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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Delinea Secret Server

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/ASecret Server (originally from Thycotic, now from Delinea since the 2021 Thycotic merger with Centrify) is an enterprise password management application, which is available with either a cloud-based or on-premise deployment which emphasizes fast deployment, scalability, and simplicity.N/A

    ManageEngine ADManager Plus

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    ManageEngine ADManager Plus simplifies enterprise-wide Windows Active Directory management and reporting.

    $595

    per year per domain

    Pricing
    Delinea Secret ServerManageEngine ADManager Plus
    Editions & Modules
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    Free Edition
    $0
    No Expiration Supports up to 100 domain objects
    Standard
    $595
    per year 1 Domain & 2 help desk Technicians
    Standard Edition
    $595
    per year Priced per domain; scales with the number of domains, technicians, and add-ons.
    Professional
    $795
    per year 1 Domain
    Professional Edition
    $795
    per year Priced per domain; scales with the number of domains, technicians, and add-ons.
    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
    Delinea Secret ServerManageEngine ADManager Plus
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Each additional domain: Standard = $345. Professional = $595. These prices are for an annual license. ADManager Plus license is xml-based and supplied through e-mail. Each ADManager Plus license includes an administrator account by default. ADManager Plus offers two main add-ons: a Governance, Risk and Compliance add-on for access certification and advanced compliance capabilities, and a Backup and Recovery add-on for AD, Entra ID, and Google Workspace user objects.
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    User Ratings
    Delinea Secret ServerManageEngine ADManager Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (22 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
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    Performance
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Delinea Secret ServerManageEngine ADManager Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Delinea (Centrify + Thycotic)
    I would recommend Delinea to any organization or colleague, as I have used it to support our shared services model, as well as a dedicated model for people support to customers, for privileged access management. Delinea has provided us with effective methods for handling unnecessary login attempts to the customer infrastructure. Additionally, the connection thread is available in the audit trail for review, which is a valuable feature to have.
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    The interface has really improved and modernized over the years. It integrates perfectly with Active Directory and can do just about anything you can imagine. It's speedy, too—large tasks don't take long at all. I've used this product for many, many years (over a decade) and have rarely needed support, but when I have reached out for assistance, they've been helpful. The price is fantastic for what you get. It can seem like a one-trick pony at first, but the more you use it, the more you realize what else you can do with it. ADManager Plus is chock-full of tools that you'd think Microsoft would include out of the box, but after 25+ years of Active Directory, it's clear they have no interest in doing so. ADManager Plus fills all the gaps left by Microsoft. Simple mass imports with automatic OU assignments, mass changes to existing accounts, etc. Some of this can be done through PowerShell, sure, but this makes it easy.
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    Pros
    Delinea (Centrify + Thycotic)
    • Password Management: Its entire purpose, really. Secret Server stores passwords in an incredibly easy to use way. They can be organized in groups, they contain all the information about the site or system the password is used for (including URLs for websites), and even a notes field. You can set up specific policies for expirations and complexity, and Secret Server can even generate strong passwords for you. Using a password is simple, too, since you can just click a button to add it to your clipboard; you don't even have to unmask the password.
    • Security: The passwords are stored encrypted in a SQL database, and the application requires an authenticated login. This could be local, but we tie it into Active Directory. Each folder of passwords has groups assigned (in our case, again, AD, but you can make them local groups) with different permission levels, so we can compartmentalize passwords. Desktop technicians don't have access to network switch passwords, etc.
    • Easy Setup: It took me about an hour to get the server running, from spinning up the VM to importing our old password list. It took a little longer to organize the passwords into proper folders, and then assigning groups, but it was easy to do.
    • Personal Passwords: Each user also gets a personal folder, where they can keep their own, unshared passwords. This is nice for sites or systems with individualized logins (e.g., a firewall, VPN, etc.)
    • Favorites: Secret Server lets you tag passwords as "favorites" so you can easily find ones you use constantly. The search feature is nice, but this is nicer.
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    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
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    Cons
    Delinea (Centrify + Thycotic)
    • Personally I would prefer an app instead of a website.
    • Can be too many options. Sometimes I just want to add a secret quickly.
    • Can be slow to adopt until you get used to how it works.
