When we had serious trouble with the old Veritas Backup Reporter (VBR) a couple of years ago, we looked at some of the alternatives but decided against them for various reasons. the biggest reason was that none of them could integrate with or report on data any better than the standard free OpsCenter was capable.
The closest feature set to OpsCenter Analytics (OCA) was Aptare's Backup manager, but it cost the same as OpsCenter Analytics and was missing some reports on hardware that we thought should have been there.
EMC's Data Protection Advisor was missing a number of key reports and didn't appear to have been updated for a while.
The few others that I found all suffered from the same problems: key reports that we thought would be standard were not available in those packages, they did not integrate well with NetBackup, and we could not justify their cost when compare to OCA.
A note on my background with OCA: we had major, MAJOR issues with VBR and even OCA up until last year. Reported data in most reports was unreliably innaccurate, selecting certain report options would cause a report to hang VBR/OCA, forecasting lines in charts were wrong (trending down instead of up), etc. But in the past year or so, Symantec has done a much better job with OCA, and I seldom find anything glaringly wrong now. A year ago, I would have probably told people to avoid OCA, but I've changed my tune now and think it is the best option for advanced reporting on NetBackup.
