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We performed a comparison between Oracle Enterprise Manager and ServiceNow Discovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Server Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Oracle Enterprise Manager vs. ServiceNow Discovery Report (Updated: May 2024).
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"Oracle Enterprise Manager has eased the responsibilities among our DBAs. We can now assign individual tasks to separate DBAs.""What I like most about Oracle Enterprise Manager are its features, particularly the active session history. It provides insights into SQL, and I use it regularly to identify potential issues.""The most valuable features of Oracle Enterprise Manager are the data guide and online monitoring.""The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a very user-friendly tool.""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.""This solution allows us to quickly drill down when there are issues.""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 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."

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"One highly valuable aspect is the use of service accounts, which automates the process of identifying underlying nodes and associated assets.""We mostly use the solution's ITSM and ITOM capabilities in most workflows.""The most valuable feature of ServiceNow Discovery is its performance.""The initial setup is pretty straightforward.""It does a good job of collecting the data that's necessary for data centers, and IT's operations.""The most valuable asset is relationship building because the solution discovers and builds auto relationships in a way that makes cleanup very easy.""The service management and operations management modules are valuable.""ServiceNow Discovery works better than other products I've used."

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Cons
"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 tool's pricing is costly.""The solution is considered expensive.""Oracle Enterprise Manager could improve the monitoring types and the graphics.""We have encountered performance issues when the load is huge.""Oracle Enterprise Manager's scalability is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required.""We would like to have a single dashboard for monitoring and controlling all of our products."

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"It is one of the most costly applications in terms of subscription costs.""ServiceNow Discovery should be updated to provide its users with more out-of-the-box information and attributes to support the routers and switches from Cisco.""ServiceNow has a constant development environment. Hence they get constant bugs which result in incorrect performance. It should also improve customer service.""The service mapping component is less developed than it is in other solutions, and is in need of improvement.""In future releases, I would like to see more AI-oriented enhancements in the solution. It would automate most of the things that we have to do manually write the scripts and go on the teleservice, what to do. So if we have something in place and if we can train the module, then AI would be a good thing.""The product could improve some of the visualization and architecture setups.""In terms of improvement, I would like for it to be possible to use without coding. I would like a dropdown so that every customer can do it easily for himself and can understand it.""The manual pattern-matching process is not only time-consuming but also presents challenges during system upgrades, demanding revisits to ensure compatibility."

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  • "It is part of Real Application Testing, so no new investment is necessary for clients who already are already using RAT."
  • "As with all Oracle products, care should be taken when using any features to ensure that they do not activate licensed features that have not been paid for."
  • "The basic functions are free. You only pay license fees for advanced features."
  • "The pricing is very high."
  • "We are satisfied with the pricing."
  • "There is only the standard licensing fee. There are no other costs."
  • "Evaluate your requirements carefully. Elaborate DR and HA setup of OEM can become expensive."
  • "Be careful to only enable the packs for which you have a license as this is an issue we see time and again."
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  • "This solution is a paid option within the ServiceNow framework."
  • "It's a bit expensive compared to other products in the market, but it's worth the money you pay because it's far advanced in terms of features, automation, and capabilities compared to other products."
  • "There is a subscription for ServiceNow Discovery. It's expensive, but I think it's one of the best solutions on the market, so it's worth it."
  • "The price could be better. It's a bit on the pricey side."
  • "It is an expensive product with a price that depends on the models that you wish to purchase."
  • "It costs a lot. It is probably close to over a hundred thousand. It's an expensive platform, but you can't compare ServiceNow's Discovery functionality to other discovery tools. It's not an apples-to-apples comparison of ServiceNow to a configuration management tool to an asset management tool because it does those things, but it's not those things."
  • "You need a subscription to ServiceNow Discovery, so you can use its features. You can also use specific plugins with the tool, and some of the plugins are free. I don't have information on how much my company pays for the subscription to ServiceNow Discovery."
  • "The solution is very expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:What I like most about Oracle Enterprise Manager are its features, particularly the active session history. It provides insights into SQL, and I use it regularly to identify potential issues.
    Top Answer:As far as I know, you do not pay for Oracle Enterprise Manager separately. You can use Enterprise Manager for free if you already have an Oracle license for your database.
    Top Answer:Improving the integration speed would be beneficial, as the current Java-based system can sometimes result in slow responses. Enhancing performance overall would also be valuable.
    Top Answer:The product provides great scalability features.
    Top Answer:Though I am not much involved in the pricing part, I know that it is a bit costly. As per a general discussion I had with the stakeholders, I figured out that it is a costly tool. There is a need to… more »
    Top Answer:On the patent side, my company faced some issues with ServiceNow Discovery. In the subsequent releases of the product, ServiceNow promptly addressed the patent-related issues in the tool. More… more »
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    Overview

    Oracle Enterprise Manager is an on-premises management platform that provides a comprehensive integrated solution for managing and automating your various Oracle products, including applications, databases, middleware, hardware, and engineered systems located either in your Oracle data center or in the cloud.

