Oracle seeks higher-level view with top-down approach to Enterprise Manager
By Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 5/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Oracle is raising the profile of its systems management product as it prepares to compete head-on with BMC, CA, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard in the market.
Oracle President Charles Phillips made that announcement in conjunction with delivery of Oracle Enterprise Manager release 3, which adds new adapters for Oracle E-Business suite and Siebel CRM, plus new plug-ins and connectors to Oracle Fusion middleware, BMC Remedy Service Desk 6.0, and IBM WebSphere MQ 5.3 and 6.0.
Oracle also announced a partnership with Nimsoft, provider of the NIMbus plug-in adapter for SAP R/3.
While systems and application management is a mature market, Oracle is promoting its offering based on its higher-level view of applications, databases, and middleware. Rather than manage from the network device up, Oracle claims it establishes a more meaningful picture of how data center software is running.
“Nobody else has the ability to manage the entire stack from the application down,” says Phillips, adding, “While many others have the viewer, we have the viewer and doer.”
Phillips is referring to the fact that Oracle Enterprise Manager can not only monitor and diagnose its own software, but handle most of the problem resolution and patching.
Phillips concedes that Oracle undersold Enterprise Manager in the past. “It's been on the back end of many deals,” he explains, adding that the plan now is to beef up sales and marketing to promote the offering.
