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Cisco UCS Director vs Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control comparison

Cisco and Oracle are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Cisco is ranked #22 with an average rating of 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.2. Cisco holds a 1.3% mindshare in CM, compared to Oracle’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 71% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Oracle users who would recommend it.
Cisco UCS Director
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91% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control and Cisco UCS Director compete in the IT management and monitoring category. Based on user reviews, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control seems to have the upper hand due to its extensive monitoring and centralized management capabilities across a broader array of applications.

Features: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control offers real-time monitoring, performance analysis, and centralized management, making it suitable for diverse environments. Cisco UCS Director is praised for its integration with Cisco solutions and multi-cloud management, concentrating on Cisco infrastructure with a specialized focus.

Room for Improvement: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control could enhance compatibility with non-Oracle environments and simplify installation processes. Cisco UCS Director needs to address user interface complexity, third-party integration issues, and improve user controls and version management.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments, offering flexibility, though regional support variability is noted. Cisco UCS Director is mainly deployed on-premises with generally strong support, although complex issues require more time.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is considered expensive but offers comprehensive functionality and ROI, despite licensing complexities. Cisco UCS Director is also perceived as high-cost due to package requirements, and users note additional development efforts for optimal use.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco UCS Director
Ranking in Cloud Management
22nd
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle Enterprise Manager C...
Ranking in Cloud Management
12th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
34
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Cisco UCS Director is 1.3%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is 0.8%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Sunny Nair - PeerSpot reviewer
Good multi-cloud management capability, but third-party and legacy integration needs improvement
Normally, UCS Director is used primarily for orchestration, but when we look at a non-Cisco data infrastructure components, the UCS Director needs a bit more improvement in terms of integration with third-party systems and with existing older systems. I feel that more development or a more integrated road map should be set up so that it becomes a common platform for any infrastructure. In the next release of this solution, I would like to see changes in the navigation controls of UCS Director. That would be helpful. Modifying the icons that are available for use, as well as virtualization aspects.
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Gyanesh Rahatekar - PeerSpot reviewer
A robust product to deal with application performance enhancemen
It is a highly scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten. There are no issues once you install the application, and it works smoothly, meaning there are no issues related to onboarding the application according to a user's chosen profile. I have done the onboarding for more than 1,500 middleware products. There are different kinds of users of the product in our company, but the application itself has 1,500 middleware products. The solution is used on a daily basis, meaning it is used twenty-four hours and seven days a week. There are no plans to increase the use of the solution in our company.
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution."
"Cisco's knowledge base is extensive."
"A product that really aids in systems management without complexity."
"The main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors."
"Cisco UCS Director is straightforward to use, which we greatly appreciate."
"UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else."
"The reason we went with Cisco is that it comes at a very negligible cost as part of the BOQ. Compared to the competition's products, which are incredibly expensive, UCS Director is low-cost."
"The solution is helpful for centralized management."
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"The dashboard and reporting help us to do preventative AI and analytics to detect performance bottlenecks."
"Compared to other monitoring products, the user interface is very clear. It sends clear notifications."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle EMCC is its flexibility to manage various industries, projects, and tasks."
"Using Enterprise Manager, I was able to create user profiles for all the instances that have the same profile. Secondly, it's easier to manage performance, to automate the AWR reports to run every half an hour, or hour. Then, if you have a performance issue you just open the report and you can see what was running the last one hour, the SQL statements, or what was causing the performance issues."
"Advisors provide quick access to Insight and best practice information for performance tuning and configuration."
"Of course, that you can manage and create the backup strategies from a central environment for all your environments, so you don’t have to do so on each database. You can set up the policy you want for each database, but you do it from a central environment."
"I use the solution for troubleshooting."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control gives us diverse monitoring capability that can be extremely powerful."
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Cons

"The tool should be a lot more intuitive and make it easy for us to understand and migrate."
"We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure."
"The product's pricing needs to improve."
"Currently, Cisco UCS Director is unable to integrate with another product or with a server from another brand."
"There are a lot of bugs in the solution. This is an area in the solution that can be improved."
"The product could allow more programmatic opportunities through better development of the API."
"It is not easy to add or expand the product."
"Simplifying the user interface would go a long way to making it more usable."
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"The response time of the solution's technical support team is too long and should be improved."
"The installation steps are very complex and the documentation for them is very generic and does not make very clear the correct steps from the installation to the addition of the host and database."
"One area where Oracle EMCC could improve is file import flexibility."
"I've had both positive and negative experiences with support. Its compatibility with the rest of the products in the market is less."
"The initial setup depends on your experience. For example, for people who are doing it for the first time, it's probably difficult."
"While entering the database, there is some delay in viewing the data on the page called SQL monitoring, which reviews live statistics about the current and live queries on the database."
"Adding new databases is difficult in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control."
"There is a lot of information required to deal with the vulnerabilities in the product on a timely basis, for which the documentation part is not available."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost of this solution is significant."
"The budget doesn’t work for the state and local governments."
"I rate Cisco UCS Director's price a three out of ten. Cisco UCS Director is not an affordable product. With Cisco UCS Director, there is a need to pay an overall price, which consists of the product, software, and support."
"I would rate the product's pricing an eight out of ten."
"Cisco UCS Director is expensive...I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing around five to six out of ten."
"The solution's pricing is fine."
"I personally feel that the tool can be considered to be a little bit on the expensive side."
"We are using the free version. We are not using any licensed packages of Enterprise Manager, so I’m not quite sure how much each package is. As I understand it, there are different plug-ins that you need to buy for Enterprise Manager."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is a little expensive."
"The licensing costs are largely too high."
"The tool's pricing is competitive."
"Our customer uses Oracle Universal Credits to pay for their license on an annual basis. The price is definitely affordable."
"One has to pay for the enterprise version."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
26%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Government
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cisco UCS Director?
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco UCS Director?
While the pricing might be seen as expensive, it provides value for money due to reliable service and excellent technical support.
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What needs improvement with Cisco UCS Director?
There aren’t any areas of improvement that immediately come to mind.
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What do you like most about Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?
The valuable feature is job scheduling. It manages the database's scheduling, history, and growth, helping monitor CPU and space usage across the entire data center. It provides a comprehensive vie...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?
The solution's pricing is fine.
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What needs improvement with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control manages the monitoring and the graphs. Other tools complement the base monitoring. Zabbix is efficient with space pressure. For instance, it can quickly and ...
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Overview

Cisco UCS Director enables automated delivery of physical and virtual data center resources, empowering data centers to move at the speed of business.

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Oracle Enterprise Manager is Oracle's integrated enterprise information technology (IT) management product line, which provides the industry's only complete, integrated, and business-driven enterprise cloud management solution. Oracle Enterprise Manager creates business value for IT by leveraging the built-in management capabilities of the Oracle stack for traditional and cloud environments, enabling customers to achieve unprecedented efficiency gains while dramatically increasing service levels.

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