    With the Oracle Enterprise Manager's console, you can administer multiple databases and servers, distribute software to multiple servers and clients, monitor objects and events throughout the network, and integrate with other tools.

    Key Oracle Enterprise Manager Features and Products

    • Hardware and virtualization management: Manage all Oracle environments from one central console. Oracle Enterprise Manager provides management and automation for Oracle engineered systems, databases, middleware, and hardware.

    • Database management: Oracle’s Database management provides a full lifecycle solution for updates and configuration management, patching, provisioning, testing, performance management and automatic tuning.

    • Application performance management (APM): User and database monitoring with diagnostics and performance analysis that provide rich reporting on real user activities.

    • Enterprise monitoring: Built-in monitoring of all components of the IT infrastructure enables rapid problem diagnosis. Both Oracle and non-Oracle components are constantly monitored.

    • Oracle real user experience insight: Insights on real user experiences and preferences enable businesses and IT stakeholders to develop a shared understanding into their application users’ experience.

    • Non-Oracle management: Oracle Enterprise Manager manages non-Oracle components with a comprehensive set of plugins. The self-update mechanism allows customers to download, import, and deploy extensions built by Oracle, Oracle partners, and Oracle customers. These extensions enjoy the same level of stability as Oracle's own products.

    • Installation and upgrade: The upgrade process provides efficient, reliable, secure data migration with minimal downtime of your environment.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Oracle Enterprise Manager stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its central management and monitoring and its reporting capabilities

    Robin C., head of Oracle Exadata Centre of Excellence at Tata Consultancy Services, writes, "The database performance monitoring features are very useful and allow us to quickly zero in on DB-related issues. Exadata storage server and Infiniband switches can be viewed from the GUI in OEM which cannot be done in other tools. The ability to deploy metric extensions makes this tool extensible for our custom monitoring also."

    PeerSpot users note the effectiveness of these features. A database manager at a tech services company notes, “The solution's most valuable aspect is the fact that it is embedded with the Oracle database and Oracle's engineering system, its extra data, and analytics.  They have plug-ins that are very helpful. Due to the infrastructure's size, the introduction they offer is very, very useful. It helps with an overall understanding of the product. They have a very nice graphical user interface. The monitoring is good. We can capture the SQL tune from us. With Oracle Enterprise Managers, we can see the rich performance tuning.”

    ServiceNow Discovery finds applications and devices on your network, and then updates the CMDB with the information it finds. Discovery is available as a separate subscription from the rest of the Now Platform.

    Sample Customers
    7-Eleven, Halliburton, Cisco, Garmin, Nationwide, Korea Telecom, Allied Irish Bank
    York, National Grid, DXC Technology, experian, BEACHBODY
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm23%
    Energy/Utilities Company14%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Computer Software Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization67%
    Financial Services Firm6%
    Computer Software Company4%
    Government4%
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    Financial Services Firm22%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Retailer11%
    Educational Organization11%
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Company Size
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise59%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business5%
    Midsize Enterprise70%
    Large Enterprise24%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise51%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise75%
    Buyer's Guide
    Oracle Enterprise Manager vs. ServiceNow Discovery
    May 2024
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    Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 4th in Server Monitoring with 123 reviews while ServiceNow Discovery is ranked 3rd in Server Monitoring with 38 reviews. Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4, while ServiceNow Discovery is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle Enterprise Manager writes "Provides good stability and has an easy implementation process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ServiceNow Discovery writes "Valuable relationship building that discovers and auto-builds to make cleanup easy". Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Quest Spotlight, AppDynamics and Nutanix Database Service, whereas ServiceNow Discovery is most compared with Tanium, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Lansweeper, AWS Cloud Map and Qualys VMDR. See our Oracle Enterprise Manager vs. ServiceNow Discovery report.

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