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"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 most valuable feature of Oracle SOA Suite is all the platform's capabilities.""Provides connectivity between discrete systems and has availability.""Enables our Product Manager to post products to different outside EC platforms with only one interface and one process.""Valuable features include connectors and BAM.""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 integration with various products."

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"The product's deployment phase was very easy.""It is very usable and easy to understand. Antivirus and VPN are the main features being used now. It allows my clients to access the network from home, which was very crucial because of the pandemic.""The most valuable feature is AppFabric's hosting solution, which is what we need for running workflows."

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"Other solutions might be better componets such as Salesforce.""The product is not user-friendly.""Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses.""The Maven integration in JDeveloper is very basic and might be enhanced to allow the proper use of Maven.""The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved.""It's also not developer-friendly.""If the disk space expansion can be made more flexible, not requiring a database restart, it would be a major benefit.""The web services need to be more robust."

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"Its price and licensing policy can be improved. It could be a little cheaper. Licensing is sometimes confusing. There are so many different options. It is difficult to find out what to buy or what to choose for my necessity.""The product is unable to connect with different cloud services.""Microsoft will stop supporting the product next year, and we can't run unsupported programs in our systems."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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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  • "It is expensive, and its licensing is a bit confusing."
  • "The product is affordable, in my opinion."
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    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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    Overview

    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.

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    Windows Server AppFabric extends Windows Server to provide enhanced hosting, management, and caching capabilities for Web applications and middle-tier services. The AppFabric hosting features add service management extensions to Internet Information Services (IIS), Windows Process Activation Service (WAS), and the .NET Framework 4. This includes Hosting Services and Hosting Administration tools that make it easier to deploy, configure, and manage Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) based services. The AppFabric caching features add a distributed, in-memory object cache to Windows Server that makes it easier to scale out high-performance .NET applications, especially ASP.NET applications.
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    7-Eleven, Arcor SAIC, Banca Transilvania, Eaton Corporation, Emdeon, Ferrovial, Griffith University, National Instruments, Pella Corporation, Vodafone Group Plc,
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    Oracle SOA Suite is ranked 8th in Application Infrastructure with 65 reviews while Windows Server AppFabric is ranked 22nd in Application Infrastructure with 3 reviews. Oracle SOA Suite is rated 8.0, while Windows Server AppFabric is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle SOA Suite writes "Easy to setup, provides good support and scalable solution ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windows Server AppFabric writes "Offers good monitoring capabilities and ease of setup". Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with WebLogic Suite, Mule ESB, Apache Web Server, Microsoft .NET Framework and TIBCO ActiveMatrix, whereas Windows Server AppFabric is most compared with IIS.

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