Environment, options to manage databases and users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s a bit difficult to use and sometimes it’s a bit slow in some operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using Oracle Enterprise Manager since last 8 years of my Oracle DBA experience. Here are few of the many things that i love about OEM:

> Base Version of OEM is absolutely free given you already have licensed enterprise edition of Oracle database and tuning + diagnostic packs.

> It's POWERFUL. You can monitor database instances, listeners, hosts, storage (ASM), file systems, almost everything that you need to monitor and ensure your databases run smooth.

> Database administration is super easy when using OEM for lot of day to day activities like performance monitoring, diagnostics and alerts, user management etc. I can literally do all my DBA activities without having to login to individual database environments and without the hassle of maintaining all the SQL commands i need to achieve my tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love OEM but then there are few things, i don't appreciate about it.

First, It requires an intense knowledge of OEM both for installation and configuration. I don't mind it, most DBA's won't. But for someone who is just starting up with OEM, it can be super overwhelming.

Second, Given that OEM runs on top of Oracle WebLogic Server, the DBA also needs to have knowledge of WebLogic Server Administration. If Oracle can make it a little more seamless where DBA doesn't has to worry about WebLogic portion of the stack, it would be awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Has enterprise level monitoring. Has several plugins and can be used as the central monitoring tools for various components. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very slow and complicated user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Central location and tool to manage all your Oracle products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish the mobile application would be more userful and better UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The functionalities that it offers are numerous ranging from server monitoring, performance tuning, AWS reports, SQL tuning,load balancing. It has very informative visuals capability to see your database performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS reports functionalities can be made better. I also am not very fond of the timeout functionalities. It times out very often and settings have to be changed in the config file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

truthfully there isn't a LOT i like about the product, I do like there are options for in depth monitoring but it is difficult with learning software and what it can actually do Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

simple things like adding emails for alerting, adding agents and getting them to connect when making domain creation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of using the tool. Very easy for training the users on this Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maintenance data masking.migration are really tough these one Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ease of use, one umbrella for all database, web servers, operating system

ticketing mechanism Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nothing as like. eveything is self containing and explainaitory Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the notification aspect of the product. Being notified of a space or memory issue can limit downtime for users. You can take a proactive approach instead of disaster response handling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

During plan maintenance you need to remember to setup a blackout window or you will receive lots of messages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Performance and Tuning Tools and query analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not always easy to get back to where you were at in the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.