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SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

Overview
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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
SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
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SQL Server BI Manager
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Considered Both Products
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.
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.
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.
Gedson Silva | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
Samir Patel, PMP | TrustRadius Reviewer
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 …
Features
SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
SQL Performance Monitoring
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SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
7.8
Ratings
7% below category average
Performance dashboard8.00 Ratings
Intelligent alerting8.50 Ratings
Top SQL8.50 Ratings
Historical trend data8.00 Ratings
Virtualization support6.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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User Testimonials
SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Anonymous
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Pros
  • Shows an excellent dashboard
  • Allows easy monitoring of multiple instances
  • Created an environment that can be self healing
Samir Patel, PMP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Samir Patel, PMP
SQL Development Team Lead
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Cons
  • 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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Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
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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Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • 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.
Gedson Silva | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gedson Silva
Senior Production Engineer
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