Oracle Enterprise Manager pros and cons

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'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.

There are a number of different user interfaces you can choose from.

This solution allows us to quickly drill down when there are issues.

We use it extensively for performance tuning testing, monitoring, and configuration.

SQL Tuning Advisor, ADDM, Top Activity, ASM Space Manager, Incident Notifications

The tried and tested services that Oracle provides is second to none.

Due to the infrastructure's size, the introduction they offer is very, very useful. It helps with an overall understanding of the product.

It is the best monitoring tool for Oracle databases.

The most valuable features are security and speed.

The product gives us as much control as we can have by providing a complete picture of the whole set of Oracle products.

Reporting and statistical charting is largely still left up the end-user to develop custom solutions.

In my opinion, rather than a younger DBA, think the user interface could be improved.

There's a lot of documentation to go through as a new user.

The product is pretty comprehensive, but quite resource hungry. This might be due to the majority of the application seemingly being written in Java.

Better mobile access would be useful.

Patching. It's extremely difficult to determine what requires patching and the process to patch each component is slightly different.

The solution is considered expensive.

The solution has a very large resource system. It's too big. There are too many items.

In my experience, the monitoring could be improved.

The user interface is not very interactive. It needs improvement.

We would like to have a single dashboard for monitoring and controlling all of our products.