A list of advantages of using third-party tools :
* Third party tools provide faster backups and restore.
* They provide flexible backup and recovery options.
* They provide secure backups with encryption.
* They provide the enterprise view of your backup and recovery environment.
* Easily identify optimal backup settings.
* Visibility into the transaction log and transaction log backups.
* Timeline view of backup history and schedules.
* Recover individual database objects.
* Encapsulate a complete database restore into a single file to speed up restore time.
* When we need to improve upon the functionality that SQL Server offers natively.
* Save time, better information or notification.
* Third party tools can put the backups in a single compressed file to reduce the space and time.
