Cayosoft Administrator vs ManageEngine AD360

Cayosoft Administrator gives IT teams a unified console for managing Active Directory, Entra ID, and Microsoft 365 across hybrid environments. Workflows and runbooks automate identity provisioning and deprovisioning, group management, license assignment, and policy enforcement. Delegation controls include role-based and attribute-based access, virtual OUs, and policy controls intended to enforce least privilege. Microsoft 365 license tools cover assignment and reclamation, profiles, quotas, and delegated administration. Group governance includes dynamic membership rules, delegated ownership, self-service workflows, certification, and attestation. The control plane also manages Exchange, Teams, and Intune. Cayosoft describes deployments for on-premises, cloud-only, hybrid, multi-domain, and multi-forest environments, and lists Okta integrated SSO and HR integrations; connection account documentation covers Workday. The product includes auditing, reporting, password self-service, and detection for credential theft, privilege abuse, and directory attacks, plus automated response. A trial is available, with no duration listed. Pricing requires a quote; subscriptions are available for 12, 36, or 72 months.

ManageEngine AD360 is an identity and access management suite for administering Windows Active Directory, Exchange Server and Microsoft 365 through a single web-based console. Its components cover identity lifecycle tasks, password self-service, authentication, auditing, Microsoft 365 management and backup. ADManager Plus automates user lifecycle workflows and reporting; ADSelfService Plus provides password tools, single sign-on, multifactor authentication and adaptive, risk-based conditional access. ADAudit Plus tracks policy changes, logins, lockouts and potential insider threats. M365 Manager Plus reports on and monitors Microsoft 365 services, while Recovery Manager Plus backs up and restores Active Directory, Azure AD, Office 365 and Exchange environments. AD360 includes audit reports mapped to SOX, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, FISMA and GLBA requirements. The suite supports hybrid deployment and delegated administration, and is listed for web and Windows. Its download is a fully functional 64-bit Windows executable with technical support during a 60-day trial. There is no free plan. Listed component plans are priced on request, with coverage depending on the component.