We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway 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."It is easy to use, easy to install, and it's resilient for high availability."
"I like that it is very stable, and we never experience any downtime."
"Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot of security features."
"The most valuable feature is the security appliance, it's very secure."
"I like the tool's security. Also, all functionalities are integrated within on platform."
"What I like most is the stability."
"The product's most valuable features are AAA policies and security features."
"The solution is very easy to work with."
"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."
"The integration with various products."
"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 most valuable features for us are the APIs, which we commonly use, as well as the scheduling capabilities and file transfers."
"I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy."
"The ability to stand up a highly available SOA Suite, which has full DR capabilities, in a remote center and synchronize the databases using Data Guard."
"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."
"The product provides transparency in finances."
"The solution requires a lot of training manuals in order to get to know it better and to be able to use it effectively."
"Some pre-packaged connectors for integration with various applications, such as SaaS offerings, would be a useful addition."
"The components that they include in the product that are, in fact, a WTX, really need to be removed from the product because they tend to fail."
"Making it more user-friendly would be an improvement."
"They should add features to manage API integrations."
"We are always looking for more features wherein it could be easily integrated with cloud applications. We are looking for either a cloud solution or a cloud integration option."
"The programming language is only supported in XSLT and Gateway script."
"The product should be more adapted to the DevOps process."
"The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved."
"Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses."
"Other solutions might be better componets such as Salesforce."
"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."
"An important area that can be improved is the product's data monitoring. When we use the solution for interfacing or end-to-end data monitoring, we want to know exactly where the data is going and exactly where it is failing, or where there is an issue."
"The Maven integration in JDeveloper is very basic and might be enhanced to allow the proper use of Maven."
"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."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 7th in Application Infrastructure with 26 reviews while Oracle SOA Suite is ranked 8th in Application Infrastructure with 65 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while Oracle SOA Suite is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Easy to use, plenty of functionality, but expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SOA Suite writes "Easy to setup, provides good support and scalable solution ". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM Integration Bus, whereas Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with Mule ESB, WebLogic Suite, Apache Web Server and TIBCO ActiveMatrix. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. Oracle SOA Suite report.
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