IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact vs IDERA SQL Safe Backup comparison

IBM and IDERA are both solutions in the Event Monitoring category. IBM is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.0, while IDERA is ranked #18. IBM holds a 3.1% mindshare in EM, compared to IDERA’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 33% of IDERA users who would recommend it.

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact

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33% willing to recommend

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact and IDERA SQL Safe Backup are products in different IT categories. IBM is more tailored for network management, whereas IDERA is designed for database backup solutions. IBM shows an advantage in handling complex network infrastructures, while IDERA is preferred for its data backup and recovery capabilities.

Features: IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact offers automation for network event management, reduces operational costs by streamlining incident processes, and enhances performance in complex infrastructures. IDERA SQL Safe Backup provides robust data encryption, compresses data to save storage space, and offers scheduling features for SQL server environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact requires complex deployment reflecting its extensive network capabilities, often needing a skilled setup team. Customer service may need familiarization with IT service management. IDERA SQL Safe Backup is easier to deploy and manage, providing optimal database backup solutions with responsive customer support, catering well to smaller IT teams.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact involves higher initial costs due to its network monitoring features, with balanced ROI from enhanced network performance. IDERA SQL Safe Backup offers a more economic setup suited for SQL environments, facilitating quick ROI with efficient backup and recovery solutions. While IBM is a worthy investment for network-oriented enterprises, IDERA is attractive to cost-conscious database managers.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact

Ranking in Event Monitoring

9th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IDERA SQL Safe Backup

Ranking in Event Monitoring

18th

Average Rating

5.0

Reviews Sentiment

4.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (85th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Event Monitoring category, the mindshare of IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is 3.1%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IDERA SQL Safe Backup is 0.2%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Hennie Du Toit

Principal Specialist Architecture and Governance at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Event management strengthens with automation but needs better event flooding handling

Better handling of event flooding in IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact would be beneficial. If there are massive issues with power, for example, and we get millions of events, then it struggles to deal with that. Better root cause correlation and faster processing for IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact would be helpful. If there can be more end-to-end functionality, such as observability tools built in natively, that would be great. With correlation, IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact has many functions, but we've built them custom-built. Functions such as automated logging, automated dispatching, and automated notification of engineers could be native in the tool.

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SeniorDB3550

Senior DBA Lead at a government with 10,001+ employees

It has reduced our backup time, however backups do get skipped

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. They moved a lot of the features to their web-based version of it. Because of the large number of databases that we have along with our backup, their web product can't handle it. So, we can't use it. So, we are missing out on a lot of the new features. The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection. Unless you can remember day-to-day that you may have something deselected or selected, your view may be different than you expect, and there is no visual indication of it.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The stability has been very good for IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact, rated around eight or nine."

"The solution is great at being able to fetch almost any kind of file."

"It is easy to integrate with other models such as Oracle, other systems, external systems, and to reach events."

"The most valuable feature that comes with Netcool/Impact is the ISPF APA support. It is inherent to Netcool/Impact, so I can use the ISPF of any other product, which I can invoke and consume through Impact, and do integrations, which is great. I run the Netcool desktop application so I can integrate with other applications in the ticketing system. It's a great ability being able to invoke ISPF and integrate."

"This product allows us to make use of open-source products, including running Java code."

"It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."

"The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."

Cons

"Better handling of event flooding in IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact would be beneficial. If there are massive issues with power, for example, and we get millions of events, then it struggles to deal with that."

"For improvement, I'd say the dashboard and the overall GUI could use some work. Although, I don't think that there's much improvement that Netcool really needs to achieve in this area, because when we're talking GUI, Impact is able to integrate with any third-party system and it comes with ISPF APA. It's more beneficial than Netcool/OMNIbus in this respect, and it's quite easy to handle."

"The solution is somewhat complicated. It's not exactly straightforward."

"IBM is not investing in the development of the on-premise version of this solution."

"Stability-wise, this product needs to be improved."

"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."

"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."

"The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing is yearly, and although I'm happy with the pricing I do think it could be better."

"Licensing of IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact depends on the number of nodes on the element that you are monitoring."

"The product's pricing is a good value. They have a straightforward licensing model."

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact?

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What is your primary use case for IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact?

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is our event management tool, specifically the umbrella fault management tool set. All of our events across the network correlate the data for us, and we have certain use ...

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What advice do you have for others considering IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact?

We remain a partner with IBM Tivoli and continue using their products. We use IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact's AIOps functionality. We experienced some skills issues, but currently receive assistance fr...

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Also Known As

Tivoli NetCool Impact

SQL Safe Backup

Overview

IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact is an enterprise and network management software that automates the support of business-critical functions. The software helps to enrich events with business context, provides an integrated view of data from multiple sources in context and enables custom automations.

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SQL Safe Backup helps database administrators to back up and recover instantly across SQL Servers. Unlike its competition, it provides virtual databases with access to back up files without consuming disk space, instant restore, centralized management across SQL Servers, and alert notifications for success and failure of operations.

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Sample Customers

Claranet, Consolidated Communications, Telus, €sterreichische Bundesbahnen (€BB), Telekom Srbija, Bendigo Community Telco, Capgemini, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB)

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