Oracle Enterprise Manager Reviews and Pricing

it_user515415

Sr Oracle DBA at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Jul 25, 2017

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One of the valuable features is performance drill down.

What is most valuable?

One of the valuable features is performance drill down.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see drill-down tabs.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this for eight years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

There were no issues with deployment.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

There were no issues with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

There were no issues with scalability.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We did not use a previous solution.

What about the implementation team?

The implementation was done in-house.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

it_user486507

Software Engineer, Banking Officer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 22, 2017

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The best features are the usability and the interface.

What is most valuable?

The best features are the usability and the interface.

What needs improvement?

More tools along the lines of support would be valuable. It would also be nice to catch things either as they happen or before they happen, as opposed to seeing that something is broken and having to go in and fix it.

For how long have I used the solution?

I’ve used the product for four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Services are pretty inconsistent. Too much usage will make it go down, and we will have to step in to bring it back up.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is a scalable solution that meets our needs for now.

How are customer service and technical support?

Every couple of weeks we need support. We always use the community, and as long as the issues have happened before, it’s a good help.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We were using something off the mainframe before we switched to EPM. We went from mainframe to distributed, which made a big difference.

How was the initial setup?

Setup is pretty complex for a large system. It was pretty complicated for us, but we had consultants who helped a lot.

What other advice do I have?

It’s a great product, but make sure that you have people on staff that are familiar with it, or get your staff familiarized with it, because there are a lot of things that you need to learn to maintain it.

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it_user521547

Senior System Analyst at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 5, 2016

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The database monitor is the most valuable feature for us. System response is too slow.

What is most valuable?

Monitoring of the database is the most valuable feature, because we want to know what's going on there.

How has it helped my organization?

It is timely, if you want to add some memory or whatever. That's seems to be timely.

What needs improvement?

I don’t think the response system is that good. It is too slow.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's pretty stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scaling requires a little more configuration work.

How is customer service and technical support?

I have not had to use technical support.

How was the initial setup?

Initial setup is pretty straightforward.

We don't integrate it with anything else. It runs as a standalone piece.

What other advice do I have?

The monitoring product is getting better every year, but it still needs some work.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

it_user521988

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

Nov 3, 2016

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The automating diagnostic monitor (ADM) is valuable. I don't see anything like a dashboard.

Valuable Features

The automating diagnostic monitor (ADM) is the most valuable feature.

Improvements to My Organization

It will list the top findings: numbers one, two and three. Those are the areas where we have to troubleshoot. That helps my organization.

Room for Improvement

There are a lot of options; it takes time. I don't see anything like a dashboard or something similar. Adding some dashboards would possibly be a nice thing.

Stability Issues

Stability’s good; no downtime.

Scalability Issues

Scalability’s good; it's okay.

Customer Service and Technical Support

We get good support. Tickets are resolved quickly and we are happy with the resolution. It is perfect.

Initial Setup

I was not involved in the installation. A different team did it.

Other Advice

It's pretty self-explanatory; just log in and explore the options. That's it.

I believe training would help. An expert can go over several options and make it easier.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

it_user522066

Lead App Adviser at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 3, 2016

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It moves data, runs business rules, and runs calculation scripts. It's new and the user interface is clunky.

Valuable Features

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.

Room for Improvement

The user interface is pretty clunky.

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

Use of Solution

I have been using it for about 18 months.

Stability Issues

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

Scalability Issues

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.

Customer Service and Technical Support

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

Initial Setup

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

Other Advice

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.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

it_user83301

Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 28, 2014

OEM makes sense for my customers’ needs and makes it easy for me to immediately resolve any problems that arise

Many of our company’s customers have multiple databases. Thus they often need help determining how to consolidate them, monitor them and move forward with their business plans. I bring insight to these customers by showing them how to optimize their IT environments. When it comes to helping customers identify best practices, 90 percent of the time I end up talking about Oracle Enterprise Manager. Many of these customers have adopted Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c as their primary monitoring platform.

I recall a situation with an Atlanta-based tax services company that required extremely high availability during the busy tax season (approximately December 15 and April 15). We had to uphold very strict service level agreements that carried serious penalties and huge financial implications. An unscheduled outage of one hour leads to a $1 million fine. Previously this company used five separate monitoring tools, which was causing extra effort for system administrators and was a source of concern regarding unplanned down time. I spent a few days helping these administrators understand the full potential of a centralized monitoring and management solution based on Oracle Enterprise Manager. It took some convincing and it came down to setting them up with a prototype for the next tax season. Using the new system, they had zero problems and were impressed with the stability. After that, they decided to standardize on Oracle Enterprise Manager as their system management foundation going forward.

