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."
"It makes our job easier, especially for managing data for a bulk of users."
"The solution offers very good reports for management purposes."
"The most valuable feature was conducting the automation of our cloud and all services of the Active Directory."
"Makes it easy to administer your active directory."
"Simple with good automation."
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"Having a tool to manage all changes to AD from a single pane of glass is awesome."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"Secure access is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features include auditing, dynamic grouping, and creating dynamic groups based on AD attributes."
"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."
"The solution should be made tablet friendly because it works well on iPhones and Android phones, but does not work on tablets."
"I think the cost of this product is a little higher than I would expect."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 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 user and group management in Azure AD could be better. Our focus these days is dynamic sharing with several on-prem Microsoft applications like SharePoint."
"For the AAD management feature, it needs to improve the objects that we can manage and the security."
"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."
"In terms of improvement, it could be made even more user-friendly for administrators when they need to create new workflows and rule sets."
"For ActiveRoles, it would be good if the product supports multi-scripting language. You can use only VBScript."
"The initial setup was quite easy, but it was time-consuming. It took about three months."
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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