BizTalk360 vs. SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BizTalk360
Score 6.4 out of 10
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BizTalk360 is a Microsoft BizTalk administration tool, from Kovai.co. Users can check CPU and memory usage, start and stop Windows services, and access Event Logs with BizTalk360. Execute SQL Server queries and Stored Procedures, control SQL Server jobs, and check database sizes without leaving BizTalk360.N/A
SQL Server BI Manager
Score 7.0 out of 10
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Houston-based Idera's SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager is an IT infrastructure monitoring option.N/A
Pricing
BizTalk360SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BizTalk360SQL Server BI Manager
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
BizTalk360SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Considered Both Products
BizTalk360
Chose BizTalk360
In our company, BizTalk360 is used extensively because of its simplicity and the fact that it gives practically everything you need to accomplish routine tasks without the need for a console. Additionally, alarms save a lot of time and keep items on the radar by alerting, …
Chose BizTalk360
JBoss is well suited and supports for Open Source Applications where I used to work with BizTalk360 mainly with Windows Servers. BizTalk360 performs pretty much well with Windows. BizTalk360 really performs well with middleware.
SQL Server BI Manager
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
Features
BizTalk360SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
SQL Performance Monitoring
Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
BizTalk360
8.1
Ratings
3% below category average
SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
7.8
Ratings
7% below category average
Performance dashboard8.30 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Intelligent alerting7.90 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Top SQL8.30 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Historical trend data8.30 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Virtualization support7.90 Ratings6.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
BizTalk360SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
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User Testimonials
BizTalk360SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
In my experience, BizTalk360 was very helpful when exchanging and directing a Message to Multiple Endpoints including multiple educational platforms. I did not observe any major issues in the latency.
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BIDS works well if you're committed to using all MS products. It does take some serious consideration if you know you will end up working outside of that, such as working with AWS products.
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Pros
  • Information flows.
  • Mapping inputs and outputs.
  • Connecting various subsystems.
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  • Shows an excellent dashboard
  • Allows easy monitoring of multiple instances
  • Created an environment that can be self healing
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Cons
  • It can take some time to figure out the best way to set up notifications.
  • At times, it may seem like the dashboard is running slowly, however, this is largely down to the browser being used.
  • Because the BizTalk360 interface doesn't appear to be responsive to mobile devices, viewing it has been difficult.
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  • Training is needed to understand and use all the feature
  • Works well only with Microsoft products
  • Not enough Tutorials available
  • Features are more useful for larger organization
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Alternatives Considered
In our company, BizTalk360 is used extensively because of its simplicity and the fact that it gives practically everything you need to accomplish routine tasks without the need for a console. Additionally, alarms save a lot of time and keep items on the radar by alerting, monitoring, or a variety of other purposes.
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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.
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Return on Investment
  • It is possible to automate most of the data monitoring process.
  • As a general diagnostic tool, BizTalk360 will tell you what's wrong with your system.
  • To detect and correct problems, you don't even have to get inside the system.
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  • We've prevented several SSAS outages because of SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager's timely alerts.
  • We've greatly reduced cubes calculation times with SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager's tuning features.
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