We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway 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."It is easy to use, easy to install, and it's resilient for high availability."
"My company has a good impression of IBM DataPower Gateway. What I like about it is that because it's an appliance, it's a turnkey solution that's very fast and out of the box. Compared to other gateways, I also like that IBM DataPower Gateway is function-rich. For example, for one of the projects, there was a need for specific transformation and security features available in IBM DataPower Gateway out of the box, so my team just needed to configure the appliance. There was no need for separate development, and I found it quite neat. Another valuable feature of IBM DataPower Gateway is that it's easy to integrate with other products."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The product's most valuable features are AAA policies and security features."
"The most valuable features for our business include the ability to monitor and log data transactions and handle multiple request at an enterprise level."
"I like all of the features in this product and it does what it's supposed to do."
"The MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) is great because it allows you to easily expose services using various protocols – web services, REST (JSON), and others. This flexibility simplifies things."
"The product is stable...The product is scalable."
"I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy."
"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."
"The product provides transparency in finances."
"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."
"In case there is something that doesn't work out of the box, you have the flexibility to customize it."
"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."
"Provides connectivity between discrete systems and has availability."
"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."
"It is a costly product."
"Additional documentation needs to be provided for complex automations."
"They should improve the solution's clustering features."
"The programming language is only supported in XSLT and Gateway script."
"The product's cost for data appliances or hardware is quite high. It needs improvement."
"One area that could be improved is the integration with Postgres and SQL databases. Currently, IBM DataPower Gateway only integrates with Oracle databases."
"The product should be more adapted to the DevOps process."
"An area for improvement in IBM DataPower Gateway is its price point because it's a relatively expensive product. Sometimes, when the customer use case is just a very small subset of what's being offered in IBM DataPower Gateway, then the product can be expensive, making my company lose some of the opportunities because of the expensive pricing. A lower price point for IBM DataPower Gateway, even if that results in a less feature-rich version, would be appreciated. In terms of additional features that I'd like to see in the next release of IBM DataPower Gateway, nothing specific comes to mind because IBM constantly improves its standards and provides quarterly updates to the product, so it's quite fine."
"The deployment could be made easier by including add-ons like Hudson and Maven."
"I would like to see divided containers more separately as a microservice."
"The interface is too complicated. Making modifications still requires too much technical knowledge."
"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."
"SOA, OSB, SOA Cloud Service."
"SOA"
"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."
"Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 6th in Application Infrastructure with 27 reviews while Oracle SOA Suite is ranked 8th in Application Infrastructure with 65 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while Oracle SOA Suite is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Security features meets compliance needs and offers MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) that simplifies integration efforts ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SOA Suite writes "Easy to setup, provides good support and scalable solution ". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM Integration Bus, whereas Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with Mule ESB, WebLogic Suite, Apache Web Server and TIBCO ActiveMatrix. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. Oracle SOA Suite report.
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