We performed a comparison between One Identity Active Roles and One Identity Manager 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."Secure access is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features include auditing, dynamic grouping, and creating dynamic groups based on AD attributes."
"The provisioning and deprovisioning saves a lot of time and skips a lot of errors."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It provides automatic provisioning/update/deprovisioning workflows from a source system to a target system."
"Having a tool to manage all changes to AD from a single pane of glass is awesome."
"This solution has helped to increase employee productivity when it comes to provisioning users in our systems. This solution has been really been effective with our retail workers. It wouldn't be possible to onboard and manage our 40,000 store employees without it. The management of the solution is pretty automated."
"The biggest improvement has been the auditing. Now we have a record of what the users have, what the users have requested and when, and when things were approved. It's all in the same system."
"The solution does lots of things that we did manually before."
"The policy and role management features are superb. If you have a customer who is willing to go somewhere with role management, then the possibilities are endless with the product. It is well-structured, and the architecture is well-defined."
"The back-end, its capabilities, and workflows are very good."
"The product makes it easier for employees to be more productive."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its handling and that it is easy to maintain and manage the data."
"The solution offers good integration with other environments such as SAP and Active Directory, et cetera."
"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."
"There are some features that we think should be included in their next release. We think these things would take them to the next level: the ability to completely force or limit any dynamic group processing to specific servers, change-tracking reporting of virtual attributes, and the ability to use files as inputs to automation workloads. These things have also been talked about. Knowing them, they're probably working on them."
"It also has workflows and those are really powerful, but there are no built-in workflows. When it comes to them, it's empty. I would personally love for it to come with ten, 15, or 20 workflows where each achieves a certain task... I could just look at how each is done, clone them, copy them, modify them the way I want them, and be good to go. Right now we have to invent things from scratch."
"The way you can search groups could be better."
"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 ability to send logs to a SIEM would be very beneficial."
"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."
"In terms of improvement, it could be made even more user-friendly for administrators when they need to create new workflows and rule sets."
"One of the things we would like is the ability to have more than one system role manager. That would be nice. For example, when people are on vacation, sometimes it gets a little hard to administrate system roles."
"They should offer more best practices and documentation for every functionality."
"One Identity Manager can be made more user-friendly for end users."
"The solution should come up with a lighter version so people can buy different versions."
"One Identity Manager is currently in the process of modernizing its UI, which I hope will result in a more user-friendly interface for its Identity Manager. However, it is uncertain whether they have plans to consolidate their various tools into a unified system to simplify configuration and tasks."
"There is a small area inside of the administrator's GUI that could be a little bit more organized."
"A tool called Analyzer is included to assist with birthright generation. The tool isn't very user-friendly."
"There are several smaller parts of the tool that have room for improvement."
One Identity Active Roles is ranked 5th in User Provisioning Software with 17 reviews while One Identity Manager is ranked 2nd in User Provisioning Software with 75 reviews. One Identity Active Roles is rated 8.6, while One Identity Manager 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 One Identity Manager writes "The JML is customizable but the support team isn't strong". One Identity Active Roles is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, ManageEngine ADManager Plus, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Softerra Adaxes and NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator, whereas One Identity Manager is most compared with SailPoint IdentityIQ, Oracle Identity Governance, EVOLVEUM midPoint, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) and Microsoft Identity Manager. See our One Identity Active Roles vs. One Identity Manager report.
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