We performed a comparison between ManageEngine ADManager Plus and Microsoft Entra ID based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Active Directory Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It makes our job easier, especially for managing data for a bulk of users."
"The most valuable feature was conducting the automation of our cloud and all services of the Active Directory."
"Makes it easy to administer your active directory."
"Simple with good automation."
"The product helps to validate every activity."
"The most valuable feature for me is automation."
"It is a stable solution."
"Almost every feature of the solution is valuable to me. This includes the importing and exporting to the active directory from the CSC firewall."
"The user functionality enables us to provide different levels of access, across many applications, for each user. We can customize the access level and set a security level in connection with that access. For instance, we can require MFA. That is a feature that helps enhance our security posture a lot."
"The most valuable feature is the authentication platform."
"It helps with privacy control of identity data. It makes security very easy."
"It is a really nice tool and we have a license for the more complex model."
"It offers features that improve our security posture such as multifactor authentication, which is the second layer of protection that is used when we log into the cloud."
"Azure Active Directory is a very simple utility to use, it has very good visibility and transparency, and an easy-to-use panel."
"We have the ability to define the email user in the designated field."
"The solution offers business to business and client to business support."
"It would be nice if the solution offered some sort of brochure with some high-level information that would help sell it to management. If they had details around how much time it saves an engineer, for example, to show the ROI, it would be helpful."
"Some things are not very intuitive."
"There is room for improvement in support, they should work on overall competence and turn-around time."
"The bulk email ID creation must be improved. I had to create 50 to 60 IDs manually because when I tried the bulk option, it didn't work. I still had to cross-verify because some fields were empty."
"API integrations are not supported for all HR tools."
"The number of main controllers affects the database for creating the hardware specs."
"With the number of available integrations these days, it would be beneficial to have more ready-to-integrate technologies in other products as well."
"Other products have more flexibility and integration in managing identities."
"The downside of using a single password to access the entire system is that if those credentials are compromised, the hacker will have full access."
"The downside is that we now have all our eggs in one basket with Microsoft. We have this great authentication and single sign-on, but if Microsoft has an outage in North America or globally, on Outlook or Teams, we're dead in the water... We get some type of hiccup once a quarter."
"The visibility in the GUI is not good for management. There are a lot of improvements that could make it better. It should be more user-friendly overall. It is not user-friendly because everything keeps changing on the platform. I can understand it because I know the platform, am familiar with it, and use it every day. However, for a lot of clients, they don't use it every day or are not familiar with it, so it should be more user friendly."
"Something that can be improved is their user interface"
"Reading documentation could be simplified. Technical support could also be faster."
"Better integration with external governance products would be a welcome addition to Azure AD."
"The conditional access rules are a little limiting. There's greater scope for the variety of rules and conditions you could put in that rules around a more factual authentication for other users. If you have an Azure AD setup, you can then connect to other people's Azure AD, but you don't have a huge amount of control in terms of what you can do. Greater control over guest users and guest access would be better. It's pretty good as it is but that could be improved."
"We have a custom solution now running to tie all those Azure ADs together. We use the B2B functionality for that. Improvements are already on the roadmap for Azure AD in that area. I think they will make it easier to work together between two different tenants in Azure AD, because normally one tenant is a security boundary. For example, company one has a tenant and company two has a tenant, and then you can do B2B collaboration between those, but it is still quite limited. For our use case, it is enough currently. However, if we want to extend the collaboration even further, then we need an easier way to collaborate between two tenants, but I think that is already on the roadmap of Azure AD anyway."
ManageEngine ADManager Plus is ranked 1st in Active Directory Management with 13 reviews while Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 190 reviews. ManageEngine ADManager Plus is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of ManageEngine ADManager Plus writes "An effective auditing solution that scours your AD and produces easy-to-understand logs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Allows users to authenticate from home and has excellent integrations in a simple, stable solution". ManageEngine ADManager Plus is most compared with One Identity Active Roles, SolarWinds Access Rights Manager, ManageEngine ADAudit Plus, Microsoft Active Directory and SailPoint IdentityIQ, whereas Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Yubico YubiKey and Cisco Duo. See our ManageEngine ADManager Plus vs. Microsoft Entra ID report.
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