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HPE System Management Homepage vs Oracle Enterprise Manager comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 6, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

HPE System Management Homepage
Ranking in Server Monitoring
24th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Ranking in Server Monitoring
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
129
Ranking in other categories
Database Development and Management (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Server Monitoring category, the mindshare of HPE System Management Homepage is 2.0%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Enterprise Manager is 2.8%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Server Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle Enterprise Manager2.8%
HPE System Management Homepage2.0%
Other95.2%
Server Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

JE
Consultant at Freelance
Offers reliability and helps with the virtualization part
The product integrates with our company's existing IT infrastructure, especially when it comes to MicroK8s and other on-premises servers. The tool also helps with the virtualization in the ecosystem of our company, where there are other tools from HPE. Performance and network optimization are some of the beneficial areas in terms of server management. Speaking about how the remote management ability of the product impacted our company's IT operations, I would say that my organization has dealt with areas like RDP, DDI, and DMC, depending on the requirements of our final customers. In my experience, the product has contributed four hours in terms of reliability and to ensure the uptime of our servers. When it comes to the day-to-day use of HPE System Management's interface, I would say that it connects with some of the best tools and Hyper-V console with the help of Microsoft. I recommended the solution to those who plan to use it. I rate the overall product an eight out of ten.
reviewer996648 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder and President at a training & coaching company with 1-10 employees
Extensive functionality impresses despite occasional setup complexity
The functions and features of Oracle Enterprise Manager that I have found most valuable are its evolution from being problematic in 10g and 11g versions to becoming better and more stable. Now it has become a significantly improved product. We have integrated identity management, and we are using it for normal database examination, tuning, and performance. We are working with STATSPACK and similar tools that are integrated in Oracle Enterprise Manager. We are currently working with version 13.5, having upgraded from 13.4 last year. Automation is useful for improving operational efficiency, and there are many more opportunities to automate outside the databases. Not many things need to be automated inside the databases. We have jobs running, imports, exports, and similar tasks. To automate these processes, we utilize the Scheduler from Oracle, which is managed in the databases by the vendor. This is not part of our DBA functions in Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is a smart system management tool that enables businesses to manage their operations more effectively."
"Overall as a management tool to see a complete overview of the entire HP hardware infrastructure, this is an excellent tool."
"I think it's stable and flexible, and it's secure too."
"This is a good product and I recommend it."
"This solution has improved our organization through the provision of efficient resource utilization and capacity planning."
"The managing and monitoring are the solution's most valuable features, and they are something I find quite helpful in my work."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard, which allows us to manage the entire infrastructure from the console."
"The interface is in continuous development and improves version by version."
"Initial installation of 12c OEM is convenient and straightforward."
"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."
"I have found the singular GUI feature very helpful. Fewer DBA resources can be allocated with Toad licenses."
"Warnings and alerts are sent to the primary DBA. Primary DBAs address the alerts in a timely manner, instead of waiting for it to become an issue."
"Enterprise Manager comes with a suite of products that includes agents for setup, making it easier to monitor databases as well as servers and SANs."
"Query tuning, historical graphs, real time statistics on query usage, easy to find blocking or locking queries, easy to kill queries, easy to add new datafiles to tablespaces about to run out of space, easy to explore table structure."
"We use it extensively for performance tuning testing, monitoring, and configuration."
"The biggest bang for our buck with Enterprise Manger is automated patching."
 

Cons

"The return on investment report is too difficult to understand."
"If the solution could provide better integration to make it easier to manage everything on different servers, that would be helpful. Whatever servers a company has, be it IBM, Dell, etc., if the System Management could be a platform that links all of them together, it would make management across different server types easier."
"Good system management is costly."
"The quality of service and support for this solution needs to be improved."
"The agents don't always connect and communicate very well with the server."
"Our customers would like to see the price lowered."
"The product should increase the processing capacity and allow speedy deployment, as both of them are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"I think that support integration could be improved."
"For databases and servers with high blocking issues, the monitoring and graphs in OEM frequently became so overloaded that they could not be used and would not load, making OEM useless for troubleshooting certain production issues."
"We did have some hiccups in working with Oracle."
"UI is the part that I like to see improved in the future."
"There are some monitoring tools, such as GoldenGate, that would be great if they could put them in OEM."
"With regards to masking still, some options could be added like running in simulation mode, creation of audit file option, file summary, file after masking."
"The product is pretty comprehensive, but quite resource hungry. This might be due to the majority of the application seemingly being written in Java."
"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."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager's scalability is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license was included when we purchased the server."
"The support is yearly-based and the license is permanent."
"The price of this product is fair."
"My company has invested 30,00,000 USD in the product."
"The solution is inexpensive to purchase."
"There are a few bugs with the software which require opening SRs with Oracle Support which contribute to the day-to-day cost. Perhaps 8 hours per month is spent dealing with support, just as a rough guess."
"As far as I know, you do not pay for Oracle Enterprise Manager separately. You can use Enterprise Manager for free if you already have an Oracle license for your database."
"Initially, our deal was for three years, and we extended it to five years. Oracle solutions are very costly."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager is a free-of-cost solution. Oracle Enterprise Manager can be expensive only if you go for its licensing part."
"Evaluate your requirements carefully. Elaborate DR and HA setup of OEM can become expensive."
"Based upon 3 days of implementation by a single person, plus licensing costs would be approximately $60,000, including the virtualized hosts."
"The solution is free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Construction Company
8%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business37
Midsize Enterprise25
Large Enterprise82
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Enterprise Manager?
I would rate the pricing of Oracle Enterprise Manager as very expensive, definitely deserving a 10 out of 10.
What needs improvement with Oracle Enterprise Manager?
The weaknesses I would like to address in Oracle Enterprise Manager involve the dealing of Grid Infrastructure. Oracle Enterprise Manager's handling of Grid Infrastructure needs some improvement. I...
What is your primary use case for Oracle Enterprise Manager?
I am still working with Oracle products. I would like to leave my opinion on some other Oracle products that I have been working with lately. I am working on many Oracle products for database admin...
 

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Sample Customers

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7-Eleven, Halliburton, Cisco, Garmin, Nationwide, Korea Telecom, Allied Irish Bank
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