Comparing Oracle to IBM Guardium, I find Oracle to be better in certain features, although IBM Guardium may offer more stability. Overall, I would recommend Oracle Audit Vault over IBM Guardium due to its more comprehensive and digitalized solution.

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This was our first solution.

As a consultant, I install different products based on client need. I have experience also with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security and IBM Guardian which are products I still recommend and deploy.

We did not use any other solutions. Our company needed a full auditing suite for our database along with capturing application context and REDO_COLL functionality. This product was our first choice.

We did a week of PoC work for each of the other equivalent products before purchasing this product. These products were IBM InfoSphere Guardium and Imperva SecureSphere. We have reviewed and compared the capabilities of each product and the reports it produces.

Some of the most basic reasons for choosing Oracle's AVDF product are:

• User friendly (easy to use because it is not complicated to use).
• As a company we also use many different Oracle products. So, if we are blocked by global technical support, we can escalate the situation with local Oracle.
• The price of the product is not higher than the others.

We did not use a specific solution prior to this one.

We do not use the database firewall component that is included with this solution. For our database activity monitoring, we rely on IBM Guardium.

I had not used any other solution before Oracle. We deployed this particular solution because we are required to do PCI compliance. I don't think they could have used any other solution for this, without resorting to using lots of Excel sheets, reports, etc.

It is easy to work with the Oracle ERP and Oracle Database.

We didn't have a previous solution. We had a company come in with IBM to produce a proprietary solution. We also did a demo. 

We were using the audit product for memory reference types. We chose this product because of its integration with Oracle database and because it has the DB firewall function.

We have always used the product alongside Imperva.

I have not used any other solutions.

Previously, we were using Oracle Database default auditing and security measures, but always faced problems in reading audit data and creating custom alerts and reports. It is also limited to the amount of data to restriction that can be applied, such as auditing of unknown connections.

We were not using any other solution.

We previously did not use any other solution.

We have not used any other solution.