We performed a comparison between IDERA ER/Studio and Oracle Enterprise Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database Development and Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."IDERA keeps up with the versions of Oracle and SQL Server that I'm using. I mostly use SQL Server and when there are new features, a new type of index, for example, IDERA also includes them in upgrades of the data modeling tool."
"Data lineage tracking: It allows us to identify upstream and downstream systems using data."
"One of the valuable features is inheritance when joining tables. When setting up RI and domains and rules, ER/Studio does a lot of the grunt, boilerplate code that would otherwise have to be hand-coded."
"The tool is simple to use."
"The data modeling module is important to me because I am a database developer and designer... It's very fast, reliable, up-to-date, so easy to use, smooth."
"It's much easier to develop the database structure and change it on the fly, rather than doing it manually in SQL Server itself. That saves time."
"Valuable features include the ability to visually represent what the database tables are going to look like and their relationships. Also, the ability to document the definitions of the tables and the columns that are in a table so that we can communicate what the data is and how it should be used."
"We can track changes to our data models and tie those changes back to specific tasks or efforts that we identify."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring because it's very useful for checking and troubleshooting compared with other products, like Nagios for example, that have some interaction with Oracle."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager helps to control servers."
"We use Oracle Enterprise Manager as a tool to monitor Oracle products."
"I have found the singular GUI feature very helpful. Fewer DBA resources can be allocated with Toad licenses."
"It's easy to implement as it's made by Oracle for Oracle."
"The 13cR2 updates to the OEM family, strongly integrate Cloud (off-site, hybrid and on-premise) services providing a seamless way to see all of your resources regardless of where they are deployed."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup of Oracle Enterprise Manager was straightforward."
"The number of options can be overwhelming at times. That is not necessarily a bad thing but for a newbie, it can be daunting."
"The model diagram because very clumsy when you save it on the team server and the models are very big."
"What needs the most improvement are semantic lineage and usability."
"They allow functionalities to be released before the full tests for catching and correcting errors are completed."
"I'd like the ability to debug the errors ourselves instead of having to call them. There are certain types of errors that, I wouldn't say they come up regularly, but when you have an error it is very often the same type of error. Knowing that it's a Type III or Type I, it would be nice to have some kind of debugging facility for us to use to find out where the problem that threw that error occurs. That would be a really cool feature."
"Tech support is a sticking point with me. I am really disappointed in the tech support. We pay for the Platinum level. It takes hours to get a response."
"I would like to upload, a database with about 3,000 tables. It takes so much time and, finally, it freezes the whole solution so that I actually cannot work with that environment. For the data warehouse, it's fine because I have 20 or 30 tables. It works fine. But, when I reverse-engineer the database with 3,000 tables, it freezes and it's hard to upload and reverse-engineer such environments in ER/Studio."
"The visual presentation is a little too colorful and seems that it is dumbed down."
"We have encountered performance issues when the load is huge."
"The solution is not as simple as people say it is."
"The deployment is not straightforward."
"The tool is expensive."
"The fact that Oracle Enterprise Manager is an expensive solution is a matter of concern and needs to be considered for improvement."
"Better mobile access would be useful."
"We would like to have a single dashboard for monitoring and controlling all of our products."
"I would like to improve the cost."
IDERA ER/Studio is ranked 13th in Database Development and Management with 33 reviews while Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 1st in Database Development and Management with 122 reviews. IDERA ER/Studio is rated 8.4, while Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IDERA ER/Studio writes "The solution has important reverse engineering features, but it needs a single sign-on feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Enterprise Manager writes "Provides good stability and has an easy implementation process". IDERA ER/Studio is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, SAP PowerDesigner, erwin Evolve by Quest and Aqua Data Studio, whereas Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Zabbix, Quest Spotlight, Dynatrace, Quest Foglight for Databases and AppDynamics. See our IDERA ER/Studio vs. Oracle Enterprise Manager report.
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