"IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is a good solution. It's both stable and scalable."
"It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate."
"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature"
"Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability."
"The Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that."
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"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?"
"It is reliable."
"It would be better if the administration and configurations were more straightforward. The architectural level is also quite complex."
"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."
"Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved."
"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."
"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."
"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
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IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is ranked 4th in Web Access Management with 1 review while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 2nd in Web Access Management with 69 reviews. IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is rated 8.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager writes "A stable and scalable web security and identity management solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is most compared with , whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with Ping Identity Platform, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, Microsoft Entra ID and Auth0.
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