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We performed a comparison between Microsoft System Center 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Microsoft System Center vs. Oracle SOA Suite Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"We like Microsoft System Center's Operations Manager. That is primarily why we use it.""The solution is easily available. That's its most valuable aspect.""Many processes could be implemented out-of-the-box, and this helped to adopt processes in areas which we lacked.""System Center helps to create the basis for ITIL alignment.""The availability performance matrix and the reporting capabilities are the solution's most valuable features.""The deployment and asset management features are the most valuable. These are the product's main features.""Good for managing and administering the infrastructure.""Managment Packs for Microsoft-specific products, help us implement the best practices for each product."

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"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.""This is one of the critical products for my company and we use it extensively. We currently use each and every feature of Oracle SOA.""The stability of the solution is the most valuable feature.""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.""I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy.""Conceptually, how it integrates a lot of essential enterprise process components. That's the most valuable.""In Oracle SOA Suite some applications are not able to use REST, but it can support both SOAP and REST. You're able to integrate quite a lot of systems, which may not be able to in other solutions. You can also use XML and JSON. It is a standardizing type of tool. It doesn't matter whether I'm using JSON or XML, it can convert them.""Enables our Product Manager to post products to different outside EC platforms with only one interface and one process."

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Cons
"The multi-tenancy support needs to be improved. We need to have the ability to manage several different environments from one central point of administration.""Could be more user friendly.""System Center hasn't updated to keep up with the industry. It needs improvements in the user interface, ease of use, and overall product functionality, particularly the cloud-monitoring features. It needs more capabilities to monitor AWS and Azure infrastructure.""The platform performance and responsiveness need improvement. It still demands high computing resources.""In Microsoft System Center, it is difficult to follow the steps to create dataflows at times.""The solution’s pricing could be improved.""The platform's performance could be improved. Additionally, its UI needs to be well-upgraded and work faster.""Most of the documentation is online, however, there are some gaps there. The product documentation still refers back to the 2012 Server. We're pretty much in 2022. There's a ten-year gap there."

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"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 solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved.""It's also not developer-friendly.""Its function options can be improved.""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.""If the disk space expansion can be made more flexible, not requiring a database restart, it would be a major benefit.""The Maven integration in JDeveloper is very basic and might be enhanced to allow the proper use of Maven.""I would like to see divided containers more separately as a microservice."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We maximized our license investment."
  • "It's rolled into our enterprise subscription. The entire subscription is around $25,000 a year, however, that covers all the products that we use."
  • "On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten."
  • "Microsoft System Center is quite expensive."
  • "I know that sometimes there is some reduction in the prices of Microsoft System Center because of the costs of Microsoft SQL Server, which can be advantageous."
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  • "Oracle pricing is expensive. Support is based on your license. AWS is much better than Oracle in this regard."
  • "It is necessary to evaluate the requirement regarding the platform usage and what the main operation area of the platform will be."
  • "This product is WebLogic based, hence it can be both resource hungry as well as expensive from a licensing point of view."
  • "Based on my knowledge, Oracle SOA Suite doesn't have user-based licensing. It has a system-based licensing model, so you pay for whole systems. Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution, so it's a four out of ten for me."
  • "The pricing is not very high as compared to its competitors."
  • "The product is moderately priced."
  • "Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product's initial setup phase was easy.
    Top Answer:I know that sometimes there is some reduction in the prices of Microsoft System Center because of the costs of Microsoft SQL Server, which can be advantageous.
    Top Answer:In Microsoft System Center, it is difficult to follow the steps to create dataflows at times. Our company has to use certain steps with SQL to deal with the dataflow area, making it an easy process… more »
    Top Answer:I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy.
    Top Answer:Due to the region, the pricing is high for our customers. Because we are going with the global price. And with the global price, we who are in Africa, for instance, customers actually do have a hard… more »
    Top Answer:The features we've been installing are really, really robust. The only challenge that we have down here is that most individuals have not improved so much. But the features are quite mature. The only… more »
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    MS System Center
    SOA Suite
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    Overview
    System Center helps customers realize the benefits of the Microsoft Cloud Platform by delivering unified management. Experience fast time-to-value with out-of-the-box monitoring, provisioning, configuration, automation, protection and self-service.

    Oracle SOA Suite is a comprehensive, standards-based software suite to build, deploy and manage integration following the concepts of service-oriented architecture (SOA). The components of the suite benefit from consistent tooling, a single deployment and management model, end-to-end security and unified metadata management. Oracle SOA Suite helps businesses lower costs by allowing maximum re-use of existing IT investments and assets, regardless of the environment (OS, application server, etc.) they run in, or the technology they were built upon. Its easy-to-use, re-use focused, unified application development tooling and end-to-end lifecycle management support further reduces development and maintenance cost and complexity.

    For more information on Oracle SOA Suite, visit Oracle.com

    Sample Customers
    Kassen_rztliche Vereinigung Nordrhein, Magyar Telekom Nyrt., Adeka, QualCare, Aeriandi, UniCredit Bank d.d., Mostar, Allianz Australia Ltd., Grupo Familia
    7-Eleven, Arcor SAIC, Banca Transilvania, Eaton Corporation, Emdeon, Ferrovial, Griffith University, National Instruments, Pella Corporation, Vodafone Group Plc,
    Top Industries
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    Non Tech Company17%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Healthcare Company8%
    REVIEWERS
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Energy/Utilities Company11%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Computer Software Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise50%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise59%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise68%
    Buyer's Guide
    Microsoft System Center vs. Oracle SOA Suite
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft System Center vs. Oracle SOA Suite and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Microsoft System Center is ranked 14th in Application Infrastructure with 17 reviews while Oracle SOA Suite is ranked 8th in Application Infrastructure with 65 reviews. Microsoft System Center is rated 7.8, while Oracle SOA Suite is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft System Center writes "Good review of configurations, effective antivirus administration, and has weekly reports". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SOA Suite writes "Easy to setup, provides good support and scalable solution ". Microsoft System Center is most compared with , whereas Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with WebLogic Suite, Mule ESB, Apache Web Server, Microsoft .NET Framework and IBM WebSphere Message Broker. See our Microsoft System Center vs. Oracle SOA Suite report.

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