We performed a comparison between One Identity Active Roles and SailPoint IdentityIQ 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."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."
"Another good feature is the change history. It's centralized in a single place and allows us to manage people's Active Directory domains from a central location. We can also drill down into individual objects in a troubleshooting or even an auditing situation. We can show evidence to auditors by drilling down into the individual history. It gives you all the history of what happened around an individual object. That is something that would be almost impossible to do in Active Directory, or extremely complicated."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It provides automatic provisioning/update/deprovisioning workflows from a source system to a target system."
"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."
"Good life cycle management, segregation of duties, and analytics features."
"It is a scalable product."
"SailPoint has allowed us to ensure the right people have the right access and to the rights things."
"The community is very active and when I had questions about an issue, I was able to find the resources."
"This solution is great for providing control access across your environment."
"The compliance features are the most valuable features."
"It offers a single source of truth. Everything can be handled from one tier."
"Access certification and provisioning are two of the solutions most valuable features."
"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."
"The way you can search groups could be better."
"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."
"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 solution needs an attestation process that includes certification and recertification attestation."
"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."
"The initial setup was quite easy, but it was time-consuming. It took about three months."
"It allowed to implement the automated processes when a new employee is hired. It allows to have a main central process for new hires."
"Regarding the scope for improvement in the solution, reporting is an area that can be a bit more UI-oriented."
"The solution's technical support team's response time and skills need improvement since it is an area where there are shortcomings."
"I would like to see more Cloud management from this product."
"The product has poor reporting and analytic capabilities. Reports are not easy to use and its analytic capabilities are limited."
"There's a lot of customization required to improve the user experience."
"The UI needs to be more user friendly. More concentration on historical policy violations would be great. In terms of new features, I would like to see artificial intelligence and machine language added."
"There is a need for further enhancements, specifically in the multifactor authentication capabilities."
One Identity Active Roles is ranked 5th in User Provisioning Software with 17 reviews while SailPoint IdentityIQ is ranked 1st in User Provisioning Software with 61 reviews. One Identity Active Roles is rated 8.6, while SailPoint IdentityIQ is rated 8.2. 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 SailPoint IdentityIQ writes "Flexible, easy to customize, and not too difficult to set up". One Identity Active Roles is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, ManageEngine ADManager Plus, One Identity Manager, Softerra Adaxes and NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator, whereas SailPoint IdentityIQ is most compared with Saviynt, Microsoft Entra ID, One Identity Manager, ForgeRock and Okta Workforce Identity. See our One Identity Active Roles vs. SailPoint IdentityIQ report.
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