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."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."
"Secure access is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"Active Roles improved the management of users, groups, and AD objects in the organization."
"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'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."
"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."
"I like the customer-facing portal because it is simple to use for end users."
"Quest One IDM allows for large customization."
"The best feature is that it's customizable. For example, we can create any kind of product or custom service within an IT shop and customize it the way our customers need it. For the customers, it's the best. They are happy with it."
"The most valuable features are that it has a lot of capabilities, can integrate with a lot of systems, including automated onboarding like CyberArk, and allows you to integrate different entities."
"This is almost a complete solution for us."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its handling and that it is easy to maintain and manage the data."
"Among the most valuable features of One Identity Manager are administration from Active Directory and Azure Active Directory, as well as administration from Exchange. These features enable us to have fully automated processes to create new accounts and new mailboxes. The most valuable option is the ability to design an automated route to give our customers permissions."
"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."
"In terms of improvement, it could be made even more user-friendly for administrators when they need to create new workflows and rule sets."
"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 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."
"For ActiveRoles, it would be good if the product supports multi-scripting language. You can use only VBScript."
"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."
"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 way you can search groups could be better."
"Right now, they run an on-prem solution. Our preferred solution for cloud is Azure. So, we have yet to determine how we want to take this forward, because at this time, we are only using Graph APIs to do some Azure-related actions."
"The product's GUI could be more user-friendly."
"The solution should come up with a lighter version so people can buy different versions."
"There are several smaller parts of the tool that have room for improvement."
"One area that could be improved is the speed of performance - it's often a bit slower because of the size of its database."
"We fell into that trap of over-customization which made upgrading the product difficult."
"The user interface needs to improve."
"Some internal structures are in place because of already depreciated functions back from the time when the solution was used for software deployment and as a help desk."
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 74 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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