We performed a comparison between Oracle SOA Cloud Service and Oracle SOA Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, SAP, Aurea and others in SOA Governance."It automated the way we did system integrations. Now, information is available on different systems to the correct people."
"I like the amount of technology that is involved in the Oracle SOA Suite."
"There are adapters which make it easier to build integrations between different technologies."
"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."
"The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful."
"The stability of the solution is the most valuable feature."
"The product allows you to visualize how a company is working currently by providing rich possibilities for analysis such as the audit trails and therefore shows where improvements might be valuable."
"Enables our Product Manager to post products to different outside EC platforms with only one interface and one process."
"I found the adapters to be most useful."
"I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy."
"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."
"As PaaS solution in the cloud, it should be easy to maintain this solution."
"The initial setup is complex. Many solutions out-of-the-box did not work as expected. The documentation provided Is particularly poor."
"The system is very unstable, and any modifications to the server or in the application can make the whole system stop."
"The Oracle SOA Suite could be simplified."
"Its function options can be improved."
"The installation and adjustment process seems too complex."
"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."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"One area that could be better is the human task feature. It could be improved to provide more functionality and customization options because it has limited options available."
"The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved."
"They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times."
"The solutions can improve the communication or translations between formats, such as JSON and XML. The JSON REST API could improve."
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Oracle SOA Cloud Service is ranked 5th in SOA Governance while Oracle SOA Suite is ranked 1st in SOA Governance with 65 reviews. Oracle SOA Cloud Service is rated 6.0, while Oracle SOA Suite is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle SOA Cloud Service writes "Offers integration with many technologies for your applications but the suite should be simplified ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SOA Suite writes "Easy to setup, provides good support and scalable solution ". Oracle SOA Cloud Service is most compared with , whereas Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with Mule ESB, WebLogic Suite, Apache Web Server, Microsoft .NET Framework and webMethods AgileApps Cloud.
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