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."Automation is the most valuable feature of IBM BPM."
"It is a stale solution."
"IBM's deployment box is one huge black box. We can create all the services with our own code or without a codebase, however, we have a huge amount of space with practically no limitation."
"The functionality to design UI to be responsive and can run on multiple devices."
"Process Modelling, simulation and optimization, integration, UI components."
"It is transparent to business users because it is mostly picture based modelling."
"It has reduced a lot of manual errors and processes."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The product's installation was easy."
"Enables our Product Manager to post products to different outside EC platforms with only one interface and one process."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the option to design, and the development can happen at the same time."
"Valuable features include connectors and BAM."
"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."
"I found the adapters to be most useful."
"The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful."
"It performs better in real-time transactions."
"The product provides transparency in finances."
"Integration with web services, especially in the standard version of the product."
"The business would like to use the product with a lot less IT and equipment involvement."
"I would like IBM to consider including AI-enabled process mining, robotic process automation, and very good OCR capabilities from the computer vision side."
"We would like better performance and more visibility on each step of the tool."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"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."
"The front end is not customised for a good user experience."
"Its function options can be improved."
"The deployment could be made easier by including add-ons like Hudson and Maven."
"The technical support is good, we have premier support which costs extra."
"The Maven integration in JDeveloper is very basic and might be enhanced to allow the proper use of Maven."
"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."
"They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times."
"An area for improvement in Oracle SOA Suite is the cost. It could be lower."
"Various parts of SOA, BPEL, and so on, each have their own consoles which need to be accessed individually with different logins. It would be better from an admin perspective if all the consoles were accessible via a single login."
IBM BPM is ranked 7th 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, IBM Business Automation Workflow, Pega BPM, Appian and Apache Airflow, whereas Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with WebLogic Suite, Mule ESB, Apache Web Server, Microsoft .NET Framework and Oracle SOA Cloud Service. See our IBM BPM vs. Oracle SOA Suite report.
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