Oracle Enterprise Manager Reviews

The most valuable feature is its ability to integrate directly into S Space and move data, run business rules, run calculation scripts, and things like that.

The user interface is pretty clunky.

I have not rated it higher because it’s still new.

I have been using it for about 18 months.

It seems to be as stable as any other ETL product we use.

We're still in the development process. We haven't really put anything into production just yet.

As far as scalability, we're learning as we go on how to parameterize everything and stop hard-coding stuff. It seems to be handling what we're asking it to do.

Technical support is good. We get answers that we need within a couple of days. They are knowledgeable.

Initial setup is a little kind of hokey, but once you figure it out, it's okay.

We use also use DataStage and Informatica, outside of the Hyperion stack and the Oracle stack.

I recommend using the product for similar situations, just because it does technically integrate all the Oracle products together, especially in the EPM space.

Reputation is a big part of the decision regarding which vendor to work with. The other part is strategy: Do they have partners that can help us strategize on implementation? We don't need people on the keyboard, we need people helping us with setting up the big picture.

As a DBA contractor, I like the ability to be able to group my hosts/targets and set up different configurations to monitor based on the needs of my clients.

It has made my job easier in that I can put my focus on certain elements at the whim of my client.

The one area was the process of setting up targets and hosts as it seems rather lengthy and repetitive. There should be a way to merge some of the steps together.

As a DBA contractor, I have been using this solution/configuration since 2013. I started with the upgrade from 11 to 12.

I have had no issues deploying it.

There have been no issues with the stability.

I have no issues scaling it as needed.

Customer Service:

Customer service has been consistently excellent.

Technical Support:

Technical support has been consistently excellent.

My client has always been Oracle based.

With the proper available documentation the setup, although lengthy, was straightforward for the most part.

Implementation was done in-house. My advice, based on the upgrade that we performed, is to create a "sandbox" to "play" in and test, test, test and document, document, document.

We documented with great detail each step and the time it would take. We ran tests in the sandbox to ensure that the upgrade would work. It was very successful and ran into virtually no problems.

Do some research, follow the documentation and any advise that might be out there. The Oracle communities are good sources.

The ability to capture data and then processing it based on what we need to pull for analysis.

• Less manual work
• Less labor intensive
• More data consistency

More flexibility in terms of the user being able to customize a little bit instead of having it so standard. That would be helpful.

It's been pretty stable. It's good.

For us, it's a good size. It applies to all populations. It's good.

For technical, we have a technical team. Usually, because I'm an analyst, I just pass it over to the technical team and they deal with the technical side.

It was an old system. That's why we transferred into this. In technology, you need to be advanced. You need to keep up.

The decision was made by top management, but I'm sure that they look at cost and the support of it. Mainly the cost.

I think the initial setup was not too complex. It wasn't that bad.

We went with Oracle because we were looking for stability, a vendor that is reliable, being able to get help, troubleshooting when there's a problem. I think those are the important ones.

I would recommend looking into it.

Enterprise Manager comes with a suite of products that includes agents for setup. This makes it easier to monitor databases as well as servers and SANs.

It's given us the ability to monitor multiple aspects of the organization. Also, the ability to monitor different versions of Oracle and different platforms has been helpful for our customers.

Using, setting up, and maintaining the agents can be tedious and even almost a full-time job. Once it's done, it works pretty well. It's just setting them up that could use some improvements.

We haven't had any issues with the deployment other than setting up the agents.

I've had problems with its reliability and speed. Sometimes even giving it a large amounts of software and hardware to run on, it can still be sluggish and fail to respond as quickly as you would think.

It does seem to scale. Even when we throw thousands of objects at it, the scalability still seems to be there.

The newer versions are much simpler and they have a better look and feel, and once you get the agents taken care of, it goes a lot quicker.

We implemented it ourselves.

If you are going to be database-heavy, and that is what you are going to be monitoring the most, then Enterprise Manager might be your best bet. If not, there are other options out there to look at to see which pieces you need to monitor. Do we need to monitor applications, servers, and networks? Figure out which part you're going to need for that.

From my experience, I'd say that the most valuable feature is the ability to manage all the databases, hardware, and middleware from one pane of glass.

Having the single-pane-of-glass manageability of our database, hardware, and middleware infrastructure gives us the most efficient way to keep our thumb on the pulse of the infrastructure to ensure it's always up and running.

OEM needs to be a little bit faster. That's probably because the features that they've developed and put into the latest product are incredible. They're consolidating more and more, which, expectedly, slows it down.

I've been using Oracle Enterprise Manager for the last eight to ten years.

We've had no issues deploying it.

At the beginning it was in the development phase, but for the last, probably six years, it's been a fairly solid product from 10g right through to the current 12c version.

I haven't really had to scale it because the enterprise isn't large enough to require that, but the initial installation is sufficient for all the needs.

I've always been very happy with Oracle support. I think probably the one thing that I'd like to be able to have more of is input into the feature set for the next release.

I think the fact that I can manage all of our infrastructure, all the hardware and software, from one place which makes it very useful.

It makes it very easy for us to manage our infrastructure so that's important from a company perspective.

It's very expensive.

I think it's fine, there's no issue there.

I think it's fine, there's no issue there.

It's implemented just fine. It's fairly easy. Combination of an easy product and also technical expertise as well.

It's very expensive.

Real Time monitoring i.e SQL Monitoring and the ADDM

We have setup dashboards for the SMT (Senior Management Team) to give them a traffic light system on a very high level – enough for them to know that all systems are up and available

Costs of add-on’s and management packs i.e AWS (Amazon) and Golden Gate

3-4 years across 3 different jobs.

None, quite straight forward (having already deployed and installed weblogic before)

Just on a few occasions agent connectivity to repository would fail resulting in “stuck” messages on the OEM screens, resolved itself overnight – weird?

No

Customer Service: ExcellentTechnical Support: Excellent

Just the old OEM 10g/11g

Fairly straight forward. The download zip files have everything you need in one place and instructions are simple to follow for those who have experience in Oracle installations.

Installed by DBATEAM onsite

Setup costs are absorbed by the Enterprise licenses we already hold, but as we run OEM from Amazon cloud services we have daily costs for server/disk/networks etc. Hard to give a figure as it depends on what Amazon service we use

No

If you are already paying for enterprises licenses then it’s rude not to use it!

The most valuable feature of OEM is that it goes hand-in-hand with our EDI. Essentially, it allows us to operate the SOA Suite solution on a management level.

The biggest improvement Enterprise Manager has provided us is that it allows for easy maintenance and setup of our user base that's surrounded by SOA Suite.

The issues we've had with Enterprise Manager go hand-in-hand with our issues with SOA Suite. There are performance issues that we see tied to SOA Suite and the B2B functioning, all of which impacts Enterprise Manager.

We've had no issues deploying it.

There have been no problems with its own instability, just with performance that's tied to SOA Suite.

We don't have that many functional users using it, so scaling has not been a true issue for us.

We use a third-party hosting solution. A lot of the setup in technical maintenance is all handled through them. I know we've logged several SR's for the OEM issues related to the SOA Suite issues.

This was set up through our third-party implementer.