Oracle’s Enterprise Manager 11g Maximizes Business Agility And Productivity

Business-Driven IT Management Connects Technology, Business, and IT for Greater Business Value, IT Efficiency and Agility

News Facts

• Delivering the industry’s most comprehensive business-driven IT
  management capabilities, Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g helps maximize
  business agility and productivity through an integrated approach to IT
  management.
• Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g introduces:
  • Business-driven
    application management—enables IT to be more responsive to business
    priorities and deliver greater business value by managing to key metrics
    for user experience and business transactions.
  • Integrated application-to-disk management—simplifies management
    through eliminating the need to use multiple tools at every layer of the
    stack – from packaged applications through middleware, database,
    operating system, virtualization, and hardware – and helps maximize
    return on IT investment.
  • Integrated systems management and support—allows IT to be more
    proactive than ever before through knowledge sharing with Oracle support
    and the broader Oracle community, which translates into more satisfied
    and productive users and more efficient IT operations.

Business-Driven Application Management; Delivers Greater Business Value

• Provides IT with an in-depth business perspective, with the
  ability to directly monitor and manage the experience of business users,
  their business transactions and application interactions.
• Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g enables improved business
  productivity, and helps IT to fuel business innovation and growth
  through:
  • User Experience Management: The new release 6.5 of
    Oracle Real User Experience Insight, a key feature of Oracle Enterprise
    Manager 11g, provides performance and usage statistics for real and
    synthetic transactions, as well as integrated diagnostics for Oracle’s
    Siebel CRM, the Oracle E-Business Suite, and Java technology-based
    applications – all accessible from a single console.
  • Business Transaction Management: Automatically discovers
    transactions, including the business content from the transaction;
    provides end-to-end visibility for in-flight transactions that span
    different IT tiers and different applications, including long-running
    transactions; provides crucial context to understand business impact and
    enables proactive issue resolution.
  • Business Service Management: Comprehensive service dashboards
    automatically discover business services, such as billing and shipping,
    and provide end-to-end performance analysis and diagnostics through a
    deep understanding of service implementations.

Integrated Application-to-Disk Management; Simplifies Management
Environment; Enables Improved ROI

• Complete management of the Oracle stack, including tools to
  manage Oracle Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database,
  Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle VM, and Oracle’s Sun
  Servers. This enables IT to quickly identify root cause and, in many
  cases, automatically resolve issues.
• Additionally, these capabilities help eliminate multiple point
  tools, for a simplified management environment and help customers
  achieve faster return on IT investment
• Highlights include:
  • Comprehensive Middleware Management: This
    release delivers enhanced support for managing Oracle Fusion Middleware
    11g, including full configuration management and provisioning for
    large-scale Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle WebLogic Server environments.
    Oracle WebLogic Server is often used in an “application grid”
    environment, or as the foundation for a private cloud. Oracle Enterprise
    Manager 11g can greatly simplify the management and provisioning of
    such deployments.
  • New Database Management Capabilities: Providing full support for
    Oracle Database 11g Release 2, including compression, change detection,
    partitioning, diagnostics, and tuning. Oracle Exadata-aware SQL
    monitoring and I/O resource management for Oracle Exadata Version 2 is
    also featured.
  • Extensive Hardware, Virtualization and Operating System Management:
    Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, for managing Sun hardware and
    Oracle Solaris, covers the entire lifecycle of physical and virtual Sun
    environments including Oracle VM for SPARC (formerly known as Logical
    Domains or LDoms) and Solaris Containers, enabling customers to maximize
    the utilization of their Sun systems.
  • Application Quality Management: New Oracle Application Testing Suite
    Release 9.1, automates test script generation based on real user
    actions; provides access to middleware diagnostics during load test to
    help identify performance bottlenecks; provides a new testing
    accelerator to simplify testing of applications based on Oracle ADF; and
    offers a new test starter kit for Oracle E-Business Suite R12
    applications, to help reduce testing effort.

Integrated Systems Management and Support; Enables More Proactive IT

• The
  integration of Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g’s console with Oracle
  Support Services allows proactive management of critical business
  systems.
• New components include:
  • Smart Configuration Management:
    Offers complete configuration lifecycle management and discovery with
    real-time change detection for compliance. It can simultaneously analyze
    millions of customer configurations and provide IT professionals with
    real-time notification of potential problems.
  • Automated Workflow: Enables the selection, validation and deployment
    of patches across the entire IT environment, allowing IT to help reduce
    the risk and effort needed to implement recommendations and fixes.
  • Community-Based Console: Facilitates best practice sharing and
    knowledge exchange with other members of the IT community.

Supporting Quotes

• "Traditional systems management products
  don’t address the complexities of modern data centers. They create
  islands of automation but do not provide a holistic, integrated picture
  of the health of the entire IT stack,” said Richard Sarwal, Oracle
  senior vice president Product Development. “Oracle Enterprise Manager
  11g helps IT deliver greater business value, in addition to greater IT
  efficiency and productivity. With the ability to closely support
  business goals, IT can become a strategic value-add to the success of an
  organization.”
• “In order to optimize its costs while maintaining the quality of IT
  services… IT will have to behave as a distinct corporate entity — the IT
  enterprise — rather than a pure divisional cost center within the
  enterprise. These new initiatives will require information that supports
  global business-based decisions instead of limited tactical technology
  ones. Consequently, the IT management software market will have to
  evolve from its pure operational role to a more strategic and
  business-oriented one,” as stated in ”Market Projections For 2010: IT
  Management Software,” Forrester Research, Inc., February, 2010.