"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."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."
SAP Access Control is ranked 23rd in Access Management while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th in Access Management with 69 reviews. SAP Access Control is rated 7.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SAP Access Control writes "Automates our user provisioning process and integrates very well with other SAP products but needs better integration with non-SAP products". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". SAP Access Control is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and PingAccess.
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