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 gives us attribute-level control and the AD management features work very well."
"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."
"The most valuable features include auditing, dynamic grouping, and creating dynamic groups based on AD attributes."
"Having a tool to manage all changes to AD from a single pane of glass is awesome."
"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 provisioning and deprovisioning saves a lot of time and skips a lot of errors."
"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."
"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."
"We like the integration with other systems."
"The solution is one of the main security products you need to control access and have visibility into what's happening in your organization. It helps with managing access to applications, ensuring governance, and obtaining certifications."
"Deployment takes a bit of time, however, once it's done properly, everything becomes very organized and easy to use."
"Provides functionalities for various stages, such as joiner, mover, and leaver"
"I find the built-in connectors, lifecycle management, certification, and recertification features to be the most valuable."
"Provides good authorization and authentication system functionality."
"The basic concept is most valuable. I like how they have designed the solution. They create an Identity Cube, and then they do all the processes and configuration around the Identity Cube."
"Good life cycle management, segregation of duties, and analytics features."
"The way you can search groups could be better."
"The initial setup was quite easy, but it was time-consuming. It took about three months."
"For the AAD management feature, it needs to improve the objects that we can manage and the security."
"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."
"Most of the time it just works."
"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."
"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."
"In the past, we had a lot of problems with SailPoint IdentityIQ, particularly in providing access and provisioning. There were some gaps in the operation of the solution because they were manual rather than automated, and the users and administrators were given access directly via Active Directory, and it wasn't appropriate for us at the time to use. In terms of integration, we could provide a more automated solution after a minimum number of years, but not in the SailPoint IdentityIQ platform, but there were problems in the registration, for example, with putting information inside ADP, but in general, we were able to solve those problems, and after implementing SailPoint IdentityIQ we had increased evaluations."
"The price of IdentityIQ could be lower. There are additional costs when you buy the licenses, and they force the customers to pay for them."
"I think that the onboarding framework could be improved."
"SailPoint IdentityIQ could be cheaper."
"The interface should be simple and easier to use."
"The UI of the solution could be more customizable so we could change the workflows to suit our needs."
"We have had a lot of service breaks because of the lack of support."
"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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