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."Compliance with the BPMN 2.0 standard."
"Our customers use the solution as a workflow platform to manage their processes."
"The designer feature, compared to other solutions is easy to use."
"The solution is stable."
"We are implementing the tool to triple our monthly transaction volume."
"It provides value and simplifies processes."
"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."
"There is a component of this BPM pool - I can't recall the name. What it does is, it allows you to create various scenarios and then run them quickly, before actually putting them onto a tool. So I think that part of the tool is really fantastic, because that enables you to create scenarios, create simulations, before actually going out and putting it into the tool itself"
"The new product has come out with SOA Cloud Service and Integration Analytics as well, which gives more options for clients to pick their point of requirements."
"Provides connectivity between discrete systems and has availability."
"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 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."
"We were able to scale out using multiple application and web servers balanced by hardware load balancers and Weblogic clustering."
"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."
"Valuable features include web service development and cloud connectivity."
"Needs better reporting. I do not think that we are fully taking advantage of what it already has yet."
"The engine itself tends to accumulate a lot of data that needs to be cleaned up, and that's the kind of thing that keeps it from, in some scenarios, scaling as much as it needs to. And then, when you're building solutions, if you're not careful to keep the screens from being associated with too much data, if you're going to just do things the way that a lot of people would just assume that they can do, without having experience of having made those mistakes before, it will accumulate a lot of data, and that will cause it to perform very badly."
"It is not user-friendly."
"It might not be suitable for entry level clients because it comes with a huge number of modules for processing that at times might not be necessary for upcoming clients."
"The product is extremely complex to use and administrate."
"We would appreciate more user-friendly definitions of processes with a more user-friendly interface for documenting processes."
"The initial setup was complex."
"Performance on large scale requirements could also be improved."
"Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses."
"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."
"If the disk space expansion can be made more flexible, not requiring a database restart, it would be a major benefit."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"Other solutions might be better componets such as Salesforce."
"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."
"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."
IBM BPM is ranked 6th 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, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow, whereas Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with Mule ESB, WebLogic Suite, Apache Web Server, TIBCO ActiveMatrix and Oracle SOA Cloud Service. See our IBM BPM vs. Oracle SOA Suite report.
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