We performed a comparison between Oracle Access Manager and Symantec VIP Access Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Access Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Once it is set up, it is easy to use and it integrates with most of the products on the market."
"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."
"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."
"From a technical perspective, the solution is very good we can operate and control the user by ourselves."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"Excellent SSO solution for Oracle products."
"The product allows customization via custom code."
"The MFA is the most valuable aspect."
"The VPN we are using is good and working quite well."
"It's a good tool. It's pretty straightforward."
"The two-factor authentication is most definitely valuable and moves us closer to being able to check off those important boxes for compliance."
"Other than it provides us with remote access, so it's fairly easy to install, fairly easy to set up, and provides us the ability to get into our corporate environment."
"The product is useful for providing user access from an in-built office server as we follow the work-from-home model."
"It is easy to use."
"In this version 9.1, lots of changes are done for the dashboard, User Store etc."
"Cloud-based service and management."
"In the next release, they should focus more on use cases related to customer access management, customer identity, and access management."
"The solution's lifecycle management is troublesome. Also, another area of issue in the solution is the part involving documentation of certain features."
"Multi-factor authentication requires a lot of processes and technicalities."
"Sometimes if a session takes too long, you have to log in again."
"The initial implementation can definitely be improved because you have to work on several components to configure it correctly."
"The mobile access to the solution isn't ideal. They should work to improve its functionality."
"There are problems with stability."
"May not integrate easily with non-Oracle products."
"Maybe Symantec could consider providing a step-by-step guide for first-time users."
"Geofencing needs improvement."
"The gateway server is a RADIUS server, but it lacks the functionality of returning RADIUS attributes other than those that are required for the gateway to authenticate the users."
"If they had dashboards or a report for managers or executives, then it would allow them to see the status and have it make sense to them."
"It gets out of sync with Active Directory or whatever it might be, whatever the authentication piece is on Active Directory, and they just reset it on the backend. I never have to contact the vendor."
"Every time that I have a new phone or computer, it takes a little longer to deploy it."
"It is challenging to use when installing a new version."
"In the next release, I would like the ability to work offline with remote access."
Oracle Access Manager is ranked 11th in Access Management with 15 reviews while Symantec VIP Access Manager is ranked 12th in Access Management with 15 reviews. Oracle Access Manager is rated 7.6, while Symantec VIP Access Manager is rated 8.4. 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 VIP Access Manager writes "With its mobile application, this tool offers a convenient and user-friendly experience to its users". 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 VIP Access Manager is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Check Point Remote Access VPN, Yubico YubiKey, RSA SecurID and Q-Bot. See our Oracle Access Manager vs. Symantec VIP Access Manager report.
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