Choose a good implementation team and do not do an in-house implementation.

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It is essential to hire an SME who has the appropriate skills with the products, in order to avoid vendor lock-in.

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This solution’s pricing is by usage, not by instance. That means you can set up as many instances as you like. Never craft a really complicated configuration. In other words, put functionality A over here, functionality B over there, and let your F5 (e.g.) direct the flow of traffic.

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The subsequent version of this product comes in an appliance form factor. The appliance form factor is easy to work with. Thus, you have a choice to select from a virtual or hardware appliance form factor in order to implement this product.

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It is a simple-to-deploy solution, with many features that are supported out-of-the-box without complicated setup. But, depending on your requirements, it can become complex but not hard to manage.

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Try to get the maximum of using standard functionality of the product, and only do customization if you really need it.

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It is a very stable and good product. The AAC-module becomes a necessity because authorization is moving from a static model (a static access control list based on static group membership) to a more dynamic model, based on user behavior and attributes.

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Go for the latest version.

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Go for it. It will be good for your business.

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Read through the (openly available) profiling guides to get a good understanding of how complex the profiling process is going to be. If you have very complex applications, which aren't a simple "start > username/password window opens > end", then you will be opening yourself up to needing a permanent resource to manage the entire solution end-to-end. IMs in all versions can get very unhappy if it's not nursed from time to time.

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It is a very good security product to integrate with any middleware infrastructure.

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This is a great product with proven history. A little better planning is required before deploying it. Given the change in web technologies and SSO protocols it might be better to check other products in market too.

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It is one of the best products in the present market in the area of access management.

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As far as I know, the later versions of TAM (renamed to SAM), are working as appliances and with that, no experience is needed. My advice is to be careful and think twice.

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It is a very good product to implement.

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Ensure you got your team trained and get external expertise for your architectural design and first deployments. While learning on the job, your team can take over after a while.

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Most often IBM Tivoli Access Manager is not involved when backend applications are developed an this can sometimes cause the applications to not function properly and you need to spend time troubleshooting and do changes in the application.

An IBM Tivoli Access Manager technician should be involved from the start when developing a new application.

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ISAM 8.0 the new version of Tivoli Access Manager may be considered for large web security implementations.

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Properly understand the requirement and deploy the application correctly as the product comes with a vast number of features, that we might not use unless we don't check wisely.

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It is the best product for bigger organizations, but trends are changing so fast. You should look at ForgeRock OpenIdentity Stack if you are looking for a slightly lower price range.

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This product is highly recommended to meet access management and web single sign-on requirements.

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IBM directory server offers the best roll-out experience. We are just beginning to look at using Active Directory for our repository,

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It's one of the best available products of its class. Worth investing in.

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My advice to colleagues is to try the solution.

When looking for a vendor, I want the following from them:

• A good understanding of the technology
• Knowledge of how it should be implemented
• Knowledge of the right way of doing things
• An understand of the roadmap for the next few years: This will make sure that customers do not have to make a U-turn later and redo things

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Go for Siteminder.

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Try to install a few times on various platforms to familiarise yourself with any issues.

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Tivoli access manager securely manages access to critical data and applications to businesses, as well as convenient and fast access to systems by authorized users. It consists of a user registry and an authorization service, that includes an authorization engine and database, as well as a resource manager. It has a family for e-business, enterprise SSO, and operating systems. I have used it for two years now. View full review »