We performed a comparison between IBM WebSphere Application Server 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."IBM WebSphere Application Server is one of the best servers due to its stability and paid license."
"One of the most valuable features might be the stability of the IBM WebSphere Application Server."
"Security: It is compatible with the latest Java 8 security features, supports FIPS 140-2 and NIST SP 800-53 with strong ciphers and cryptography keys, and supports TLS 1.2 completely. Also, configuring client and server certificates is relatively easy."
"IBM WAS is extremely scalable. It is easy to add additional servers and to divide the load over servers in all kinds of ways."
"IBM WebSphere Application Server is the best in terms of scalability and performance, as well as the support for managing distributed transactions."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Portal Virtualization."
"The performance is good."
"The scalability of the product is quite good."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle SOA Suite is all the platform's capabilities."
"Conceptually, how it integrates a lot of essential enterprise process components. That's the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of the facility, as the partner link, is to try to use third-party services and logic in your own vehicle to orchestrate the information."
"It performs better in real-time transactions."
"I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy."
"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."
"Valuable features include connectors and BAM."
"The product provides transparency in finances."
"While WebSphere mostly supports IBM HTTP Server (IHS) as the web server plugin, I think it would be beneficial if it also supported Apache and NGINX web servers. That would give customers more flexibility in their choices."
"Sometimes, I feel WebSphere runs a bit slow. It might be loading unnecessary libraries, impacting its performance compared to other application servers."
"WebSphere Application Server doesn't have an automated deployment option, forcing us to use third-party tools like Jenkins UCD and Palo Automated Deployment."
"The footprint could be reduced so that we can use a smaller virtual machine to run the application. We could also use more scripts. I would like this solution to be more script oriented, rather than GUI oriented."
"I think that this is a good product but I think that the cloud environment could be improved. I think that the future is in the utilization of the product in a product as a service way which is something that is lacking at this moment."
"The main issue we faced was its limited compatibility with non-Java technologies, which can result in difficulty detecting potential bugs and requiring additional integration efforts."
"The solution could improve the integration."
"The solution consumes hardware."
"Other solutions might be better componets such as Salesforce."
"SOA"
"SOA, OSB, SOA Cloud Service."
"If the disk space expansion can be made more flexible, not requiring a database restart, it would be a major benefit."
"The installation and adjustment process seems too complex."
"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 deployment could be made easier by including add-ons like Hudson and Maven."
"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."
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IBM WebSphere Application Server is ranked 5th in Application Infrastructure with 26 reviews while Oracle SOA Suite is ranked 8th in Application Infrastructure with 65 reviews. IBM WebSphere Application Server is rated 7.8, while Oracle SOA Suite is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM WebSphere Application Server writes "Compatible, stable, and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SOA Suite writes "Easy to setup, provides good support and scalable solution ". IBM WebSphere Application Server is most compared with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss, Tomcat, Oracle WebLogic Server and IBM BPM, whereas Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with Mule ESB, WebLogic Suite, Apache Web Server, TIBCO ActiveMatrix and Microsoft System Center. See our IBM WebSphere Application Server vs. Oracle SOA Suite report.
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