We performed a comparison between ManageEngine ADAudit Plus and One Identity Active Roles 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."Real-time monitoring of AD changes and logons is valuable."
"The documentation for this solution is good."
"It assists in managing the active directory and modifying the reintegrated GPOs."
"We use the product to track events and monitor logs of servers and workstations. I am impressed with the tool's tracking ability. It is intuitive and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is its reports."
"The most valuable feature is the control of the file server."
"The monitoring and reporting are extensive and we get all the information we need while they continue to enhance the capabilities of the 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."
"The solution is stable."
"Another good feature is the change history. It's centralized in a single place and allows us to manage people's Active Directory domains from a central location. We can also drill down into individual objects in a troubleshooting or even an auditing situation. We can show evidence to auditors by drilling down into the individual history. It gives you all the history of what happened around an individual object. That is something that would be almost impossible to do in Active Directory, or extremely complicated."
"Because of Active Roles, we're able to synchronize on an even more regular basis. It enables us to provide even more information to the Active Directory, which helped us to group our users in a more consistent manner."
"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 most valuable features include auditing, dynamic grouping, and creating dynamic groups based on AD attributes."
"Instead of deleting accounts, we like the deprovision option so that we can reverse any accidental deletions. It also gives a higher level of quality control in terms of enforcing any number of variables, such as making sure that an account has a description entered before the account can be created. We can backtrack and know the history of it that way."
"Secure access is the most valuable feature."
"The biggest thing for us is Active Roles saves a lot of man-hours in keeping groups up-to-date manually or trying to write some sort of script that you have to run, so we don't have to reinvent the wheel. Instead of when every time somebody joins a department, then somebody has to remember to put in a request to add "meet user Joe" to this group, the solution does it automatically for us. Therefore, it saves our business and IT staff time because they do not have to process requests since Active Role can do it for them."
"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."
"ADAudit Plus can be very tricky, especially if we need to do some high-availability configuration or distributed environment installation."
"Sometimes the developers in technical support take time."
"It assists in managing the active directory and modifying the reintegrated GPOs."
"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."
"The initial setup was difficult."
"The solution's managing file server activity could be improved."
"There are so many reports that it sometimes makes it difficult to navigate to what you need."
"The way you can search groups could be better."
"In terms of improvement, it could be made even more user-friendly for administrators when they need to create new workflows and rule sets."
"The ability to send logs to a SIEM would be very beneficial."
"For the AAD management feature, it needs to improve the objects that we can manage and the security."
"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 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."
"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."
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is ranked 3rd in Active Directory Management with 10 reviews while One Identity Active Roles is ranked 4th in Active Directory Management with 17 reviews. ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is rated 8.6, while One Identity Active Roles is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus writes "Helpful for real-time monitoring of AD and quick response to threats, but its configuration should be better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of One Identity Active Roles writes "Single interface and workflows simplify AD and Azure AD management efficiency and security". ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is most compared with Quest Change Auditor for Active Directory, ManageEngine ADManager Plus, Microsoft Entra ID, Netwrix Auditor and Lepide, whereas One Identity Active Roles is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, ManageEngine ADManager Plus, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, One Identity Manager and Softerra Adaxes. See our ManageEngine ADAudit Plus vs. One Identity Active Roles report.
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