Oracle Enterprise Manager Reviews

The best part is the efficient database performance monitoring and the ability to take actions directly from there. For example, if any issues arise, such as performance slowing down or sessions getting stuck, you no longer need to go to the server and write a script to address them.  

The best part is the efficient database performance monitoring and the ability to take actions directly from there. For example, if any issues arise, such as performance slowing down or sessions getting stuck, you no longer need to go to the server and write a script to address them.   

I would like to improve the cost. 

I have been using this solution for the past three to four years. 

It is a stable solution.

It is a scalable solution.

We need two people for the deployment process. 

The initial setup is straightforward.

The return on investment is good.

The license is good but can be improved. 

Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten. 

We use Oracle Enterprise Manager for monitoring.

Oracle Enterprise Manager is a scalable solution.

The solution’s stability could be improved.

I have been using Oracle Enterprise Manager for five months.

I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager a seven out of ten for stability.

Oracle Enterprise Manager is a scalable solution. Many users are using the solution in our organization.

I am satisfied with the solution's technical support and their response time.

I have previously worked with Grafana and Zoho.

The solution’s initial setup is straightforward.

We implemented the solution through a third-party vendor team.

Oracle Enterprise Manager has a yearly licensing fee, which I think is expensive.

I would recommend Oracle Enterprise Manager to other users.

Overall, I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager a seven out of ten.

We primarily use the solution to manage the environment. We can manage and monitor the availability and the health of the database.

The dashboards are great for gathering analytic information and seeing where the problems are. 

You can look at many databases from one single point of view.

The solution is stable.

It scales very well.

It's easy to set up. 

The cost is far too high.

Technical support could be more responsive.

I've used the solution for a long time. I've used it for more than ten years. 

The solution is quite stable. I'd rate it eight out of ten in terms of reliability. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. We've had a very stable environment.

There are no issues with scaling. The product is designed to scale. 

We have 20 users at this time. 

Our barrier to scaling and upgrading is based on the cost.

There is plenty of online support that you have access to if you have issues. 

Overall, technical support has been good. Sometimes the issues are fairly complex, and there is a delay in response due to the issues. We'd like a faster turnaround. 

Neutral

We did have another database tool, and we wanted a more stable environment. Oracle offered good stability and a rich toolset. It was the preferred database at the time. 

The initial setup is very easy.

It was a massive project initially when we started. We had to do a lot of user training and went through the whole cycle of integration testing before rolling it out. 

We pay one database administrator to maintain the solution. 

We handled the initial setup in-house. 

We haven't evaluated ROI per se. However, the low downtime and great user experience have made it a positive investment. 

The cost is high, especially for smaller businesses. It is not affordable at all. 

We pay for the license on an annual basis. 

I'd rate it ten out of ten, where ten is the most expensive. It's not affordable.

We do not incur any extra costs or fees beyond the standard license. 

We did look at some other database tools.

I'm not using the latest version of the solution. 

We're still on-prem and have to move to the cloud.

I'd recommend the solution. It's easy to understand your environment when you use it.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. 

For us, the most valuable feature is really the ability to monitor. We're using Enterprise Manager to monitor our database infrastructure. Whenever we create a database, we'll apply those templates, and it will monitor. Database will send alerts and create instances that will allow our team to be both reactive and proactive and use some of the warnings that it brings us. We're using it a lot for that -- the ability to do performance tuning, using the OEM, the ability to create different reporting, the ability to be able to get some suggestions from the OEM, in terms of the database performance.

The tool also gives us the ability to create reports for a set of databases, or a set of applications, such that we can create a daily report, weekly report, monthly report, whatever you want, to know about the performance utilization of that group of databases or specific databases.

That's really the key advantage of Enterprise Manager. Although we're using it for Database, the tool has enhancements to provide benefits to an entire IT shop in terms of monitoring and managing the entire IT infrastructure.

As with any organization, before we embark on anything, we have to look at the ROI as well as the ability of a particular tool. Enterprise Manager gives us a tool that's fast and reliable for monitoring and managing our whole IT infrastructure. We're a mutual fund company, so speed is really key in providing satisfactory customer service. The performance and functionality of Enterprise Manager has been huge for us.

The latest release, 13c, which I think came out in December, has additional enhancements in the areas of security, management, creation of users, and different level of functionality. It's much better than before, which was very limited and the majority of users created with the tool were forced to have more privilege than they should have. We're currently working on upgrading to 13c, and I'm looking forward to seeing whether that will apply for our environment.

Deployment has been fine. There have been no issues.

With Enterprise Manager, you've got a tool that's providing end-to-end administration and monitoring of your IT infrastructure. The tool, therefore, has to have a very smooth way to configuring so that it is highly available. This, of course, plays a very important role in functionality because you don't want the tool to be a single point of failure.

So Oracle has claimed that they've enhanced that part of Enterprise Manager. For me, that's important because as a data architect, I play a lot of roles and I've been able to configure the tool to have four nines of High Availability. If you have a tool that you depend on for monitoring and administrating your entire IT infrastructure, the last thing you want is for it to have an level of unavailability.

It's scaled to our needs.

We have premier support from Oracle, so we have a very good relationship with technical support.

Right now, the only complexity is setting up our environment for High Availability so that we can scale it and have it highly available not just within the same data center but spanning to multiple, different locations. That's the only tricky part because it involves additional products from other companies, like Cisco and F5. So for us, setting up a standalone, vanilla Oracle Enterprise Manager is a very, very small part. It's because we have to set up the large, diverse environment with maximum-availability architecture that it's been a challenge for us.

