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    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) is designed to assist IT and security admins to quickly and easily provision, deprovision, manage and audit user access rights to systems, data, and files. By analyzing user authorizations and access permission you get visualization of who has access to what and when they accessed it. Demonstrate compliance with most regulatory requirements with customized reports. Provision and deprovision users using…N/A

    Microsoft Entra ID

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Entra ID (formerly Microsoft Azure Active Directory or Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution supporting restricted access to applications with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) built-in, single sign-on (SSO), B2B collaboration controls, self-service password, and integration with Microsoft productivity and cloud storage (Office 365, OneDrive, etc) as well as 3rd party services.

    $6

    per user/per month

    Pricing
    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Microsoft Entra ID
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Premium P1
    $6.00
    per user/per month
    Premium P2
    $9.00
    per user/per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Microsoft Entra ID
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Microsoft Entra ID
    Considered Both Products
    SolarWinds
    No answer on this topic
    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Entra ID
    User experience (user friendly) is easy then google workspace.Licensing cost management also easier then google platform. SSO and MFA work much better and easier then GCP. Integration with third party software we can do using online video learning in Intra id. apps are work …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    67%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    99%
    Would buy again
    150 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    75%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    134 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    78%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    149 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    75%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    107 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    63%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    128 Answers
    Features
    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Microsoft Entra ID
    Identity Management
    Comparison of Identity Management features of SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) and Microsoft Entra ID
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Microsoft Entra ID
    8.6
    94 Ratings
    6% above category average
    ID-Management Access Control00 Ratings8.992 Ratings
    ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)00 Ratings9.192 Ratings
    Multi-Factor Authentication00 Ratings9.393 Ratings
    Password Management00 Ratings8.889 Ratings
    Account Provisioning and De-provisioning00 Ratings8.988 Ratings
    ID Management Workflow Automation00 Ratings7.569 Ratings
    ID Risk Management00 Ratings8.071 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Microsoft Entra ID
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (14 ratings)
    9.0
    (121 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.4
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    7.4
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    7.1
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    1.8
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Microsoft Entra ID
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SolarWinds
    It [SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)] is well suited for small to medium sized companies who want to enhance and ease up their daily work. As well as it is suited for organized structures, it has its problems with very complex environments. For example, if you are working with direct and multiple permissions instead of having more granular group based permissions.
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    Microsoft
    It is especially good for organizations that are otherwise in the Microsoft ecosystem (Microsoft 365 applications). Microsoft Entra ID is really well supported sign-in method in various SaaS-applications and they often have step-by-step guides how to deploy the SSO with Microsoft Entra ID. It's less suitable for organizations that might use other productivity tools than M365 or do not have Windows-based computers.
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    Pros
    SolarWinds
    • SolarWinds Access Rights Manager is easy to set up and configure. We had the first report generated in a few hours.
    • The automated feature for the reports is great. We just set it and forget it and now the reports get emailed on schedule.
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    Microsoft
    • Single Sign-on helps ease the user experience, allowing users to avoid typing multiple passwords.
    • The identity and management are straightforward to use and easy to connect to other applications, as well as third-party applications.
    • The support of remote work. Nowadays, many people work from home and need to access their accounts. Microsoft Enterprise ID gives secure access to the company data.
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    Cons
    SolarWinds
    • Licensing model when we changed over to SolarWinds was [I feel] a nightmare. It needs to be more streamlined and SolarWinds needs to understand what their customers require. When we changed over to SolarWinds we found it very hard to get answers to what modules we were still licensed for.
    • Our current system is not functioning. We can't login to the application with the accounts we created that were working. The error that appears doesn't help to resolve it. So at present we just renewed licenses for this year and we can't use the system.
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    Microsoft
    • Probably the most primary thing is just the interface itself. It's frequently changing and so oftentimes we kind of have to go back and redocument our processes for our IT staff because the steps that they would take to perform a task one month. Now it's a totally different staff, new dashboard, even a new name for the product or the feature. So it would be nice if that stuff was a little bit more consistent.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SolarWinds
    It is in place and working. No time or money to consider anything else.
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    Microsoft
    MSFT Entra ID has been essential for managing our geographically dispersed team. We're confident that it will scale with us as grow, and we'll be able to take advantage of additional security and ID management features as they become necessary. Being able to centrally manage our user access from anywhere with a small support team is such a relief.
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    Usability
    SolarWinds
    End user experience is much better than administration
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    Microsoft
    I mean it's pretty good. It is click, click. I mean, oftentimes I can go to the expert or layer two support to get help. Suddenly I go to them. So it has to be pretty useful to be honest. I do a lot of, and there's a lot of, you could do research quickly online to find out how to do certain things. I think that's the only thing we can improve to in terms of kind of a best practice path is setting up it. But because I'm it profess of tons of years in co-management services, I can figure it out. But for others they may not be able to figure it out. You still need an IT person of course to translate all of that. But to me pretty straightforward. I come from the days of directory from 2008, 2000, Microsoft server 2000.
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    Reliability and Availability
    SolarWinds
    On occasion the server will need to be restarted to get things running again
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    Microsoft
    There has been a handful of outages but they have been either minimal or rarely severe
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    Performance
    SolarWinds
    Satisfactory performance
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    Microsoft
    I could probably rate this a 10 but I'm always conservative on giving out perfect scored bt performance has not been a problem for us using Entra ID.
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    Support Rating
    SolarWinds
    Very slow response times and sometimes I found the solution and ended up sharing it with support
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    Microsoft
    I have not needed to engage support for anything at this time. I have been able to find the answers either online or in a knowledgebase. I tried to skip the question but it would not let me, so I rated a 9 based on other interactions with Microsoft support I have had
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    Online Training
    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Most training was internally produced
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    Implementation Rating
    SolarWinds
    It was my first exposure to this type of product and I wasn’t given the time to figure out how best to implement it. I would say get a plan together of what you are tying to accomplish first
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    Microsoft
    Make sure you use a good partner. Our implementation was a bit longer and more problematic than we expected. Our partner got it done, but, in my opinion, some of their inexperience and staffing issues were evident.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SolarWinds
    I found the installation and configuration to be much easier and more straightforward. What also assisted in the decision to go with Access Rights Manager, was the fact we already made use of Solarwinds products. Knowing from previous experiences with their support staff, meant we knew how great their after-hours support was whenever we had any technical issues with the platform. We felt it would be better to keep it all under one roof so to speak
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    Microsoft
    We've used other Microsoft products and we've also used some standalone products, like each application you can have its own identity, so we've looked at some of those too, but we try to use the Entra ID as much as possible because it offers a wider range of reliability.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    The features are getting addresses per requirements and their value for Money. The proposed ROI and actual ROI build confidence.
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    Scalability
    SolarWinds
    No experience with this
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    Microsoft
    Scalability is pretty trival for Entra ID. It's not difficult to manage a few or many accounts.
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    Professional Services
    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Professional Services' technical knowledge is appreciable as consultants design the solution as per customer requirements. Mapping of features per user specifications and assisting Customer IT engineers to implement so they can manage and administer the services.
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    Return on Investment
    SolarWinds
    • Team leads recieve automated reports of permissions within their team, and it allows them to proactively audit their team members
    • Security specialists have really clear dashboards to audit individuals
    • We can be sure we never leave a permission open after a person leaves
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    Microsoft
    • I think it's had positive. It's enabled us to make authentication easier and more streamlined across the organization from frontline workers to back office workers.
    • It's allowed us to really adopt authentication policies and methods that suit that user and their work environment.
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    ScreenShots

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