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Oracle Enterprise Manager vs. Pragmatic Workbench (discontinued)

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle Enterprise Manager

    Score7.4 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

    Pragmatic Workbench (discontinued)

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Pragmatic Workbench Enterprise was a suite that combined four Pragmatic Works products: BI xPress, DBA xPress, DOC xPress and LegiTest. It was acquired by SentryOne in April 2018, and has reached its EOL phase. After the summer of 2022 it will likely no longer be available, and unsupported.

    $2,490

    per seat

    Pricing
    Oracle Enterprise ManagerPragmatic Workbench (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Workbench Client Edition
    2,490
    per seat
    Workbench Server Edition
    8,995
    per server
    Workbench Enterprise Edition (Client + Server)
    9,995
    1 user / 1 server
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle Enterprise ManagerPragmatic Workbench (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Workbench Enterprise combines all of the functionality within Workbench Client (local install) and Workbench Server (server install).
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    Features
    Oracle Enterprise ManagerPragmatic Workbench (discontinued)
    Database Development
    Comparison of Database Development features of Oracle Enterprise Manager and Pragmatic Workbench (discontinued)
    Feature
    Oracle Enterprise Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Pragmatic Workbench (discontinued)
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Test data generation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    Oracle Enterprise ManagerPragmatic Workbench (discontinued)
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    DBeaver
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score9.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    DBeaver
    Score9.2 out of 10
    DBeaver
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    DBeaver
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle Enterprise ManagerPragmatic Workbench (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (20 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle Enterprise ManagerPragmatic Workbench (discontinued)
    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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    Workbench Enterprise is consistent across devices and users so far. It works the same, and access is easy. I have a problem with its security. If you use an enterprise password to access databases, it's very easy to click the show password on the connection page and expose the enterprise password. You shouldn't allow users to use the same accounts to access the database because that means all users are sharing the same password.
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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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    • Querying is easy and quick.
    • Updating tables is very easy.
    • It gives us very accurate error messages.
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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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    • It has autocompleted, but I find it difficult to use or get to use.
    • It doesn't automatically complete table names or field names.
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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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    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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    Our team does the support for us. Sometimes we see download related issues that can easily be fixed by our team. Most issues you will see with one user in your org will probably happen to others, so keep a log and track those issues. Then have a fix for them somewhere that everyone has access to. This will save you a lot of time troubleshooting.
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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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    Professional Services
    Oracle
    I work with OEM SCP team. They are great.
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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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    • I personally like Workbench Enterprise, and I can do everything I need to do using it.
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    ScreenShots

    Pragmatic Workbench (discontinued) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Real-Time SSIS Execution DiagramScreenshot of Visual Object LineageScreenshot of Data Validation Testing DesignerScreenshot of Data Validation Testing -  Performance DashboardScreenshot of Workbench Launch Dashboard