We performed a comparison between One Identity Active Roles and One Identity Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two User Provisioning Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Active Roles improved the management of users, groups, and AD objects in the organization."
"It provides automatic provisioning/update/deprovisioning workflows from a source system to a target system."
"The most valuable features include auditing, dynamic grouping, and creating dynamic groups based on AD attributes."
"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 provisioning and deprovisioning saves a lot of time and skips a lot of errors."
"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'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."
"The solution is flexible because you can realize the customer needs. Therefore, it is easy to upgrade specialized things. It provides the flexibly, so you can implement customers' use cases."
"The back-end, its capabilities, and workflows are very good."
"An outstanding feature of One Identity Manager, compared to SailPoint, is the dashboard where they present everything. With the dashboard, the customer can see how the integrations have happened."
"Workflow management is an important feature. With other identity management products, there was no workflow management so we had to build it ourselves."
"The solution offers good integration with other environments such as SAP and Active Directory, et cetera."
"The solution is flexible. You can customize it a lot. You can can build connectors, connecting them to a new application, and so on."
"Even without any customization, if you install it, configure it, it's ready... It's very powerful. Without any customization, it starts working."
"In terms of the most valuable feature of One Identity Manager, it's not like one feature is useful without the other features. It's not a tool, but it's more an overall integrated solution that is helpful and not specifically one solution on its own. The best points of One Identity Manager would be its process orchestration and synchronization manager."
"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."
"For ActiveRoles, it would be good if the product supports multi-scripting language. You can use only VBScript."
"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 solution needs an attestation process that includes certification and recertification attestation."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup was quite complex because you run into some existing policies that the company already had. There was some trouble with some inconsequential policies."
"The solution should come up with a lighter version so people can buy different versions."
"I would like One Identity Manager to offer an easier way for users to learn to use their new features."
"More integration with SAP and with the internet of things would be good. We also have system devices that we could manage as identities, so that would be a feature to add."
"The support for DevOps could be improved with quick delivery cycles and multiple delivery streams."
"I would like some access management features to be added. We have some customers with a small need to do authentication as a service, and there are other solutions on the market which offer this."
"The initial setup was complex. We have a lot of different systems. The journey from implementing to joining all the systems was difficult."
"The initial setup was complex."
One Identity Active Roles is ranked 5th in User Provisioning Software with 17 reviews while One Identity Manager is ranked 2nd in User Provisioning Software with 75 reviews. One Identity Active Roles is rated 8.6, while One Identity Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of One Identity Active Roles writes "Single interface and workflows simplify AD and Azure AD management efficiency and security". On the other hand, the top reviewer of One Identity Manager writes "The JML is customizable but the support team isn't strong". One Identity Active Roles is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, ManageEngine ADManager Plus, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Softerra Adaxes and NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator, whereas One Identity Manager is most compared with SailPoint IdentityIQ, Oracle Identity Governance, EVOLVEUM midPoint, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) and Microsoft Identity Manager. See our One Identity Active Roles vs. One Identity Manager report.
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