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We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID and One Identity Active Roles based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Microsoft Entra ID vs. One Identity Active Roles Report (Updated: March 2020).
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Pros
"The security features, such as attack surface rules and conditional access rules, are the most valuable aspects of Azure AD.""The solution adds an extra layer of security.""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.""Technical support has been great.""Single sign-on is the reason we use AD.""The two-factor authentication provides an additional layer of security for our organizational data, so Microsoft Authenticator plays a crucial role in making our confidential data more secure.""The solution scales well.""User and device management is the most valuable feature."

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"Active Roles improved the management of users, groups, and AD objects in the organization.""The most valuable features include auditing, dynamic grouping, and creating dynamic groups based on AD attributes.""The solution is stable.""Secure access is the most valuable feature.""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."

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Cons
"Sometimes, the notifications and alerts are not delivered properly, and we end up missing them. Also, the overall graphical user interface needs to be improved.""One thing that they need to improve is the cost.""I would like it if Intune could manage MacOS or iOS directly. Right now, we have to use a third-party solution.""I believe it can also be integrated into other Microsoft products, as well as more integrations with other solutions.""The price has room for improvement.""I would like to see Microsoft communicate how they intend to manage legacy applications. Right now, you still have to deploy a hosted domain server (which comes at an extra cost) if you have a legacy application that cannot sync properly with the enterprise applications and the modern applications.""The synchronization between my AD and Azure AD needs improvement.""Many of the features are outdated, so the UI and UX could be improved."

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"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.""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.""The solution needs an attestation process that includes certification and recertification attestation.""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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "For you to make use of some of the security features, you need to upgrade your licenses. If it is possible, could they just make some features free? For instance, for the Condition Access policy, you need to set that up and be on Azure AD P2 licensing. So if they could make it free or reduce the licensing for small businesses, that would be cool, as I believe security is for everyone."
  • "It is a packaged license. We have a Premium P1 subscription of Office 365, and it came with that."
  • "It's relatively inexpensive in comparison with third-party solutions. It's highly available and supported by Microsoft Azure in our enterprise agreements. With the addition of their B2C tenants, it's hard to beat from a cost perspective now."
  • "The solution has three types of tiers: E1 has very basic features. You get limited stuff in E2 and cannot have Office 360 associated with it. E3 is on the costly side and has all the features."
  • "We don't really have a choice. It's the one shop in town. If you want this, you have to pay for it."
  • "The price of the solution's license is good."
  • "The price is fine. It's a good value for the money compared with other solutions."
  • "We have a yearly license."
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  • "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."
  • "It's fairly priced."
  • "It's expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:We switched to Duo Security for identity verification. We’d been using a competitor but got the chance to evaluate Duo for 30 days, and we could not be happier Duo Security is easy to configure and… more »
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    Top Answer:Entra ID's pricing is comprehensive and affordable. The prices are easy to understand, and the licenses include a variety of security monitoring and additional features.
    Top Answer:The solution is fairly priced. That said, I have nothing to compare it to.
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    Also Known As
    Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Authenticator
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    Overview

    Secure access to any app or resource from anywhere

    Take advantage of adaptive identity and network access controls to secure access to any app or resource for every user or digital workload across your entire environment.

    Protect and verify every identity

    Implement consistent security policies for every user—employees, frontline workers, customers, partners—as well as apps, devices, and workloads across multicloud and hybrid.

    Provide only the access necessary

    Discover and right-size permissions, manage access lifecycles, and ensure least privilege access for any identity.

    Simplify the user experience

    Reduce IT friction and improve the hybrid workforce experience with seamless access to any resource, single sign-on, user self-service management, and automated lifecycle workflows.

    One Identity Active Roles is a highly regarded solution for Active Directory (AD) security and account management. One Identity Active Roles will enhance group, account, and directory management while eradicating the need for manual processes. The end result is a significant increase in the overall speed, efficiency, and security of the organization.

    Using One Identity Active Roles, users can:

    • Easily increase and strengthen native attributes of Active Directory (AD) and Azure AD.

    • Quickly unify and automate group and account management while protecting and securing critical administrative access.

    • Free up valuable resources to concentrate on other IT tasks, fully confident that your user permissions, critical data, and privileged access are safe and secure.

    Managing accounts in AD and Azure AD can be tremendously challenging; continually keeping these important systems safe and secure presents an even greater challenge. Traditional tools can be inefficient, error-prone, and very disjointed. In today’s robust marketplace, organizations are finding it somewhat difficult to keep pace with the constant access changes in a hybrid AD ecosystem. Additionally, there are significant security issues to consider (government compliance, employee status/access changes, and other confidential business requirements). And, of course, there is a requirement to properly manage Active Directory and Azure Active Directory access in addition to managing all the other numerous SaaS and non-Windows applications that organizations use today.

    Users can easily automate all of these tedious, mundane administrative tasks, keeping their systems safe and error-free. Active Roles ensures users can perform their job responsibilities more effectively, more efficiently, and with minimal manual intervention. Active Roles was created with a flexible design, so organizations can easily scale to meet your organizational needs, today, tomorrow, and in the foreseeable future.

    Reviews from Real Users

    A PeerSpot user who is a Network Analyst at a government tells us, “It has eliminated admin tasks that were bogging down our IT department. Before we started using Active Roles, if one of our frontline staff members deleted a user or group, it could take several hours to try to reverse that mistake. Whereas now, the most our frontline staff can do is a deprovision, which just disables everything in the background, but it's still there. We can go in and have it back the way it was two minutes later. Instead of it taking two hours, it only takes two minutes.

    Becky P., Sr Business Analyst at George Washington University, shares, “In addition, with the use of workflows and the scheduled tasks, we were able to automate and centrally manage a number of the processes as well as utilize them to work around other product limitations. Those include, but are not limited to syncing larger groups, which have 50,000 plus members, to Azure AD. We sync up to Azure AD using ARS. If we had not already had ARS in place, it would have been impossible for us to have done so in the time period we did it in. We did it in under six months. ARS probably saves us at least two weeks out of every month. It's reduced our workload by 50 percent, easily.”

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    Sample Customers
    Microsoft Entre ID is trusted by companies of all sizes and industries including Walmart, Zscaler, Uniper, Amtrak, monday.com, and more.
    City of Frankfurt, Moore Public Schools, George Washington University, Transavia Airlines, Howard County, MD. See all stories at OneIdentity.com/casestudies
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm14%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Non Profit6%
    Educational Organization5%
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    Educational Organization24%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Government6%
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    Aerospace/Defense Firm18%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Consumer Goods Company9%
    Comms Service Provider9%
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Government10%
    Healthcare Company8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise54%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise32%
    Large Enterprise50%
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    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise68%
    Buyer's Guide
    Microsoft Entra ID vs. One Identity Active Roles
    March 2020
    Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft Entra ID vs. One Identity Active Roles and other solutions. Updated: March 2020.
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    Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 101 reviews while One Identity Active Roles is ranked 5th in User Provisioning Software with 5 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.8, while One Identity Active Roles is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Saves time, creates a single pane of glass, and offers good conditional access features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of One Identity Active Roles writes "Give us control over attributes a service desk analyst can change, and we can build in integrity rules". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Google Cloud Identity, Auth0, Yubico YubiKey, Microsoft Intune and Cisco Duo, whereas One Identity Active Roles is most compared with ManageEngine ADManager Plus, SailPoint IdentityIQ, One Identity Manager, Softerra Adaxes and NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator. See our Microsoft Entra ID vs. One Identity Active Roles report.

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