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We performed a comparison between Oracle Enterprise Manager and VMware Tanzu GemFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance.""Oracle Enterprise Manager has eased the responsibilities among our DBAs. We can now assign individual tasks to separate DBAs.""It is the best database management system.""The most valuable feature is the monitoring because it's very useful for checking and troubleshooting compared with other products, like Nagios for example, that have some interaction with Oracle.""The most valuable feature is high availability.""I like that it's stable.""This solution allows us to quickly drill down when there are issues.""I mostly use the top events, and look at how the execution is happening on the database; and monitoring the cluster level rates. I even look at the execution plan."

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"The solution improved our site reliability."

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Cons
"RMAN tools need improvement.""My opinion is that this solution needs to improve consolidation. That is what our business needs the most right now.""The solution’s pricing could be improved.""Technical support could be faster.""The user interface is not very interactive. It needs improvement.""The solution is not as simple as people say it is.""The tool is expensive.""There's a lot of documentation to go through as a new user."

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"The initial deployment was a little difficult."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It is part of Real Application Testing, so no new investment is necessary for clients who already are already using RAT."
  • "As with all Oracle products, care should be taken when using any features to ensure that they do not activate licensed features that have not been paid for."
  • "The basic functions are free. You only pay license fees for advanced features."
  • "The pricing is very high."
  • "We are satisfied with the pricing."
  • "There is only the standard licensing fee. There are no other costs."
  • "Evaluate your requirements carefully. Elaborate DR and HA setup of OEM can become expensive."
  • "Be careful to only enable the packs for which you have a license as this is an issue we see time and again."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Oracle Enterprise Manager helps to control servers.
    Top Answer:Initially, our deal was for three years, and we extended it to five years. Oracle solutions are very costly. We have totally our solution and including hardware with its license. we have no product… more »
    Top Answer:The solution improved our site reliability.
    Top Answer:The price is pretty good. It is a CPU-based system. The price depends on how big our cluster is.
    Top Answer:When we had outages, we had timeouts. Sometimes, the nodes would drop out of a cluster. Therefore, the applications would get timeouts. There is a newer version out that we're planning to upgrade to… more »
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    Overview

    Oracle Enterprise Manager is an on-premises management platform that provides a comprehensive integrated solution for managing and automating your various Oracle products, including applications, databases, middleware, hardware, and engineered systems located either in your Oracle data center or in the cloud.

    With the Oracle Enterprise Manager's console, you can administer multiple databases and servers, distribute software to multiple servers and clients, monitor objects and events throughout the network, and integrate with other tools.

    Key Oracle Enterprise Manager Features and Products

    • Hardware and virtualization management: Manage all Oracle environments from one central console. Oracle Enterprise Manager provides management and automation for Oracle engineered systems, databases, middleware, and hardware.

    • Database management: Oracle’s Database management provides a full lifecycle solution for updates and configuration management, patching, provisioning, testing, performance management and automatic tuning.

    • Application performance management (APM): User and database monitoring with diagnostics and performance analysis that provide rich reporting on real user activities.

    • Enterprise monitoring: Built-in monitoring of all components of the IT infrastructure enables rapid problem diagnosis. Both Oracle and non-Oracle components are constantly monitored.

    • Oracle real user experience insight: Insights on real user experiences and preferences enable businesses and IT stakeholders to develop a shared understanding into their application users’ experience.

    • Non-Oracle management: Oracle Enterprise Manager manages non-Oracle components with a comprehensive set of plugins. The self-update mechanism allows customers to download, import, and deploy extensions built by Oracle, Oracle partners, and Oracle customers. These extensions enjoy the same level of stability as Oracle's own products.

    • Installation and upgrade: The upgrade process provides efficient, reliable, secure data migration with minimal downtime of your environment.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Oracle Enterprise Manager stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its central management and monitoring and its reporting capabilities

    Robin C., head of Oracle Exadata Centre of Excellence at Tata Consultancy Services, writes, "The database performance monitoring features are very useful and allow us to quickly zero in on DB-related issues. Exadata storage server and Infiniband switches can be viewed from the GUI in OEM which cannot be done in other tools. The ability to deploy metric extensions makes this tool extensible for our custom monitoring also."

    PeerSpot users note the effectiveness of these features. A database manager at a tech services company notes, “The solution's most valuable aspect is the fact that it is embedded with the Oracle database and Oracle's engineering system, its extra data, and analytics.  They have plug-ins that are very helpful. Due to the infrastructure's size, the introduction they offer is very, very useful. It helps with an overall understanding of the product. They have a very nice graphical user interface. The monitoring is good. We can capture the SQL tune from us. With Oracle Enterprise Managers, we can see the rich performance tuning.”

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    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm23%
    Energy/Utilities Company14%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Computer Software Company8%
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    Educational Organization66%
    Financial Services Firm6%
    Computer Software Company5%
    Government4%
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    Financial Services Firm28%
    Computer Software Company18%
    Insurance Company6%
    Healthcare Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise60%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business5%
    Midsize Enterprise69%
    Large Enterprise26%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 1st in Database Development and Management with 122 reviews while VMware Tanzu GemFire is ranked 19th in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews. Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4, while VMware Tanzu GemFire is rated 7.6. 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 VMware Tanzu GemFire writes "The product improves site reliability, but it is not stable, and the initial deployment was a little difficult". Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Zabbix, Quest Spotlight, Dynatrace, Quest Foglight for Databases and AppDynamics, whereas VMware Tanzu GemFire is most compared with Nutanix Database Service, VMware Postgres and EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager.

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