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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AForefront Identity Manager is a Microsoft's legacy identity management solution. In 2016 Microsoft released Microsoft Identity Manager, an updated IAM solution. Support for Forefront Identity Manager ended October 2017.N/A

    ManageEngine ADManager Plus

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AManageEngine ADManager Plus simplifies enterprise-wide Windows Active Directory management and reporting.

    $595

    per year per license

    Pricing
    Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)ManageEngine ADManager Plus
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Standard
    $595
    per year 1 Domain & 2 help desk Technicians
    Professional
    $795
    per year 1 Domain
    Standard
    $1,195
    per year 1 Domain & 5 help desk Technicians
    Professional
    $1,795
    per year 1 Domain & 2 help desk Technicians
    Standard
    $2,145
    per year 1 Domain & 10 help desk Technicians
    Standard
    $3,345
    per year 1 Domain & 20 help desk Technicians
    Professional
    $3,345
    per year 1 Domain & 5 help desk Technicians
    Professional
    $5,395
    per year 1 Domain & 10 help desk Technicians
    Standard
    $5995
    per year 1 Domain & 50 help desk Technicians
    Standard
    $7795
    per year 1 Domain & 100 help desk Technicians
    Professional
    $7,795
    per year 1 Domain & 20 help desk Technicians
    Standard
    $10,795
    per year 1 Domain & 200 help desk Technicians
    Professional
    $10,795
    per year 1 Domain & 50 help desk Technicians
    Standard
    $11,995
    per year 1 Domain & 500 help desk Technicians
    Professional
    $11,995
    per year 1 Domain & 100 help desk Technicians
    Professional
    $15,595
    per year 1 Domain & 200 help desk Technicians
    Professional
    $17,995
    per year 1 Domain & 500 help desk Technicians
    Standard
    Free
    per year 1 Domain
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)ManageEngine ADManager Plus
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Each additional domain: Standard = $345. Professional = $595. These prices are for an annual license. ADManager Plus license is xml-based and supplied to you through e-mail. Each ADManager Plus license includes an administrator account by default.
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    Community Pulse
    Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)ManageEngine ADManager Plus
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)ManageEngine ADManager Plus
    Identity Management
    Comparison of Identity Management features of Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued) and ManageEngine ADManager Plus
    Feature
    Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)
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    Ratings
    ManageEngine ADManager Plus
    8.7
    8 Ratings
    7% above category average
    ID-Management Access Control00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Multi-Factor Authentication00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Password Management00 Ratings8.56 Ratings
    Account Provisioning and De-provisioning00 Ratings8.77 Ratings
    ID Management Workflow Automation00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    ID Risk Management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)ManageEngine ADManager Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    9.5
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Forefront Identity Manager (Discontinued)ManageEngine ADManager Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    I think that MIM is great for compliance since it reduces the number of logins that are required by users. Most offices have post-it notes with logins floating around because there are so many to remember or there are "shared" logins. This reduces the number of logins to 1 and you can easily revoke access in one fell swoop. This prevents gaps and holes with terminations and updates to select groups are super simple.
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    Any environment that runs on AD needs ADManager Plus. They have already built-in 95% of the queries and reports you will need. It provides a great window into your AD environment. The interface is very intuitive and for any reports or queries that aren't already packaged the product makes them easy to build
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Authentication
    • Security
    • Identity Management
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • It is very good in the bulk user creation. With this tool, we can create a number of users in just a few minutes rather than following a long old process.
    • It is good for bulk user account modification. You can select a lot of users and make changes as per the requirements.
    • ManageEngine ADManager Plus is helping us a lot in the report generation of user accounts, passwords, groups, and other reports that are helping us a lot.
    • This tool also helps us with mailbox creation and shared mailbox creation
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • For Windows Server 2008 R2 Servers is a great tool to set a codeless provisioning over new objects.
    • Can easily integrate with Active Directory and Exchange Servers, improving the identity sync between the final user and the lifecycle management.
    • Improvements in the areas of performance, simplified deployment easing the troubleshooting tasks, better documentation knowledge base, and more language support.
    • The codeless provisioning provided in FIM can sustain a variety from high demand to mid-size scenarios for account lifecycle management.
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • The standard version is useless for a larger company. Most have the Professional level to get the most out of the application but it is worth the cost.
    • Needs better integration with Office 365 and Microsoft Teams.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    We are very satfisfied with the software and when time permits, we hope to explore additional features we are not using. It has a lot of we ae not currently using due to staffing shortages.
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    Usability
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    The slick interface coupled with the prepackaged reports and queries, and the ability to sort and export that data makes the product great
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    Performance
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    Yes, it loads very quickly and moving between pages is very fast
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    Support Rating
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    Support for this software is not the greatest. If the software is not completely down, it can take up to a day to get a response back. However, once they do contact you they are friendly and helpful.
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    Alternatives Considered
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    It is Microsoft. We are a Microsoft shop, primarily. It integrates deeply with Active Directory making it good for Microsoft Active Directory shops.
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    My company already owned ADManager when I started with them. If I remember correctly, it was chosen because it is a fairly cheap tool and because we also use Manage Engine's Service Desk Plus application. ADManager's main competitor (in my eyes) would be PowerShell, now that I have become more proficient with scripting it is rare that I use ADManager except to create users using one of the templates we created. The standardization you get with the templates is really great, it could also be done using an XML file and PowerShell, but why fix what isn't broken?
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    Scalability
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    We are currently deploying on 1 department
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    Professional Services
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    They are able to demo the product and clearly explain use case scenario's and how to do things
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • We see a positive impact simply in the time savings alone. Chasing accounts around is time-consuming and prone to error.
    • The cost to us is negligible to the value it provides.
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • The software is licensed per tech, the pricing is pretty solid.
    • Helpdesk tickets feel dramatically when we started using templates to create users
    • Helps to keep the network secure by knowing which old user accounts to delete
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