We performed a comparison between CA Datacom and Oracle Enterprise Manager 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."It definitely cuts down on our support costs. I do not get woken up in the middle of the night very often for a problem with Datacom."
"Nowadays, CA is doing a lot of improving as far as online maintainability of definitions, which is a huge improvement over the past. I'm able to do a lot of changes without any outage."
"It is a solid product."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward for a mainframe product."
"Scalability is definitely one thing. The size of the database can grow without any issues. We've got one database table that's got over a billion rows in it; quite a bit of data, and it handles access like a champ."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager has eased the responsibilities among our DBAs. We can now assign individual tasks to separate DBAs."
"This solution allows us to quickly drill down when there are issues."
"SQL Tuning Advisor, ADDM, Top Activity, ASM Space Manager, Incident Notifications"
"The best part is the efficient database performance monitoring and the ability to take actions directly from there."
"There are a number of different user interfaces you can choose from."
"We use Oracle Enterprise Manager for a lot of services like ERP and PLM."
"It's user friendly."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager triggers critical alerts."
"For the "no-outage maintainability" of things, they are making improvements as we speak, but there is definitely still room for more of that."
"The only minor issue that we have had with Datacom is in the installation guide: Some of the sizings for the databases have not really worked out for us, so we had to go in and resize them."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"It needs to support the Database versions lower than 10.2."
"The solution is considered expensive."
"The solution is not as simple as people say it is."
"We have encountered performance issues when the load is huge."
"In my experience, the monitoring could be improved."
"The solution's agents work with Java, and the Java code sometimes consumes a lot of memory on the CPU."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager could improve the monitoring types and the graphics."
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CA Datacom is ranked 33rd in Database Development and Management while Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 1st in Database Development and Management with 123 reviews. CA Datacom is rated 9.0, while Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of CA Datacom writes "It is like a black box type of product. We just set it up and it runs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Enterprise Manager writes "Provides good stability and has an easy implementation process". CA Datacom is most compared with CA IDMS, whereas Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Quest Spotlight, AppDynamics and Quest Foglight for Databases.
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