ManageEngine ADManager Plus vs. Univention Corporate Server (UCS)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ManageEngine ADManager Plus
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
ManageEngine ADManager Plus simplifies enterprise-wide Windows Active Directory management and reporting.
$595
per year per license
Univention Corporate Server (UCS)
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Univention Corporate Server (UCS) is an open integration platform which, with Nubus, offers centralized Identity and Access Management with a web portal for easy access to applications and enables the management of heterogeneous IT domains through comprehensive Active Directory functions. - Portal with Single Sign- On - Integrated Identity and Access Management - Packaged integrations - App Center with enterprise applications - Active Directory…
$0
per installation
Pricing
ManageEngine ADManager PlusUnivention Corporate Server (UCS)
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
UCS Core Edition
$0.00
per installation
UCS Core Edition
$0.00
per installation
UCS Base Subscription
$382.00
per installation
UCS Base Subscription
$382.00
per installation
UCS Standard Subscription
$1295.00
per installation
UCS Standard Subscription
$1295.00
per installation
UCS Premium Subscription
$2250.00
per installation
UCS Premium Subscription
$2250.00
per installation
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ManageEngine ADManager PlusUnivention Corporate Server (UCS)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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.The core edition of UCS is free, but does not offer a great deal of support. There are three different subscription options (for either On-Premise- or SAAS deplyoment) which include the installation of UCS and apps, support and maintainance via phone, security updates and hotfixes, domain services and much more.
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Community Pulse
ManageEngine ADManager PlusUnivention Corporate Server (UCS)
Features
ManageEngine ADManager PlusUnivention Corporate Server (UCS)
Identity Management
Comparison of Identity Management features of Product A and Product B
ManageEngine ADManager Plus
9.0
9 Ratings
10% above category average
Univention Corporate Server (UCS)
8.2
1 Ratings
1% above category average
ID-Management Access Control9.46 Ratings8.21 Ratings
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)9.42 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Multi-Factor Authentication9.44 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Password Management8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning8.48 Ratings8.21 Ratings
ID Management Workflow Automation9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
ID Risk Management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
ManageEngine ADManager PlusUnivention Corporate Server (UCS)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.7
(9 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.7
(2 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 PlusUnivention Corporate Server (UCS)
Likelihood to Recommend
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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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Univention
Univention Corporate Server is well suited:
  1. If an Organization would like to use it as a complete Active Directory Server.
  2. If an Organization wants to deploy other applications which are important like SSO, Mail Server, 2FA etc., as with one click all these Apps will be integrated magically thus reducing the Admin job considerably.
  3. Web based management which will be quite useful for the Admins who are from Windows background only.
  4. Univention as a company which has close to 2 decades of experience.
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Pros
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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Univention
  • Complete replacement for MS Active Directory Server.
  • Univention App Center - awesome concept with which Apps can be installed for the Domain.
  • App Center can be compared to Google Play Store or Apple Play Store - Organizations can gain tremendous advantages.
  • Plethora of Apps which are both free and paid and excellent apps for the Organizations.
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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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Univention
  • As Univention is from Germany, lot of informative articles are in German but English articles are also good but less in number.
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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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Univention
No answers on this topic
Usability
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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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Univention
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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Univention
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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Univention
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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Univention
We have evaluated Zentyal and ClearOS but we found out that UCS is more suited to every Organization.
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Scalability
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
We are currently deploying on 1 department
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Univention
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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Univention
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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Univention
  • As a partner, we have gained lot of respect from our customers as UCS is rock solid.
  • UCS is truly Open Source.
  • UCS has surpassed our expectations.
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ScreenShots

Univention Corporate Server (UCS) Screenshots

Screenshot of an overview of the UCS Management ConsoleScreenshot of the UCS App Center displaying a few of the available appsScreenshot of user administration in UCSScreenshot of a view of the OpenLDAP directory in UCSScreenshot of the establishment of an Active Directory connection with UCS