ManageEngine ADManager Plus vs. NordLayer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ManageEngine ADManager Plus
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
ManageEngine ADManager Plus simplifies enterprise-wide Windows Active Directory management and reporting.
$595
per year per license
NordLayer
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
NordLayer provides cybersecurity tools for businesses of any size or work model developed by the standard of NordVPN. NordLayer helps organizations secure networks and enhance internet security and modernizes network and resource access with technical improvements aligning with the best regulatory compliance standards. Helping organizations to adopt FWaaS, ZTNA, and SWG principles, NordLayer is focused on the Security Service Edge of cybersecurity services.…
$8
per month if Yearly plan per user
Pricing
ManageEngine ADManager PlusNordLayer
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
Lite
$8
per month if Yearly plan per user
Core
$11
per month if Yearly plan per user
Premium
$14
per month if Yearly plan per user
Custom
x
per month if Yearly plan per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ManageEngine ADManager PlusNordLayer
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
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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ManageEngine ADManager PlusNordLayer
Top Pros
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Features
ManageEngine ADManager PlusNordLayer
Identity Management
Comparison of Identity Management features of Product A and Product B
ManageEngine ADManager Plus
8.7
8 Ratings
7% above category average
NordLayer
-
Ratings
ID-Management Access Control9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Factor Authentication9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Password Management8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
ID Management Workflow Automation9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
ID Risk Management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
ManageEngine ADManager PlusNordLayer
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(8 ratings)
8.8
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ManageEngine ADManager PlusNordLayer
Likelihood to Recommend
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
ManageEngine ADManager Plus is doing good in lot of areas and making things easy for admins that take care of Ad related works. It is helping us to create users in bulk rather than following one by one step in active directory. Apart from the user creation, we can modify users in bulk without going to one by one in their profile. We can manage user account from here like account update, some modification, password related issues, and mailbox update. This tool is good but it has some drawbacks like we have 2 domains in our company but we cannot edit or modify users for both domains in a single attempt. We cannot change in password settings for both domains in single selection.
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Nord Security
NordLayer has become an invaluable resource for our security posture and day-to-day activity. The primary use case is preventing staff members from accessing sensitive resources on an unencrypted connection, applying NordLayer and conditional access policies in congruency. The ability to create teams and assigned them to specific dedicated servers is also helpful and allows for further security segmentation
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Pros
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
  • 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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Nord Security
  • Easy to use
  • Simple user interface desgin
  • Support many VPN protocol
  • Fast and reliable connection
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Cons
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
  • The standard version is useless for a larger company. Most have the Professional level to get the most out of the application but it is worth the cost.
  • Needs better integration with Office 365 and Microsoft Teams.
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Nord Security
  • The browser plugin needs some work, or some research about what browser/OS restrictions may limit its functionality. Ours does not work at all even after contacting support so we do not use it
  • Toast/Windows notifications scheduled or deployed through admin center would be amazing. The ability to remind a user who has been disconnected for X hours would be a great feature
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Nord Security
No answers on this topic
Usability
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
Without training, I have been able to create reports that I need and get the information I am looking for
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Nord Security
No answers on this topic
Performance
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
Yes, it loads very quickly and moving between pages is very fast
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Nord Security
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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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Nord Security
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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 have become more proficient with scripting it is rare that I use ADManager except to create users using one of the templates we created. The standardization you get with the templates is really great, it could also be done using an XML file and PowerShell, but why fix what isn't broken?
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Nord Security
easy configuration and use case
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Scalability
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
We are currently deploying on 1 department
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Nord Security
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
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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Nord Security
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
  • The software is licensed per tech, the pricing is pretty solid.
  • Helpdesk tickets feel dramatically when we started using templates to create users
  • Helps to keep the network secure by knowing which old user accounts to delete
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Nord Security
  • Improved sercurity
  • Incresed productivity
  • Performance impact
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