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 is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"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."
"It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."
"The most valuable feature is that it meets the requirements of the customer. You have a lot of features in the product. Every product has them, but the question is, are these products going to meet the requirement of the customer?"
"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"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."
"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."
"It's quite scalable."
"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."
"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."
"The Federation part of CA Single Sign On, it's a bit complex to implement because it involves the SSL certificates, exchange of certificates, and lot of technical details. The documentation misses some important parts of this, so that's the reason it took some time for us to go live."
"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."
"The technical support could be better."
"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
"The support could be faster."
"As we are moving in to the mobility space, this is where we really see SiteMinder and their other product really come together to provide a solution base to a different area where the IoT is coming, the different business communications are happening. All of those things require authentication and we really want to see this product grow into that role."
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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