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • They need to improve their report in terms of modification, like you will not get a lot of customization options in the report.
    • In the password report if you are applying filter in Days since password last set and selecting the password change date from day 0 and again you want to select the Account status as Enable then you cannot do this.
    • If you have more than 1 domain and you are trying to modify users in both domains in a single attempt, you cannot do this.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Delinea (Centrify + Thycotic)
    No answers on this topic
    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.
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    Usability
    Delinea (Centrify + Thycotic)
    My rating is purely based on the configurational activities, as feature-wise delineation has all the features that are very beneficial for customers, though the implementation is a bit more manual work, which can be reduced with a low-code platform. Along with that, we can have a better UI to have intuitiveness and can manage the platform for shared customers in a better way. Overall, it is a very good tool for PAM.
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    For the most part, ADManager usability is pretty great, once you understand it. There is a decently large learning curve, mainly when using the api integration and automations. For simple things, like unlocking accounts, it is very usable. Understanding the way to customize reports and automations is where it lost points.
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    Performance
    Delinea (Centrify + Thycotic)
    No answers on this topic
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    Yes, it loads very quickly and moving between pages is very fast
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    Support Rating
    Delinea (Centrify + Thycotic)
    I actually haven't had to work with support. I have spoken to a colleague of mine who has worked with support and has been pleased.
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    This is one of their lacking points... Every time I have needed support the first thing they want to see is our log files. And then it can take days or weeks to hear back from them and sometimes you have to follow up yourself or they will just close your request. If you can actually get someone on the phone or a sessions scheduled to troubleshoot, sometimes you'll be lucky enough to solve your problem. We used to have a major new hire automation running in ADManager and it broke after updating the software. We went back and forth with them for a month or so and they were not able to resolve the issue, I ended up writing a PowerShell script and scheduling it to do the work that was being done before. This also allowed me to make the automation better than ADManager allowed.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Delinea (Centrify + Thycotic)
    There were not very many solutions that provided the entire package of taking an account from creation and deactivating it when no longer needed, as well as providing the discovery of unknown service accounts. Other solutions like RoboForm and LastPass did not offer the ability to manage your service accounts and added layers of complication to ensure security.
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    We decided to use ManageEngine ADManager Plus due to the compatibility it had with our systems. We run a hybrid environment and ManageEngine ADManager Plus was the system that fit into our infrastructure the best. It also provides the most opportunity for growth in the way we want and does not require us to build on systems we are not yet ready to implement.
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    Scalability
    Delinea (Centrify + Thycotic)
    No answers on this topic
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    We are currently deploying on 1 department
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    Professional Services
    Delinea (Centrify + Thycotic)
    No answers on this topic
    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
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    Return on Investment
    Delinea (Centrify + Thycotic)
    • It has increased our security profile within our organization
    • it has made implementation of complex password policies easier to achieve
    • It has assisted with the hardening of the infrastructure by automatically proecting our service accounts and rotating passwords regularly
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • The built-in reports and queries are invaluable. You simply won't have this information in a vanilla AD environment.
    • The ease that you can access the information you need about your environment is outstanding. You can access the information you need quickly so you can make better decisions on managing your business.
    • The ability to easily designate techs with limited access is great. This offloads menial administration duties from your higher level techs so your not paying high level folks to do redundant tasks.
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    ScreenShots

    ManageEngine ADManager Plus Screenshots

    Screenshot of A unified dashboard to help administrators spot, prioritize, and act in one place.Screenshot of the interface to build end-to-end automation templates with a drag-and-drop sequenceScreenshot of where to visualize attack paths across AD, trace how a single account could escalate to privileged access, and close the gaps before attackers find them.Screenshot of how to onboard new hires at scale — import a CSV, pick a container, and create users in minutes.Screenshot of some of the over 200 prebuilt AD reports that are ready to run, schedule, or export.