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Klipfolio vs ManageEngine ADManager Plus
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Klipfolio and ManageEngine ADManager Plus — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Klipfolio vs ManageEngine ADManager Plus: at a glance
What is Klipfolio?
Dashboard analytics in slow maintenance, with admin controls the only moving part
The recent record is thin and heavily duplicated — each change appears two or three times, once with a mangled title carrying the body text. What actually shipped: a custom-role permission letting admins delegate viewer management, MFA device memory with an admin-enforced requirement, and API key access. The newest item is dated March.
What is ManageEngine ADManager Plus?
ADManager Plus opened to third-party identity apps in January, then shipped six months of fixes.
Six builds since late January, and five are almost entirely defect work: scheduled reports failing to send as email content, mobile app logins on iOS and Android, CPU spikes after upgrade, a broken Log360 SOAR integration, M365 automation-policy tasks failing, and a JRE bump to 11.86.19. The exceptions are Build 8036, which added Security group type to the M365 Modify Single Group action, and Build 8034, which introduced Marketplace Extensions so administrators can install third-party application extensions and manage identities in those applications from inside ADManager Plus.
Klipfolio vs ManageEngine ADManager Plus: editorial side-by-side
Klipfolio
0.0ANALYTICS
Dashboard analytics in slow maintenance, with admin controls the only moving part
◆ Current state
The recent record is thin and heavily duplicated — each change appears two or three times, once with a mangled title carrying the body text. What actually shipped: a custom-role permission letting admins delegate viewer management, MFA device memory with an admin-enforced requirement, and API key access. The newest item is dated March.
◆ Where it's heading
Development is concentrated on account administration rather than the analytics surface. Delegating viewer management and enforcing MFA are the concerns of a product whose growth comes from agencies and self-managed client accounts, where the buyer administers many downstream users. No dashboard, data-source or visualization work appears in the window at all.
◆ Prediction
The entries show four months without a release and no product-surface work, so there is nothing here to support a confident prediction about what ships next.
ManageEngine ADManager Plus
2.5ANALYTICS
ADManager Plus opened to third-party identity apps in January, then shipped six months of fixes.
◆ Current state
Six builds since late January, and five are almost entirely defect work: scheduled reports failing to send as email content, mobile app logins on iOS and Android, CPU spikes after upgrade, a broken Log360 SOAR integration, M365 automation-policy tasks failing, and a JRE bump to 11.86.19. The exceptions are Build 8036, which added Security group type to the M365 Modify Single Group action, and Build 8034, which introduced Marketplace Extensions so administrators can install third-party application extensions and manage identities in those applications from inside ADManager Plus.
◆ Where it's heading
The extensibility move is the only structural change in the window, and nothing has built on it since. What follows is a maintenance train — roughly one build every six to eight weeks, carrying fix roll-ups and one security patch — which reads as a mature on-premises product prioritising stability for existing installs over new surface.
◆ Prediction
On this cadence the next build is most likely another fix roll-up. Whether Marketplace Extensions gets a second act is not answerable from these entries.
Alternatives to Klipfolio and ManageEngine ADManager Plus
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Klipfolio or ManageEngine ADManager Plus.
Holistics
A BI tool extending analytics-as-code to charts while smoothing the point-and-click path
Basedash
An AI BI tool turning itself into an API other products can build analytics on
Umami
Umami spent late 2025 patching Next.js CVEs, then shipped Boards and Session Replay in v3.1.0.
VictoriaMetrics
Five of six VictoriaMetrics entries are scraped GitHub page furniture; one is a real LTS patch.
Sigma Computing
Sigma is moving data modeling out of its own UI and into the terminal.
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Recent activity from Klipfolio and ManageEngine ADManager Plus
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 25d agoManageEngine ADManager PlusBuild 8043: report email, mobile login and CPU spike fixes
- 3mo agoManageEngine ADManager PlusBuild 8042: Log360 integration, M365 automation and security fixes
- 4mo agoKlipfolioNew permission for custom roles
- 4mo agoManageEngine ADManager PlusBuilds 8040-8041: JRE 11.86.19 upgrade and GUI fixes
- 5mo agoKlipfolioNew permission for custom roles
- 5mo agoKlipfolioDuplicate record of the custom-role permission
- 5mo agoManageEngine ADManager PlusBuild 8036: Security group support in M365 group modification
- 6mo agoManageEngine ADManager PlusBuild 8035: %empty% macro and report-basis regression fixes
- 6mo agoManageEngine ADManager PlusBuild 8034: Marketplace Extensions manage third-party app identities ⚡
- 7mo agoKlipfolioEnhanced security
- 7mo agoKlipfolioDuplicate record of the MFA change
- 7mo agoKlipfolioNew and improved billing system
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Klipfolio and ManageEngine ADManager Plus?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. ManageEngine ADManager Plus is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Klipfolio better than ManageEngine ADManager Plus?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. ManageEngine ADManager Plus is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Klipfolio?
Top Klipfolio alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Klipfolio alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/klipfolio for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to ManageEngine ADManager Plus?
Top ManageEngine ADManager Plus alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ManageEngine ADManager Plus alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/manageengine-admanager-plus for the full list with editorial commentary on each.