SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

35 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SQL Server BI Manager	Score7 out of 10	N/A	Houston-based Idera's SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager is an IT infrastructure monitoring option.	N/A

Pricing

SQL Server BI Manager

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SQL Server BI Manager
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No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	SQL Server BI Manager
Considered Both Products	IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company) Verified User Chose SQL Server BI Manager SQL Server [Business Intelligence] Manager works well with Microsoft products. It has several advanced features along with dashboards and alerts that can be configured to user's need. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SQL Server BI Manager For our small environment, we already had Idera SQL Diagnostics manager so we felt like that would be good enough and not pay for the extra licensing. If we had a bigger BI footprint, we could certainly have had a good business case for it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SQL Server BI Manager SQL servers are much easier to set up than the others but they lack the customization and integration with other popular DB. Incentivized Helpful? Gedson Silva Senior Production Engineer in Engineering at Carrilho Engineering (Telecommunications, 11-50 employees) Chose SQL Server BI Manager 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. Incentivized Helpful? Samir Patel, PMP SQL Development Team Lead in Information Technology at Allianz Asset Management (Investment Management, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SQL Server BI Manager We compared SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager to our current tool Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer. Where Solarwinds was deficient, SQL BI manager filled the gap. At the end of the day they were both different tools with different purposes so we concluded it was … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

SQL Server BI Manager

Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Feature	SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager 7.8 4 Ratings 7% below category average
Performance dashboard	8.04 Ratings
Intelligent alerting	8.54 Ratings
Top SQL	8.54 Ratings
Historical trend data	8.03 Ratings
Virtualization support	6.03 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	SQL Server BI Manager
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	SolarWinds SQL Sentry Score9 out of 10
Enterprises	SolarWinds SQL Sentry Score9 out of 10
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User Ratings
	SQL Server BI Manager
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (5 ratings)

User Testimonials
	SQL Server BI Manager
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Pros	IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company) Types of alerts Dashboard view Configurable Alerts Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Cons	IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company) Lacks versioning control. Lacks support/native driver for alternative database. Only plays well with other Microsoft products. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized Gedson Silva Senior Production Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company) More efficiencies throughout the BI stack Less employees needed for monitoring all the BI processing Proactive error handling Incentivized Samir Patel, PMP SQL Development Team Lead Read full review
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