Altova DatabaseSpy vs. OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB

Altova DatabaseSpy is well suited for dynamic environments that move quickly and have a need to develop and run small to medium-size ad-hoc queries quickly and easily. The tool is intuitive and relatively easy to learn and come up to speed. The tool may not be best suited for large and very large, and complex queries.

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Micro Focus Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB is well suited for medium to large IT operations after a careful review and strategy definition of all support tools that will be integrated. When it comes to deciding on a set of tools for IT operation management and its different processes like Incident, event, and change management; a good approach would be to create a roadmap with the integrated suite of tools to create a native ecosystem and reduce complexity on the integration and adoption.

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• High performing system regardless of how many DBs are integrated
• Graphical DB design editor is useful for bird's eye view of the DB structure of the whole infrastructure
• Single point of reference / administration

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• Management and organization of Configuration Items
• Ensures a single and uniform source of database to avoid any ambiguity between departments.
• Proper delivery of services

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• Improved SQL query debugging capabilities
• Ability to nest queries
• Does not integrate with other DB administration tools or query tools

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• When getting started the Cloud deployment may be not that easy.
• To manipulate the system deeply requires a professional operator.
• Working on large data project.

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Old versions which do not support CMS have a luck of user experience and performance for reports and service modeling.

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Some complex issues regarding performance and platform upgrades have been difficult to address and have short time solutions.

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Upgrades from old versions were really hard to handle.

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For me, this is basically like mRemoteNG for databases. I mentioned this so people can have a general idea on one of its feature.

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Quite competing products but short learning curve and fitment in our IT Landscape were main differentiators.

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• Enabled us to continue to provide excellent customer support with a smaller team
• Lower cost helped us balance our budget
• Reduced the need for spending extra funds on training

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• ensured proper service delivery which helped organizations to grow
• It was a little expensive for the company.
• Mainly had a positive impact especially in the cases of risk assessment and analysis.

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