Oracle Enterprise Manager Reviews

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.

We use Oracle Enterprise Manager primarily for database management, with a focus on performance monitoring. 

Our environments are composed of both standalone and cluster databases which, in turn, are deployed in Oracle appliances like ODA and Exadata, as well as others hardware vendors.

In addition, we use the tool to create, configure and manage high-availability environments using Oracle Data Guard and Real Application Clusters, automation of manual activities and patching.

With Enterprise Manager, we have achieved a dramatic decrease in the number of database incidents. As a result, unplanned downtime has been reduced because we are resolving issues before the business is even aware of them.

The product has powerful features for diagnosis of database issues, complemented with tuning capabilities for most of the issues found.

With ASH Analytics, ADDM, Real-Time SQL Monitoring, SQL Tuning Advisor, we can measure SLAs, detect performance hotspots, perform deep diagnostics into specific tiers, tune applications, and remediate.

Oracle is always making improvements to Oracle Enterprise Manager. I think Enterprise cloud integration presents new management challenges.

More than five years.

We always strive to have the latest version of this product, which has always helped to improve stability and performance.

Yes, we encountered scalability issues. However, there are several techniques for achieving optimal performance. It can also help with capacity planning, sizing, and maximizing overall performance in a large scale environment.

Inadequately-sized Enterprise Manager deployments may result in the overall benefits of Enterprise Manager being compromised.

Good.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward. Today, you can even download the templates found on the Oracle website.

The basic functions are free. You only pay license fees for advanced features.

I’ve been using this product for years. I evaluated other options from different vendors such as Foglight and SolarWinds, to name a couple.

To me this is the best product for enterprise database management. I rate it a 10 out of 10.

Now, before you implement, you can do several tests with the Enterprise Manager templates VMS, available from Oracle. Also, check the compatibility matrix and try to always keep your system up to date.

Monitoring and tuning of Oracle databases.

It has improved significantly our monitoring and tuning of our databases.

Installation and configuration.

6+ years

Yes, configuration is a pain.

Nope

Nope

Customer Service: 4 stars, sometimes support takes time to figure out the issue and provide a solution.Technical Support: 4 stars

Used to monitor manually before.

Medium difficulty

In-house

None

None

Go for it and utilize all the features!