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 is a scalable solution."
"The product gives us as much control as we can have by providing a complete picture of the whole set of Oracle products."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager has eased the responsibilities among our DBAs. We can now assign individual tasks to separate DBAs."
"The 13cR2 updates to the OEM family, strongly integrate Cloud (off-site, hybrid and on-premise) services providing a seamless way to see all of your resources regardless of where they are deployed."
"It can also help with capacity planning, sizing, and maximizing overall performance in a large scale environment."
"Due to the infrastructure's size, the introduction they offer is very, very useful. It helps with an overall understanding of the product."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager triggers critical alerts."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a very user-friendly tool."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"The solution is scalable. If you want to monitor more you have to buy more licenses, but you can add on. We don't plan to increase usage."
"It's easy to use."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"I would like to improve the cost."
"The solution has a very large resource system. It's too big. There are too many items."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager could improve the monitoring types and the graphics."
"Patching. It's extremely difficult to determine what requires patching and the process to patch each component is slightly different."
"Technical support could be more responsive."
"The solution is not as simple as people say it is."
"In my opinion, rather than a younger DBA, think the user interface could be improved."
"The tool's pricing is costly."
"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."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 1st in Database Development and Management with 123 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 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 Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager.
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