ManageEngine ADAudit Plus vs One Identity Active Roles comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
Ranking in Active Directory Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
One Identity Active Roles
Ranking in Active Directory Management
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
User Provisioning Software (5th)
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Active Directory Management category, the market share of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is 12.2% and it decreased by 3.3% compared to the previous year. The market share of One Identity Active Roles is 5.3% and it decreased by 30.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Active Directory Management
Unique Categories:
No other categories found
User Provisioning Software
8.4%
 

Featured Reviews

Park Armstrong - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 20, 2022
Helpful for real-time monitoring of AD and quick response to threats, but its configuration should be better
We are using it for compliance and security. We have its latest version. We are all up to date with whatever we're doing.  We have a quicker response time to threats. Real-time monitoring of AD changes and logons is valuable. Its configuration can be better. There were 44 pages of documented…
JosephChandrasekaram - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 16, 2023
Single interface and workflows simplify AD and Azure AD management efficiency and security
I use it primarily for granting, managing, and auditing access The ways Active Roles has improved the way we operate are through workflows and user onboarding, automatic user management, group permissioning, adding users to the right groups based on the department, and distribution list creation…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The monitoring and reporting are extensive and we get all the information we need while they continue to enhance the capabilities of the product."
"The Account Lockout Analyzer and the Inactive Users reports are particularly valuable."
"Real-time monitoring of AD changes and logons is valuable."
"The documentation for this solution is good."
"We use the product to track events and monitor logs of servers and workstations. I am impressed with the tool's tracking ability. It is intuitive and easy to use."
"ADAudit Plus's best features are that it's very easy to use with a user-friendly interface, and it gives reports on group policy and object changes that we couldn't find in any other product."
"I like the user behavior analytics (UBA). It's a machine learning feature that creates a standard profile for each user when you install it. It creates a baseline for every user, so it can detect when anyone deviates from that standard baseline profile. For example, if a user typically logs in at 9:30 am and logs out at 6 pm, ADAudit will flag it as an anomaly when that same logs in after normal hours and alert the admins."
"It assists in managing the active directory and modifying the reintegrated GPOs."
"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 stable."
"Having a tool to manage all changes to AD from a single pane of glass is awesome."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
 

Cons

"The solution's managing file server activity could be improved."
"ADAudit could have a more sophisticated interface design. They are using a plain UI, which is decent. However, customers have said that it looks a little flat compared to other vendors. It's not fancy."
"Sometimes the developers in technical support take time."
"Its configuration can be better. There were 44 pages of documented notes of what I had to do to get the product to work during the installation process."
"It assists in managing the active directory and modifying the reintegrated GPOs."
"The initial setup was quite complex and required some research beforehand."
"The solution should include more details on file creation and modification. It also needs to have a quick message for troubleshooting problems which needs to be detailed and generic."
"There are so many reports that it sometimes makes it difficult to navigate to what you need."
"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."
"For the AAD management feature, it needs to improve the objects that we can manage and the security."
"The way you can search groups could be better."
"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 third area for improvement, which is the weakest portion of ARS, is the workflow engine, which was introduced a few years ago. It's slow and not very intuitive to use, so I would like to see improvement there."
"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 ability to send logs to a SIEM would be very beneficial."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's pricing is acceptable."
"My guess is that it was around $4,000 or $5,000 a year, and we bought a license, and then we have maintenance fees. I'm not 100% sure how that worked out."
"ADAudit Plus's pricing is affordable and flexible, with very low prices in the market."
"It's a medium-priced solution."
"Adding features and other functionality it costs you more. Also, the first installation costs an additional amount."
"It's fairly priced."
"The licensing model is a simple user-based model, not that much complicated."
"It's expensive."
"The price is reasonable. It costs us about 1 million Danish kroner annually, and we also spend about half as much on consultants."
"The pricing is on the higher end."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
9%
Healthcare Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?
The most valuable feature of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is its reports.
What needs improvement with ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?
The solution's managing file server activity could be improved.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for One Identity Active Roles?
The solution is fairly priced. That said, I have nothing to compare it to.
What needs improvement with One Identity Active Roles?
The solution has not enabled us to reduce password reset times. It has not automated provisioning. The group attestation could be improved. It was a feature that was available in version 5. You can...
 

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Sample Customers

Warsaw City Hall, Acument Global Technologies, Inc., Cosma International, Bank of South Pacific, Life Management Center, Central Bank, UncleBob's Self Storage, Leeds Building Society, California Transplant Donor Network, First Response, Blessing Hospital, Northern Land Council, RMK Marine
City of Frankfurt, Moore Public Schools, George Washington University, Transavia Airlines, Howard County, MD. See all stories at OneIdentity.com/casestudies
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