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"It is very safe and we haven't had any security issues.""The support from the customer service team is good, they respond on time, and they always seem to be quite knowledgeable.""It is user-friendly. Someone who doesn’t have a lot of IT knowledge can work with the product easily.""The security provided is very enhanced and it does a great job of keeping passwords safe."

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"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.""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.""You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours.""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 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.""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.""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."

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"The user interface could be improved and made more user friendly.""It's a pretty technical solution. It's designed for more technical people.""There is room for improvement in making the UI more user-friendly."

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"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting.""The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA.""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.""The tech support has not been very good for us so we don't use them anymore. We have had some issues. Nobody is perfect.""I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration.""The support could be faster.""We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them.""The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur."

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  • "On a scale of one to five, with one being expensive and five being competitive, I would rate the pricing of this solution as a five."
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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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    Top Answer:The support from the customer service team is good, they respond on time, and they always seem to be quite knowledgeable.
    Top Answer:There is room for improvement in making the UI more user-friendly. When you search for a password, there are some things you can't edit from the search bar, so you have to go back to the main window… more »
    Top Answer:We use the solution as a password vault to store our passwords so that the IT team can access them.
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    Also Known As
    Password Manager Pro
    Single Sign-On, SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder
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    Overview

    Password Manager Pro is a secure vault for storing and managing shared sensitive information such as passwords, documents and digital identities of enterprises.

    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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    Insurance Company11%
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise37%
    Large Enterprise43%
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    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise88%
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    ManageEngine Password Manager Pro is ranked 16th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 4 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 69 reviews. ManageEngine Password Manager Pro is rated 7.2, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ManageEngine Password Manager Pro writes "An affordable solution with good tech support, but room for improvement in making the UI more user-friendly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". ManageEngine Password Manager Pro is most compared with Azure Key Vault, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, HashiCorp Vault, BeyondTrust Password Safe and Delinea Secret Server, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and PingAccess.

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