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 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."
"It is a stable solution."
"Simple with good automation."
"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."
"It makes our job easier, especially for managing data for a bulk of users."
"Makes it easy to administer your active directory."
"It gives us attribute-level control and the AD management features work very 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."
"Having a tool to manage all changes to AD from a single pane of glass is awesome."
"It provides automatic provisioning/update/deprovisioning workflows from a source system to a target system."
"Active Roles improved the management of users, groups, and AD objects in the organization."
"Another good feature is the change history. It's centralized in a single place and allows us to manage people's Active Directory domains from a central location. We can also drill down into individual objects in a troubleshooting or even an auditing situation. We can show evidence to auditors by drilling down into the individual history. It gives you all the history of what happened around an individual object. That is something that would be almost impossible to do in Active Directory, or extremely complicated."
"The provisioning and deprovisioning saves a lot of time and skips a lot of errors."
"It's valuable to us in that it resembles the native tools that most people have grown accustomed to... Active Roles resembles traditional tools, such as from Microsoft. That is really good because it eases the way people interact with the tool."
"API integrations are not supported for all HR tools."
"The solution should be made tablet friendly because it works well on iPhones and Android phones, but does not work on tablets."
"Some things are not very intuitive."
"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."
"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."
"The bulk email ID creation must be improved. I had to create 50 to 60 IDs manually because when I tried the bulk option, it didn't work. I still had to cross-verify because some fields were empty."
"Lacks sufficient integration with management tools."
"Most of the time it just works."
"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."
"The solution needs an attestation process that includes certification and recertification attestation."
"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 way you can search groups could be better."
"There are some features that we think should be included in their next release. We think these things would take them to the next level: the ability to completely force or limit any dynamic group processing to specific servers, change-tracking reporting of virtual attributes, and the ability to use files as inputs to automation workloads. These things have also been talked about. Knowing them, they're probably working on them."
"The initial setup was quite easy, but it was time-consuming. It took about three months."
"In terms of improvement, it could be made even more user-friendly for administrators when they need to create new workflows and rule sets."
ManageEngine ADManager Plus is ranked 1st in Active Directory Management with 13 reviews while One Identity Active Roles is ranked 4th 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 Identity Security Cloud, 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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