BizTalk Server vs Oracle BI Applications comparison

Microsoft and Oracle are both solutions in the Business-to-Business Middleware category. Microsoft is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.1, while Oracle is ranked #18. Microsoft holds a 5.0% mindshare in BBM, compared to Oracle’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

BizTalk Server

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75% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 27, 2025

BizTalk Server and Oracle BI Applications compete in the realm of enterprise solutions. While BizTalk Server has advantages in pricing and support, Oracle BI Applications is regarded as more robust due to its advanced features, justifying its higher cost.

Features: BizTalk Server provides seamless integration capabilities, effective messaging and routing, and reliable use with Visual Studio. Oracle BI Applications include robust dashboard and ad-hoc reporting, a multitude of pre-built reports, and excellent graphical presentation tools.

Room for Improvement: BizTalk Server could improve on its user interface, expand its cloud compatibility, and enhance its monitoring tools. Oracle BI Applications can benefit from speeding up its initial setup process, reducing the complexity of its customization, and optimizing for faster on-the-fly calculations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BizTalk Server is straightforward to deploy with solid support, making it ideal for users who prioritize easy setup. Oracle BI Applications, though offering comprehensive customer service, have a more complex deployment process, catering to companies needing extensive customization.

Pricing and ROI: BizTalk Server has a competitive setup cost with quicker ROI, suitable for budget-conscious businesses. Oracle BI Applications, while more expensive, promise a significant long-term ROI with their expansive analytics capabilities, appealing to enterprises seeking higher-end functionality.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

BizTalk Server

Ranking in Business-to-Business Middleware

8th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Process Automation (14th)

Oracle BI Applications

Ranking in Business-to-Business Middleware

18th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Business-to-Business Middleware category, the mindshare of BizTalk Server is 5.0%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle BI Applications is 1.1%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Vignesh Kumar Sekar

Senior Analyst at Sword Group

Enables message routing and provides a secure way to communicate between two systems

The AS2 communication protocol is one of the most advanced processes. It enables a handshake with the source and target systems using certificates. It is the most secure way of communicating between two systems. It is an advantage. We can do a lot of message routing. If we want to handle large data, we can put the data into different patterns to process it. We can do it through sequential convoy or parallel convoy orchestration. BizTalk comes with SQL Server. We can load temporary data in the database and use the batch process from BizTalk. It is an added advantage. Creating agreements is a manual job, but it's quite easy in BizTalk. Even a fresh college graduate can configure AS2 certificates and partner profiles and communicate with other systems. It is easy.

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Rehman Mohar

Senior Manager, Software Engineering Client Reporting at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Fast calculations, stable, and good support, but needs more visuals, support for HTML5, and BI Publisher updates

It is very cumbersome and slow for making any changes. It doesn't have that many visuals to show different graphs and charts. It should have more visuals. It also doesn't support HTML5, which is useful for interactive sessions and reporting with dashboard etc. We are phasing it out because we need a newer platform that provides us more flexibility and more designs. Our use case is just to get the utility type of monthly reports, and we need visuals, customizations, columns, and certain sections on the report to show performance and other things. They are not updating their BI Publisher product, which was known as XML Publisher before Oracle bought it. It could be because they don't have that many clients using it. We are using it because we have this solution for years.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature of BizTalk Server is that it will turn XML into flexible transactions."

"I rate the tool's stability a nine out of ten."

"The AS2 communication protocol is one of the most advanced processes."

"Compared to the current solutions I use, like Azure Logic Apps and other cloud services, BizTalk was far better and more reliable."

"Essentially, you can do whatever you like with these systems, and you do not have to take care about the scaling because if one server is overloaded, it just forwards the message to the next server, even if it were designated to a specific server. It weeds out the messages according to the load. If you want to scale it, you just add new servers."

"BizTalk Server offers workflow functionality that I find very effective for process automation."

"We can handle a large number of messages without any issues, ensuring that everything runs smoothly."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its integration with the banks. Its messaging and routing capabilities are good."

