We performed a comparison between Oracle Enterprise Manager and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."Oracle Enterprise Manager triggers critical alerts."
"It's easy to implement as it's made by Oracle for Oracle."
"We use Oracle Enterprise Manager for a lot of services like ERP and PLM."
"I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager eight out of 10 for stability."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Enterprise Manager are the data guide and online monitoring."
"It can also help with capacity planning, sizing, and maximizing overall performance in a large scale environment."
"The dashboards are great for gathering analytic information and seeing where the problems are."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup of Oracle Enterprise Manager was straightforward."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"It needs to support the Database versions lower than 10.2."
"I would say mostly backup and recovery, through the Enterprise Manager. Or any corruptions, to be able to fix them through Enterprise Manager."
"I would like to improve the cost."
"The interface offered by Oracle Enterprise Manager has certain shortcomings and needs improvement to become a nice tool."
"I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager six out of 10 for affordability. It's expensive."
"The fact that Oracle Enterprise Manager is an expensive solution is a matter of concern and needs to be considered for improvement."
"Technical support could be faster."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 1st in Database Development and Management with 123 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews. Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Oracle Enterprise Manager writes "Provides good stability and has an easy implementation process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Zabbix, Quest Spotlight, Dynatrace, AppDynamics and Quest Foglight for Databases, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI.
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