Oracle SOA Suite vs SAP NetWeaver comparison

Oracle and SAP are both solutions in the SOA Governance category. Oracle is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.0, while SAP is ranked #3 with an average rating of 9.5. Oracle holds a 21.8% mindshare in SG, compared to SAP’s 3.4% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SAP users who would recommend it.

Oracle SOA Suite

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86% willing to recommend

SAP NetWeaver

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Oracle SOA Suite and SAP NetWeaver based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two SOA Governance solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle SOA Suite

Ranking in SOA Governance

1st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Infrastructure (10th)

SAP NetWeaver

Ranking in SOA Governance

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the SOA Governance category, the mindshare of Oracle SOA Suite is 21.8%, down from 28.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP NetWeaver is 3.4%, down from 6.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

SOA Governance Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle SOA Suite	21.8%
SAP NetWeaver	3.4%
Other	74.8%

SOA Governance

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Debjit Ghosh

Manager at Cognizant

Has enabled complex data flow management but faces limitations with modern integration needs

There are areas of Oracle SOA Suite I would like to see improved or enhanced in the future, particularly regarding its adapter capabilities. The popularity of Oracle Integration Cloud nowadays arises from its larger set of adapter capabilities, including numerous application adapters. In contrast, Oracle SOA Suite provides a limited number of adapters. I would like to see more REST-based features added to Oracle SOA Suite, currently lacking, along with an enhancement of file size or payload capability, as the existing limitation is a 10 MB payload size. Additionally, Oracle SOA Suite licensing cost tends to be higher, adhering to a fixed pricing model rather than a pay-per-use basis, which might not be suitable for smaller organizations.

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Mohamed Yosufdeen JMH

Technical Manager at Secude

Has helped integrate business processes while protecting sensitive exports with encryption

SAP NetWeaver is going to be soon out of the picture. Now we have SAP S/4HANA, which is the recent technology from SAP. Many companies are migrating from SAP NetWeaver to SAP S/4HANA. Going forward, SAP still supports SAP NetWeaver, and it can fully add more functionalities that it is currently adding in the latest versions also. Whichever functions they are adding newly in SAP S/4HANA, they can add it into SAP NetWeaver as so that SAP NetWeaver also does not become obsolete and becomes useful to the customers who are currently using it. SAP has come up with an in-memory database called HANA, and on top of it, SAP has introduced SAP S/4HANA so that it runs seamlessly on the HANA database. SAP NetWeaver can also run on the HANA database, but if the compatibility with HANA database could be improved for SAP NetWeaver, then it will be more useful.

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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 Oracle SOA Suite is all the platform's capabilities."

"Conceptually, how it integrates a lot of essential enterprise process components. That's the most valuable."

"Valuable features include connectors and BAM."

"In case there is something that doesn't work out of the box, you have the flexibility to customize it."

"It performs better in real-time transactions."

"The integration with various products."

"We were able to scale out using multiple application and web servers balanced by hardware load balancers and Weblogic clustering."

"What I like best about Oracle SOA Suite is Oracle support. I also like the tool features, especially the integration feature."

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"The stability is not an issue, and I would rate it at seven out of ten."

"The human capital management module is valuable."

"The solution is scalable."

"The integration feature is valuable."

"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"We can use different transaction codes to check the performance of the system, and if we are unable to access a particular transaction, we can still check the table to see what is happening."

"The presentation is the most valuable feature. It's very conceptual. We had to follow the instructions very strictly. It's a Dutch or German product and we had to follow it step-by-step."

"I like that I don't need any extra tools to keep the solution up and running."

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Cons

"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."

"An area for improvement in Oracle SOA Suite is the cost. It could be lower."

"Oracle SOA Suite licensing cost tends to be higher, adhering to a fixed pricing model rather than a pay-per-use basis, which might not be suitable for smaller organizations."

"The solutions can improve the communication or translations between formats, such as JSON and XML. The JSON REST API could improve."

"Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses."

"The interface is too complicated. Making modifications still requires too much technical knowledge."

"I would like to see divided containers more separately as a microservice."

"The product is not user-friendly."

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"SAP isn't particularly user-friendly and you have to develop a long list of favorites to be able to get around."

"Scalability would be a good improvement in future releases, if they do release future versions. They tried to create a seamless style, but it's not necessarily scalable to big development environments that we're trying to achieve."

"The initial setup was not very easy."

"It needs more improvement in terms of user-friendliness. SAP wasn't user-friendly at all."

"Technical support response time was slow."

"Though SAP NetWeaver has been pretty stable and mature, some issues arose after some customizations, so that's an area for improvement."

"There could be regular updates to make the system more stable and capable."

"It can always improve. It should have the ability to connect with other databases. It was a little bit tough to do that. I would like to have the ability to research certain markets and then integrate it with NetWeaver. I'd like to compare it with other databases from other companies being used in the world so we can integrate it with our own products to compare if we are still current on the market."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This product is WebLogic based, hence it can be both resource hungry as well as expensive from a licensing point of view."

"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."

"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."

"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 product is moderately priced."

"The pricing is not very high as compared to its competitors."

"The licensing costs are on a yearly basis."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing a nine to ten since it is an expensive solution."

"It's a very expensive solution."

"SAP NetWeaver requires a license, but I'm not sure how the licenses and payments were coordinated."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

10%

Performing Arts

No data available

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	41

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle SOA Suite?

The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle SOA Suite?

Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution.

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What needs improvement with Oracle SOA Suite?

The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved. A big challenge for Oracle SOA Suite is that you don't get too many technical resources.

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What do you like most about SAP NetWeaver?

The human capital management module is valuable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP NetWeaver?

Software and hardware costs are typically handled by separate departments.

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What needs improvement with SAP NetWeaver?

It needs more improvement in terms of user-friendliness. SAP wasn't user-friendly at all. In interacting with it, it should have a more customizable interface. The interfaces aren't user-friendly, ...

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Also Known As

SOA Suite

NetWeaver, SecurStore

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.

For more information on Oracle SOA Suite, visit Oracle.com

Oracle

SAP NetWeaver is an open application platfrom that provides a comprehensive set of tools and Web services technologies that support seamless enterprise application integration, master data management (MDM), system integration, and more.

SAP

Sample Customers

7-Eleven, Arcor SAIC, Banca Transilvania, Eaton Corporation, Emdeon, Ferrovial, Griffith University, National Instruments, Pella Corporation, Vodafone Group Plc,

Schaidt Innovations GmbH & Co. KG, Satellites Unlimited Inc., German Football Association, FMC Corporation, Deutscher Fu_ball-Bund

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