We performed a comparison between ManageEngine ADManager Plus and One Identity Active Roles 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."The most valuable feature for me is automation."
"The product helps to validate every activity."
"Almost every feature of the solution is valuable to me. This includes the importing and exporting to the active directory from the CSC firewall."
"It makes our job easier, especially for managing data for a bulk of users."
"The solution provides oversight, reports, and logs that are easy to understand."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use, the ability for us to customize the access privileges for the users, and integration with ServiceDesk Plus."
"The scalability is also good. ADManager Plus is being used by seven to eight system administrators right now, and it has been working fine."
"It is a stable solution."
"With the use of the sync service we were able to import information from multiple external systems and populate them within our space and leverage them for downstream systems."
"It gives us attribute-level control and the AD management features work very well."
"Having a tool to manage all changes to AD from a single pane of glass is awesome."
"The provisioning and deprovisioning saves a lot of time and skips a lot of errors."
"In comparison to native Active Directory tools, using Active Roles for delegation is so much better. It uses an access template and that makes it easy to see who can access what. In fact, you can do that for many objects as well."
"Because of Active Roles, we're able to synchronize on an even more regular basis. It enables us to provide even more information to the Active Directory, which helped us to group our users in a more consistent manner."
"The biggest thing for us is Active Roles saves a lot of man-hours in keeping groups up-to-date manually or trying to write some sort of script that you have to run, so we don't have to reinvent the wheel. Instead of when every time somebody joins a department, then somebody has to remember to put in a request to add "meet user Joe" to this group, the solution does it automatically for us. Therefore, it saves our business and IT staff time because they do not have to process requests since Active Role can do it for them."
"It provides automatic provisioning/update/deprovisioning workflows from a source system to a target system."
"API integrations are not supported for all HR tools."
"This solution is not stable, it wasted my time."
"There is room for improvement in support, they should work on overall competence and turn-around time."
"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."
"I think the cost of this product is a little higher than I would expect."
"Some things are not very intuitive."
"The solution should be made tablet friendly because it works well on iPhones and Android phones, but does not work on tablets."
"The number of main controllers affects the database for creating the hardware specs."
"The third area for improvement, which is the weakest portion of ARS, is the workflow engine, which was introduced a few years ago. It's slow and not very intuitive to use, so I would like to see improvement there."
"Another issue we have with the product is that we run a lot of custom tasks. You have to program them to run on one particular host and there's no automatic failover to a second host. If that host is down when a task is supposed to run, it has to wait until the next time it runs when that host is up."
"The initial setup was quite easy, but it was time-consuming. It took about three months."
"I've had a difficult time getting it to cooperate with Azure in the cloud and, while the support staff are very good and very knowledgeable, what they assist with just on a call doesn't go deep enough to help with a number of issues. The answer that comes back is that we'd have to start an engagement with Professional Services, which is fine but that takes time to schedule and it takes budget."
"It also has workflows and those are really powerful, but there are no built-in workflows. When it comes to them, it's empty. I would personally love for it to come with ten, 15, or 20 workflows where each achieves a certain task... I could just look at how each is done, clone them, copy them, modify them the way I want them, and be good to go. Right now we have to invent things from scratch."
"Most of the time it just works."
"In terms of improvement, it could be made even more user-friendly for administrators when they need to create new workflows and rule sets."
"The solution needs an attestation process that includes certification and recertification attestation."
ManageEngine ADManager Plus is ranked 1st in Active Directory Management with 13 reviews while One Identity Active Roles is ranked 3rd in Active Directory Management with 17 reviews. ManageEngine ADManager Plus is rated 8.2, while One Identity Active Roles 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 One Identity Active Roles writes "Single interface and workflows simplify AD and Azure AD management efficiency and security". ManageEngine ADManager Plus is most compared with SolarWinds Access Rights Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, ManageEngine ADAudit Plus, Microsoft Active Directory and Lepide, whereas One Identity Active Roles is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint IdentityIQ, One Identity Manager, Softerra Adaxes and NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator. See our ManageEngine ADManager Plus vs. One Identity Active Roles report.
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