SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) vs. Microsoft Entra ID

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)
Score 9.0 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
Microsoft Entra ID
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft 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
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Microsoft Entra ID
Editions & Modules
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Premium P1
$6.00
per user/per month
Premium P2
$9.00
per user/per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Microsoft Entra ID
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Microsoft Entra ID
Considered Both Products
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)

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Microsoft Entra ID
Chose Microsoft Entra ID
User experience (user friendly) is easy then google workspace.Licensing cost management also easier then google platform. SSO and MFA work much better and easier then GCP. Integration with third party software we can do using online video learning in Intra id. apps are work …
Features
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Microsoft Entra ID
Identity Management
Comparison of Identity Management features of Product A and Product B
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)
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Ratings
Microsoft Entra ID
8.4
114 Ratings
2% above category average
ID-Management Access Control00 Ratings8.9112 Ratings
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)00 Ratings9.1112 Ratings
Multi-Factor Authentication00 Ratings9.1113 Ratings
Password Management00 Ratings8.1107 Ratings
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning00 Ratings8.4106 Ratings
ID Management Workflow Automation00 Ratings7.685 Ratings
ID Risk Management00 Ratings7.989 Ratings
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User Ratings
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Microsoft Entra ID
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(14 ratings)
8.9
(170 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
9.6
(16 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.8
(28 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
7.3
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
4.5
(1 ratings)
7.1
(21 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.4
(2 ratings)
9.7
(3 ratings)
Configurability
5.5
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
1.8
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
4.5
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
4.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Microsoft Entra ID
Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds
It [SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)] is well suited for small to medium sized companies who want to enhance and ease up their daily work. As well as it is suited for organized structures, it has its problems with very complex environments. For example, if you are working with direct and multiple permissions instead of having more granular group based permissions.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Entra ID provides powerful and reliable identity and access management capabilities that enhance secure authentication and authorization for cloud systems. Offer modern security features, including MFA, conditional access, and threat intelligence, to protect identities and prevent unauthorized access. Single Sign-On allows us to access multiple apps with just a single login.
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Pros
SolarWinds
  • 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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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.
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Cons
SolarWinds
  • 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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Microsoft
  • For larger organizations the policy management user interface gets complex
  • Security group nesting limitations - you cannot always nest groups within groups depending on the group types and use case
  • Price gets high if you need the enterprise or P2 premium licenses
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Likelihood to Renew
SolarWinds
It is in place and working. No time or money to consider anything else.
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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.
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Usability
SolarWinds
SolarWinds ARM improved the data access for the organization and it saved time and money by providing accurate data for access rights when it expired to avoid unauthrized access. The solution helped the staff to grant access to users and manage them propely by using the great and friendly interface
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Microsoft
Simply because of what I mentioned earlier, the feature set sort of keeps changing and they do a lot of, they integrated with a lot of the other tools and so for users who are not as well seasoned, it may be a little bit more complicated for them to begin working within the tool.
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Reliability and Availability
SolarWinds
On occasion the server will need to be restarted to get things running again
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Microsoft
There has been a handful of outages but they have been either minimal or rarely severe
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Performance
SolarWinds
Satisfactory performance
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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
SolarWinds
Very slow response times and sometimes I found the solution and ended up sharing it with support
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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
SolarWinds
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Most training was internally produced
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Implementation Rating
SolarWinds
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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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
SolarWinds
I found the installation and configuration to be much easier and more straightforward. What also assisted in the decision to go with Access Rights Manager, was the fact we already made use of Solarwinds products. Knowing from previous experiences with their support staff, meant we knew how great their after-hours support was whenever we had any technical issues with the platform. We felt it would be better to keep it all under one roof so to speak
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Microsoft
Yeah, so basically that product to be honest, was more of a getting comfortable with cloud identification management. So that was a product I used. It has all the policies for desktops and doing updates and all that central directory identity provisioning stuff for users. Users and I will have an advantage because right now you get it from the time you get email, you get it, it is there, right? I mean you don't have to pay for anything. And then Microsoft, depending on your interest file license you have Access to Defender and all of those other nice products that compliment Entra ID. So I think that Entra ID is more rich. There's more potential as the business scales if that other product, you can't really scale as much as it was good because I deal with a lot of small medium size enterprises. I do a lot of more consulting type firms. They don't have more than 20 consultants and they just need a system whether it's for their legal activities, finance activities, et cetera. But in terms of having an email is very important to so many companies. So it's so easy to use the Entra ID and easy to expand more value for money for clients.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
SolarWinds
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
SolarWinds
No experience with this
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Microsoft
Scalability is pretty trival for Entra ID. It's not difficult to manage a few or many accounts.
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Professional Services
SolarWinds
No answers on this topic
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
SolarWinds
  • Team leads recieve automated reports of permissions within their team, and it allows them to proactively audit their team members
  • Security specialists have really clear dashboards to audit individuals
  • We can be sure we never leave a permission open after a person leaves
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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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ScreenShots

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) Screenshots

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