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."I like the automated features of it that let you schedule those updates and the ability of the product to focus on the specific updates, specific platforms, and products that we're interested in keeping up to date."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it helps us manage our company's application pool, license pool, application update pool, and OS updates."
"Many processes could be implemented out-of-the-box, and this helped to adopt processes in areas which we lacked."
"The availability performance matrix and the reporting capabilities are the solution's most valuable features."
"We like Microsoft System Center's Operations Manager. That is primarily why we use it."
"The detail in the alarms is great."
"Step-by-step documentation that clarifies the implementation procedure."
"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."
"The new product has come out with SOA Cloud Service and Integration Analytics as well, which gives more options for clients to pick their point of requirements."
"The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful."
"Enables our Product Manager to post products to different outside EC platforms with only one interface and one process."
"Conceptually, how it integrates a lot of essential enterprise process components. That's the most valuable."
"The product provides transparency in finances."
"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."
"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."
"They should have some customized solutions or internal development, then maybe it could be easier to use different solutions or some self-developed solution."
"The solution's dashboard needs improvement."
"Most of the documentation is online, however, there are some gaps there. The product documentation still refers back to the 2012 Server. We're pretty much in 2022. There's a ten-year gap there."
"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."
"For me, the tool's UI seems to be too old."
"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."
"Something super important that we need is this integration via Intune Configuration Manager."
"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."
"An area for improvement in Oracle SOA Suite is the cost. It could be lower."
"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."
"The solutions can improve the communication or translations between formats, such as JSON and XML. The JSON REST API could improve."
"The interface is too complicated. Making modifications still requires too much technical knowledge."
"The deployment could be made easier by including add-ons like Hudson and Maven."
"They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times."
"The installation and adjustment process seems too complex."
"Another area of improvement is performance. Because with multiple solutions connecting to the SOA platform, the performance of the SOA platform can be affected in time. So, that could be one area that could be improved with the SOA."
Microsoft System Center is ranked 15th in Application Infrastructure with 18 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 "Makes user management and application management easy for users". 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, TIBCO ActiveMatrix and IBM DataPower Gateway. See our Microsoft System Center vs. Oracle SOA Suite report.
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