"The single sign-on across multiple platforms is really the true advantage here. That gives you one ID and password for access to all your systems. You don't need to manage a plethora of different user IDs and passwords to all the systems that you're going to access."
"The best thing about Active Directory is its compatibility. It works with lots of third-party vendors. We're using multiple products, and they're all integrated with our Active Directory."
"It is easy to manage. I can manage systems with policies and automate our systems. Any professional system can be easily integrated with Azure Active Directory. It is widely used with Windows versions."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to deploy and make changes to every workstation that I need to. We use it to control policy and I can apply the right policies to all our 1,500 workstations, notebooks, et cetera."
"Azure Active Directory has useful policy assigning and management."
"The most valuable features of this solution are security, the conditional access feature, and multifactor authentication."
"Microsoft Azure AD is easy to install and is a stable solution."
"The security and infrastructure management features are the most valuable ones for us."
"The most valuable feature is the control of the file server."
"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."
"Real-time monitoring of AD changes and logons is valuable."
"Something that can be improved is their user interface"
"Its price should be improved. It is very expensive for Turkish people."
"Its area of improvement is more about the synchronization of accounts and the intervals for that. Sometimes, there're customers with other network challenges, and it takes a while for synchronization to happen to the cloud. There is some component of their on-prem that is delaying things getting to the cloud. The turnaround time for these requests is very time-sensitive. I don't mean this as derogatory for this service, but in my experience, that happens a lot."
"We would like to have more granularity in the Azure conditional access in order to be able to manage more groups for devices and for applications."
"Microsoft is working with Microsoft Identity Manager for Active Directory on-premise. It will be very important to have these identity management solutions directly in Azure Active Directory. It's very important to have some kind of Azure identity manager as a technology for identity and access management for working both in the cloud and inside the Azure suite."
"When it comes to identity governance, the governance features in Azure AD are very focused on Microsoft products. I would like to see those governance and life cycle management features offered for non-Microsoft products connected to Azure AD."
"For example, there were some authentication features that, for security purposes, had certain limitations. Those limitations still exist, but the portal now has options so that the customers can make custom features to manage their identity."
"The main issue is that because Active Directory is in the cloud, it will inevitably be dependent on internet connectivity."
"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."
"The initial setup was quite complex and required some research beforehand."
"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."
"ADAudit Plus can be very tricky, especially if we need to do some high-availability configuration or distributed environment installation."
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Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is ranked 1st in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 96 reviews while ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is ranked 4th in Active Directory Management with 4 reviews. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is rated 8.8, while ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) writes "With multi-factor authentication, we've seen a marked decrease in the number of threats we've seen come through". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus writes "The user behavior analytics creates a profile of each user and detects any deviation from it". Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is most compared with Google Cloud Identity, Okta Workforce Identity, Auth0, AWS Directory Service and CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, whereas ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is most compared with Netwrix Auditor, ManageEngine ADManager Plus, Quest Change Auditor for Active Directory, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor and SolarWinds Access Rights Manager.
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