"IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is a good solution. It's both stable and scalable."
"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"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 Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that."
"Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability."
"It is reliable."
"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."
"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."
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"It would be better if the administration and configurations were more straightforward. The architectural level is also quite complex."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup was complex, painful. But that is to be expected of any new setup. When you're a big bank like us, any kind of migration to a new product is hard. I expect it to be painful, and it was painful. But it's not something that you can avoid."
"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."
"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
"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."
"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."
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IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is ranked 4th in Web Access Management with 1 review while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 3rd in Web Access Management with 69 reviews. IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is rated 8.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager writes "A stable and scalable web security and identity management solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is most compared with , whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and CyberArk Identity.
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