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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle Enterprise Manager

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AOracle’s Enterprise Manager is an on-premises monitoring and management tool. The console is designed primarily to manage other Oracle products, it but can integrate to manage non-Oracle components as well.N/A

    Zephyr Scale

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/ATM4j is a test management application for Jira, developed by Jira solutions specialist Adaptavist, acquired and now supported by SmartBear since March 2020.

    $4.55

    per month per user

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    Oracle Enterprise ManagerZephyr Scale
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    Oracle Enterprise ManagerZephyr Scale
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Free up to 10 users, $4.55/user/month after that. It gets cheaper as you scale.
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    Oracle
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Oracle Enterprise ManagerZephyr Scale
    Test Management
    Comparison of Test Management features of Oracle Enterprise Manager and Zephyr Scale
    Feature
    Oracle Enterprise Manager
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    Ratings
    Zephyr Scale
    7.8
    1 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Centralized test management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Map tests to user stories00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Test execution reporting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Defect management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Oracle Enterprise ManagerZephyr Scale
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (26 ratings)
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    Usability
    7.3
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    Support Rating
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Oracle Enterprise ManagerZephyr Scale
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    OEM is very well suited for all Oracle products, especially Oracle databases and Exadata machines; even not Oracle hardware, it is very good and displaying high level details. OEM is not well suited for older hardware vendors like AIX, HP-UX, DEC/Digital, Microsoft (sql server). This is a big negative as most large companies have a heterogeneous environment with many different vendor hardware and (database) software products.
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    SmartBear
    Jira and Confluence are widely implemented in organizations of various industries so incorporating Zephyr Scale is a very seamless method of adding scalable testing management. Testing visibility and end to end traceability is possible and integrates in Jira. Developers and engineers are able to take advantage of the built-in reports and statistics and even automate testing. The value is greatly reduced for organizations that do not already implement Jira and Confluence as the native integrated compatibility is much of the value
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • Monitoring Templates: There are out of box monitoring templates for each target types, you can customize them or use them as it is.
    • Administrative Groups: This is a relatively new feature in OEM Cloud Control. This lets you create and manage your targets and monitoring templates smarter and with less re-work.
    • DB Monitoring: There are so many cool DB monitoring features and visual graphics, that it can be used by both DBA and functional people to see what's going on in the database.
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    SmartBear
    • Scalable and compatible with Jira & Confluence
    • Improves testing visibility, data analysis, collaboration with reports & gadgets
    • Easy to retrospectively trace testing with change history
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • Bugs. Every version we upgrade to has a number of bugs. Some stop us from rolling to production OEM (we have a sandbox OEM), some are simply annoying. If I could improve on one thing, it would be for better QA from oracle before releasing each version.
    • Flash. I'm told that they are moving from Flash to Jet in version 13.3 and beyond (we are on 13.2 currently). That change cannot come soon enough. The OEM pages load SO slowly due to Flash.
    • Hierarchy Groups. OEM allows five Hierarchy groups. A Hierarchy group allows a top down metric/rule roll out. However, they limit you to five. I'd like to see them open that up, so that we can have any number of custom groups.
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    SmartBear
    • Not as valuable if not already using Jira or Confluence
    • Can be overlooked if the user does not set automation
    • Needs better first time tutorials
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    Usability
    Oracle
    It's great! It does everything and anything you would want it to do. It can monitor things which doesn't comes out of the box by adding plug ins to it, for example, you can even monitor Oracle GoldenGate Replication by adding a plug-in to OEM Cloud Control.
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    SmartBear
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    I still rate OEM as a must-have tool for central management of Oracle fleet. The pros and cons of the product is prominent. Meanwhile, I also acknowledge that OEM was design about a decade ago. At that time, it did not have the landscape we have today, such as cloud, DEVOPS, machine learning, etc. I hope in future releases, the design will incorporate those features.
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    SmartBear
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    Being an Oracle shop using Oracle Database and MySQL, management console from Oracle was a better choice than IBM or Microsoft even though we do use Microsoft Azure and storage/servers from IBM (on-prem).
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    SmartBear
    Zephyr scale is easier to work with and more seamlessly used because it is natively integrated with Jira and Confluence. TestRail cannot provide the same scalable experience and is rather dated and limited in capability. Developers rather use tools that are compatible with each other, and Zephyr scale offers that
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    Professional Services
    Oracle
    I work with OEM SCP team. They are great.
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    SmartBear
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • We are a 7x24 shop. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control helps us meet that objective by proactively warning us before issues cause down time. Things like disk space, archive log issues or temporary table space issues.
    • Spreading the use of this tool outside of the DBA group has allowed us to not hire additional personnel for those teams. Over time, as folks have retired from our operations team, we are not replacing them. Instead we have used OEM Cloud Control to automate tasks.
    • We also now have the tools to measure up-time by using specific measurements inside of OEM. This allows us to report real numbers to management.
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    SmartBear
    • Dozens of added testing capability via integrated gadgets
    • Reduced testing and tracking time
    • Faster and clearer testing operations awareness
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