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    Quest Migration Manager & Migrator

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AQuest offers Migration Manager, replacing Dell's former ChangeBASE migration software, a suite of application tools supporting Microsoft application and legacy system migration. Migration Manager editions currently support Office 365, Active Directory & Exchange migration.N/A

    SharePlex

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASharePlex from Quest Software is a data replication software offering near real-time replication and supporting a wide variety of databases.N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Quest Migration Manager & MigratorSharePlex
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
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    10.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    10.0
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    Usability
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    User Testimonials
    Quest Migration Manager & MigratorSharePlex
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Quest Software
    Dell ChangeBASE is well suited in migrating an OS to a new version, or 32/64-bit. It's also helpful when virtualizating workstations into Thin Clients for use with Citrix or other thin provisioning services.
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    Quest Software
    SharePlex really shines when set alongside GoldenGate. The licensing costs of the two products would appear to place them in entirely different ballparks yet they perform nearly identically in practice. SharePlex is suitable for heterogenous replication of one database to another. The list of targets is ever increasing, with support for all major RDBMS vendors as well as support for popular NoSQL and JSON replication. SharePlex is effective when replicating from on-premise to cloud. Whether that's migrating data, creating a high-availability presence in a public or private cloud, or populating a data mart, it does the job quite well.
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    Pros
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    • OS Patch Testing - We further used this to test Microsoft's Patch Tuesday releases before we put them in production.
    • Web Dashboard - The latest version added a fully customization dashboard with widgets to give you an at-a-glance view.
    • Application comparability - We used this to test our Windows XP to Windows 7 migration.
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    • SharePlex is highly configurable and versatile. It can handle virtually any kind of data replication needs.
    • SharePlex is very robust. Its message queuing mechanism provides fast data transfer from the source to the target.
    • SharePlex software is very stable and mature, and it is highly scalable and reliable.
    • SharePlex support is exceptionally good. We are very satisfied with its support engineers.
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    Cons
    Quest Software
    • Initial setup can be tricky - We needed to contact support for some help.
    • Prior to the latest version, there wasn't an easy way to view all of our results. The new dashboard has rectified this.
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    Quest Software
    • When first introduced the Change Data Capture process was awkward. Each subsequent release has improved the process.
    • Sometimes the Shareplex monitoring service in Foglight gets overly aggressive in sending out error notifications and can end up spamming the admins with email alerts for one problem. We have had to tone that down.
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    Quest Software
    We depend on it to supply data to our various OLTP and Data Warehouse environments
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    Usability
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    It is very usable once you get over the initial setup.
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    Quest Software
    Support is very responsive. They take ownership of the problems and see them through to the finish. When a bug is found they work towards developing testing and making the fix available to us to solve the problem.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Quest Software
    Dell ChangeBASE is more costly when compared to Admin Studio, I believe the price was almost double. However, Admin Studio did not provide a comfortable level of support and we felt we were in better hands with Dell's patching schedule. Admin Studio wasn't able to answer our question on when they released software updates and how complex an upgrade would be.
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    Quest Software
    SharePlex support is an award-winning team, which is available for 24 hours, and any time they have solutions with perfect expertise. Besides, SharePlex has supported data migration, with multiple reporting features that ensure there are comprehensive database evaluations. The simplicity of SharePlex installation also gives it a higher mark, is very efficient, and allows companies to understand it easily.
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    Return on Investment
    Quest Software
    • ROI was seen after 10 months of use.
    • Greatly sped up the application testing process by several weeks, and allowed our existing development team to continue working on other projects.
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    Quest Software
    • Postive: easy to replicate data for non-prod use
    • Negative: we spent a lot time due to data out of sync
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