Cisco UCS Director vs Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control comparison

Cisco and Oracle are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Cisco is ranked #21 with an average rating of 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #19 with an average rating of 7.8. Cisco holds a 1.8% mindshare in CM, compared to Oracle’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 73% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control and Cisco UCS Director compete in the IT management and monitoring category. Based on user reviews, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control seems to have the upper hand due to its extensive monitoring and centralized management capabilities across a broader array of applications.

Features: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control offers real-time monitoring, performance analysis, and centralized management, making it suitable for diverse environments. Cisco UCS Director is praised for its integration with Cisco solutions and multi-cloud management, concentrating on Cisco infrastructure with a specialized focus.

Room for Improvement: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control could enhance compatibility with non-Oracle environments and simplify installation processes. Cisco UCS Director needs to address user interface complexity, third-party integration issues, and improve user controls and version management.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments, offering flexibility, though regional support variability is noted. Cisco UCS Director is mainly deployed on-premises with generally strong support, although complex issues require more time.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is considered expensive but offers comprehensive functionality and ROI, despite licensing complexities. Cisco UCS Director is also perceived as high-cost due to package requirements, and users note additional development efforts for optimal use.

To learn more, read our detailed Cisco UCS Director vs. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Report (Updated: December 2025).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco UCS Director

Ranking in Cloud Management

21st

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle Enterprise Manager C...

Ranking in Cloud Management

19th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Cisco UCS Director is 1.8%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is 1.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control	1.0%
Cisco UCS Director	1.8%
Other	97.2%

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ErnieRumfield

Senior Telecommunications Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Managing extensive VoIP services becomes efficient and seamless

We use Cisco UCS Director primarily for managing our VoIP service to maintain seamless service delivery. We operate in an enterprise government environment Cisco UCS Director is straightforward to use, which we greatly appreciate. It helps save time by making it quicker to roll out new call…

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Simplice Choumeni-Tchieutoue

technical Manager at DBA Expert Consulting

Extensive tool features support database monitoring, but support and pricing present challenges

I don't fully understand what improvements could be made in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control. To make it better, more features could be added, but it is already a very complete tool, especially if you know how to configure it properly, as you can use it to monitor other databases such as PostgreSQL and SQL Server in addition to Oracle.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the fabric sharing."

"Feature-wise, the solution helps one to add multiple environments in one place...It is a scalable product."

"The main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors."

"Better visibility and better control are the main benefits people receive from Cisco UCS Director; the automation and the orchestration part, these three to four points are the key factors to decide on Cisco UCS Director."

"UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else."

"Cisco UCS Director is straightforward to use, which we greatly appreciate."

"The reason we went with Cisco is that it comes at a very negligible cost as part of the BOQ. Compared to the competition's products, which are incredibly expensive, UCS Director is low-cost."

"A product that really aids in systems management without complexity."

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"Another feature is the Resource Manager, where we can manage the consumption of resources of certain queries, separately in resource groups. Depending on the characteristics of the query, queries can be placed in groups that consume less database and hardware resources."

"Compared to other monitoring products, the user interface is very clear. It sends clear notifications."

"Of course, that you can manage and create the backup strategies from a central environment for all your environments, so you don’t have to do so on each database. You can set up the policy you want for each database, but you do it from a central environment."

"With the last version I worked with, we can perform auto-configuration to resolve issues for the database, such as automatically adding space when a tablespace runs low."

"The solution helps database tuning through query ID and SQL ID; we can fine-tune skill parameters and gather information to enhance operational analysis and performance."

"Using Enterprise Manager, I was able to create user profiles for all the instances that have the same profile. Secondly, it's easier to manage performance, to automate the AWR reports to run every half an hour, or hour. Then, if you have a performance issue you just open the report and you can see what was running the last one hour, the SQL statements, or what was causing the performance issues."

"It is a highly stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."

"The dashboard and reporting help us to do preventative AI and analytics to detect performance bottlenecks."

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Cons

"The product's pricing needs to improve."

"The tool should be a lot more intuitive and make it easy for us to understand and migrate."

