We performed a comparison between IBM BPM, Oracle SOA Suite, and WebLogic Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Scalability is good. In the time that I have been there, we have added more JVMs to help with the increased workload, so it does scale."
"It helps improve your process through continual measurement."
"We like that it does not require a lot of hours to train our people."
"The functionality to design UI to be responsive and can run on multiple devices."
"IBM BPM is both scalable and stable."
"Overall, I'm satisfied with the product. If you compare it with other products, it's probably not as easygoing or as simple to implement as the rest. But after you get used to it, it works. It has a lot of capabilities and potential, but the people, who come from different technologies, have some difficulty getting used to the way of working with IBM products."
"IBM BPM and Automation Anywhere working together automate manual tasks with a reduction in FTEs, creating about a 30% reduction in FTEs by automating processes."
"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."
"Valuable features include web service development and cloud connectivity."
"Conceptually, how it integrates a lot of essential enterprise process components. That's the most valuable."
"Middleware jobs developing for EC, ERP, and shipping systems become easier."
"I found the adapters to be most useful."
"In case there is something that doesn't work out of the box, you have the flexibility to customize it."
"What I like best about Oracle SOA Suite is Oracle support. I also like the tool features, especially the integration feature."
"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."
"The feature that I have found to be the most valuable is the ease of deployment."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"Robust solution; console and enterprise management tools are really easy to work."
"It easily connects to other Oracle products and services."
"This is a robust solution."
"WebLogic Suite is scalable."
"A valuable feature is its integration with Oracle Database."
"The solution is very scalable. It's easy to add processes even if you are new to the solution."
"The initial setup was complex. It is not always easy to launch a new platform and it needed better coordination with IBM."
"The people working on the front desk are having some problem with managing the documentation. For instance, they get a picture, and if the picture comes rotated 90 degrees, together with a picture that is not rotated, they have some problems dealing with that, technically. There are some minor aspects that on the usability side that are still lacking. That has to do with FileNet, too, I'm talking about the suite together."
"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."
"I would like to see a lot more case studies."
"If you want to use IBM BPM, you will have to invest a lot of money for licenses and you need to learn that there are limitations in developing applications. You cannot create anything you want."
"The constant switch between Eclipse and its web versions can be annoying and confusing."
"IBM BPM's price could be improved."
"Importing and exporting between multiple environments is more difficult with other tools."
"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."
"Other solutions might be better componets such as Salesforce."
"The solutions can improve the communication or translations between formats, such as JSON and XML. The JSON REST API could improve."
"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."
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"Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"The licensing for the solution is pretty expensive. It may be the most expensive solution, if you were to compare it to the competition."
"I think the support could be much better."
"Lacking a solution for smaller applications."
"The support is not good."
"The content search is not easy."
"This solution would benefit from the inclusion of a ripple start function for clusters."
"There are sometimes issues with clusters."
"I noticed a few areas for improvement in WebLogic Suite. If you use the pure play higher-availability features, then yes, it can be switched over to the other system from the high-availability point of view, but that comes with a certain price. If you prefer simpler high-availability, that requires manual intervention. I'd also recommend a tuning feature in WebLogic Suite because it's not self-tuning, and this means you need thorough expertise to do the tuning and leverage the best benefit out of it. If Oracle makes WebLogic Suite automated or self-driven, then it becomes a wonderful product, similar to what Oracle did for the Autonomous Database which is self-driven or has an autonomous operating system. If automation is added in the next release of the solution, combined with more affordable pricing, though as a technical person, I know how much goes into having automation as a feature, and it could be difficult to lower the price, but if Oracle can do it, then that would make WebLogic Suite better."
