What is Backup Exec?
Backup Exec gives you simple, complete backup and recovery protection for your business—to cover all data wherever it resides.
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90 Likeliness to Recommend
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99 Plan to Renew
82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
+90 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Backup Exec?
Pros
- Respectful
- Fair
- Helps Innovate
- Trustworthy
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms
Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery
Application Awareness
Backup Automation
Deduplication Implementation
File Explorer Granular Restore
Replication for High Availability
Backup Monitoring and Reporting
Virtual Machine Backup
Backup of Cloud Based Data
Integration With Storage Arrays
Vendor Capability Ratings
Vendor Support
Business Value Created
Ease of Implementation
Quality of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Customization
Breadth of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Usability and Intuitiveness
Availability and Quality of Training
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Backup Exec Reviews
Giorgi K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2020
Great product, fantastic Technical Support Team!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Backup Exec from other similar products?
Reliable, user friendly
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Reliability, user friendly
What do you dislike most about this product?
Backup exec console laggs and works hardly all the time, if not close and re-open console sometimes it shows not correct information etc.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The product is reliable and user friendly
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
Krishnan C.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2020
Easy to use and a very good product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Backup Exec from other similar products?
ease of use and a long term well established product in themarket
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
ease of use and simplicity without much of complications in the tool
What do you dislike most about this product?
the latest version 20.x is a bit slow compared to the earlier versions
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
overall a good buy
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Shahul Hameed H.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Not for Profit
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2020
User Friendly application
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Backup Exec from other similar products?
Easily access and recover the data with zero loss
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Recovering the data
What do you dislike most about this product?
there is no dislike
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
should be use this application
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing