Microsoft SQL Server vs Germain UX Comparison

Great features like Reporting Services, Business Intelligence, a lot of data types, including handling JSON objects, etc., is a complete set of features for personal and commercial solutions.

Management studio UX is not great, it feels limited compared with other DBMS software, that handle the administration better.

I love how easy to grasp the UI/UX of the software, and anyone can learn it after a few sessions of use.

I do not like the fact that there are not many features to connect SQL with other softwares within SQL window itself.

I admire Microsoft's ability to create software that is user friendly and easy to navigate for people that are less familiar or new to things. I am just learning SQL and being able to do it in MS SQL Server was very helpful for me. The interface was simple and did not confuse me with too many widgets that I did not need.

While I enjoyed the simplicity of the user interface I would have appreciated larger GUIs and a more attractive color scheme. These are superficial but are important to UX.

Germainapm is a complete tool that an IT of every organization really needed. It will help IT infrastructure both front and back to run smoothly and to prevent breakdown. Using this software is a huge advantage, it will save employee time and company profit. The software interface and functionality are well detailed. What I like most in GermainAPM are the complete data sources for both hardware and software. The ability to analyze user experience and business processes is amazing.

The wizard in deploying new task like monitoring is a little bit confusing for a new user, however still it can be learn easily.

Thanks for your review Alexandre. We are working on enhancing the ux of our config wizards so a non-it person can easily use them. We are looking at having this ready by end of 2020. thanks again

The software is awesome in design with best features included in it. It provides better tool experience and navigation performance. The features vary from user to management perspective and software requirement to software maintenance. The best thing in this software is that it supports multiple platforms from Software Development (.Net, Java and more) to Database Management (MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle and more). It also provides Business' dilemma from hiring to quality assurance. Highly recommended APM so far.

The software is a bit complex that is the reason that one will require time to get attached to it.

Thank you for your review :)

Gemain's best capability is its correlation from the users' desktops through the application, database, and infrastructure. For end users in a web app, JavaScript insights are especially detailed, and its alerting integration via email and web hooks are flexible enough to work within our enterprise. One particularly nice feature is being able to search first by field type (e.g., "Host Name") or even by a specific value. Typing in a specific value (user login, server name, SQL ID) runs a query across all searchable fields. This capability is especially helpful when the user does not know the exact field name but has a value ready. All matching fields with that value appear in a dropdown for selection.

The user interface is somewhat outdated relative to competing products; Germain APM is nearing release of a refactored UI.

Thank you so much Jason. Our new UI is ready and we can't wait for your organization to use it! :) and thank you for your amazing support :)

I like it could be used for any kind of Industry. It's really important. I can pull data from a lot of different resources and monitor them which is just perfect! And this list of resources is impressive. I also do really love this platform could build realtime Dashboards. Moreover, I can create custom Dashboards and set up custom Alerts.

It would be great to have a bit more data sources like iOS Application/iOS Device (iPhone/iPad) by analogy with Android Application/Android Device, ElasticSearch, some Flat Files, PostgreSQL, possibility to pull data from some API, Cloudera, MongoDB, Spark SQL.

Thanks so much!

- A great platform for the health check of the network. Network latency, network bandwidth, memory usage, cpu usage, server availibility and more features are available. - User friendly platform for application management, server management, database management and the network management. The germain APM software helps greatly in monitoring KPIs as well as SLAs - Easy to walk through the options available on the APM screen and gives us full visibility for different widgets. Also, great easy to understand the documentation available for the end-user.

- One feature that I did not like is the presentation mode. Once, we activate the presentation mode and we hover the mouse on the screen, it keeps saying "Click anywhere to exit the presentation mode".

Thanks for this feedback. We are going to update the presentation mode so that nothing shows up above it while it is on. User will have to click anywhere on the screen to stop it, which is what you would expect. feel to reach out to us info@germainapm.com and share more feedback :)

According to my experience, Germain APM covers a large number of operations which helps developers, administrators, and others to get very clear analytics of their application including easy to understand graphs and statistics. It saves a lot of extra time and money also by providing application monitoring service which is far easy to use and follow. What I like is it's GUI and statistics which represent almost everything about application performance.

I would say about it's pricing as it's quite good for companies but for individual developers, it could be a bit costly.

Thank you Rahul. Our entry level price is $29/month, giving all the features and upto 1 million metrics analysis or transaction execution per DAY, for developers or individual contributors.

I like the simple UI user interface which is intuitive and straightforward. There is only 3 questions before you get to access your cloud, so the setup process is very fast.

However, the process to setup a new server is not very intuitive. Specifically, for environment and type there is a placeholder text saying 'select or create' but there are no selection options available and it is not clear how to create.

thanks for your feedback Feliks. We are working on enhancing our UI and setting up a new server is part of it. We will have something ready by cob this year.

Flexibility in configuring the KPI indicators helps in discovering user/app/server behaviour and the contents across the channels.Automation of the components like Scripts,Clicks, Alerts would be highly effective in proactive monitoring or making the events and logs easily accessible by the operations team.Modality of Dashboard, folders management and its ability of search using several filters are remarkable.

Performance is found slow in my environment and seems to be worked a bit more on UI parts (for example to modify the filter in search),separation by different colors or fonts would have been preferred.

Thanks for your review Sovita.

