We performed a comparison between ManageEngine ADManager Plus and Microsoft Entra ID 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 offers very good reports for management purposes."
"It makes our job easier, especially for managing data for a bulk of users."
"The most valuable feature was conducting the automation of our cloud and all services of the Active Directory."
"Almost every feature of the solution is valuable to me. This includes the importing and exporting to the active directory from the CSC firewall."
"Simple with good automation."
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"We have a history of all our authentications and excellent integration with the Microsoft solutions we use at our company. It runs smoothly in Windows and macOS."
"The most valuable feature is that it is very easy to implement, you don't need a lot of effort to set up the solution. This is the most advantageous point, that you can do anything on Azure without taking too much time."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of scalability."
"The tool's most valuable feature is auto logs. It helps with user activity and monitoring. It also assists us with GLBA policies and procedures. Microsoft Entra ID gives a 360 view of what the user has access to, what applications are available to them, when they are logging in and out, etc. It makes knowing what is happening to our tenants incredibly powerful."
"Installation is straightforward. It only took a couple of hours to set everything up."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to set up conditional access, where you can enforce users to connect using multifactor authentication."
"The two-factor authentication provides an additional layer of security for our organizational data, so Microsoft Authenticator plays a crucial role in making our confidential data more secure."
"It is a very straightforward implementation."
"With the number of available integrations these days, it would be beneficial to have more ready-to-integrate technologies in other products as well."
"This solution is not stable, it wasted my time."
"The number of main controllers affects the database for creating the hardware specs."
"The solution should be made tablet friendly because it works well on iPhones and Android phones, but does not work on tablets."
"API integrations are not supported for all HR tools."
"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."
"I think the cost of this product is a little higher than I would expect."
"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."
"I faced difficulties from Micorosft's end and during the transition from Microsoft Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID. Sometimes, some of Microsoft's documentation could be a little outdated."
"We previously used Microsoft's technical support, which was excellent; they were very responsive. Now, we use a CSP, and their support is lacking, so I rate them five out of ten."
"The only improvement would be for everything to be instant in terms of applying changes and propagating them to systems."
"Azure AD provides two types of features. One is Azure AD Excel and is already B2C. Out of both versions, Azure B2C requires some improvement, in terms of user management and role management, et cetera."
"It would be awesome to have a feature where you can see the permissions of a user in all their Azure subscriptions. Right now, you have to select a user, then you have to select the subscription to see which permissions the user has in their selected subscriptions. Sometimes, you just want to know, "Does that user have any permissions in any subscriptions?" That would be awesome if that would be available via the portal."
"There is no great solution in the cloud for Conditional Access authentication and RADIUS-type authentication."
"Documentation I think is always the worst part with what Azure's doing right now across the board."
"There is no documentation about how Microsoft will scale Azure AD for customers. It only mentions that it will scale out if you have a lot of requests but does not mention how in detail."
ManageEngine ADManager Plus is ranked 1st in Active Directory Management with 13 reviews while Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 190 reviews. ManageEngine ADManager Plus is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Entra ID 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 Microsoft Entra ID writes "Allows users to authenticate from home and has excellent integrations in a simple, stable solution". ManageEngine ADManager Plus is most compared with One Identity Active Roles, SolarWinds Access Rights Manager, ManageEngine ADAudit Plus, Microsoft Active Directory and SailPoint IdentityIQ, whereas Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Yubico YubiKey and Cisco Duo. See our ManageEngine ADManager Plus vs. Microsoft Entra ID report.
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