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New NiCE Oracle Management Pack for Microsoft System Center supercharges Oracle database monitoring

NiCE solutions simplify management of System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager and Oracle databases on UNIX, Linux and Windows

Leonberg, Germany - July 2015 – NiCE IT Management Solutions, an industry leader in developing premium management packs for System Center Operations Manager, earlier this week announced the availability of the new Oracle Management Pack v3.10. The solution is designed to seamlessly integrate into System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager, enabling a centralized easy to use interface.

“After speaking to a multitude of IT Operations managers and Oracle DBAs, we gained an understanding of the intricacies behind building a management pack that connects System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager and the Oracle DBA,” said Christian Heitkamp, Product Director at NiCE. “Effective IT administration demands synergy, information at your fingertips, and a centralized view of your environment and these principles are paramount in developing this solution."

The NiCE Oracle Management Pack provides comprehensive and in-depth monitoring of your Oracle environment. A low footprint although tons of information are scanned and analyzed, and a broad range of heterogeneous platforms are additional, outstanding features of the NiCE solution. The solution will address application monitoring needs for both System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager administrator and Oracle DBAs. The solution is now available for a free evaluation backed with expert advice from the NiCE support team.

Bridging the gap between System Center Operations Manager administrator and Oracle DBA can be complex. This solution enables System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager administrators and Oracle DBAs to collaborate and effectively monitor their environments, saving time and money.

The NiCE Oracle Management Pack provides a set of key enabling capabilities including:
• Visual Dashboards
• RAC/ASM Instance Discovery and Disk Group Monitoring
• Various documentation updates and extensions
• Oracle Fail Safe Cluster support
• Support for all latest Oracle versions
• Detailed MP Self-Monitoring for peace of mind
• 70+ Unit Monitors and 50+ Performance Rules
• Unique concept of internal thresholds
• Detailed, SQL level monitoring
• Cluster discovery and RAC ready SCAN Listener monitoring
• Monitoring solution with no single point of failure.

NiCE has also improved its flagship Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Certified management pack, based on feedback from customers and System Center Communities.

“The NiCE Oracle Management Pack provides a very good deployment and configuration experience,” said Roman Yuferev from VIAcode, recognized leader in System Management and Application Performance Monitoring. “We were really impressed by the detailed logging information from the Oracle Management Pack, which made the deployment process smooth. This solution also provides a great set of out-of-the-box reports, which IT professionals need to manage their respective IT environments.”

“As a valuable member of the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance, we are pleased to see  NiCE continuing to deliver offerings to help customers simplify IT management and extend the value of their System Center investments,” said Michael Leworthy, Group Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft.

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About NiCE
NiCE IT Management Solutions is a company that has over 20 years of experience with Cross Platform Application Monitoring Solutions on UNIX, Linux, and Windows. NiCE has amassed this wealth of experience from collaboration and integration with our valued Business Partners including Microsoft, Oracle, HP, IBM and BlackBerry.

NiCE roots come from years of developing and perfecting Smart Plug-ins (SPIs) with its Business Partner, Hewlett Packard. With the introduction of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, NiCE started developing Application Monitoring solutions for this platform as well. As a Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance Partner and a member of the MPx Alliance (a powerful collaboration between Veeam, Comtrade, and NiCE - The Microsoft System Center Management Pack experts), NiCE provides management packs for database and communication applications.

The NiCE mission has always been to provide the best monitoring solutions for IT professionals worldwide. Its’ highly skilled team services clients across 6 continents, ranging from SMBs to Fortune 100 companies, and across multiple industries. NiCE is focused on ensuring that its clients acquire maximum value and are completely satisfied with its solutions.