Woodler SMT vs. SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

Woodler SMT

SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Woodler SMT	Score 8.9 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	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

Woodler SMT

SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Woodler SMT	SQL Server BI Manager
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

There 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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Community Pulse
	Woodler SMT	SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Considered Both Products	Woodler SMT Martin Mervart IT Data Manager Chose Woodler SMT Used years ago for just specific tasks, no more experience. It is not needed when you have SMT. Incentivized Helpful? Michal Kubica MS SQL Server / Data Platform Consultant Chose Woodler SMT Woodler SMT has been developed to provide a very deep focus on SQL Server performance tuning and troubleshooting. Incentivized Helpful? JT John Tecu IT Operations Project Manager Chose Woodler SMT We like Woodler SMT because we can benefit from Woodler Support team to connect to our servers and help us with different issues. Incentivized Helpful? Vladimír Mužný Owner, Developer Chose Woodler SMT Even if Solarwinds's solution is [a] highly competitive, worldwide known product while Woodler SMT was developed by [a] small local company, both provide very comparable output for DBAs. I did not make an experience with "living human" support from Solarwinds, but in my … Incentivized Helpful?	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

Woodler SMT

SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

SQL Performance Monitoring

Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	Woodler SMT 8.6 Ratings 3% above category average	SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager 7.8 Ratings 7% below category average
Performance dashboard	8.70 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Intelligent alerting	7.70 Ratings	8.50 Ratings
Top SQL	8.70 Ratings	8.50 Ratings
Historical trend data	8.90 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Virtualization support	9.10 Ratings	6.00 Ratings

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	Woodler SMT	SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
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Medium-sized Companies	LogicMonitor Score 8.4 out of 10	LogicMonitor Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprises	LogicMonitor Score 8.4 out of 10	LogicMonitor Score 8.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Woodler SMT	SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Woodler SMT	SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Likelihood to Recommend	If you want to find the root cause of any incident of your SQL server, this is the right tool. It is not so [appealing] for the top management, if they want see the KPI's and charts. Martin Mervart IT Data Manager Read full review	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	SQL Server monitoring SQL Server performance tuning SQL Server root cause analysis Assistance from SQL professionals JT John Tecu IT Operations Project Manager Read full review	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	Too [much] information for [inexperienced] users (but this is [a] very common issue with SQL Server and its monitoring) Vladimír Mužný Owner, Developer Read full review	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	Even if Solarwinds's solution is [a] highly competitive, worldwide known product while Woodler SMT was developed by [a] small local company, both provide very comparable output for DBAs. I did not make an experience with "living human" support from Solarwinds, but in my opinion, the Woodler's personal support makes the advantage when the choice between both products [has] to be done. Vladimír Mužný Owner, Developer Read full review	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	Quick reactions on problems. SQL performance problems root cause analysis. Increased DBAs productivity in daily operations. Time saver Michal Kubica MS SQL Server / Data Platform Consultant Read full review	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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