JumpCloud:TCO of Active Directory

Historically, IT organizations haven’t focused on the TCO (total cost of ownership) of Active Directory®.
Why would they when it was required and the only game in town? OpenLDAP was hardly an alternative to Active Directory, so it really boiled down to a cost of doing business. Since AD was necessary, it really didn’t matter what it cost. Interestingly, when organizations did take a look at the costs of Active Directory and the ROI around it, they would really only focus on the manpower cost savings against manually managing user access.

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