it_user522156 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Consultant
Presents the full picture, everything in one place

What is most valuable?

Everything you do; you can see the whole picture. You can everything in one place. That's very good, very convenient.

What needs improvement?

Easier to read. For example, on the home page of information, under Adm, that should be a little bit easier to read. Sometimes you have to spend a lot of time to read and understand what's going on there.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Very stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scaling is okay.

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How are customer service and support?

I've opened tickets a few times. They are quick to respond, get back to you quickly. I'm happy with it.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend learning and using OEM right away. It will cut down the time put in by DBAs a lot, by using OEM.

I'm very happy with OEM.

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Senior Oracle DBA at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Vendor
Performance tuning and segment and memory advisor are features that are very valuable in the solution

What is most valuable?

Performance tuning, segment and memory advisor

How has it helped my organization?

All our production systems are monitored by OEM to get the alerts and warnings and deal with it

What needs improvement?

One of the biggest issues, specially for 12c grid contro,l is the performance; to be able to monitor and find the root cause of performance issue immediately, in real time. It is important for the grid control to perform quickly in order to minimize the time of investigation and to identify the root cause and required solution,

For how long have I used the solution?

6 years

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Some times with 12C

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

No

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

No

What other advice do I have?

For Oracle databases and Oracle products in general, OEM is the best monitoring / console solution to get live and historical overview on your systems
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it_user8580 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Consultant
New Features – EM12c 12.1.0.3 – Modify Administration Groups

One very powerful feature in EM12c I think is Administration Groups. It allows you to do a setup of monitoring settings that is continuously up to date.

Monitoring Templates as part of a Template Collections are instantly applied as soon as a Target become member of a Administration Group within its hierarchy.

One issue you could have with the setup of an Application Group Hierarchy is that, after creating it you could not change it anymore and had to delete it before being able to make corrections or extend.

Starting EM12c 12.1.0.3 we can now modify an Administration Group Hierarchy after is has been created, which I think is a very welcome enhancement!

In the example one level (Location) is added to an existing Hierarchy. The message in the page indicates that the change need to be save to the repository by pressing [Update]

After pressing the [Update] button a message shows up, telling you a job has been started to reorganise the Administration Group Hierarchy and you need to wait for it to finish.

After the job has finished and you redisplay the page, the modification is completed.

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it_user3876 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user3876Database Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Vendor

There are some other very powerful features of EM12c like its capability to manage oracle applications including Oracle Fusion Applications, Siebel, Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft.

EM12c also provides broad range of solutions for managing Oracle Databases, from performance management and database testing, to database lifecycle.

it_user521871 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead / Senior Systems Analyst at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Provides a "health check" of our system and application so we can tweak performance

What is most valuable?

I think it's mainly to do a health check of the system and the application and how the performance is doing, so that we can determine any tuning and tweaking that we need to do; it's helpful.

How has it helped my organization?

It's mainly to figure out the scalability of our application using the OEM. That gives us an insight into how the processes are doing. That's the value that we're getting, to go back and tweak the application.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's quite stable. I have not had any issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We are just experimenting with a couple of products right now, so we have yet to go over that. We haven't really done any scalability test.

How are customer service and technical support?

I have not ever used it.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We had bought Oracle before. We moved away from a proprietary system into the Oracle Database, so this was a needed this functionality.

What other advice do I have?

When looking at, and selecting, a vendor to buy from, the most important criteria I look for are the stability of the product, scalability, and technical support after that. We went with Oracle because it is the main brand.

It's good to use. We're not having issues with it.

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Oracle Specialist at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
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I like the reports. It allows me to have a place to check all my targets.

Valuable Features

I like the reports of Enterprise Manager, as you have a lot of targets. You can create generic reports based on some metrics of those targets. It allows me to have some sort of place to check all my targets.

Room for Improvement

I would like to have more details and privileges. Sometimes, I have a problem where I need to grant a user in Enterprise Manager the privilege to view a database. When I grant a privilege to him, to monitor a database, he also gets the privilege to view the host of the database, and I don't want him to show the host, only the database. I would say more grantable and obtainable privileges are needed.

Use of Solution

I've been using it for four to five years.

Stability Issues

It's very, very stable.

Scalability Issues

It's been able to scale for our needs.

Customer Service and Technical Support

I never needed support for Oracle. The packages that they offer are very good. I never need to contact any guys from Oracle to perform support.

Initial Setup

It's very easy to setup, not for someone who has never worked with it, but if you had junior or someone a little more experienced than a junior, they are good enough to deploy. It's easy to deploy.

Other Advice

Before deploying a new service, be sure you configure it very well, because it's very boring and time consuming to later do this. It would be good to do this during the deployment phase. That is what I would think.

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it_user89634 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Vendor
Oracle Enterprise Manager is a must if you have many Oracle databases across the landscape

Valuable Features

Performance tuning, Alerting, SQL Tuning, Database Reporting

Improvements to My Organization

Generating a graphical report on the fly, Diagnose any performance issues

Room for Improvement

There is not much negative about OEM. But with newer versions, maybe more reporting functionality can be added.

Use of Solution

4 years

Customer Service and Technical Support

On a scale from 1 to 5 I would give it a 4.

Initial Setup

The installation was straightforward

Implementation Team

In-house team

Other Advice

Oracel Enterprise Manager is must if you have too many oracle databases across the landscape
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it_user522258 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
​Fast and compatible, easy to customize, has improved our security

What is most valuable?

The look and feel I think. Fast and compatible. It's easy to customize.

How has it helped my organization?

Security. 

What needs improvement?

The performance, I feel. The performance needs to be increased a little bit.Sometimes it will take some time to open forms, so I feel it should be a little bit faster.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Downtime is there, but it depends on the user's needs.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scales well.

How is customer service and technical support?

They're good.

What other advice do I have?

I recommend it. You should learn it; you need to know about it before you start using it. There are tools and thing which can help. There is development training you can attend, and then you can start with it.

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it_user521940 - PeerSpot reviewer
DBA with 10,001+ employees
Vendor
Enables us to proactively monitor multiple databases and avoid downtime

What is most valuable?

Helps us to monitor the databases and avoid any downtime.

How has it helped my organization?

We get alerts from OEM, so we get to know this is the issue with the database. There are multiple databases which we can configure on it, so we can proactively monitor those issues.

What needs improvement?

It should be more scalable, because only for the database can we have the backup source standardized. But for the GUI, if the service crashes... it should be more scalable.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We haven't had many stability issues but, yes, sometimes. It's actually dependent on the host. If the host goes down then obviously the UI goes down. That's why I was talking about scalability.

How are customer service and technical support?

It's provided by Oracle, so it's okay.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We were using our manual scripts for monitoring, and backup scripts which Oracle provides.

What other advice do I have?

Every step and all the documentation is there on the Oracle site, so there is nothing for me to suggest. It is the most up-to-date tool as of now for monitoring, that's it.

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