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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is no feature that I dislike about the Symantec SiteMinder as such Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Single Sign-On, Federation Services (That comes along with Siteminder R12 Version). SiteMinder able to authenticate and authorize using various LDAP Directories and Databases. IPCheck and SmWalker are some of the features that are very helpful. They are not only easy to setup but works well with other integrated components as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Admin GUI for Siteminder R12 version is bit slow. CA support should look into this and come up with something better.
Nothing much to dislike as quality of product (CA Siteminder) is very good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
CA Siteminder boasts flexibility of configuration as well as architecture modularity which are key to a successful integration in enterprise environments. SSO features, Federation capabilities and standard RFC implementations get the product in the leader quadrant for Access Management and Web Security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
CA Siteminder, from version 12 on, has replaced its GUI (applet-style) into a web-gui: unfortunately, even though the choice has been the right one, the web-gui implementation is not, let's say, web2.0-wise. Poor implementation and no use of Ajax capabilites bring more pain in configuring Siteminder nowadays. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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.
Agents for most of the web servers, application servers, SharePoint, Peoplesoft, SAP, secure proxy server, etc.
High quality 24/7 Support -- quite responsive.
Widely used. A market leading product.
Relatively easy to learn.
A lot of new features are being added to latest versions to support mobile, social, agent less solutions, for Web service/ SOA support, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
User Interface can be improved for better readability.
Tighter integration with CA Directory (like Advanced AD Integration would be nice to have).
Federation component has scope for improvement.
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Very nicely integrated with current siteminder implementations. Configuration of partners and outgoing federations is simple and straight forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Management and alerting of certificates is a bit cumbersome, some saml spec items that are marked optional are required making some implementations more complicated. Implementing SP initiated federations requires alot of custom work and interim pages , wish this was more out of the box to implement. Support could be a bit more streamlined , we waited days for analysis of a problem only to be told it was undetermined cause.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
One of the best features of Siteminder is the ability to provide custom interfaces and services to allow for increase integration and flexibility of the model to adapt to business rules. We have used this to provide adaptive access management capability to back end systems. Additionally the product is designed for certification and allows for extensible authentication capabilities. The EAL Rating provides an assurance to the end users and the enterprise that security is built in by design and that it meets the requirements of secure government transactions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
A poor implement and coding of a BLTH (Business Logic Task Handlers) can lock the system into a loop. There is little process flow and boundary checking conditions to stop this occurring. Ensure that you have as strong testing regime and separate test instances.
There should be a greater range of web based layouts and templates available and an improved ability to customise the user and administration interface for an end client. The user interface (while it can be branded) is not easy to do and required strong developer effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
SiteMinder is the most widely deployed solution. It allows for a seamless user experience and is relatively straightforward to implement. Directory Chaining (a single security policy can connect an application when the user community is spread across multiple directories) is of specific use to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This is not a specific problem with SiteMinder but when an SSO solution is not well architected it can lead to some disjointed behaviors. This can create extra support calls from users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
