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."The most valuable feature of Microsoft System Center is its GUI (graphical user interface)."
"The installation process is easy."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ease of configuration and the easy discovery of the environment."
"System Center helps to create the basis for ITIL alignment."
"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."
"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."
"Good for managing and administering the infrastructure."
"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."
"Enables our Product Manager to post products to different outside EC platforms with only one interface and one process."
"The integration with various products."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle SOA Suite is all the platform's capabilities."
"Valuable features include connectors and BAM."
"The stability of the solution is the most valuable feature."
"I found the adapters to be most useful."
"Provides connectivity between discrete systems and has availability."
"The platform's performance could be improved. Additionally, its UI needs to be well-upgraded and work faster."
"The platform performance and responsiveness need improvement. It still demands high computing resources."
"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."
"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."
"The solution's dashboard needs improvement."
"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."
"They should have some customized solutions or internal development, then maybe it could be easier to use different solutions or some self-developed solution."
"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."
"The interface is too complicated. Making modifications still requires too much technical knowledge."
"The Maven integration in JDeveloper is very basic and might be enhanced to allow the proper use of Maven."
"Other solutions might be better componets such as Salesforce."
"It's also not developer-friendly."
"They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times."
"SOA"
"Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses."
"The deployment could be made easier by including add-ons like Hudson and Maven."
Microsoft System Center is ranked 14th 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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