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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HPE Intelligent Management Center

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AHPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC), formerly known as HP Network Management Center, is a network performance monitoring option, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.

    $1,710.07

    one-time fee 50‑node License E‑LTU

    Spotlight

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASpotlight from Quest Software is a database performance monitoring option.N/A
    Pricing
    HPE Intelligent Management CenterSpotlight
    Editions & Modules
    Basic Edition
    $1,710.07
    one-time fee 50‑node License E‑LTU
    Enterprise Edition
    $5,884.04
    one-time fee 50‑node License E‑LTU
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HPE Intelligent Management CenterSpotlight
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsMonthly pricing available through HPE financing options.—
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    Community Pulse
    HPE Intelligent Management CenterSpotlight
    Considered Both Products
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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    Quest Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    HPE Intelligent Management CenterSpotlight
    SQL Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of HPE Intelligent Management Center and Spotlight
    Feature
    HPE Intelligent Management Center
    -
    Ratings
    Spotlight
    7.7
    3 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Performance dashboard00 Ratings8.83 Ratings
    Intelligent alerting00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Top SQL00 Ratings6.62 Ratings
    Historical trend data00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Virtualization support00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
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    HPE Intelligent Management CenterSpotlight
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Cisco ACI
    Score8.5 out of 10
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco ACI
    Score8.5 out of 10
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HPE Intelligent Management CenterSpotlight
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HPE Intelligent Management CenterSpotlight
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Its very good and easy to do custom polling by importing MIB files where we had challenges to do out of box monitoring. Integration is easy.
    Incentivized
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    Quest Software
    Spotlight’s ability to consolidate data from various entities and provide insightful reports is highly beneficial. It streamlines financial reporting, allowing professionals to focus on advisory services and strategic decision-making.Small businesses, nonprofits, and organizations that need regular board packs or executive summaries find Spotlight useful. Less Appropriate: Certain industries (e.g., specialized manufacturing, healthcare, or research) have unique reporting needs. Spotlight’s generic templates may not cover all industry-specific metrics or compliance requirements.
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    Pros
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Multivendor flexibility.
    • Topology map features.
    • Backup configurations.
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    Quest Software
    • Great SQL server monitoring
    • Rewind and playback of previous times
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    Cons
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Visibility of both LAN and WiFi network components.
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    Quest Software
    • My only complaint was the cost.
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    Usability
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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    Quest Software
    the platform offers a clean, easy to use interface. You can customize reports and dashboard. Integration is also pretty good, you can integrate to Xero, QBO and MYOB and excel spreadsheets. It also offers very broad supporting documents and webinars. There are only two downside of Spotlight; learning curve (it could be a bit difficult at the beginning to learn the system) and price point (For small businesses, Spotlight Reporting can be seen as relatively expensive compared to other reporting tools)
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    Support Rating
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    They are fast responding when you create a support case. But they also have a forum (community) where you can find knowledge-base information that is very useful.
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    Quest Software
    I've never had to contact support, as of yet I have had no issues or problems with the tool. This is after 5 years of use.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Cause of the great gui and easy management can be customized to your liking. The awesome topology maps you can make easy to change make it your own design. Great support. Don't need a large database to run. Can handle multiple users at once with ease. Overall a great product recommend to anyone
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    Quest Software
    I think Dell is better with its dashboard and ease of use, but SQL Sentry is better at customization. We used Spotlight at my previous company, and SQLSentry at my current company.
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    Return on Investment
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Easy to implement
    • Easy to configure
    • Overall good monitoring tool
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    Quest Software
    • Spotlight is reasonably inexpensive, and any one of the multiple things we use it for more than justifies the cost.
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