I liked the ability to view activities in real time, as well as the video mode of user actions on the site. I also liked the ability to integrate the service directly into Microsoft IIS

The time bar is not fully visible when viewing a user's session. Also it is not clear which Angular is supported.

Hi Ivan, thanks. Please not that the time bar issue has now been fixed.

The menu and the free-text search provide quickness and an ease of access for every part of the application you may be searching on the go. There's an extensive support for monitoring all sorts of applications, from databases and servers, to mobile devices, web development frameworks and many more. Automation features also offer a lot of useful features, such as launching scripts in a scheduled period and for specified software/hardware targets. Some other interesting features include writing detailed sql reports , connecting over SSH or/and HTTP for sending/receiving data over the cloud .

One downside of this apm is that some interface sections are not as simple or intuitive for the user's experience. For example, the fact that the add/manage button repeats on every wizard instance in the monitoring section , makes the section a bit cluttered to navigate through.

Thank you so much Menios. We are working on enhancing our UI to make it more intuitive! :) thanks again

Germain offers great services, the UI is very well designed, clean, and lightweight, allowing you to set up your environment in a straightforward manner. The insights you get are amazing, allowing you to discover flaws that you have and can represent a potential risk in the future that maybe we haven't put attention to it. There is an unusual but tremendous powerful service which is to schedule ssh or SQL scripts from the UI! Forget about cronjobs where you don't have clear visibility of what, and when is running from here you can easily have a wider overview of what's running.

As consideration some flows in the UI could be improved, for example when you are creating an ssh session you might have two kinds of the login: username and password, or with a username with its private key, currently you can do that but displaying on "advance" options and filling a larger form where you have to assume using the key will have higher priority over username and password.

thank you!

Application Performance Management has come a long way since client server profilers and now is fully integrated into cloud enabled services. The Gartner APM magic quadrant recognizes the few participants in the varied landscape, Germain being a prime candidate to pose a significant threat and market leaders in the days ahead. Germain is simply a cost effective, transparent, and effective solution for the enterprise to profile their service delivery performance while having no significant strain on resources, this is achieved by the remote sensing and logging of Germain APM and automation.

The dashboard interface could use some better themes however, the core features and services simply exceed expectation.

Thanks. Gartner magic quadrant doesnt let small players come in, even if the tech is stronger than they vendors they list..a shame!

Signup process is very convenient even for newbies. Germain APM is one of the best tools available online to monitor real time user experience of your website. Pros: User Interface: User interface is really interactive and user doesn't have to navigate to any other web page in order to fully explore the options. The website is cross functional and it works incredibly well in almost all the browsers. Its very easy to manage the dashboard as per your business needs. Functionality: Germain APM monitors worst user experience by monitoring website malfunctions including expensive SQL Query, Application slowness while triggering specific chunk of code and any back-end application process. This helps organizations to improve user experiences with reduced response time.

The only con is that customer support is somewhat slow because of US and European timezone.

thanks Ali! :) you can also use germainAPM to monitor Business Processes and Technology uptime and performance! and we are growing and building a support team closer to your timezone! stay tune! :)

The app looks quite competitive on the market because of huge choice of tools it can be integrated with. Automatically trace every step to root cause and solve the most complex problems in seconds - is a great opportunity for different engineers like DevOps, developer and qa. The other very practicable thing is to manage issues and use alerting rules to be notified immediately. All of positive reasons...

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While I was navigating this app I faced with two thing I was confused by. The first one is when I tried to connect my phone with desktop app I found that my desktop account was not accepted to login mobile app. Another one is when I tried to connect app to my HTML app, was required to download external js script to my server and paste in header. This donloading was blocked by anti-virus as malware. Probably you could offer just to paste in header a link to your clod script instead of downloading. Anyway I got more pleasant impressions then negative ones from researching your app.

Thanks Andrey. our mobile app is only to monitor the mobile device and native mobile app performance. however we dont offer (yet) a mobile app to visualize the metrics that can be visualized when you log on to our app on the cloud. and we will provide copy/paste for the header js content as an alternative to downloading the whole js

1. germain APM is able to control the level of monitoring we wish to perform, from the whole echo system to just a few components. It has an ability to either proactively/ re-actively set monitoring options, which is very much customizable and well suited for various customer requirements. 2. The documentation of various components provided, from the dashboard, agents or JS script help us in the ease...

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1. I wish the documentation for all the tools can be better organized, and also training and tutorials can be created on youTube or any other video streaming platform for the benefit of all users. 2. Some of the links do not seem to be working: My Cloud Setting > Goal > Access Your Cloud (To Monitor, Analyze, Automate) https://undefined/germainapm/workspace/auth?sessionid=dmlrcmFtLmNwQGdtYWlsLmNvbTpQV0FTMDVOTldJ

Thank you. We were not expecting that much growth in a such a short time period..we have since enhanced our cloud infrastructure so you don't experience this issue any longer, sorry for the inconvenience and thanks again for you review! :)

Germain APM is a SaaS solution that provides real-time monitoring, analytics, insights and process improvement in almost every digital environment. The benefits of Germain APM can be multifold and I’ll list some of its useful features: - You can define multiple KPI-s, and for each KPI - several different SLA-s (Service Level Agreements). Each SLA can have its own threshold (filter/condition) that will...

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On the other side – the initial introduction of the software in real time environment can be time-consuming and will ask for technology experts – either Germain experts, or on-site employees.

Thanks Zoran!