IDERA SQL Inventory Manager vs. SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

IDERA SQL Inventory Manager

SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IDERA SQL Inventory Manager	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	SQL Inventory Manager helps database administrators to manage Microsoft SQL Server inventory and assets in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides automatic discovery of Microsoft SQL Server instances, databases, and analysis services in the network, protection against back level versions and missing security patches, confirmation that instance growth meets license commitments, quick display of server details to determine license cost, monitor instance…	$2,556 for 10 instances with first year maintenance included
SQL Server BI Manager	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	Houston-based Idera's SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager is an IT infrastructure monitoring option.	N/A

Pricing

IDERA SQL Inventory Manager

SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

Editions & Modules

Standard via eCommerce: 2,556.00
for 10 instances with first year maintenance included

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IDERA SQL Inventory Manager	SQL Server BI Manager
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	IDERA SQL Inventory Manager	SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Considered Both Products	IDERA SQL Inventory Manager No answer on this topic	SQL Server BI Manager Verified User Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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 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 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?

Features

IDERA SQL Inventory Manager

SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

SQL Performance Monitoring

Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	IDERA SQL Inventory Manager - Ratings	SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager 7.8 Ratings 7% below category average
Performance dashboard	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Intelligent alerting	00 Ratings	8.50 Ratings
Top SQL	00 Ratings	8.50 Ratings
Historical trend data	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Virtualization support	00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings

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	IDERA SQL Inventory Manager	SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
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User Ratings
	IDERA SQL Inventory Manager	SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IDERA SQL Inventory Manager	SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	Shows an excellent dashboard Allows easy monitoring of multiple instances Created an environment that can be self healing Incentivized Samir Patel, PMP SQL Development Team Lead Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Gedson Silva Senior Production Engineer Read full review
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