SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) vs. ManageEngine ADManager Plus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
SolarWinds 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
ManageEngine ADManager Plus
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
ManageEngine ADManager Plus simplifies enterprise-wide Windows Active Directory management and reporting.
$595
per year 1 Domain & 2 help desk Technicians
Pricing
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)ManageEngine ADManager Plus
Editions & Modules
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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
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)ManageEngine ADManager Plus
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
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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Features
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)ManageEngine ADManager Plus
Identity Management
Comparison of Identity Management features of Product A and Product B
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)
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Ratings
ManageEngine ADManager Plus
8.7
Ratings
7% above category average
ID-Management Access Control00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Multi-Factor Authentication00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Password Management00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
ID Management Workflow Automation00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
ID Risk Management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
User Ratings
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)ManageEngine ADManager Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
9.5
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
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10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
5.5
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.3
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
4.5
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.4
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
5.5
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
1.8
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
4.5
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
4.5
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.2
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)ManageEngine ADManager Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
Overall, Solar Winds Access Rights Manager (ARM) is reliable and easy to use once you figure out how to get what you want from the tool. They have both a client and web version of the tool that can be used. Each one has different functionality so just have to remember where to go to do the task you want. We are still early in our usage, but so far it seems to be working well!
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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
  • 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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  • Bulk user creating/de-provisioning user, all bulk operations
  • Reporting on many items, group membership, password expiration, etc.
  • Works well with active directory and Google integration.
  • Easy to use interface.
  • Mobile app.
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Cons
  • 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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  • Reports can be hard to get what you need...sometimes they include fields that you don't need.
  • The automation feature broke after an update and our complex automations stopped working.
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Likelihood to Renew
It is in place and working. No time or money to consider anything else.
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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
End user experience is much better than administration
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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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Reliability and Availability
On occasion the server will need to be restarted to get things running again
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Performance
Satisfactory performance
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Yes, it loads very quickly and moving between pages is very fast
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Support Rating
Very slow response times and sometimes I found the solution and ended up sharing it with support
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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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Implementation Rating
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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Alternatives Considered
While the CatTools are used mainly by a colleague of mine, DameWare is only used periodically and definitely not on a daily base. We chose ARM (when we bought it, it was called 8Man) because it had a good and well fitting set of features for a reasonable price. In addition to that, we could quite easily configure some features for our needs. Other products didn't get even close to this feature list for this price.
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We did not research any other applications. ADManager Plus was the first that appeared in our search. After a demo with their sales team, it was apparent that this was the application we wanted. The price was perfect too. We ordered it right away and implemented it within a couple of weeks.
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Scalability
No experience with this
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We are currently deploying on 1 department
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Return on Investment
  • Because it's cut down on the mistakes and time lost creating new user accounts, this has meant there is a reduction in tickets relating to changes needing to be made to user accounts. Whether this was the incorrect spelling of the name, or the need to add/remove security groups. With ARM now doing the user creation along with the templates we've created, this has dramatically cut down the number of support tickets regarding user accounts, meaning our team now has more time to tend to other pending tickets.
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  • It has a positive impact in our business in terms of resource and time management.
  • It is reducing our time to resolve a user, password, group and mailbox related queries.
  • It is reducing our time in bulk modification.
  • It is helping us in the Auditing as it can generate multiple types of reports in just a few clicks.
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ScreenShots

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) Screenshots

Screenshot of Active Directory graphical analysisScreenshot of Create userScreenshot of Exchange Distribution Group propertiesScreenshot of File server permissions analysisScreenshot of Screenshot of Report configuration