We performed a comparison between IBM BPM, Oracle SOA Suite, and WebLogic Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"One of the most notable things is how you can develop use cases with the customers, internal customers, but directly within. The software process model that BPM supports is really exciting in that aspect."
"This product does the job in terms of executing the workflow."
"IBM BPM and Automation Anywhere working together automate manual tasks with a reduction in FTEs, creating about a 30% reduction in FTEs by automating processes."
"It provides a very robust environment to build an integration framework or workflow patterns that we have. A lot of changes or modifications have been made to this solution over the past few years. The features that they have added this time have helped developers like us to work on the developmental environment and leverage all the capabilities of the tool. This is what I like about this solution."
"Everything is coupled together and comes as one solution."
"One thing that I love about them is that they make it easier to integrate with other systems, especially with the use of smaller files."
"The designer feature, compared to other solutions is easy to use."
"We were able to scale out using multiple application and web servers balanced by hardware load balancers and Weblogic clustering."
"What I like best about Oracle SOA Suite is Oracle support. I also like the tool features, especially the integration feature."
"It performs better in real-time transactions."
"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 stability of the solution is the most valuable feature."
"In case there is something that doesn't work out of the box, you have the flexibility to customize it."
"The product provides transparency in finances."
"The solution is very scalable. It's easy to add processes even if you are new to the solution."
"WebLogic Suite is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides one place where you can control all of the services."
"WebLogic adds a lot of value to business and investments."
"What I've been seeing as the most valuable characteristics of WebLogic Suite include robustness and scalability. It's a really good solution, and I'm not saying this because my company is a partner of WebLogic Suite. I also like that with the newer versions of the solution, you can deploy WebLogic Suite faster. Oracle also provides excellent technical support."
"Scalability on the solution is great. It's very very easy to scale."
"This is a robust solution."
"A valuable feature is its integration with Oracle Database."
"The configuration is not that easy, and the initial deployment took three months."
"If the processing gets better, it would be more efficient."
"The debugging needs improvement. There is some confusion surrounding the debugging."
"IBM BPM lacks openness, that is, the ability to become open for new options in terms of APIs, front-end development, and ecosystem. IBM BPM has been quite closed. One of the main improvements would be to somehow embed the rules engine into IBM BPM. Merging IBM BRMS and the rules engine with IBM BPM would be helpful. If there was some simpler way to define rules without having to put IBM BRMS on top of it, it would be good. It's something that we can get out of Camunda but not out of IBM BPM."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"There is a lot of room for improvement of the dashboards."
"We care about technology and support because support is very important and a BPM is not easy to implement."
"I hope IBM uses something from IBM Content Navigator to make the interface easier to navigate."
"SOA"
"Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses."
"An area for improvement in Oracle SOA Suite is the cost. It could be lower."
"I would like to see divided containers more separately as a microservice."
"They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times."
"The interface is too complicated. Making modifications still requires too much technical knowledge."
"It's also not developer-friendly."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"The solution needs to share more information in terms of training. There needs to be more documentation involved to help those who are completely new to the product."
"I would like to see the licensing policy simplified."
"I think the support could be much better."
"The restart capability needs to be improved because it takes us 15 minutes to restart any application."
"I noticed a few areas for improvement in WebLogic Suite. If you use the pure play higher-availability features, then yes, it can be switched over to the other system from the high-availability point of view, but that comes with a certain price. If you prefer simpler high-availability, that requires manual intervention. I'd also recommend a tuning feature in WebLogic Suite because it's not self-tuning, and this means you need thorough expertise to do the tuning and leverage the best benefit out of it. If Oracle makes WebLogic Suite automated or self-driven, then it becomes a wonderful product, similar to what Oracle did for the Autonomous Database which is self-driven or has an autonomous operating system. If automation is added in the next release of the solution, combined with more affordable pricing, though as a technical person, I know how much goes into having automation as a feature, and it could be difficult to lower the price, but if Oracle can do it, then that would make WebLogic Suite better."
"This solution would benefit from the inclusion of a ripple start function for clusters."
"This solution doesn't have connectors to other external applications."
"Sometimes there are issues when we work on a VM because people use it to put all of their reports on it at the same time. Then I have to restart and rebuild the machine."