One piece of advice is just why, if you don’t have Oracle Enterprise Manager, you aren't taking advantage of it. I assume your DBA's might be spending extra hours and off hours, and if you set up and deploy Enterprise Manager the right way, you will see at least a 50% decrease in unnecessary, mundane work.

Enterprise Manager is a centralized system. It will help integrate all the Oracle servers and Oracle applications into a central single dashboard that we can see, and it helps to monitor and control all the services from enterprise management.

The single-pane and single interface in the centralized system is the most valuable feature. All the enterprise services can be seen from a single pane, whether it be a database, applications, or hardware. We can manage and monitor from a single page.

Lots of other OEMs we can integrate, but there are very few variants that we can bind and see and monitor from OEM Enterprise Manager. In that case, Oracle can increase the addition of other OEM devices that we can integrate into enterprise management.

There are limited numbers of other OEM devices that can be integrated into enterprise management that can be scaled by Oracle by adding other OEM devices to enterprise management.

I have been working with this solution for more than five years. 

It is a stable solution. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. 

It is a scalable solution. I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten.

All the clients that have Oracle servers are using the Enterprise Manager. So, there are around six to seven clients using this solution.

The customer service and support was very good.

Positive

I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, with one being difficult and ten being easy. 

The deployment process takes five to six hours. 

The process will take the deployment of our database first. We need to set up the Oracle database. After that, the database is created, and we need to create a listener. And after that, we can set up the Oracle Enterprise Manager database. In the middleware, it will communicate with the database, and after the process is complete, we can browse the Oracle Enterprise Manager. With the help of Oracle Enterprise Manager, we can communicate with all the servers and other posts that support SNMP or with whichever supports the Oracle Enterprise Manager point.

It's a very stable monitoring tool that can help manage all the resources and view all the resources from a single dashboard.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. I deducted one point because it doesn't offer a feature of allowing other operating systems to be hosted on Spark.

Using this product makes our integration process more easy and seamless. Previously, it used to be hard for a few applications. Now with this product, we can easily define our RES service or sub-service and can have multiple platforms hitting the service.

We have a dedicated security layer and use this as a security layer.

In my opinion, this product needs to improve its performance.

We need to have more detailed monitoring when certain services extend beyond a particular time frame. For example, if it goes beyond 60 seconds, we want to get an alert saying something is wrong. Anything that can self-optimize itself would be a great feature. For instance you put an SQL and if this tool can give us a recommendation stating that this SQL doesn't seem to be optimized and so you may run into issues for this feature. Thus, a self-optimization feature would be good.

I have used this product for almost 5 to 6 years.

This is a stable product.

We have experienced some downtime in terms of performance. For example, when we carry out some complicated code, it usually times out; sometimes it goes beyond sixty seconds and that's frustrating for the users.

Right now we don't have it on the cloud platform yet, but once we do most probably we will be able to run as many instances as we can. Currently, we are running it on twelve instances on our own private infrastructure. I think moving onto cloud would give us more flexibility.

Oracle provides good support and we find them very responsive. We tend to use them a lot because we don't have strong expertise in this area. We go ask them questions such as how do we do this, do you have any clients who are already using this kind of feature or do you have any extra plugins for this new feature and they are very supportive.

I would recommend this product to others. One of the things with Oracle is that they are expensive. They have to cut down their costs so that a smaller organization can easily adapt to these features. Although those who have an enterprise platform and wouldn’t mind spending the money on this product, should go for it.

We use the solution for database repositories. The use cases depend on the applications. We can't use Oracle at the back end if our application does not support Oracle. Our company moved us from Oracle to Microsoft SQL Server. The use cases of sales and distribution are very different from manufacturing.

It is a good solution. It is the best database management system.

The deployment is not straightforward.

I have been using the solution since 1997.

The tool is stable.

The tool is scalable. We have around 700 users. We do not have plans to increase the usage.

We must undergo some training to deploy the product. The time taken for deployment depends on what we are deploying. If it is a green system, it will take a lot of time. If it is a single node, it will take less. The configuration is different.

We work mostly with partners.

The product is very expensive.

I would not recommend the solution because of its price. Otherwise, it is good. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

Web services and environment status by ping service and SOAP & Restful web service request. check on JVM and other transaction monitoring.

This product helps to reach the cause of an outage or unstable system in production and in handling such situations. It provides an easy way to reach the root cause of the problem and to resolve it asap. It helps in CPU utilization monitoring as well as thread and memory management.it helps in building emergency respond team for monitoring team. At some point monitoring team does not need to engage operation team as feature like restart of server can done through this tool.

Max use was server monitoring and operations of applications. This helps handling of critical situations in a production and support for the customers.

Customization for double secure / nonce based / token based Business Transaction Management. Where you can monitor DB calls as well as Web service calls under firewall.

One to four years. 

No

Yes... sometimes it does not trigger an alert in case of an issue. Trying to fix it with custom build changes.

Customer Service:

2 on a scale of 1 to 5 (1=worst , 5=best)

Technical Support:

2 on a scale of 1 to 5 (1=worst, 5=best)

We still have t-mart alert system. We switched to this one to monitor systems in detail. T-mart alert is just a replication of a user's behavior which does not show the cause of the issue.

Straightforward with all necessary steps mention in the online documentation.

Together as a one team. 3 on a scale of 5.

License version..does not cost too much due to license and agreement between vendor and company.

No. We use other Oracle products like Java, Weblogic Portal, Weblogic Server, Sun One web servers, Solaris servers and Linux.

If you have a license contract with Oracle and if you have a lifetime agreement on service on any product from Oracle then this product is worth using. Otherwise it's best to explore the option of using an open source product. Not worth it for start up companies.