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Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control pros and cons

Vendor: Oracle

4.1 out of 5

35 reviews
91% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control enables effective monitoring of databases and applications, offering centralized backup management and resource optimization. It supports performance management, job scheduling, and operational analysis. However, it lacks comprehensive monitoring for IBM AIX and Windows hosts, has complex installation on Windows, and suffers from agent instability and alert delays. Improvements are needed in patch management and security insights, impacting its reliability and ease of use for tech buyers.

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PROS

Administrators benefit from enhanced performance tuning and application insights, streamlining troubleshooting by identifying bottlenecks in application performance and offering quick insights and best practices from advisors.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control allows centralized management of backup strategies and environments, enhancing management efficiency and flexibility.

The platform supports a diverse monitoring capability, providing comprehensive views of operations and resource management, optimizing utilization across databases and applications.

Flexibility in managing incidents, scheduling jobs, and monitoring agent statuses proves valuable for operational analysis and performance, benefiting diverse industries and projects.

The feature-rich management capabilities, including database tuning, reporting, and the ability to manage incidents effectively, make it an invaluable tool for performance monitoring and operational excellence.

CONS

Registering a host provides complete information only on Linux systems, with limited support for IBM AIX and Microsoft Windows.

Enterprise Manager cannot replace WebLogic console for complete administration, necessitating dual management.

Alerts, such as those for redo log transport failure in Oracle Data Guard, are insufficient and sometimes delayed.

Installation is complex, lacking clear documentation and presenting challenges especially on Windows systems.

Technical support response times are long, prompting users to find independent solutions.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Pros review quotes

Associate at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Apr 6, 2016

EM Cloud Control gives me a good way to look at everything in one snapshot and to stay on top of daily monitoring.

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Database Administrator at a recruiting/HR firm

Apr 26, 2016

There are lot of features in this product that I like, among them are that RMAN backup jobs can be created, and that all the database instances can be monitored from one place.

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Oracle DBA with 10,001+ employees

Oct 2, 2016

The product has made it possible to reduce the size of the performance team and still be able to correctly monitor all the databases and fix issues quickly, resulting in fewer downtimes.

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Database Team Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 29, 2017

Real-time SQL, performance monitoring and SQL Tuning Advisor are the features that I use the most.

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Vitaly Makarychev

Head of Oracle Development at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 29, 2017

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control (EM CC) is the best product for monitoring many of the Oracle databases and other Oracle applications such as Siebel, E-Business Suite, WebLogic.

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Database Engineer

May 30, 2017

OEM is invaluable in many ways, other products can replace bits of it - but the product should be used as a single point from which to view as much of your enterprise as possible.

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Regional Team Lead - Applications & Systems Integration at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 27, 2017

For those with larger footprints, but with an inexperienced staff, it really helped to cushion the issues brought on by skill gaps.

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Andreas-Stylianou

Database & Flexcube System Administrator at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Feb 27, 2018

You can create a system group (database, application, and web server), so you can monitor performance as a system.

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IT Administrator at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Feb 28, 2018

The solution provides very useful insights for application and database performance tuning. We were able to do away with guess work in determining where the bottlenecks were in application performance.

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Senior DBA at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 13, 2018

One of the clearest examples is the agility of discovering processes/sessions that are burdening the database environment. With this agility, the DBA can more quickly verify this type of problem, in addition to checking locked sessions and not having to do several searches in views and tables of the data dictionary. The tool already does this for you in an agile way.

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Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Cons review quotes

Associate at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Apr 6, 2016

What it does, it does well, but it's so complex.

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Database Administrator at a recruiting/HR firm

Apr 26, 2016

The product is good for monitoring all databases, but in some cases it's not easy to maintain.

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Oracle DBA with 10,001+ employees

Oct 2, 2016

As the number of databases increased, the tool got a bit slower. Its response time increased with larger number of databases.

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Database Team Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 29, 2017

They do not feel relaxed using EM Cloud Control for those subjects.

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Vitaly Makarychev

Head of Oracle Development at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 29, 2017

We did encounter some stability issues but many of them were fixed.

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Database Engineer

May 30, 2017

No system works well.

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Regional Team Lead - Applications & Systems Integration at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 27, 2017

The interface for Data Guard could use some work.

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Andreas-Stylianou

Database & Flexcube System Administrator at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Feb 27, 2018

When registering a host, only if your host is running Linux will you get all the information which is available on EM. It would be nice if in future releases to include IBM AIX (primarily) and Microsoft Windows (secondly).

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IT Administrator at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Feb 28, 2018

Oracle Data Guard monitoring: There are no alerts for redo log transport failure.

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Senior DBA at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 13, 2018

One of the things that can be improved is the quality of results generated by BI Publisher. They are somewhat confusing when it comes to analysis.

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