Oracle Enterprise Manager Reviews

The most valuable feature is that it is web-based. That helps us to get access from any location without being dependent on your personal laptop. You can access it from any laptop, any iPad or even iPhone; kind of everywhere.

Access to the data; you can access it anywhere. That helps us to get the information readily. That improves productivity as well.

Some of the new features it could give us: maybe access to some of the taxation data and also some of the other benefits it could include as part of the system. That would be useful.

My experience with the stability has been very good. I have not seen any issues. I use it for my own purposes, in a limited way, but I haven't come across any instability or not being able to access the data; it being down or anything like that.

We’re using it for around 15,000 employees, and it is meeting our requirements. I’m not sure how much it can go up to, but at least 15-20,000, I have not seen any problem.

I haven’t used technical support.

They wanted something that was available everywhere instead of being available only on a particular laptop or PC. That was one of the reasons for it: easy accessibility.

The first reason we chose Oracle was the feature set; it was really comprehensive. Plus, it met most of our immediate needs. That kind of led us to pick Oracle.

When I’m looking at a vendor like Oracle, the most important factors are stability, scalability, and of course, the price. All three of them definitely help to make a decision.

Initial setup was really simple: just go to the website, register, and you’re good to go.

If you are looking for a solution that is accessible, because of the global nature of the workforce, I think this is a good solution.

From the features perspective, I see there's still more that could be done, as I have mentioned.

It's a standardized GUI tool, which is very good and pluggable with automatic connection to an Oracle database, in comparison with any other GUI tools available in the market. Other than that, if you see if you want to share the backups, or if you want to do any monitoring stuff, to customize your monitoring, and if you want to do the blackout. If you are doing any amendments, you can do a blackout.

If you want to monitor the regular site without doing any scripting or anything, you just need to plug in both databases, and then it's easy to maintain. It's one tool to maintain all the databases in one place without doing much customization, and it's easy to manage.

People used to say I develop my own scripts, or colleagues used to develop their own scripts. If you want to change, if you are doing an upgrade, or if you are going to migrate your database, for example, from Linux to Solaris (REAX), then we need to change all this coding, right, to support that. I want to write my own code, and he wants to write his own code. Everybody out there wants standards to write the code. Then when you do migrate all these things, we need to do so much hard work to make it actually work. If you use OEM as a standardized tool, then it's easy to manage, and you don't need to do all this hard work, which it makes easy.

If you see the documentation, it's not really that much good. They did not explain all the details, so maybe they need to improve the documentation to get a better understanding, so that most of the people can use it.

Stability is good, but I can see only very small performance issues. When the system is very busy and I click a report, sometimes takes a little bit more time than I expected. If you fix those performance issues and best practices, I think it's an awesome tool.

I was able to scale with multiple margins: small, medium, large, and extra large. We can pick those according to your organization’s size.

Technical support is always good. The only thing we need is to create a right severity, and talk to the right folks, actually. Then problems will be resolved.

I checked the BMC Patrol and Quest products also, to monitor the databases. I feel like among all these, that OEM is the best tool compared to any other.

I feel that it's a good tool. The only thing is that you need to read the documentation before starting anything. As you mentioned about the size, you need to know how may databases you want to monitor in the company, and pick the right size.

It monitors our database environment, which is very critical for our environment.

We are going to minimize the downtime. If the system is down, it will page us; and we're going to get to that issue. Its a very added advantage. It also tells us when the system is running slow; if some people are experiencing performance issues, we can see that. It's a very useful graphical user interface for the management to understand.

We want to see some of the official licensed products, the other core components that come inside so plug-ins are made easy for us.

They've got to integrate more into the network inside. They've got to integrate more depth and provide a solutions for that. The storage system monitoring is really a little basic. They just give the symptoms, not the solutions. That's the bad thing.

The stability is good. So far, it's running perfect, so there are no complaints about it.

I think this product doesn't have to scale much because it just monitors the database. We're keeping about one year's worth of work. We can scale according to the storage.

We were using hand grown scripts as our previous solution. This has a nice GUI interface, and all that, and that's the reason we went with this.

We didn't consider much because we didn't have any competitor for that here. We do have another product called Ignite. We were using it, and we used it also linked with this one; but they were home grown scripts we had.

It's a simple straightforward tool to install. We did it 6 years ago, and we keep upgrading the work instructions. It's perfectly fine.

There is online documentation. He has to go look around and see what he can get, and then implement it if he wants to.

Performance diagnostics. That is the best.

It allows me to receive real-time alerting notifications when somebody's doing something that is detrimental in the environment. I can get right on issues and correct them as quickly as possible.

It's a pretty well-rounded product. Nothing really comes to mind right now.

Very stable, extremely stable.