"It is not easy to add or expand the product."

"Normally, UCS Director is used primarily for orchestration, but when we look at a non-Cisco data infrastructure components, the UCS Director needs a bit more improvement in terms of integration with third-party systems and with existing older systems."

"There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies."

"I would like to see more integration with other solutions."

"The product could allow more programmatic opportunities through better development of the API."

"Currently, Cisco UCS Director is unable to integrate with another product or with a server from another brand."

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"The on-premises installation is complex. It should be easier, especially for deploying agents that are running on a Windows machine that is running Oracle databases. It's very complex. Linux based machines aren't so complicated but it's complex for Windows."

"The only negative thing about this product is that it doesn't support all environments or all applications."

"There is a lack from the point of view of monitoring on the system. The performance of the system and its resources are things that I think can be improved. There needs to be real-time monitoring available on the solution."

"While entering the database, there is some delay in viewing the data on the page called SQL monitoring, which reviews live statistics about the current and live queries on the database."

"Sometimes the alerts are coming a bit late, for example, an alert for the CPU. It depends on the threshold that you have, how long you want to check the CPU of the machine. I got some faulty alerts with Data Guard. I had stopped a synchronization for maintenance and then I re-synchronized Oracle Data Guard. It took some time to appear in Enterprise Manager and send me the right notification that Data Guard was up and running and synchronizing. I realized this because I went directly into the database to check the status of Data Guard, and it was telling me that it was running okay. But in Enterprise Manager, it needed some more time to update the interface."

"You cannot use Enterprise Manager as replacement for a WebLogic console."

"They need to simplify it and make it lighter."

"Adding new databases is difficult in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate Cisco UCS Director's price a three out of ten. Cisco UCS Director is not an affordable product. With Cisco UCS Director, there is a need to pay an overall price, which consists of the product, software, and support."

"The budget doesn’t work for the state and local governments."

"The cost of this solution is significant."

"Cisco UCS Director is expensive...I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."

"I would rate the product's pricing an eight out of ten."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing around five to six out of ten."

"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is a little expensive."

"it's neither expensive nor cheap."

"Our customer uses Oracle Universal Credits to pay for their license on an annual basis. The price is definitely affordable."

"One has to pay for the enterprise version."

"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is a pretty expensive solution but worth the money."

"The licensing costs are largely too high."

"I personally feel that the tool can be considered to be a little bit on the expensive side."

"We are using the free version. We are not using any licensed packages of Enterprise Manager, so I’m not quite sure how much each package is. As I understand it, there are different plug-ins that you need to buy for Enterprise Manager."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

17%

Computer Software Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

11%

University

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	15

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco UCS Director?

While the pricing might be seen as expensive, it provides value for money due to reliable service and excellent technical support.

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What needs improvement with Cisco UCS Director?

It should be more of a cloud-based architecture for Cisco UCS Director, and it should be affordable to small customers as well because the pricing is a major challenge when we talk about Cisco UCS ...

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What is your primary use case for Cisco UCS Director?

Mainly in my region and country, large data center customers are using Cisco UCS Director, not the SMB or mid-market customers. More of the on-premise customers are utilizing Cisco UCS Director. Th...

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What do you like most about Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?

The valuable feature is job scheduling. It manages the database's scheduling, history, and growth, helping monitor CPU and space usage across the entire data center. It provides a comprehensive vie...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?

The price of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is very high, especially when considering the additional cost for features such as the tuning pack, which makes it more expensive compared to mo...

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What needs improvement with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?

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Overview

Cisco UCS Director enables automated delivery of physical and virtual data center resources, empowering data centers to move at the speed of business.

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Oracle Enterprise Manager is Oracle's integrated enterprise information technology (IT) management product line, which provides the industry's only complete, integrated, and business-driven enterprise cloud management solution. Oracle Enterprise Manager creates business value for IT by leveraging the built-in management capabilities of the Oracle stack for traditional and cloud environments, enabling customers to achieve unprecedented efficiency gains while dramatically increasing service levels.

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