We performed a comparison between NetIQ Access Manager and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Access Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's very easy to integrate with applications."
"The most valuable features of NetIQ Access Manager are SSO and Multi-Factor Authentication."
"The single sign-on feature is excellent."
"There are lots of options to customize the solution to your needs."
"The features that we have found most valuable with NetIQ Access Manager are its single sign-on and two factor two second factor database."
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."
"Federation is valuable, for sure, because we have a lot of third-party vendors that we need to integrate with, and this is a turnkey solution in some ways."
"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 very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability."
"Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable."
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the security of the infrastructure and the server and the working networking device."
"Having the ability to easily extract and view and compare and version control configurations would be ideal."
"I would love to see the upgrade procedure handled more effectively. I would prefer to have OVS installation possibilities, although the upgrade procedures should include the OS as well. You should be able to use the whole application as an appliance."
"Classification of junctions and new versions of applications, such as APIs, can be added to enable the use of more devices that utilize biometrics for Multi-Factor Authentication to improve the solution."
"The application portal could be improved with more options and easier customization."
"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."
"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."
"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."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
"I would like to see a move towards the newer technologies, which is what we are doing right now. I think that's in the roadmap that's coming, in the 12.8 and 14 releases, but we would like to have it sooner than later."
"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
NetIQ Access Manager is ranked 3rd in Web Access Management with 5 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 2nd in Web Access Management with 69 reviews. NetIQ Access Manager is rated 8.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NetIQ Access Manager writes "A mature, powerful product with good integration capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". NetIQ Access Manager is most compared with Okta Workforce Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Microsoft Entra ID and Auth0, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with Ping Identity Platform, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, Auth0 and IBM Security Verify Access. See our NetIQ Access Manager vs. Symantec Siteminder report.
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