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.

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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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Categories and Ranking

Cisco UCS Director

Ranking in Cloud Management

22nd

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

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

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

Solution Architect and Senior Consultant at Keysight Technologies

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

Back office at Reliance Industries Ltd

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

"I can manage multiple workloads whether it's on AWS, Azure, or on-premises. They can be managed by using the UCS Director."

"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"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."

"Cisco UCS Director is straightforward to use, which we greatly appreciate."

"The product is flexible and compact. It has a lot of features."

"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."

"Cisco's knowledge base is extensive."

"This is a user-friendly solution that is very good and easy to use."

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"It is a highly stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."

"We have been satisfied with technical support."

"The capability to manage incidents, monitor agent statuses, and address performance issues is highly valuable."

"The solution is stable. It is great in terms of Oracle products, especially for Oracle databases."

"The tool's most valuable feature is notifications. It is also flexible in defining metrics where you can specify any metric type. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control helps monitor the resources you manage so that you do not overpay."

"You can create a system group (database, application, and web server), so you can monitor performance as a system."

"The most valuable feature of Oracle EMCC is its flexibility to manage various industries, projects, and tasks."

"The most valuable feature of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is the reporting."

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Cons

"Simplifying the user interface would go a long way to making it more usable."

"It is not easy to add or expand the product."

"We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure."

"The areas where this product can be improved are the integrations and the UI. These features are not as friendly compared to VMware products."

"The product could allow more programmatic opportunities through better development of the API."

"The product's pricing needs to improve."

"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 would like to see more integration with other solutions."

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"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."

"The configuration is not straightforward for web continuity. It needs some improvement and the deployment is expensive."

"The on-premises installation is complex. It should be easier, especially for deploying agents that are running on a Windows machine that is running Oracle databases. It's very complex. Linux based machines aren't so complicated but it's complex for Windows."

"It is sometimes difficult to create configurations in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control."

"Sometimes the alerts are coming a bit late, for example, an alert for the CPU. It depends on the threshold that you have, how long you want to check the CPU of the machine. I got some faulty alerts with Data Guard. I had stopped a synchronization for maintenance and then I re-synchronized Oracle Data Guard. It took some time to appear in Enterprise Manager and send me the right notification that Data Guard was up and running and synchronizing. I realized this because I went directly into the database to check the status of Data Guard, and it was telling me that it was running okay. But in Enterprise Manager, it needed some more time to update the interface."

"One of the things that can be improved is the quality of results generated by BI Publisher. They are somewhat confusing when it comes to analysis."

"One area where Oracle EMCC could improve is file import flexibility."

"The response time of the solution's technical support team is too long and should be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cisco UCS Director is expensive...I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."

"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."

"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 licensing costs are largely too high."

"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is a little expensive."

"One has to pay for the enterprise version."

"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is a pretty expensive solution but worth the money."

"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."

"The solution's pricing is fine."

"Our customer uses Oracle Universal Credits to pay for their license on an annual basis. The price is definitely affordable."

"I personally feel that the tool can be considered to be a little bit on the expensive side."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

26%

Financial Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Government

11%

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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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