Symantec SiteMinder Reviews

I like the authentication mechanism using security codes that keeps changing every few seconds which helps in easy access to application. It applies for cloud and mobile apps as well.

There is no feature that I dislike about the Symantec SiteMinder as such

If you are looking for a platform that would manage all the authentication and authorization aspects of a application or software seamlessly, then you can go for it blindly.

Authorization and authentication for any application is usually tedious. Symantec SiteMinder solves the problem by providing us the robust solution. It optimises the app performance as well.

Users are easy to manage. Functionality is as expected.

Permissions can be a little difficult with few tenant admins

ability to lessen number of passwords users have to memorize and/or be managed by administration

CA technologies cam up with a wonderful product for authentication, authorization and accounting, which is the siteminder. Its rock stable and no issues found at any point of time. After the upgrade from 6.0 to 12.0 we observed enormous improvement in the performance and the software is much stable as compared to other competitors in the market.

Not only me, anyone would first say about what they dislike about CA siteminder is the cost. The cost of software and the cost of setup, and the cost for the support hit sky during the implementation phase. we worked on so many products but this one crossed others a par in terms of cost. Even the support is very limited and the documentation is less for this product.

if you are looking for rock solid authentication software, please go with CA siteminder.

We used this software for web authentication for online users. We even configured the single sign on with this software. performance was the best thing we liked.

SiteMinder simply does exactly what CA says it can do and that is to provide a solid, reliable, robust solution for Single Sign-On, Web Access Control, Identity Federation.

I have no dislikes. Any feature deemed deficient by CA's clients/customers is addressed through improved product, bug fixes, customized solutions. There are very few use cases the "out of the box" product is unable to achieve.

Take the time to understand your goals for the enterprise; plan for training; utilize in-house expertise and CA Support; establish a solution specification that includes requirements, integration, implementation and maintenance.

Most environments have existing critical apps with Proprietary authentication, consider the cost to SSO enable old apps; factor in additional time/delays for troubleshooting complex custom web applications; get lots of performance testing feedback to tune your solution to.

Ease of administration, simple User Interface, very stable too

No user provisioning feature is there, CA product Support is not good.

It is worthy of it, if you want a simple way of managing the access control.

Single

Ease of use and excellent technical support. Debugging an issue by using trace logs/ access/error logs is super easy.

going through the logs can be a bit tiring but the logs are still far easier to read than other competitor products

We mostly use Siteminder r6 and r12 for SSO and SAML federations, the top benefits I realized were ease of setting up new policies for new apps and the compatibility with most of our partners during SAML federation setup.

Simplicity and the possibility to do everything from a single interface.

To sensible on network issues, it made the Policy Server to be stucked and only the restart of the service.

Try to see all the features that the product have, it will give a very large variety.

Everything that is related with Siteminder and Siteminder Federation in the company.

Full blown Web Access Management Suite with all features included.

Too complicated and cumbersome with too many components, not scalable to Web 2.0 applications

Web access management

Distributed architecture and pre-configured modules

So many configuration required for setup environment.

Achieving SSO and federation using CA siteminder product.

Very good architecture that scales for very high volume.

Intuitive user interface (It had issues when they released R12 but it has since improved substantially).

Supports strong authentication like RSA, ArcotID, etc.

Can integrate with most Directories and Databases out of the box.