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"The product was built to be scalable."
"The scalability of the solution is good. We haven't felt we've been restricted from expanding as necessary and we haven't heard of any issues from our clients."
"The product supports customization."
"I would tell others that this solution is reliable. If they are looking for a solution that is reliable and that is scalable, then this is a good one."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Access Manager are the single sign-on capability and is a very robust platform. It can take a high number of authentication, and authorization requests. It's very flexible."
"The product allows customization via custom code."
"My company has used most features of Oracle Access Manager for various implementations, but the most helpful feature of the solution for the business and customers is single sign-on."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours."
"It is reliable."
"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."
"The solution is easy to use for our managers."
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"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."
"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 technical support is not very good at all."
"The mobile access to the solution isn't ideal. They should work to improve its functionality."
"The initial implementation can definitely be improved because you have to work on several components to configure it correctly."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the interface."
"The pricing of the solution is in need of improvement. Oracle products are very expensive."
"May not integrate easily with non-Oracle products."
"Multi-factor authentication requires a lot of processes and technicalities."
"Sometimes if a session takes too long, you have to log in again."
"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."
"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."
"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."
"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."
"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."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."
"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."
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Oracle Access Manager is ranked 11th in Access Management with 15 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th in Access Management with 69 reviews. Oracle Access Manager is rated 7.6, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle Access Manager writes "A convenient solution that supports customization and provides many features in a single suite". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Oracle Access Manager is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta Workforce Identity, ForgeRock, F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) and Auth0, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and PingAccess.
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