Active Administrator vs One Identity Active Roles comparison

Active Administrator enhances directory management and security, efficiently streamlining operations for enterprises. This tool allows IT professionals to handle permission management, backup, and reporting in a centralized manner.

Active Administrator is designed to improve Active Directory and Group Policy management. It provides administrators with a platform for monitoring, alerting, and controlling AD environments. Users find value in its detailed audit capabilities and real-time changes tracking, contributing to organization compliance and security.

• Real-time alerting: Instantly notifies administrators of important changes.
• Group Policy control: Simplifies managing and troubleshooting Group Policy Objects.
• Comprehensive reporting: Enhances visibility with custom and predefined reports.
• Backup and recovery: Facilitates quick recovery strategies for AD data.

• Improved security: Gives insights into changes affecting compliance.
• Efficiency boost: Automates labor-intensive tasks, reducing manual errors.
• Cost savings: Lowers administrative overhead and downtime with rapid problem resolution.

Active Administrator is particularly valuable in industries such as finance and healthcare where regulatory compliance is crucial. Its ability to provide granular auditing and reporting helps organizations meet strict compliance requirements by providing detailed change logs and minimizing security risks.

One Identity Active Roles is a highly regarded solution for Active Directory (AD) security and account management. One Identity Active Roles will enhance group, account, and directory management while eradicating the need for manual processes. The end result is a significant increase in the overall speed, efficiency, and security of the organization.

Using One Identity Active Roles, users can:

• Easily increase and strengthen native attributes of Active Directory (AD) and Azure AD.
  
  
• Quickly unify and automate group and account management while protecting and securing critical administrative access.
  
  
• Free up valuable resources to concentrate on other IT tasks, fully confident that your user permissions, critical data, and privileged access are safe and secure.

Managing accounts in AD and Azure AD can be tremendously challenging; continually keeping these important systems safe and secure presents an even greater challenge. Traditional tools can be inefficient, error-prone, and very disjointed. In today’s robust marketplace, organizations are finding it somewhat difficult to keep pace with the constant access changes in a hybrid AD ecosystem. Additionally, there are significant security issues to consider (government compliance, employee status/access changes, and other confidential business requirements). And, of course, there is a requirement to properly manage Active Directory and Azure Active Directory access in addition to managing all the other numerous SaaS and non-Windows applications that organizations use today.

Users can easily automate all of these tedious, mundane administrative tasks, keeping their systems safe and error-free. Active Roles ensures users can perform their job responsibilities more effectively, more efficiently, and with minimal manual intervention. Active Roles was created with a flexible design, so organizations can easily scale to meet your organizational needs, today, tomorrow, and in the foreseeable future.

Reviews from Real Users

A PeerSpot user who is a Network Analyst at a government tells us, “It has eliminated admin tasks that were bogging down our IT department. Before we started using Active Roles, if one of our frontline staff members deleted a user or group, it could take several hours to try to reverse that mistake. Whereas now, the most our frontline staff can do is a deprovision, which just disables everything in the background, but it's still there. We can go in and have it back the way it was two minutes later. Instead of it taking two hours, it only takes two minutes.”

Becky P., Sr Business Analyst at George Washington University, shares, “In addition, with the use of workflows and the scheduled tasks, we were able to automate and centrally manage a number of the processes as well as utilize them to work around other product limitations. Those include, but are not limited to syncing larger groups, which have 50,000 plus members, to Azure AD. We sync up to Azure AD using ARS. If we had not already had ARS in place, it would have been impossible for us to have done so in the time period we did it in. We did it in under six months. ARS probably saves us at least two weeks out of every month. It's reduced our workload by 50 percent, easily.”