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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    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
    ManageEngine ADManager PlusMicrosoft Entra ID
    Editions & Modules
    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
    Premium P1
    $6.00
    per user/per month
    Premium P2
    $9.00
    per user/per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ManageEngine ADManager PlusMicrosoft Entra ID
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsEach 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
    ManageEngine ADManager PlusMicrosoft Entra ID
    Considered Both Products
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    Chose ManageEngine ADManager Plus
    We have not used any other similar products.
    Incentivized
    Chose ManageEngine ADManager Plus
    As far as reporting, ADManager Plus is on par with these other companies, but you would need an additional module to get the exact same reports. The items that put this in front of the other companies is the ability to create users and make group/permission changes.
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    99%
    Would buy again
    150 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    134 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    149 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    107 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    128 Answers
    Features
    ManageEngine ADManager PlusMicrosoft Entra ID
    Identity Management
    Comparison of Identity Management features of ManageEngine ADManager Plus and Microsoft Entra ID
    Feature
    ManageEngine ADManager Plus
    8.7
    8 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Microsoft Entra ID
    8.6
    94 Ratings
    6% above category average
    ID-Management Access Control9.05 Ratings8.992 Ratings
    ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)8.01 Ratings9.192 Ratings
    Multi-Factor Authentication9.03 Ratings9.393 Ratings
    Password Management8.56 Ratings8.889 Ratings
    Account Provisioning and De-provisioning8.77 Ratings8.988 Ratings
    ID Management Workflow Automation9.05 Ratings7.569 Ratings
    ID Risk Management9.01 Ratings8.071 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ManageEngine ADManager PlusMicrosoft Entra ID
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (121 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.4
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.4
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.1
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ManageEngine ADManager PlusMicrosoft Entra ID
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    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
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    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.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    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
    Incentivized
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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
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    There has been a handful of outages but they have been either minimal or rarely severe
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    Yes, it loads very quickly and moving between pages is very fast
    Incentivized
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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
    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.
    Incentivized
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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
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Most training was internally produced
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    Implementation Rating
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    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
    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?
    Incentivized
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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
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    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
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    We are currently deploying on 1 department
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    Microsoft
    Scalability is pretty trival for Entra ID. It's not difficult to manage a few or many accounts.
    Incentivized
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    Professional Services
    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
    Incentivized
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    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
    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
    Incentivized
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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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