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"The most valuable features are the reporting and the graphics."

"It has a very robust dashboard and ad-hoc reporting."

"It's web-based so that I can have multiple users accessing the same data. It provides ease of use and its formatting means we can use the data, export it to Excel, and we manipulate the data afterward if we need to."

"Calculations are a little bit faster. It can do the on-the-run calculations much better than other reporting platforms. You don't need any other specific tool. You can use Microsoft Office to start doing things with these reports."

Cons

"The deployment could be simplified."

"It's an on-premises system, requiring physical servers for deployment. This is different from Azure; you don't need any servers with Azure. If you have a subscription, you can do whatever you want. There are unit restrictions based on the environment (like non-production vs. production) in BizTalk. You need physical servers and databases. In Azure, those are not required – it's all in the cloud."

"BizTalk lacks native cloud support. BizTalk doesn't offer in-built support for cloud. We need to use third-party adapters to connect it to cloud services."

"The product could be improved in monitoring, managing, and support functionalities."

"BizTalk Server is an outdated legacy system that does not support messaging."

"Updating things in BizTalk is a headache."

"BizTalk Server needs improvements, especially because we use it for EDI messaging, and it would be very useful to have enhanced tracking capabilities for message tracking and archiving of messages."

"The product's deployment can be quicker"

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"The initial setup was complex and it took a lot of time to set up the infrastructure."

"It is very cumbersome and slow for making any changes. It doesn't have that many visuals to show different graphs and charts. It should have more visuals. It also doesn't support HTML5, which is useful for interactive sessions and reporting with dashboard etc. We are phasing it out because we need a newer platform that provides us more flexibility and more designs. Our use case is just to get the utility type of monthly reports, and we need visuals, customizations, columns, and certain sections on the report to show performance and other things. They are not updating their BI Publisher product, which was known as XML Publisher before Oracle bought it. It could be because they don't have that many clients using it. We are using it because we have this solution for years."

"The initial setup was difficult because not all the information was included in the implementation model."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"BizTalk Server is not freeware. There's a significant licensing cost involved. Be sure you will actually utilize its features fully."

"BizTalk Server is cheap. I would rate its pricing a two out of five."

"The cost will depend on the client's requirements."

"The solution is expensive."

"It was not cheap, but it was affordable."

"Based on the knowledge, it is relatively cheaper than Azure Identity Services and cloud services in general."

"It is expensive. It is more than 100K for support. You pay for support on top of the standard licensing, which is on a yearly basis."

"As with any case study that we’ve ever done, it’s not so much a problem with the application or security or anything of that nature. It’s basically the cost infrastructure. Compared to other solutions, it’s one of the more costly solutions out there. It’s the biggest concern nowadays that upper management has."

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Financial Services Firm

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Computer Software Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BizTalk Server?

The tool's most valuable feature is its integration with the banks. Its messaging and routing capabilities are good.

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What needs improvement with BizTalk Server?

BizTalk Server needs improvements, especially because we use it for EDI messaging, and it would be very useful to have enhanced tracking capabilities for message tracking and archiving of messages....

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What advice do you have for others considering BizTalk Server?

BizTalk Server has adapted to the changing needs of business over time with steady development, but there are new requirements, for example, on APIs, application programming interfaces. That functi...

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Overview

Connects systems both inside and across organizations, exchange data and orchestrate business processes across multiple systems.

Microsoft

Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications are complete, prebuilt BI solutions that deliver intuitive, role-based intelligence throughout an organization. These solutions enable organizations to gain more insight and greater value from a range of data sources, including Oracle Fusion Cloud and On-Premise Applications, E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, and third party systems. Oracle BI Applications are built on the Oracle BI Foundation, a comprehensive and market leading BI platform. This enables organizations to realize the value of a packaged BI application, such as rapid deployment, lower TCO, and built-in best practices, all on one common BI Foundation.

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