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 was conducting the automation of our cloud and all services of the Active Directory."
"The solution offers very good reports for management purposes."
"Simple with good automation."
"The solution provides oversight, reports, and logs that are easy to understand."
"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 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 most valuable feature for me is automation."
"It makes our job easier, especially for managing data for a bulk of users."
"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."
"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."
"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'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."
"Instead of deleting accounts, we like the deprovision option so that we can reverse any accidental deletions. It also gives a higher level of quality control in terms of enforcing any number of variables, such as making sure that an account has a description entered before the account can be created. We can backtrack and know the history of it that way."
"Having a tool to manage all changes to AD from a single pane of glass is awesome."
"Active Roles improved the management of users, groups, and AD objects in the organization."
"The AD and AAD management features of this solution are really good... They offer added value by showing more fields such as password age and the statuses of some things that we normally wouldn't see."
"API integrations are not supported for all HR tools."
"Some things are not very intuitive."
"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 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."
"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."
"Other products have more flexibility and integration in managing identities."
"The ability to send logs to a SIEM would be very beneficial."
"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 way you can search groups could be better."
"For ActiveRoles, it would be good if the product supports multi-scripting language. You can use only VBScript."
"For the AAD management feature, it needs to improve the objects that we can manage and the security."
"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."
"When doing a workflow, we would like a bit better feedback on the screen, as we're trying to get it to work. For example, there is a "Find" function that you need set up in a workflow to do some of the automation. It is not the easiest to get a result from those finds when you're trying to do that. In the MMC, they have a couple different types of workflows. In this particular case, we use their workflow functionality to find all of X within the environment, then if you find it, do X, Y, and Z. You can have multiple steps. When you do that search function within that workflow, it's really hard to find out, "Is my search working?" It would be nice if there was some feedback on the screen so you could see if your search is working properly within the workflow."
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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