OpenText Storage Manager vs. Spotlight

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
OpenText Storage Manager
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
User and group file system management for Open Enterprise Server networks, formerly from Micro Focus and now from OpenText. It allows automated, policy-based management of OpenText™ Open Enterprise Server network file systems and user group storage. For Active Directory systems, Storage Manager is now OpenText™ File Dynamics.N/A
Spotlight
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Spotlight from Quest Software is a database performance monitoring option.N/A
Pricing
OpenText Storage ManagerSpotlight
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
OpenText Storage ManagerSpotlight
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
OpenText Storage ManagerSpotlight
Features
OpenText Storage ManagerSpotlight
SQL Performance Monitoring
Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Storage Manager
-
Ratings
Spotlight
7.7
3 Ratings
9% 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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OpenText Storage ManagerSpotlight
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User Ratings
OpenText Storage ManagerSpotlight
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(4 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
OpenText Storage ManagerSpotlight
Likelihood to Recommend
OpenText
Excellent Cloud platform that has the powerful and very stable functionalities for the easy moving of many data across the entire Cloud services and thro9ugh a very secure platform. Integration to multiple other platform on Cloud services is amazing and even the data visualization tools are the best and collection of multiple data insights across websites is amazing.
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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
OpenText
  • Nice solution for the easy incident management.
  • Secure storage of different business data.
  • The capacity offered for the data storage.
  • Data migration platform.
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Quest Software
  • Great SQL server monitoring
  • Rewind and playback of previous times
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Cons
OpenText
  • The tools on data importing from multiple storage solutions is not easy.
  • Setting the security when new to the tool.
  • Interface configuration to the learners is turf.
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Quest Software
  • My only complaint was the cost.
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Usability
OpenText
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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
OpenText
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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
OpenText
The software features are easily manipulated and amazing technical help offered and even the functions flexibility ie fantastic. The storage capacity available is incredible and the platform allows effective accessibility of any data from the system through a very secure environment that the tool provides. Storage utilization using the software is perfect and easy configuration.
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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
OpenText
  • Any user can generate reports through this software.
  • Storage of all the company data.
  • Data security on this software is good.
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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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