We performed a comparison between IDERA SQL Safe Backup and OpenText Operations Bridge based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, ServiceNow, Microsoft and others in Event Monitoring."It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
"The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"The preloaded rules and ways to monitor your systems are a must."
"It allows us to build dashboards for individual parts of the business. Our team members appreciate that they can just get a view of their part of the world without having to worry about anyone else's."
"OpsBridge has good event correlation facilities and root-cause identification algorithms."
"We use the on-premises version to monitor our systems and manage emails. All our systems use Operations Bridge, especially the critical systems."
"It's a very good product overall."
"You can create an application topology that shows relationships between different components."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward. It's not complex at all."
"Flexible dashboard with the availability of widgets."
"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."
"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."
"I know that in the next version, X1005, they're moving to more graphical overviews, which should help our senior managers."
"The initial setup is a little bit complex."
"The pricing is a bit expensive for smaller companies."
"Remove the dependency of Java technology. This is a feature used for admin purposes to update the modeling."
"In a future release, we would like an improved upgrade process. When you upgrade it now, it first uninstalls everything and then reinstalls all the packages, which means any customization that you've done in the directories on the surface disappears."
"Our issues are largely support related due to where we are and the knowledge base that we have here. This issue relates both HPE in general and to the technical products."
"It is a very complicated product. It's difficult to manage. Nowadays, products are very easy to manage, deploy, and integrate, but Operations Bridge is very complicated to manage."
"pology-based event correlation does not work well with NNM events."
Earn 20 points
IDERA SQL Safe Backup is ranked 16th in Event Monitoring while OpenText Operations Bridge is ranked 8th in Event Monitoring with 44 reviews. IDERA SQL Safe Backup is rated 5.0, while OpenText Operations Bridge is rated 7.8. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Operations Bridge writes "Good event correlation capabilities, promotes a self-service approach to monitoring". IDERA SQL Safe Backup is most compared with Rubrik and IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact, whereas OpenText Operations Bridge is most compared with SCOM, OpsRamp, BMC Helix Monitor, Splunk Enterprise Security and IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus.
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