Oracle Enterprise Manager vs. Watchman Monitoring

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Score 6.8 out of 10
N/A
Oracle’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
Watchman Monitoring
Score 10.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Watchman Monitoring is a read-only IT Alerting, hardware monitoring, & high-availability beacon reporting SaaS designed for resale by IT professionals looking to provide proactive support to their offerings. The Watchman Monitoring Client has a single focus: to detect and report issues.
$79
Up to 25 Devices
Pricing
Oracle Enterprise ManagerWatchman Monitoring
Editions & Modules
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Watchman Monitoring
$79.00
Up to 25 Devices
Watchman Monitoring
$79.00
Up to 25 Devices
Watchman Monitoring
$199.00
Up to 1500 Devices
Watchman Monitoring
$199.00
Up to 1500 Devices
Watchman Monitoring
$299.00
Over 1500 Devices
Watchman Monitoring
$299.00
Over 1500 Devices
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Oracle Enterprise ManagerWatchman Monitoring
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Oracle Enterprise ManagerWatchman Monitoring
Top Pros
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Features
Oracle Enterprise ManagerWatchman Monitoring
Monitoring Tasks
Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Enterprise Manager
8.4
14 Ratings
5% above category average
Watchman Monitoring
9.7
1 Ratings
19% above category average
Remote monitoring8.013 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Network device monitoring9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Server Monitoring8.314 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-device monitoring8.311 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Automated alerts and notifications8.514 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Management Tasks
Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Enterprise Manager
8.1
14 Ratings
9% above category average
Watchman Monitoring
7.0
1 Ratings
6% below category average
Patch Management7.912 Ratings00 Ratings
Service configuration management9.011 Ratings00 Ratings
Software and hardware inventory6.713 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Policy-based automation8.811 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting
Comparison of Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Enterprise Manager
7.2
14 Ratings
5% below category average
Watchman Monitoring
7.5
1 Ratings
1% below category average
Performance data reports8.014 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reporting4.612 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Data visualization8.313 Ratings00 Ratings
Risk analysis8.010 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Enterprise Manager
4.2
14 Ratings
45% below category average
Watchman Monitoring
-
Ratings
Data backup and recovery3.612 Ratings00 Ratings
Antivirus and malware management5.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Administrator access control3.914 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Oracle Enterprise ManagerWatchman Monitoring
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(20 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Oracle Enterprise ManagerWatchman Monitoring
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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Watchman Monitoring
If you are in IT consulting or manage any fleet of computers, both Mac and PC (and yes Linux) - you should have this installed. It will be able to provide you the information needed to repair computers and avoid productivity loss by users.
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Pros
Oracle
  • Database status. Being able to see which databases are up/down, at a glance, allows us to quickly react to issues.
  • Reporting. We report on last backups, daily status, a host of metrics, and compliance levels of all our databases. With reporting we come into the office with a set of "status" reports and we know instantly if a database has issues.
  • Metrics. We have a number of KPI's and SLA's we need to meet. Metrics applied to the databases allow us to stay on top of those requirements as well as fix common issues without a DBA needing to log in to assess the issue.
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Watchman Monitoring
  • Super easy to deploy.
  • Integrates well with ZenDesk and YourComputerInventory.com.
  • Website is very clear and email to manage.
  • Support is awesome.
  • Super lightweight package.
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Cons
Oracle
  • We also use OEM to monitor SQL Server. However, OEM only provided limited features for SQL Server. It would be nice if we can schedule backup jobs for SQL Server in OEM.
  • The ability to run SQL queries. You can't run queries in OEM. I have to go to SQL Developer or SQL PLUS to run. queries.
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Watchman Monitoring
  • Would like to see non-computer deployment agent - such as Synology.
  • Since it's mainly reporting, this isn't necessary improvement, but it would be good if it can receive data - so in case we can't ping a machine, maybe use Watchman as a backdoor - but that would go against it's main principles.
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Usability
Oracle
Navigation is clean and neat.
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Watchman Monitoring
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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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Watchman Monitoring
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Alternatives Considered
Oracle
Toad for Oracle is more suited for individual users who have a strong focus on database development, and it is not as comprehensive as Oracle Enterprise Manager. While it is quite decent in logical database layer tasks, such as schema objects and SQL, it lacks visibility into host level and I/O layer performance stats.
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Watchman Monitoring
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Professional Services
Oracle
I work with OEM SCP team. They are great.
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Watchman Monitoring
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Oracle
  • When we were using Oracle GoldenGate, it made our life easy in terms of visually seeing the configuration and identifying issues easily
  • It also makes ASM management very easy instead of doing it in the command line
  • Creating policies and implementing certain standard configurations across all the databases is easy
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Watchman Monitoring
  • I've been using it since the day it came out - there have so many times where a machine has had an error reported by Watchman that we've been able to save the client before something terrible happened.
  • The ROI is there - you can easily resell this product to your clients, or wrap it into your product offering.
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