The ability to scale is excellent.

Outstanding.

We weren't using anything previously. The decision was just made to go with this one because I was familiar with it, and it's a pretty solid stable product from Oracle.

The setup was moderate, but the documentation and everything that exists is really invaluable.

In choosing a vendor our most important criteria are affected by the fact that we work for the Children's Hospital Research Institute. They're a non-profit so budgets are always tight. Cost would be the primary factor, and vendors being willing to negotiate, for non-profit companies, on the prices.

Be sure that you have the people with the skill sets to be able to use the tool, or be willing to invest in the training to learn how to use the tool.

It's a more mature stable product.

Monitoring of the database is the most valuable feature, because we want to know what's going on there.

It is timely, if you want to add some memory or whatever. That's seems to be timely.

I don’t think the response system is that good. It is too slow.

It's pretty stable.

Scaling requires a little more configuration work.

I have not had to use technical support.

Initial setup is pretty straightforward.

We don't integrate it with anything else. It runs as a standalone piece.

The monitoring product is getting better every year, but it still needs some work.

It provides a graphical interface and easy management. It's not very cumbersome. The new versions of Oracle, 12c and 13c, have user-friendly graphical interfaces, compared to older versions, where it was very cluttered. You could not figure out where to go at all.

They have developed a cloud version, but the Oracle data is very limited; not very large scale data. It's mostly for process data and structure data. I would like to see something along the lines of big data in combination with RDBMS; that would be good.

I have been using it for a very long time.

It has been stable up until now; no downtime.

I don't think it is that scalable. We are using multiple nodes, and we have faced issues there, with the scaling.

At times, technical support is very good; at times, it's very bad. It just depends on who you get on a particular day.

Response time is good; someone gets back to you quickly.

Setup is good; really easy.

If someone came to me and asked my opinion, I would recommend this product.

The most valuable feature is the user-friendly GUI. With OEM, we can see the monitoring tools for the host or database.

We use it every day. For any performance issue, we jump into OEM and then we use it. We monitor the database to help us deal with the issue.

There as some monitoring tools, such as GoldenGate, that would be great if they could put them in OEM.

Right now, whatever we have is enough, but for additional features we want GoldenGate.

We have been using Oracle for a long time.

We do have other technologies.

It's stable.

We are moving to a data center right now. It was in one data center and we are moving it to another data center, where we have our other data business, and it has scaled well.

Technical support is good; very good. They were efficient.

Initial setup and upgrades were straightforward. We have upgraded from 10 to 11 and from 11 to 12.

It's a very flexible, straightforward installation. It's user friendly, usable day by day and we can see the database monitoring, host monitoring, everything.

When I’m looking at a vendor such as Oracle, I look for good tech support, reliability, and stability.

• Enterprise Manager 12c comes with an out-of-box self-service application that lets end-users deploy a wide range of these services. End users can choose to manage and monitor all applications along with databases and platforms/OS, all in an on-demand fashion. For each request, they can specify the amount of underlying resources (CPU, memory, etc.) that they require for each component. • Enterprise Manager automatically provisions the requested service and the appropriate resources. The self-service application also lets users define policies to scale out or scale back resources based on schedule or performance metrics. For example, one can set a policy to elastically scale out a web server if the processor load on existing web servers exceeds a certain threshold value. • It allows management of sophisticated Oracle applications, like Oracle E-Business, Siebel, and PeopleSoft, aiding in many administrative activities of these apps, like real user monitoring of any web application.• Enterprise Manager 12c has the ability to define contractual Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that govern the contract between the application owner and the provider of the Cloud. Administrators, as well as users, can also define management policies that automatically adjust the service resources, to ensure that SLAs are met.• Enterprise Manager enables the application for the end-user via a self-service interface, both in graphical (GUI) .

The only con is that we may need to install patches provided by Oracle from time to time for its upgrades or bug fixes. This is an activity that occurs quite frequently.

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, is a transformational technology that comes with a set of comprehensive features and great practices, that help IT transform into a true enterprise Cloud that delivers on business needs. It offers a single integrated console for testing, deploying, operating, monitoring, diagnosing, and troubleshooting, today’s complex and wide IT environments. It offers a simple scalable solution for running Oracle applications. It enables you to manage everything in your datacenter, from the hypervisor to the operating system, database, and application tier. I have used this technology for quite a long time and found that Oracle Enterprise Manager is the industry’s first solution that has the ability model, not only infrastructure as- a-service (IaaS), but also platform-as-a-service and database-as-a-service Clouds, from a single console. The extent of usage of Oracle Enterprise Manager depends upon nature & the size of the organization and management’s concerns. However, Oracle Enterprise Manager provides a full board of controlling & monitoring as per your needs.