We performed a comparison between PingAccess 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."The solution is highly stable and scalable"
"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."
"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."
"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."
"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."
"It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."
"Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known."
"The initial setup appears to be difficult in the beginning."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
"CA has reporting at the moment. With the reporting, every particular segmented product has a reporting engine. I would like to see centralized reporting for all of them together."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."
"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."
"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."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
"I think they need to integrate some of the newer types of authentication into the product. I'm not seeing the innovation when it comes to biometrics in the product."
PingAccess is ranked 15th in Access Management with 1 review while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 12th in Access Management with 69 reviews. PingAccess is rated 10.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of PingAccess writes "A hybrid lightweight solution that simplifies web management ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". PingAccess is most compared with ForgeRock, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and Microsoft Entra ID.
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