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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM InfoSphere Information Server

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIBM InfoSphere Information Server is a data integration platform used to understand, cleanse, monitor and transform data. The offerings provide massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities.N/A

    IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASQL Diagnostic Manager for Microsoft SQL Server helps database administrators to find and fix Microsoft SQL Server performance problems in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides effective scalability, advanced SQL query analysis and optimization, prescriptive analysis with corrective SQL scripts, powerful automated alert responses, broad PowerShell integration, complete customization, and extensive support for current and legacy Microsoft SQL Server and…

    $1,996

    per instance with first year maintenance included

    Pricing
    IBM InfoSphere Information ServerIDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    Editions & Modules
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    Standard via eCommerce
    1,996.00
    per instance with first year maintenance included
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM InfoSphere Information ServerIDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    IBM InfoSphere Information ServerIDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    8.7
    4 Ratings
    4% above category average
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Connect to traditional data sources9.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL7.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    9.6
    4 Ratings
    17% above category average
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Simple transformations10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations9.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    1% above category average
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Data model creation8.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging7.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    9.7
    4 Ratings
    18% above category average
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Integration with data quality tools10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools9.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    SQL Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    -
    Ratings
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    8.0
    7 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Performance dashboard00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Intelligent alerting00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Top SQL00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Historical trend data00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Virtualization support00 Ratings5.06 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM InfoSphere Information ServerIDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM InfoSphere Information ServerIDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    Information Server is extremely useful to replace manual developments that require a lot of coding effort. It significantly increases the productivity of the initial development and the future maintenance of the processes since it has a visual development environment with self-documentation.
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    Idera, Inc.
    SQL Server [Business Intelligence] Manager is useful for tracking performance across SSIS, SSRS and SSA and have the data represented in dashboards. It helps improve performance and helps end users. However, several features are redundant for smaller organization that can use the tools that comes with existing Microsoft products. These features also takes time to learn and use.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    IBM
    • IIS best for ETL ,not ELT , and many and diffrent source systems.
    • It also can process big data , unstuctured data
    • It is not only DWH , you can use infosphere for analys and see the bigger architecture of your OLTP systems
    Incentivized
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    Idera, Inc.
    • SQLdm does a good job of providing information at a high level, but also allows me to drill down to specific queries and events if needed. I don't always need to sift through tons of details to get the information I need. It also gives a very wide range of information from SQL specific metrics, to OS metrics, to VM metrics, all the way up to host server metrics.
    • I like how the alert and notification system can be customized. For example, if you know a certain server regularly has long-running queries, you can adjust the alert to not fire unless a query has been running for 30 minutes while the rest of the servers fire after 30 seconds. That is very helpful in not being bombarded at dinner with alerts from a server similar to, "I've been at 90% cpu for 26 milliseconds!!!!!!!...and now it's back down to 30%" Good information to know, but not something you need to literally lose sleep over.
    • I like how you can configure different servers to be monitored differently. For example, you can have a group of servers called DEVELOPMENT that you can turn on heavier monitoring on so you can test how changes in applications might affect the SQL environment, but in the PRODUCTION group, you may only want to enable the heavier analysis and logging when performance issues are actively being reported.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • I would be nice to have a new web development environment for DataStage.
    • Connectivity Packs such as Pack for SAP Application are a little pricey.
    • It is confusing for new developers the possibility of developing jobs using different execution engines such as Parallel or Server.
    Incentivized
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    Idera, Inc.
    • Windows client has some issues. When you have small time intervals for your data collection, it can cause the client to become unresponsive and require you to restart it.
    • It takes more time to get the web client running than it does to get the windows client running.
    • The visualizations have been the same for the last eight years--could use a little bit of a refresh.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    • Scale of implementation
    • IBM techsupport
    Incentivized
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    Idera, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    DataStage is more robust and stable than ODI The ability to perform complex transformations or implement business rules is much more developed in DS
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    Idera, Inc.
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL, Redgate SQL, and MonitorLogicMonitor are similar products to each other. We decided on IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL because our experience with locating heavy queries has been very good and it provides real-time monitoring of all servers and databases. It also allows you to have a large volume of historical data which allows you to analyze trends in the databases.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Productivity of the development of integration processes.
    • Better documentation and governance.
    • Reduce training costs of various technologies.
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    Idera, Inc.
    • Allows us to quickly set up ETL processes as soon as we installed SQL Server.
    • There's a lot of free/paid resources available online, decreasing development time.
    • A tool with plenty of experienced developers.
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