"Due to the infrastructure's size, the introduction they offer is very, very useful. It helps with an overall understanding of the product."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Enterprise Manager are the data guide and online monitoring."
"The tried and tested services that Oracle provides is second to none."
"This solution allows us to quickly drill down when there are issues."
"There are a number of different user interfaces you can choose from."
"It's a useful feature to be able to see the top SQL, the number of executions, the CPU, and the resources that it's using."
"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."
"SQL Tuning Advisor, ADDM, Top Activity, ASM Space Manager, Incident Notifications"
"SolarWinds SAM has provided us with dynamic thresholds based on historical trends and requirements. The threshold gets configured automatically, so it's no longer necessary to configure it manually every time."
"The component and cable monitoring are good. SolarWinds is more intuitive and user-friendly than AppDynamics. The AppDynamics console is more complex because it's a more feature-rich solution, so it's not easy for somebody to pick it up."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is the network devices' performance monitor is the best."
"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."
"Monitoring of processes and services is the most valuable feature. It is not necessarily just the server alone in terms of the CPU or the memory. We can go in-depth into services and processes."
"The solution has good alerts. Notifications are sent via email to technicians. You can filter the kinds of alerts you want to receive as well. It's excellent."
"The initial setup was relatively easy, and we didn't have to install anything. All we had to do was put on the devices we wanted to monitor."
"I would like to see better pricing."
"The solution is considered expensive."
"The product is pretty comprehensive, but quite resource hungry. This might be due to the majority of the application seemingly being written in Java."
"Reporting and statistical charting is largely still left up the end-user to develop custom solutions."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager could improve the monitoring types and the graphics."
"There's a lot of documentation to go through as a new user."
"In my experience, the monitoring could be improved."
"Patching. It's extremely difficult to determine what requires patching and the process to patch each component is slightly different."
"In terms of the dashboards on offer, they should work to improve them. The types of dashboards that you get in terms of the graphs on offer aren't ideal right now."
"It lacks a user experience for measuring things like the end-to-end time for which a user waits for a specific response in the system. In the application layer, it has some very basic stuff. You have to build your own with manuscripts and things like that."
"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve the server monitoring and the web application monitoring features are not good. Microsoft SCOM has better server monitoring."
"Reporting is the only thing with which we currently have challenges. They have this in two ways. There is the report writer, which is the backend, and we also have web reports, which are on the console. So, they have removed the report writer for the backend reports, and we are making use of the web console, but most of the users are not finding it very interesting to use the frontend reports. I would like them to bring back the report writer. That's the key area within it to improve on the reporting. If they can bring back the report writer, then most users will actually be comfortable. I have some customers who are trying to export their report to an Excel format, but it is not possible because they said any report that has been done from the web console cannot be exported to Excel, but most of the customers need to export their reports to Excel. That's one area they need to work on."
"SAM's software-defined network monitoring capability is also low and could be improved."
"It should also be easier to upgrade SolarWinds. AppDynamics is harder to deploy but easier to upgrade. So AppDynamics takes a lot of time and effort to install, but you can upgrade it in minutes. SolarWinds is the opposite. It's easy to deploy, but upgrades take forever. To date, nobody can complete it on time, so the production environment is sitting idle."
"The stability, flexibility, and ease of use could be improved."
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Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 4th in Server Monitoring with 15 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 8th in Server Monitoring with 7 reviews. Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Enterprise Manager writes "Very helpful to have the ability to enable centralized control & administration of Oracle products from a single console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "The component and cable monitoring features are good, but the interface is slow ". Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Nutanix Database Services, Zabbix, Dynatrace, Quest Foglight for Databases and ServiceNow Discovery, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager and Tanium. See our Oracle Enterprise Manager vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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