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IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact vs IDERA SQL Safe Backup comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact
Ranking in Event Monitoring
9th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IDERA SQL Safe Backup
Ranking in Event Monitoring
17th
Average Rating
5.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (81st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Event Monitoring category, the mindshare of IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is 2.8%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IDERA SQL Safe Backup is 0.7%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

VD
Feb 24, 2021
Supports APA through ISPF and lets us easily integrate with other apps for ticketing purposes
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. Some statistics around the products would also be nice. For example, to see how it performs. So when the bulk copy has been processed by Impact, through a kind of dashboard, it could indicate to the user: ""This many events have been process this many times, and this particular event may cause trouble. This many events are in testing, etc." Basically, I'd like more visibility into the details and particulars through Impact itself, so that we can take action on what's happening, and we can automate. For instance, we could maybe send the events to some kind of server or monitoring program, and perform automation on them.
it_user386274 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 12, 2016
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.
Idera treats a backup of a SQL Server as if it is essentially a single backup job of each individual database. You can't see any metrics about how long it took you to backup the entire server. It doesn't handle restoration to different drives very easily, and it won't create folder structures if they don't exist already. It cannot be used to implement replication on another instance without first converting files back into SQL Server .bak files. There appears to be LOTs of shortcomings. [All of these short-comings are still very much present even after 6 months of feedback to Idera. No solution is in sight.] Still has a focus on individual databases and not for entire server recoveries. Have tried adjusting max threads values, but it seems to have little affect and Idera is still researching the issue.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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 is easy to integrate with other models such as Oracle, other systems, external systems, and to reach events."
"The solution is great at being able to fetch almost any kind of file."
"The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
 

Cons

"Stability-wise, this product needs to be improved."
"IBM is not investing in the development of the on-premise version of this solution."
"The solution is somewhat complicated. It's not exactly straightforward."
"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 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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing of IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact depends on the number of nodes on the element that you are monitoring."
"The licensing is yearly, and although I'm happy with the pricing I do think it could be better."
"The product's pricing is a good value. They have a straightforward licensing model."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
31%
Computer Software Company
9%
Energy/Utilities Company
8%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
Government
13%
University
11%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact?
It is easy to integrate with other models such as Oracle, other systems, external systems, and to reach events.
What needs improvement with IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact?
IBM is not investing in the development of the on-premise version of this solution. They are only fixing bugs. Everything is now done on the new pack, Cloud Pak. Tivoli NetCool Impact was a good pr...
What is your primary use case for IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact?
The primary use case of NetCool Impact is event correlation. For example, we are able to manage all the events inside Omnibus. If we want to create an integration with a ticket, we cannot use Omnib...
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Tivoli NetCool Impact
SQL Safe Backup
 

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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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