We performed a comparison between Microsoft System Center and Oracle SOA Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."System Center helps to create the basis for ITIL alignment."
"Good for managing and administering the infrastructure."
"The deployment and asset management features are the most valuable. These are the product's main features."
"It can generate KPIs and management reports with monthly presentations on activities and updating the environment (success and failure)."
"Many processes could be implemented out-of-the-box, and this helped to adopt processes in areas which we lacked."
"Step-by-step documentation that clarifies the implementation procedure."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ease of configuration and the easy discovery of the environment."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"What I like best about Oracle SOA Suite is Oracle support. I also like the tool features, especially the integration feature."
"In Oracle SOA Suite some applications are not able to use REST, but it can support both SOAP and REST. You're able to integrate quite a lot of systems, which may not be able to in other solutions. You can also use XML and JSON. It is a standardizing type of tool. It doesn't matter whether I'm using JSON or XML, it can convert them."
"The most valuable features for us are the APIs, which we commonly use, as well as the scheduling capabilities and file transfers."
"The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful."
"We were able to scale out using multiple application and web servers balanced by hardware load balancers and Weblogic clustering."
"Provides connectivity between discrete systems and has availability."
"The Oracle SOA Suite has many useful features, and different organizations may place different emphases on the importance of each feature. Certain features are particularly important to the organization, such as the ability to access databases and transform messages, as well as the use of proxy services to secure web services with usernames and passwords. These features can be critical for enabling effective integration and data exchange between systems and applications."
"This is one of the critical products for my company and we use it extensively. We currently use each and every feature of Oracle SOA."
"In Microsoft System Center, it is difficult to follow the steps to create dataflows at times."
"The multi-tenancy support needs to be improved. We need to have the ability to manage several different environments from one central point of administration."
"Could be more user friendly."
"Less server consumption would help, as would better, more flexible reports."
"System Center hasn't updated to keep up with the industry. It needs improvements in the user interface, ease of use, and overall product functionality, particularly the cloud-monitoring features. It needs more capabilities to monitor AWS and Azure infrastructure."
"We have some bugs but it's stable. It doesn't break every day. It works. Like other applications, it has a lot of bugs but they're manageable."
"The solution's dashboard needs improvement."
"The platform performance and responsiveness need improvement. It still demands high computing resources."
"Various parts of SOA, BPEL, and so on, each have their own consoles which need to be accessed individually with different logins. It would be better from an admin perspective if all the consoles were accessible via a single login."
"An area for improvement in Oracle SOA Suite is the cost. It could be lower."
"The installation and adjustment process seems too complex."
"Its function options can be improved."
"They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times."
"The Maven integration in JDeveloper is very basic and might be enhanced to allow the proper use of Maven."
"An important area that can be improved is the product's data monitoring. When we use the solution for interfacing or end-to-end data monitoring, we want to know exactly where the data is going and exactly where it is failing, or where there is an issue."
"SOA, OSB, SOA Cloud Service."
Microsoft System Center is ranked 15th in Application Infrastructure with 17 reviews while Oracle SOA Suite is ranked 8th in Application Infrastructure with 65 reviews. Microsoft System Center is rated 7.8, while Oracle SOA Suite is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft System Center writes "Good review of configurations, effective antivirus administration, and has weekly reports". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SOA Suite writes "Easy to setup, provides good support and scalable solution ". Microsoft System Center is most compared with , whereas Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with Mule ESB, WebLogic Suite, Apache Web Server, Microsoft .NET Framework and IBM DataPower Gateway. See our Microsoft System Center vs. Oracle SOA Suite report.
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