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 product helps to validate every activity."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard. They allow me to see everything in real-time and drill down and pick and choose versus running scripts."
"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 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."
"The solution offers very good reports for management purposes."
"The solution provides oversight, reports, and logs that are easy to understand."
"It makes our job easier, especially for managing data for a bulk of users."
"Having a tool to manage all changes to AD from a single pane of glass is awesome."
"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."
"The provisioning and deprovisioning saves a lot of time and skips a lot of errors."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable features include auditing, dynamic grouping, and creating dynamic groups based on AD attributes."
"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."
"With the number of available integrations these days, it would be beneficial to have more ready-to-integrate technologies in other products as well."
"There is room for improvement in support, they should work on overall competence and turn-around time."
"Some things are not very intuitive."
"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."
"Lacks sufficient integration with management tools."
"This solution is not stable, it wasted my time."
"The solution should be made tablet friendly because it works well on iPhones and Android phones, but does not work on tablets."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The way you can search groups could be better."
"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."
"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."
"For the AAD management feature, it needs to improve the objects that we can manage and the security."
"For ActiveRoles, it would be good if the product supports multi-scripting language. You can use only VBScript."
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 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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