We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and WebLogic 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 solution is scalable, our customers are mostly South African banks and they handle mostly transactions with this solution."
"Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot of security features."
"Its initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution is very easy to work with."
"What I like most is the stability."
"The solution is robust."
"I like that it is very stable, and we never experience any downtime."
"The solution is straightforward and for large organizations, it functions well."
"The program is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides one place where you can control all of the services."
"The transaction handling of WebLogic and the way it is designed is excellent."
"WebLogic Suite is scalable."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"WebLogic adds a lot of value to business and investments."
"Scalability on the solution is great. It's very very easy to scale."
"This is a robust solution."
"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."
"An area for improvement in IBM DataPower Gateway is its price point because it's a relatively expensive product. Sometimes, when the customer use case is just a very small subset of what's being offered in IBM DataPower Gateway, then the product can be expensive, making my company lose some of the opportunities because of the expensive pricing. A lower price point for IBM DataPower Gateway, even if that results in a less feature-rich version, would be appreciated. In terms of additional features that I'd like to see in the next release of IBM DataPower Gateway, nothing specific comes to mind because IBM constantly improves its standards and provides quarterly updates to the product, so it's quite fine."
"They should add features to manage API integrations."
"I would like the tool to improve its training."
"Traceability could be improved, especially for business operations. The traceability of the transactions could be an improvement point for DataPower to work on. It would be better if they provided JSON support. JSON protocol data has changed format. It started performing internal transformation to JSONx. This might be an additional complexity."
"Additional documentation needs to be provided for complex automations."
"Some pre-packaged connectors for integration with various applications, such as SaaS offerings, would be a useful addition."
"One area that could be improved is the integration with Postgres and SQL databases. Currently, IBM DataPower Gateway only integrates with Oracle databases."
"The restart capability needs to be improved because it takes us 15 minutes to restart any application."
"I think the support could be much better."
"The content search is not easy."
"I would like to see the licensing policy simplified."
"The licensing for the solution is pretty expensive. It may be the most expensive solution, if you were to compare it to the competition."
"This solution would benefit from the inclusion of a ripple start function for clusters."
"This solution doesn't have connectors to other external applications."
"I rate the scalability of WebLogic Suite an eight out of ten."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 7th in Application Infrastructure with 26 reviews while WebLogic Suite is ranked 11th in Application Infrastructure with 31 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while WebLogic Suite is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Easy to use, plenty of functionality, but expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WebLogic Suite writes "Simple setup, reliable, and performs well". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM Integration Bus, whereas WebLogic Suite is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite, Microsoft .NET Framework, Oracle WebCenter, Apache Web Server and NGINX Plus. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. WebLogic Suite report.
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