We performed a comparison between IBM BPM 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."Its Analytics is the most valuable feature."
"The solution is stable."
"The installation was straightforward."
"It makes the company business processes work more efficiently."
"The Process Designer is good. We like how we can drag and drop and link the processes up, that works out great for us."
"It excels at analytics. It provides visibility across all activities of a company's processes and performance."
"It helps improve your process through continual measurement."
"The solution offers great notifications."
"I found the adapters to be most useful."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle SOA Suite is all the platform's capabilities."
"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 solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful."
"The most valuable features for us are the APIs, which we commonly use, as well as the scheduling capabilities and file transfers."
"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 integration with various products."
"IBM BPM can improve the dashboards and reports. It only has two dashboards, and reporting is very difficult to build."
"IBM BPM's UI is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"We had a weird problem that whenever the database would go down, even for a few seconds, it broke the connection. It would not come back up as it was supposed to. However, working with IBM, we were able to figure out a fix, then it came back up, even after an interruption of the database."
"The configuration is not that easy, and the initial deployment took three months."
"We have been experiencing bad performance and instability."
"Initial setup is very complex. Too many steps need to be done at the database and server levels, and complex configurations. From what I see, a lot of these steps can be and should be automated."
"The initial setup process is complex for basic users."
"Better integration with other products in the automation suite."
"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."
"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 technical support is good, we have premier support which costs extra."
"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."
"The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved."
"I would like to see divided containers more separately as a microservice."
"If the disk space expansion can be made more flexible, not requiring a database restart, it would be a major benefit."
IBM BPM is ranked 7th in Application Infrastructure with 105 reviews while Oracle SOA Suite is ranked 8th in Application Infrastructure with 65 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while Oracle SOA Suite is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM BPM writes "Offers good case management and its integration with process design but there's a learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SOA Suite writes "Easy to setup, provides good support and scalable solution ". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, IBM Business Automation Workflow, Pega BPM, Appian and Apache Airflow, whereas Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with WebLogic Suite, Mule ESB, Apache Web Server, Microsoft .NET Framework and Oracle SOA Cloud Service. See our IBM BPM vs. Oracle SOA Suite report.
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