We performed a comparison between BMC Helix Monitor and IDERA SQL Safe Backup based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Event Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The service operations monitoring features are valuable."
"It is evolving more and more into artificial intelligence."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that BMC Helix Monitor is an agentless tool, because of which you don't need to deploy agents on each and every system in your IT environment."
"The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
"The initial setup of the solution is complex."
"The solution's GUI and some patching-related information are areas with shortcomings where enhancements are needed, though I believe they are areas that fall under BMC's roadmap for the future."
"The product must provide more information and dashboards."
"The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection."
"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."
"I would like to see the pieces that they have put in the web only to be put into the thick client sitting on the desktop client."
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BMC Helix Monitor is ranked 6th in Event Monitoring with 3 reviews while IDERA SQL Safe Backup is ranked 16th in Event Monitoring. BMC Helix Monitor is rated 9.6, while IDERA SQL Safe Backup is rated 5.0. The top reviewer of BMC Helix Monitor writes "The product is a top-rated monitoring tool, but it needs to improve its pricing and ease of use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IDERA SQL Safe Backup writes "You can't see any metrics about how long it took you to backup the entire server. We've had a huge reduction in the nightly backup footprint size". BMC Helix Monitor is most compared with BMC TrueSight Operations Management, OpsRamp, ServiceNow IT Operations Management and OpenText Operations Bridge, whereas IDERA SQL Safe Backup is most compared with Rubrik and IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact. See our BMC Helix Monitor vs. IDERA SQL Safe Backup report.
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