SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)

Overall, Solar Winds Access Rights Manager (ARM) is reliable and easy to use once you figure out how to get what you want from the tool. They have both a client and web version of the tool that can be used. Each one has different functionality so just have to remember where to go to do the task you want. We are still early in our usage, but so far it seems to be working well!

I couldn't do what I was exactly expecting from this solution. And local partners in Turkiye are not experienced and knowledgeable enough. Without support from SolarWinds and videos online they can't even install software!

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.

I believe Solarwinds [Access Rights Manager (ARM)] is best designed for SMB. We looked at the leaders in Identity Access Management and were quoted big numbers and long timelines. We needed to have something up a running in a couple months without breaking the bank. This fit the bill and met most of the audit requests.

Great for automation and the API, where you can integrate it with other products.
Self service is great via the web interface, but it lacks the ability to differentiate between departmental folders, if they are set at different levels - Visibility is set to the same level, so if your organization has a different folder structure for a department, then it won't work properly.

it does the job well but could be cheaper... maybe a licensing based on usage could make more sense.

The main benefit we found was with user account creation. Previously this was a much longer process as the account would have to be added to security groups manually, or information regarding job titles, managers, etc would all need to be entered manually. Now with ARM, we have set up templates for all our new users. This means we've cut down on the user account creation time as the templates pre-populate all the correct information specific to that user account.

SolarWinds [Access Rights Manager] (ARM) is well suited to our environment as we still have unstructured data and we are actively working on a project to tighten up access to data. It works very well as an AD management tool which we want to expand the use of. It is a very good tool, but it is constantly breaking on us and it takes ages to get it resolved.

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager is ideal for companies using Active Directory. It allows you to manage all employees' permissions from one location. Besides that, it is also great for cybersecurity experts to visualize all the permissions within the company, to audit them and make sure no one has too many permissions. Considering the scope of the applications, it would be most-suited for medium to large companies.

Auditing of ad permissions, exchange permissions, simple provisions of end user accounts and mangement if users as they move from department to department within the company.

Best suited: It is best suited for companies who don't want to worry too much about access rights. The initial workload may be huge, based on the current rights situation in your company, but after setting everything up the time to change or review permissions has dropped drastically. Not suited: If you want to specify permissions on a Folder and have them overwritten each time someone makes a change, ARM is not the product for you.

Perfect for a Microsoft AD environment.

It's well suited to do what we purchased it to do. It is filling a very specific need at a fraction of the cost of our prior solution.

If you have a large user base then this is a great tool and companion if you own other SolarWinds products, with the holy grail of a single pane of glass. It's quite young in its life, so we can expect a lot more from SolarWinds in the future in terms of development. If you have a small organization, then a lighter weight tool is probably better suited.