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"Improved monitoring and performance management.""​It helps us to reduce hardware costs and to optimize processing times.​""It takes advantage of new features of DB2.""The most important features are batch reporting and the ability to create repositories, enabling automated analysis. These are valuable because they enable me to do automated analysis of trends over time and reduce the time for comparing performance between two periods to identify anomalies.""​It is very stable. We have had no issues."

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"It speeds up the performance in terms of how fast you are able to access the data, look at it, get it reported to you, and send it to somebody. It also reduces the amount of storage.""SAP is renovating different things. We are using external tools to connect as of now. It is going well, and now the new generation integration platforms are going to be pretty easy.""We can customize any workflow and we also like the business domain modeling that can be done.""SAP Replication Server is an application that I consider to be a robust system. It has proven to be highly reliable in my experience."

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"They need to provide a way to create and maintain performance repositories. The online tool is not perfect, but it is giving me what I need.""Minor stability issues.""All the information we need, we could use to have it in a more usable format.​"

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"The private solution is expensive. If you're in a situation where you're paying IBM or AWS or somebody just to host you specifically, you're paying people to run it and you're taking care of all the upgrades.""Improvement is a never ending story, and HANA is doing some improvements. We are able to adopt that, and we have to do it by integration with HANA. They are very major changes that we need to see.""There is room for improvement in terms of pricing and faster support.""I would like to see it become mobile-friendly."

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  • "It's a very expensive solution."
  • "You can pick one of the hosted cloud services as opposed to owning it and doing it yourself. Your cost of ownership on the hardware, the data storage, and the maintenance all go down. It depends on what service you use."
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    Top Answer:SAP Replication Server is an application that I consider to be a robust system. It has proven to be highly reliable in my experience.
    Top Answer:The reason why there has been a move toward cloud services and service as a software is because it's so much easier. There are fewer databases, and the cost is lower to have it hosted. You can pick… more »
    Top Answer:The price could be cheaper. There is room for improvement in terms of pricing and faster support.
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    CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS
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    Overview
    Database Management for DB2 for z/OS solutions from CA Technologies provide a set of tools designed to ensure optimal database and SQL performance, efficient administration, and reliable backup and recovery of DB2 databases, systems and apps.

    Information and data-driven insight is what powers business today. But to get the most from your enterprise data, you need a way to bring transactional, streaming, social media, and other data together – regardless of its format and whether it’s structured or unstructured – and be able to analyze it. The challenge is moving, replicating, and centralizing a wide variety of data efficiently, cost-effectively, and quickly enough to meet business demands for active insight. SAP® Replication Server® can help. SAP Replication Server enables the continuous movement of mission-critical application data.

    Sample Customers
    Blue Hill Data Services
    Medtronic, Cirque du Soleil, Antarc, B&G Manufacturing, EarlySense, eBay, Ferrero, James Austin Company, Lenovo, Sagem, RAK Ceramics, Vodafone
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    Financial Services Firm44%
    Insurance Company33%
    Local Government22%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Real Estate/Law Firm6%
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    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is ranked 29th in Database Development and Management while SAP Replication Server is ranked 15th in Database Development and Management with 6 reviews. CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is rated 8.8, while SAP Replication Server is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS writes "The most useful feature is the ability to create strategies across the products". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Replication Server writes "Eliminates replication and allows you to use only one database, speeding up performance and reducing amount of storage". CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is most compared with CA IDMS and CA Datacom, whereas SAP Replication Server is most compared with Qlik Replicate, Oracle GoldenGate, Fivetran, SSIS and SAP Data Services.

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