We performed a comparison between ManageEngine ADManager Plus and Microsoft Entra ID based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Active Directory Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Simple with good automation."
"The scalability is also good. ADManager Plus is being used by seven to eight system administrators right now, and it has been working fine."
"The solution offers very good reports for management purposes."
"The solution provides oversight, reports, and logs that are easy to understand."
"It is a stable solution."
"Almost every feature of the solution is valuable to me. This includes the importing and exporting to the active directory from the CSC firewall."
"The most valuable feature for me is automation."
"The product helps to validate every activity."
"What I like is that I can go anywhere, at any time, and to any client premise, and I can simply log in to the admin panel and can serve any of my clients."
"Privilege identity management is the most valuable feature."
"The cloud security part is very valuable. Security is the most important thing in today's world. With Azure Active Directory, there are some features that tell you how you need to improve your security level. It informs you if you set up certain policies, e.g., this is where my users sign in. It tends to let you know if your organization has been breached with this security set up. Therefore, it is easier to know when you have been breached, especially if you set up a Conditional Access policy for your organization."
"Two very important features in terms of security are governance and compliance through the Conditional Access policies and Azure Log Analytics."
"Configuring the domain and setting it up in the Azure portal is just three clicks to be honest."
"Privileged Identity Management (PIM), managed identities, dynamic groups, and extension and security attributes are all great features."
"Let's say we decide that our users need to have MFA, multi-factor authentication. It is very easy to implement that with Azure Active Directory."
"User and device management is the most valuable feature."
"The number of main controllers affects the database for creating the hardware specs."
"The solution is very complex, especially when there's an active directory of more than 1,000 users, which makes it hard to administrate. They need to improve the management of the administrative process."
"With the number of available integrations these days, it would be beneficial to have more ready-to-integrate technologies in other products as well."
"The solution should be made tablet friendly because it works well on iPhones and Android phones, but does not work on tablets."
"It would be nice if the solution offered some sort of brochure with some high-level information that would help sell it to management. If they had details around how much time it saves an engineer, for example, to show the ROI, it would be helpful."
"Other products have more flexibility and integration in managing identities."
"There is room for improvement in support, they should work on overall competence and turn-around time."
"API integrations are not supported for all HR tools."
"They can combine conditional access for user actions and application filtering. Currently, they are separated, and we cannot mix the two. I do not know how it would be possible, but it would be interesting."
"The technical support could improve by having a faster response time."
"If Microsoft can give us a way to see where this product is running, from a backend perspective, then it would be great."
"One area where it can improve is connectivity with other systems. Not all systems are connected and you have to do coding to establish a point of connectivity. It supports certain vendors and it supports certain protocols. It is limited in many other aspects at the attribute level."
"The security policy of Azure Active Directory should be based on a matrix so that we can easily visualize which users have access to what."
"The licensing cost is a bit prohibitive."
"The product takes at least ten minutes to activate privilege identity management roles."
"If any service is down, it can affect a whole region. We would need to wait on a ticket and get word from Microsoft to understand the issues. If it takes longer to resolve the issue on Microsoft's side, all we can do is wait for them to fix it."
ManageEngine ADManager Plus is ranked 1st in Active Directory Management with 13 reviews while Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 190 reviews. ManageEngine ADManager Plus is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of ManageEngine ADManager Plus writes "An effective auditing solution that scours your AD and produces easy-to-understand logs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Saves us time and money and features Conditional Access policies, SSPR, and MFA". ManageEngine ADManager Plus is most compared with One Identity Active Roles, SolarWinds Access Rights Manager, ManageEngine ADAudit Plus, Microsoft Active Directory and Lepide, whereas Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Okta Workforce Identity and Cisco Duo. See our ManageEngine ADManager Plus vs. Microsoft Entra ID report.
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