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SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SQL Server BI Manager
Score 7.0 out of 10
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Houston-based Idera's SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager is an IT infrastructure monitoring option.N/A
Pricing
SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Editions & Modules
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SQL Server BI Manager
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Considered Both Products
SQL Server BI Manager
Verified User
Manager
Chose SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
For our small environment, we already had Idera SQL Diagnostics manager so we felt like that would be good enough and not pay for the extra licensing. If we had a bigger BI footprint, we could certainly have had a good business case for it.
Verified User
Manager
Chose SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
SQL Server [Business Intelligence] Manager works well with Microsoft products. It has several advanced features along with dashboards and alerts that can be configured to user's need.
Verified User
Director
Chose SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
SQL servers are much easier to set up than the others but they lack the customization and integration with other popular DB.
Gedson Silva | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gedson Silva
Senior Production Engineer
Chose SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager does what SQL Server Management Studio should already do natively. So it actually fills up important gaps Microsoft left in its product.
Samir Patel, PMP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Samir Patel, PMP
SQL Development Team Lead
Chose SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
We compared SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager to our current tool Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer. Where Solarwinds was deficient, SQL BI manager filled the gap. At the end of the day they were both different tools with different purposes so we concluded it was …
Top Pros
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Features
SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
SQL Performance Monitoring
Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
7.8
4 Ratings
7% below category average
Performance dashboard8.04 Ratings
Intelligent alerting8.54 Ratings
Top SQL8.54 Ratings
Historical trend data8.03 Ratings
Virtualization support6.03 Ratings
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User Ratings
SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
Idera Software
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.
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Pros
Idera Software
  • Types of alerts
  • Dashboard view
  • Configurable Alerts
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Cons
Idera Software
  • Lacks versioning control.
  • Lacks support/native driver for alternative database.
  • Only plays well with other Microsoft products.
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Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
Idera Software
SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager does what SQL Server Management Studio should already do natively. So it actually fills up important gaps Microsoft left in its product.
Gedson Silva | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gedson Silva
Senior Production Engineer
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Return on Investment
Idera Software
  • More efficiencies throughout the BI stack
  • Less employees needed for monitoring all the BI processing
  • Proactive error handling
Samir Patel, PMP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Samir Patel, PMP
SQL Development Team Lead
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