ManageEngine ADManager Plus vs. Microsoft Entra External ID

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ManageEngine ADManager Plus
Score 9.1 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
Microsoft Entra External ID
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Entra External ID (formerly Azure Active Directory B2C, or alternately, Azure Active Directory External Identities) provides business-to-customer identity as a service. Customers can use their preferred social, enterprise, or local account identities to get single sign-on access to applications and APIs.
$0
per month per active users
Pricing
ManageEngine ADManager PlusMicrosoft Entra External 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 (for More than 50,000 MAU)
$0.00325
per month per active users
Premium P2 (for More than 50,000 MAU)
$0.01625
per month per active users
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ManageEngine ADManager PlusMicrosoft Entra External 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.A flat fee of $0.03 is billed for each SMS/Phone-based multi-factor authentication attempt.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
ManageEngine ADManager Plus
Chose ManageEngine ADManager Plus
We have not evaluated other products. We use several ManageEngine products and are very happy with them. The pricing is reasonable and support is very good.
Chose ManageEngine ADManager Plus
We have not used any other similar products.
Chose ManageEngine ADManager Plus
Between the price point and ease of implementing, it made it a no brainer. The product is a valuable asset.
Chose ManageEngine ADManager Plus
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 …
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.
Chose ManageEngine ADManager Plus
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 …
Chose ManageEngine ADManager Plus
We tried ADManager, and as we liked it so much we didn't try any other tools. We use the free trial and it just works for us.
Microsoft Entra External ID
Chose Microsoft Entra External ID
I really enjoy how simple it is to connect this Active Directory with other Microsoft Products to collaborate with colleagues and clients.
Chose Microsoft Entra External ID
Each one of these alternatives has pros and cons. PingOne from Ping Identity states they "help deliver the secure and seamless customer experience to win battles for customer acquisition, retention, revenue, loyalty, and trust." While that may be the case, they did not fit our …
Chose Microsoft Entra External ID
The best selling points for Azure Active Directory B2C that stand out from the competition are:
  • Pricing, both at small and very large scale (and in between), is hard to beat
  • The seamless integration with Azure should make Azure Active Directory B2C the first choice of CIAM …
Chose Microsoft Entra External ID
Microsoft Entra has much more advanced features than Amazon cognito. The access permission feature, mfa, data protection is top notch. Amazon cognito does offer MFA but the security access feature is not very great. The Microsoft Entra offers a wide selection of access …
Features
ManageEngine ADManager PlusMicrosoft Entra External ID
Identity Management
Comparison of Identity Management features of Product A and Product B
ManageEngine ADManager Plus
8.7
Ratings
7% above category average
Microsoft Entra External ID
-
Ratings
ID-Management Access Control9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Factor Authentication9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Password Management8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
ID Management Workflow Automation9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
ID Risk Management9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
ManageEngine ADManager PlusMicrosoft Entra External ID
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
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8.9
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
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Availability
10.0
(0 ratings)
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Performance
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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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It is not easy to calculate the actual ROI due to the difficult quantification of all factors, but it certainly contributed a lot in protecting, monitoring and controlling access to our system. It also made it much easier to detect vulnerable external users with simple and "easy to hack" passwords they use on multiple apps.
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Pros
  • 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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  • One of the things that Microsoft Entra External ID does really well is creating user logins, accounts and profile. It is very easy to create them, manage them and delete them. It is fast and reliant.
  • Limit access or authorization feature. We can allow different levels of authorization and access. So that not all the employees would have access to all the data. Only some relaible employees would have access and power to change anything.
  • Mutli factor authentication feature is also a really good feature to secure data. Even overseas vendors need MFS to login which gives double protection to our data.
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Cons
  • 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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  • Troubleshooting diagnostic logs effectively requires VS Code
  • Group and role management requires additional effort
  • The programming model (XML) could use some developer experience love
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Likelihood to Renew
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
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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I find it easy to use. The usability is great. Every department uses it for different purposes. Everyone access information relevant to them. Since we've started to use this we have seen less security incidents.
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Performance
Yes, it loads very quickly and moving between pages is very fast
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Support Rating
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
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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The best selling points for Azure Active Directory B2C that stand out from the competition are:
  • Pricing, both at small and very large scale (and in between), is hard to beat
  • The seamless integration with Azure should make Azure Active Directory B2C the first choice of CIAM platform for anyone building on Azure
  • Full compatibility with Azure AD's audit log format means Azure Active Directory B2C can be easily integrated into your SIEM tooling
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Scalability
We are currently deploying on 1 department
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • Having monthly active users billing was cost-effective.
  • Helped with the IT support that was already managing the Azure platform of the company; this helped to manage the costs better and optimize them.
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