We performed a comparison between Oracle Enterprise Manager and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's user friendly."
"We use Oracle Enterprise Manager as a tool to monitor Oracle products."
"There are a number of different user interfaces you can choose from."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager helps to control servers."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager has eased the responsibilities among our DBAs. We can now assign individual tasks to separate DBAs."
"It's easy to implement as it's made by Oracle for Oracle."
"The single-pane and single interface in the centralized system is the most valuable feature."
"I have found the uptime of all of our systems to be most valuable with this solution. This is important because we need to guarantee specific uptime and preventive maintenance. We need to know upfront if there are going to be any issues on the database so we can proactively solve those."
"Solarwinds has an open database that allows you to do serious integrations. It doesn't matter which service desk you have, you can implement and integrate it with SolarWinds."
"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."
"The product integrates with Remedy."
"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"
"The most valuable feature is application monitoring."
"SolarWinds SAM has provided us with dynamic thresholds based on historical trends and requirements. The threshold gets configured automatically, so it's no longer necessary to configure it manually every time."
"Extremely user friendly: Any IT professional can learn how to admin NPM in a short time."
"The initial setup was relatively easy, and we didn't have to install anything. All we had to do was put on the devices we wanted to monitor."
"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."
"Improving the integration speed would be beneficial, as the current Java-based system can sometimes result in slow responses."
"Reporting and statistical charting is largely still left up the end-user to develop custom solutions."
"It is complicated to run it on Google Chrome."
"My opinion is that this solution needs to improve consolidation. That is what our business needs the most right now."
"They should improve the hover text context. This would provide assistance whenever a task is attempted by a DBA."
"We have encountered performance issues when the load is huge."
"The user interface is not very interactive. It needs improvement."
"I would like to see support for non-Windows or non-Microsoft domains, especially Apache and other non-Windows servers."
"Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL."
"Some custom applications cannot be monitored, and a lot more applications need to be included."
"Currently SolarWinds SAM offers AppInsight for modern versions of: IIS, Exchange, SQL Server. They have shown to be powerful and insightful tools. However, AppInsight needs to be offered for more applications: Citrix, SharePoint, AX, etc."
"One area that could benefit from improvement is its performance"
"Reporting is the only thing with which we currently have challenges. They have this in two ways. There is the report writer, which is the backend, and we also have web reports, which are on the console. So, they have removed the report writer for the backend reports, and we are making use of the web console, but most of the users are not finding it very interesting to use the frontend reports. I would like them to bring back the report writer. That's the key area within it to improve on the reporting. If they can bring back the report writer, then most users will actually be comfortable. I have some customers who are trying to export their report to an Excel format, but it is not possible because they said any report that has been done from the web console cannot be exported to Excel, but most of the customers need to export their reports to Excel. That's one area they need to work on."
"They should incorporate more artificial intelligence. There should also be more predictive features."
"The setup was complex. We had local support to assist us."
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Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 4th in Server Monitoring with 123 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 11th in Server Monitoring with 38 reviews. Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. 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 SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Zabbix, Quest Spotlight, Dynatrace, AppDynamics and PRTG Network Monitor, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and ServiceNow Discovery. See our Oracle Enterprise Manager vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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