--- title: Quest Software Reviews meta_title: 'Quest Software Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 13 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Quest Software works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 13 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-09-22' parent_category: name: Content Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/content-management --- # Quest Software Reviews **Vendor:** Quest Software **Category:** [File Migration Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/file-migration) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 **AI Enabled:** This product embeds AI to enhance or extend its core functionality. ## About Quest Software Quest Software creates technology and solutions that build the foundation for enterprise AI. Focused on data management and governance, cybersecurity and platform modernization, Quest helps organizations address their most pressing challenges and make the promise of AI a reality.  Around the globe, more than 45,000 companies including over 90% of the Fortune 500 count on Quest Software.  ## Quest Software Reviews ### 1. Spotlight On SQL Server **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2025 **What do you like best about Quest Software?** I liked how the dashboard had a tile look with red tiles when issues were identified. Green tiles showed that things were working well on certain servers. Another great thing was the support I would receive when I called in an issue. **What do you dislike about Quest Software?** The only downside I didn't like about Quest Software is how they changed the licensing model when we tried to renew our support service contract. **What problems is Quest Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** We don't use Quest Software in our current shop anymore. ### 2. Efficient, clearly designed and easy to navigate. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** whitney c. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Quest Software?** QuestSoft is kept up to date with the latest regulations so that you receive errors in your data. I really like the ease of use and simplicity of the software. Scrubbing HMDA data could not be any clearer. **What do you dislike about Quest Software?** I do not like that QuestSoft doesn't recognize that some data points are not required for business loans. When you mark the loan as a business loan, you will still get errors if not including income, etc. **What problems is Quest Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** QuestSoft is helping with complete and accurate HMDA data. This is making scrubbing data more efficient and assuring I am reporting correct data to CFPB. This is also assisting with timing of decisioning loans. ### 3. Good app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karan A. | Senior Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2022 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about Quest Software?** Seamless and easily understandable. Hassle-free. Less time consuming. Always available. **What do you dislike about Quest Software?** Takes more time to open. Sometimes not able to connect. **What problems is Quest Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Migration of servers. Backing up of data. ### 4. Great Company to work with **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Troy S. | Director of Education Technology, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Quest Software?** Quest is a fun and professional group to work with. They take their work seriously but know how to break down and enjoy themselves. I own three of their products and get great service with all of them **What do you dislike about Quest Software?** Perhaps the only thing I dislike is the locations they choose for user meet ups. They always seem to be in busy parts of town and always when I have other duties to take care of. **Recommendations to others considering Quest Software:** Even when I do need support the team is right there to get things solved. They are quick to respond and get the issue solved. They are also good listeners to the needs of their customers. **What problems is Quest Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quest is helping my organization with several things, but it can all be boiled down into one idea. The support of workers no matter their location. The tools accomplish this in fine fashion. ### 5. Quest Softwares **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vanessa T. | Windows Server Administrator Consultant, Consulting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Quest Software?** I like quest software that is easy to use and manage; it makes other software obsolete. **What do you dislike about Quest Software?** This software is one of the most expensive on the market, so it makes it difficult to sell. **Recommendations to others considering Quest Software:** When you try to buy quest software, think of the benefits you will have in the long term, because you will save time for your company and your employees using these products. **What problems is Quest Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing databases because we can exploit all of the characteristics with one software or a combination of softwares. ### 6. Quest Software- Helps focus more on innovation and less on administration **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Quest Software?** The most helpful thing about Quest Software is that it helps concentrate more on innovation and less on administration. Quest Software simplifies our tedious tasks by assisting us with cloud management, data empowerment, and access management. **What do you dislike about Quest Software?** I did not dislike any feature of Quest Software; thus, I cannot comment on the downsides. **What problems is Quest Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problems I can resolve with Quest Software are as follows; -Protection against security threats -Focus more on optimizing cloud environment and less on monitoring The benefits I have realized is saving time on administration ### 7. Quest migrator **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Quest Software?** Best software products for automate your business need based on your organization requirements and Can customized **What do you dislike about Quest Software?** Nothing as such, I found quest is doing good as per demand **What problems is Quest Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are working in cloud automation with quest, we used migratory to move data from. Legacy system to cloud ### 8. Love Archive Manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen T. | Systems Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Quest Software?** I like doing business with Quest--the software is dependable and solid, their support is accurate, responsive and the followup excellent. Their a good company to do business with (plus we also use TOAD) **What do you dislike about Quest Software?