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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Woodler SMT

    Score8.9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    SQL Server Monitoring & Performance Tuning tool designed by in-the-field performance tuners for administrators, developers, and tuners Data-driven root cause analysis ideal for root cause analysis (RCA) Interpretation of collected data with advanced descriptions and sharing options. Offers a high-level overview and deep internal metrics allowing the resolution of the toughest challenges. Recommended to use it during the deep-dive tuning…N/A

    SQL Server BI Manager

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AHouston-based Idera's SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager is an IT infrastructure monitoring option.N/A
    Pricing
    Woodler SMTSQL Server BI Manager
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Woodler SMTSQL Server BI Manager
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsThere are two options- partner license and tuning license, where there are minimum service length limits. For a tuning version there is 1 manday to be used as a free consultancy per month. The price of tunining license is approx. 840 USD (700 Euro)/month. The minimum service length is 3 month for Woodler tuning licence and 12 month for partner license. Partner license has the monitoring tool and other consultancy is done as an payable option. The price of partners license is 305 USD aprox. ( 250 eur)/month. One manday for free is included in the package. There is a discount for more servers: from 11 license to 20 there is unit price aprox. 240 USD (200 eur) /month and one manday free consultancy is included in the package. For more then 20 partners license the price is 180 USD (150 eur)/Month per license. In the price of more then 20 partners license there is 2 manday free consultancy included in the price.—
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    Features
    Woodler SMTSQL Server BI Manager
    SQL Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of Woodler SMT and SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
    Feature
    Woodler SMT
    8.6
    4 Ratings
    3% above category average
    SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
    7.8
    4 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Performance dashboard8.74 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Intelligent alerting7.73 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Top SQL8.74 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Historical trend data8.94 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Virtualization support9.12 Ratings6.03 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Woodler SMTSQL Server BI Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    Woodler SMTSQL Server BI Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Woodler s.r.o.
    Woodler SMT is intended to be [a] specialized SQL Server monitoring tool. Unlike other monitoring systems, Woodler SMT does not take care [of] networks, AD, and other stuff along [with] company infrastructures. As for me, at least, this makes the Woodler SMT very strong in its area of expertise. If anybody is looking for [professional,] specialized SQL performance monitoring, the Woodler SMT would be the best choice. For general monitoring, this tool rather will not help.
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    IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
    SQL Server [Business Intelligence] Manager is useful for tracking performance across SSIS, SSRS and SSA and have the data represented in dashboards. It helps improve performance and helps end users. However, several features are redundant for smaller organization that can use the tools that comes with existing Microsoft products. These features also takes time to learn and use.
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    Pros
    Woodler s.r.o.
    • It contains all the diagnostics information that you need for optimization of queries, deep analysis of SQL server state, and much more
    • Regular deployment of a new versions with minor fixes but mainly with the new features.
    • It helps to make operational decisions, how to improve the performance and also expansion of the whole environment.
    • Buying this also contains excellent service from the Woodler support.
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    IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
    • Types of alerts
    • Dashboard view
    • Configurable Alerts
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    Cons
    Woodler s.r.o.
    • Sysadmin access to your system.
    • Consumes disk capacity on monitored server to store all the data.
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    IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
    • Lacks versioning control.
    • Lacks support/native driver for alternative database.
    • Only plays well with other Microsoft products.
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    Woodler s.r.o.
    We like Woodler SMT because we can benefit from Woodler Support team to connect to our servers and help us with different issues.
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    IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
    SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager does what SQL Server Management Studio should already do natively. So it actually fills up important gaps Microsoft left in its product.
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    Return on Investment
    Woodler s.r.o.
    • It saves the time of troubleshooting
    • It increases user's satisfaction with products relaying on SQL Server's performance
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    IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
    • More efficiencies throughout the BI stack
    • Less employees needed for monitoring all the BI processing
    • Proactive error handling
    Incentivized
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