F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) vs. ManageEngine Access Manager Plus

I think that the platform is well suited to many Remote Access VPN solutions, but I also think there is a lot of room for improvement on the backend. If you are hoping to deploy your APM solution across many different datacenters or colos, it may not be the best choice for the final solution.

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ManageEngine Access Manager Plus is ideal where you have numerous external contractors who need privileged temporary access to secure systems, it is also ideal for the elevation of privileges of internal users. Access can be controlled very precisely and sessions can be recorded and access can be revoked at any time.

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• SAML 2.0 identity federation support.
• Integrates with third-party SSO solutions.
• Bridging modern authentication and authorization (SAML, OAuth/OIDC) and classic authentication and authorization methods.
• Policy routing

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• Remote Access Control
• Multi Factor Authentication
• Screen Sharing

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• CCU Licenses are limited by device and are not shared between APM devices
• User sessions are not stored globally, so persistence can be an issue with users all over the world
• Configuration can get complicated when split up between multiple sites

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• Initial setup is not straight forward and could do with some simplification.
• Could do with a specific dashboard for each remote office.
• An easier way to share filters between users and menus would be useful.

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It is open platform so support is not good and than F5 and features visibility as not good as F5. F5 Set up and easy to use to admin console. Also have more feature visibility for load balancing, web server accelerator, application server ddos protection and WAF. F5 more efficient to handle concurrent request.

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• This is really a tough question and I believe F5 should look into the price tags of these products which would help the SMB segments to use this product.
• As for our industry and the kind of business the ROI is a bit high.

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• Setup time for external users is greatly reduced.
• Increased Security due the the reduction of password exposure.
• Improved user productivity due to more effective management.

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