** There isn't much to dislike, other than a bug in the version 5.3 of the software causing our older attachments to not show properly. However, once patched, everything was back to normal. **Recommendations to others considering Quest Software:** Don't skimp on your hardware--give it the horsepower to do the job you're asking it to do! We're running it on a dual-processor 2U server with 12TB of internal storage and 32GB of RAM--and it will use it! We like it on a physical box in lieu of virtual mostly because of maintenance and the ability to keep it separate from our Exchange server. The only thing I'd like to see is maybe a more robust relationship with a DB vendor. **What problems is Quest Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Archive Manager to archive our Exchange server and attachments. Because we're a public institution, we have long retention times for our email archives--and Quest Archive Manager has done a great job fulfilling those requirements. ### 9. Simple to use, elegant design, stellar customer service! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tim P. | Systems Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Quest Software?** Quest software is incredibly powerful and offers a wide variety of tools for large databases! Also, when I had a question their customer service team quickly resolved it for me! **What do you dislike about Quest Software?** The user interface is a little challenging at first, but gets easier with practice and training. **What problems is Quest Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have large databases that need to be manually manipulated on a daily basis. This software helps us modify the data and presents it cleanly instead of “wall-of-text” jargon. ### 10. Monitoring at its best **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Quest Software?** The Quest Spotlight for SQL Server product provides excellent visualization of how data is flowing through systems and alerts when thresholds have been exceeded. It is completely user-friendly and requires little to no setup to get going. **What do you dislike about Quest Software?** All products have their less-strong features. Spotlight's replication monitoring is a little lacking in robustness. However, this shortcoming is more then made up for in other areas. **Recommendations to others considering Quest Software:** I would recommend try the trials of their software. You will like it and thus feel more comfortable about your eventual purchase. **What problems is Quest Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to leverage Quest's software products to increase efficiency in our SQL Server operations ### 11. Repository is out of disk space. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2018 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about Quest Software?** To the fact that it is easy to use and it's flexible with regards to the backup procedure whether it is for onsite or offsite really works smoothly. **What do you dislike about Quest Software?** What I don't like is that sometimes tech support takes for a while to call back while the issue still fresh in my mind and needs immediate attention. **Recommendations to others considering Quest Software:** Easy to use and flexible. **What problems is Quest Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Retention and repository issue ### 12. On A Quest **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Judiciary | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Quest Software?** I love the easy to navigate system that Quest KBox service provides. **What do you dislike about Quest Software?** I dislike the updates that tend to break systems and constantly needing patches. **What problems is Quest Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use case for Help Desk ticketing, Inventory, Asset Management, Knowledge Base and Management. ### 13. Can't beat this service! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Quest Software?** It's an amazing piece of software that gives us an excellent work order and deployment system. **What do you dislike about Quest Software?** I literally have no complaints about this service. **What problems is Quest Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're able to manage our school districts computers in regards to work orders and deployments. ## Quest Software Discussions - [What is Quest Suite?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-quest-suite) - [How many customers does Quest Software have?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-many-customers-does-quest-software-have) - [Is Quest Software owned by Dell?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-quest-software-owned-by-dell) - [View Quest Software pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/quest-software/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-09-23+00%3A01%3A58+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=6dc8de2f-1809-44f0-ab8f-31168c13dcc3&secure%5Btoken%5D=07237c620da2b3ab779b49b50783279472e7a934f643fa5cfb54cd8d0827b1cc&format=llm_user) ## Quest Software Features **Additional Functionality** - Records Management - Performance Metrics - Calendar Management - Document Management - Workflow Management - Self Service Portal - Fee Management - Inspection Management - Violation Tracking - Reporting & Statistics - Weed Abatement Control - Activity Dashboard - Real-Time Notifications - GIS Integration - Forms Management - Code Maintenance - Employee Management - Generative AI - Monitoring - Third-Party Integrations - Land Planning - Planning & Zoning - Customizable Forms - Case Management - Status Tracking - Alerts/Notifications - Mobile Alerts - Approval Process Control - Task Management - Contact Management - Fixed Asset Management - Customizable Reports - AI Copilot - Photo Management - Client Portal - Compliance Management - Fund Accounting - Animal Licensing - Accounting - Utility Billing - Payroll Management - Maintenance Scheduling - Land Asset Management - Reporting/Analytics - For Municipal Offices - Data Import/Export - License Issuance - Service Request Management - Billing & Invoicing - Financial Management - Performance Management - Geographic Maps - Role-Based Permissions - Taxation & Assessment - Communication Management - Resource Management - Contract/License Management - Inventory Management - Code Enforcement - Job Costing - Asset Tracking - Property Database - Customer Database - HR Management - Document Storage - Mobile Access - Real-Time Updates - Collaboration Tools - API - Work Order Management - Parking Management - SMS Messaging - Permit Issuance - Online Applications - Online Payments - Deadline Management - Customer Portal - Parking Permits - Risk Assessment - Business License - Expiry Notifications - Incident Management - Renewal Management - Contractor Management - Audit Trail - For Government - Real-Time Reporting - Certification Management - Automated Routing - Scheduling - Building Permits - Electronic Signature - Document Review ## Top Quest Software Alternatives - [ShareGate](https://www.g2.com/products/sharegate/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (191 reviews) - [MigrationWiz](https://www.g2.com/products/migrationwiz/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (276 reviews) - [Cloudiway](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudiway/reviews) - 4.9/5.0 (253 reviews)