One Identity Active Roles vs OpenText Directory and Resource Administrator comparison

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.”

OpenText Directory and Resource Administrator streamlines user provisioning and access management in Active Directory environments, enhancing efficiency and ensuring security through automation and policy enforcement.

This powerful tool addresses complex access management challenges faced by enterprises by automating critical processes. Users benefit from robust automation capabilities reducing human error and enhancing compliance with organizational policies. The ability to delegate administrative tasks while maintaining control makes OpenText Directory and Resource Administrator a valuable addition to IT departments aiming to streamline workflows and improve productivity.

• Automated User Provisioning: Efficiently automate account creation and management
• Policy Enforcement: Ensure compliance with predefined access policies
• Delegated Administration: Assign specific administrative tasks without compromising security
• Access Auditing: Track and report on user activity and permissions

• Improved Efficiency: Streamline administrative tasks to save time
• Enhanced Security: Reduce the risk of unauthorized access with strong policy enforcement
• Cost Savings: Lower administrative overhead and operational costs through automation
• Scalability: Adapt to growing demands with ease

OpenText Directory and Resource Administrator is widely implemented in industries requiring stringent access controls such as healthcare, finance, and government. Automating compliance checks and delegating responsibilities effectively manage large user bases while maintaining security and operational efficiency.