Oracle Enterprise Manager and Toad for Oracle compete in the database management category. Oracle Enterprise Manager appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive monitoring and management capabilities, despite its complexity and higher cost.
Features: Oracle Enterprise Manager offers real-time monitoring, SQL tuning, and support for hybrid clouds. It includes SLA management and a self-service application. Toad for Oracle focuses on SQL development with robust query tuning, schema browsing, and debugging features, along with excellent integration capabilities.
Room for Improvement: Oracle Enterprise Manager requires enhancements in its user interface, scalability, and patch management. Improved installation processes and better documentation are needed. Toad for Oracle could benefit from performance improvements, enhanced logging for crashes, and better code optimization and reporting.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Enterprise Manager is primarily deployed on-premises, with cloud integration necessitating considerable deployment and management effort. Customer support receives mixed reviews. Toad for Oracle is also on-premises, praised for its usability and good technical support, yet users request a consistent support escalation process.
Pricing and ROI: Oracle Enterprise Manager can be expensive, particularly with its advanced packs, but its monitoring capabilities offer justified ROI. Toad for Oracle is similarly costly but valued for improving productivity in database development, reflecting its worth for Oracle database-reliant teams.
Oracle Enterprise Manager is an on-premises management platform that provides a comprehensive integrated solution for managing and automating your various Oracle products, including applications, databases, middleware, hardware, and engineered systems located either in your Oracle data center or in the cloud.
With the Oracle Enterprise Manager's console, you can administer multiple databases and servers, distribute software to multiple servers and clients, monitor objects and events throughout the network, and integrate with other tools.
Key Oracle Enterprise Manager Features and Products
Reviews from Real Users
Oracle Enterprise Manager stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its central management and monitoring and its reporting capabilities
Robin C., head of Oracle Exadata Centre of Excellence at Tata Consultancy Services, writes, "The database performance monitoring features are very useful and allow us to quickly zero in on DB-related issues. Exadata storage server and Infiniband switches can be viewed from the GUI in OEM which cannot be done in other tools. The ability to deploy metric extensions makes this tool extensible for our custom monitoring also."
PeerSpot users note the effectiveness of these features. A database manager at a tech services company notes, “The solution's most valuable aspect is the fact that it is embedded with the Oracle database and Oracle's engineering system, its extra data, and analytics. They have plug-ins that are very helpful. Due to the infrastructure's size, the introduction they offer is very, very useful. It helps with an overall understanding of the product. They have a very nice graphical user interface. The monitoring is good. We can capture the SQL tune from us. With Oracle Enterprise Managers, we can see the rich performance tuning.”
With Toad for Oracle, you'll reduce costs and risks by easily ensuring the health and performance of your Oracle Cloud Platform and on-premises databases. ... On the operations side, you can automate administration tasks and proactively manage your databases while embracing performance optimization and risk mitigation.
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