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We performed a comparison between One Identity Active Roles and WSO2 Identity Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two User Provisioning Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed One Identity Active Roles vs. WSO2 Identity Server Report (Updated: March 2020).
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Pros
"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.""The solution is stable.""The most valuable features include auditing, dynamic grouping, and creating dynamic groups based on AD attributes.""Active Roles improved the management of users, groups, and AD objects in the organization.""Secure access is the most valuable feature.""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.""Having a tool to manage all changes to AD from a single pane of glass is awesome.""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."

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"Some of the valuable features of the solution are the easy integration with processes, such as Single Sign-On. Overall WSO2 is straightforward and does not need customization.""The single sign-on procedure itself, as well as the ability to connect to external user sources such as Microsoft Active Directory and LDAP servers, are the solution's most valuable features.""Comprehensive ecosystem.""The product provides easy integration between API manager and IT server components.""It's very easy to implement everything.""I would rate the solution's stability eight or nine out of ten.""The keystore feature has been most valuable for us."

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Cons
"For ActiveRoles, it would be good if the product supports multi-scripting language. You can use only VBScript.""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.""Most of the time it just works.""I've had a difficult time getting it to cooperate with Azure in the cloud and, while the support staff are very good and very knowledgeable, what they assist with just on a call doesn't go deep enough to help with a number of issues. The answer that comes back is that we'd have to start an engagement with Professional Services, which is fine but that takes time to schedule and it takes budget.""The initial setup was quite easy, but it was time-consuming. It took about three months.""The ability to send logs to a SIEM would be very beneficial.""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.""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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"Sometimes working with the code is difficult because I search for documentation about the code and how to work with the code, which is where I believe they should improve, by providing some documentation on how to work with the code.""There needs to be a good support model and easy-to-understand documentation.""This solution requires extensive knowledge to be used effectively as certain areas of its use are not user friendly.""I found the initial setup to be very complex.""The solution could improve its development from a user perspective.""This solution does not have BPM workflows already integrated, we had to integrate the BPM module externally. They do not provide full-featured auditing and certification modules out of the box.""The high availability architecture has to be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The licensing model is a simple user-based model, not that much complicated."
  • "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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  • "We have to take their support, but that is a minimal charge if I'm comparing it to other identity managers."
  • "I have found the solutions license is priced competitively compared to others."
  • "At this time we are working with the open-source version."
  • "They should bring in some good pricing models to host the marketplace."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution is fairly priced. That said, I have nothing to compare it to.
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:The product provides easy integration between API manager and IT server components.
    Top Answer:I rate WSO2 Identity Server’s pricing a seven out of ten. They offer two types of license subscriptions. One is Apache, where we can build it ourselves. The second one is the WSO2 purchase license… more »
    Top Answer:The product needs to be available in marketplaces for subscription. They should offer competitive pricing models. There could be a better service line compared to Kong. It will help us further adapt… more »
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    Overview

    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.”

    WSO2 Identity Server can be used to simplify identity and access management (IAM) related activities in the enterprise. The product is based on open standards and open source principles. WSO2 Identity Server comes with seamless, easy to use integration capabilities that help connect applications, user stores, directories and identity management systems.

    Sample Customers
    City of Frankfurt, Moore Public Schools, George Washington University, Transavia Airlines, Howard County, MD. See all stories at OneIdentity.com/casestudies
    Nutanix, ELM, AlmavivA, BDigital, StubHub, M-creations, MedVision360
    Top Industries
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    Aerospace/Defense Firm18%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Consumer Goods Company9%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Government9%
    Healthcare Company8%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Government10%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise29%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise56%
    Buyer's Guide
    One Identity Active Roles vs. WSO2 Identity Server
    March 2020
    Find out what your peers are saying about One Identity Active Roles vs. WSO2 Identity Server and other solutions. Updated: March 2020.
    768,886 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    One Identity Active Roles is ranked 5th in User Provisioning Software with 17 reviews while WSO2 Identity Server is ranked 6th in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) with 7 reviews. One Identity Active Roles is rated 8.6, while WSO2 Identity Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of One Identity Active Roles writes "Single interface and workflows simplify AD and Azure AD management efficiency and security". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 Identity Server writes "Provides valuable API management features, but its technical documentation needs improvement". One Identity Active Roles is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, ManageEngine ADManager Plus, One Identity Manager, SailPoint IdentityIQ and Softerra Adaxes, whereas WSO2 Identity Server is most compared with Auth0, Amazon Cognito, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, SAP Identity Management and SailPoint IdentityIQ. See our One Identity Active Roles vs. WSO2 Identity Server report.

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