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Oracle’s Enterprise Manager. Wan Chan ISM 158 4-27-2010. Introduction. Oracle launched newest system management software platform Enterprise Manager 11g W ill help companies configure, update and troubleshoot all the disparate software and hardware pieces from one dashboard
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Oracle’s Enterprise Manager Wan Chan ISM 158 4-27-2010
Introduction • Oracle launched newest system management software platform Enterprise Manager 11g • Will help companies configure, update and troubleshoot all the disparate software and hardware pieces from one dashboard • EM 11g has “full-stack” management capabilities
Competition • EM competes with families of management products from “Big Four”: IBM, Hewlett-Packard, CA, and BMC • Oracle trying to broaden EM’s appeal among non-Oracle shops and position it as adaptable for heterogeneous environments • Announced that partners built additional plug-ins for EM • But did not downplay that EM, while open to other vendors’ products, works best with Oracle’s own products
Product Pros and Details • Focused on best experience • All-seeing eye that closely monitors customers’ IT infrastructure • Platform’s capabilities in three categories: “business-driven application management,” “integrated application-to-disk management,” and “integrated systems management and support.”
Product Pros and Details • First refers to features like ability to track and analyze how well applications are working for end-users • Second provides management of Oracle’s technology stack, including Fusion Middleware • Third is an integration with Oracle’s support services portal
Resistance • It’s one thing to lay out a vision and another to convince a customer to fulfill it says analyst • Oracle’s pitch makes for elegant and compelling slideware but it is likely to encounter significant grassroots resitance in the marketplace • It represents a radical reintegration of functions and tools that have been highly fragmented and distributed in the last 25 years
Conclusion • Oracle hopes that combined the tight economy and pressures to do more with less, CIOs will mandate full-stack integration • It could be difficult for Oracle to make headway in the market for generalized IT management platforms, but it will take on the challenge from a different angle • Analyst says he’s not sure if enterprise buyers are into the full-stack thing as much as the vendors might be
Sources • http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/oracle-unveils-enterprise-manager-11g-586 • http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3878106/Oracle-Unveils-Enterprise-Manager-11g.htm