I implemented the Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Lifecycle Management Pack, complete with the configuration and change management features, simplifying the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance work necessary for this company’s large government customers. Now they can see what is changing in their environment all the time, which gives them a real-time glimpse into the security of the database. This company’s senior management admitted that without Oracle Enterprise Manager their tax season would not have gone successfully. Day and night, if there were issues, we were notified and we resolved problems immediately.

My take on OEM 12c is that I especially like the performance tuning features since they let DBAs identify problems very quickly. The real time ADDM (Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor) and associated reports let me drill down into these issues without having to prepare snapshots. I can identify and resolve issues immediately. I also likes the Oracle Enterprise Manager Consolidation Planner, which I find to be an extremely flexible and valuable tool. For example, if a client wants to move to an Oracle Exadata system, you can use the Oracle Enterprise Manager Consolidation Planner to identify precisely how big of an engineered system that client will need. This tool simplifies requirements gathering when you are consolidating to engineered systems.

I recommend Oracle Enterprise Manager because today’s DBAs are being asked to do more with the tools and resources that we are given, to drive change within the organization so that IT teams are more knowledgeable and efficient. Oracle Enterprise Manager empowers database administrators to resolve problems quickly—to identify bottlenecks and pinpoint performance issues. Many DBAs still like the command line, but in my experience the GUI makes it twice as fast to resolve issues. This insight is especially helpful at the outset of a project. Too often DBAs don’t get called in until the end of the development cycle, as somebody who can run the database. But ideally they should have input on the front end of that cycle, while there is still time to identify issues with the SQL code or with other aspects of the hardware or software infrastructure. DBAs can drive the changes that optimize applications and make databases run better.

I believe some Oracle customers are slow to adopt cloud models simply because they don’t realize that Oracle Enterprise Manager can help pave the way. It’s an enterprise tool, not just a database tool. Once organizations understand that Oracle Enterprise Manager can help them manage their whole stack they will realize how much it can help in the context of deploying and managing clouds. Deploying a private cloud is often the first step towards a database as a service environment in which developers can provision databases themselves via a self-service portal. This model has the potential to fundamentally change the way developers do things. You can click a button and clone a database. This will shorten the development cycle, especially with Oracle Database 12c, which lets you provision a pluggable database quickly from a multitenant architecture. Developers can provision what they need and move on. I believe that championing these database as a service environments will elevate the role of DBAs. They can lead their organizations to embrace a new type of fast, efficient provisioning. This will make DBAs more important to the development cycle and push them to the front-end of many projects.

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it_user83598IT Manager at a tech services company

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Feb 1, 2014

Hello Bobby Curtis,

Nice Article, very well explained, through this article I came to know how OEM can solve complex business process.
And I request you to provide some more information on OEM Consolidation Planner.

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it_user522051

Is Business Analyst at Emerge

Nov 23, 2017

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Facilitates data capture and processing based on what we need for analysis

What is most valuable?

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

How has it helped my organization?

Less manual work
Less labor intensive
More data consistency

What needs improvement?

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

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

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

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

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

How are customer service and technical support?

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.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

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.

How was the initial setup?

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

What other advice do I have?

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.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

reviewer1213497

DBA Team Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Aug 24, 2023

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A stable monitoring tool that shows the performance of Oracle products and databases

Pros and Cons

"We use Oracle Enterprise Manager as a tool to monitor Oracle products."

"The solution's agents work with Java, and the Java code sometimes consumes a lot of memory on the CPU."

What is most valuable?

We use Oracle Enterprise Manager as a tool to monitor Oracle products. It's a monitoring tool that shows the performance of your Oracle database or many other products.

What needs improvement?

The solution's agents work with Java, and the Java code sometimes consumes a lot of memory on the CPU.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with Oracle Enterprise Manager for five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

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

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Around five to seven users use the solution in our organization.

I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager ten out of ten for scalability.

How was the initial setup?

I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager ten out of ten for the ease of its initial setup.

What about the implementation team?

Oracle Enterprise Manager can be deployed in one hour by one person. You deploy the Oracle Enterprise Manager server, then deploy the agents to the targets you want to monitor.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Oracle Enterprise Manager is a free tool from Oracle.

What other advice do I have?

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

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.