We performed a comparison between CA IDMS 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."The most useful feature is the governance feature, because it can show us and help us to manage user profiles very quickly and using it in assertive way."
"It is a really stable platform. It has been around for many years. We trust it implicitly. "
"Technical support is very good. They are very knowledgeable, very quick to respond, and very nice people, too."
"Some of the most valuable features are its real-time performance view/dashboard, metric history, real-time monitoring and alerts, as well as quick access to Oracle's tuning and diagnostic options."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager helps to control servers."
"I like that it's stable."
"The job subsystem, monitoring subsystem, alerting, grouping of targets, and reporting features are valuable to us."
"We can manage everything in our environment."
"The single-pane and single interface in the centralized system is the most valuable feature."
"It is the best monitoring tool for Oracle databases."
"There are a number of different user interfaces you can choose from."
"Right now, it's not easy to start using this solution. You have to take long course and train people. It's not an easy path."
"I would like to see it made simpler to operate and maintain."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"The solution is not as simple as people say it is."
"The solution's agents work with Java, and the Java code sometimes consumes a lot of memory on the CPU."
"I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager six out of 10 for affordability. It's expensive."
"Technical support could be more responsive."
"We would like to have a single dashboard for monitoring and controlling all of our products."
"It needs to support the Database versions lower than 10.2."
"My opinion is that this solution needs to improve consolidation. That is what our business needs the most right now."
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CA IDMS is ranked 31st in Database Development and Management while Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 1st in Database Development and Management with 123 reviews. CA IDMS is rated 9.0, while Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of CA IDMS writes "We get network database performance. It supports our back office". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Enterprise Manager writes "Provides good stability and has an easy implementation process". CA IDMS is most compared with IBM IMS, CA Datacom and Adabas, whereas Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Quest Spotlight, AppDynamics and Quest Foglight for Databases.
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