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 5.0, while SAP is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.5. Oracle holds a 24.7% mindshare in SG, compared to SAP’s 3.7% mindshare. Additionally, 85% 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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85% 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

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Infrastructure (11th)

SAP NetWeaver

Ranking in SOA Governance

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the SOA Governance category, the mindshare of Oracle SOA Suite is 24.7%, down from 29.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP NetWeaver is 3.7%, down from 7.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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MANOHAR SADDALA

IT Specialist at Eagle Hills

Enables seamless integration with multiple systems

I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. It's not much more dynamic, not as dynamic as you may think, like seeing it in the cloud. In order to use it, you need to have the download servers and then scale up your systems. Oracle SOA Suites serves as a middle layer between applications. For example, let's say you have SAP, and we have Salesforce or Oracle ERP system. Users connect to those systems and perform certain activities or transactions on the applications. Now, if any data needs to be synchronized or any integration needs to happen between these applications, we use the Oracle SOA Suite. It acts as the bridge between the applications, not between the users. It's like having endpoints between the applications. Currently, we have 20 endpoints; 20 systems are connected to it, which is great. Oracle SOA Suite is being used daily. We are using it to its maximum potential.

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Bala Hamisu

Planner at Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation

Good for management and easily generate payslips at any point in time

We use NetWeaver for our appraisal process, the procedure for maybe benefits and emoluments. You can use it to generate your base leaves and other stuff. We mainly use it for human capital management or staff. Then we have a P2P, document signing, peer-to-peer. I've used those functions for a long…

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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

"Valuable features include web service development and cloud connectivity."

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

"The most valuable feature of Oracle SOA Suite is all the platform's capabilities."

"The ability to stand up a highly available SOA Suite, which has full DR capabilities, in a remote center and synchronize the databases using Data Guard."

"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."

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

"Valuable features include connectors and BAM."

"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."

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"Finance and distribution are the most important features."

"It provides an efficient integration framework with other SAP products."

"With SAP, you can trust what it tells you."

"The flexibility and the customizability this solution has when adapting to our business requirements is a huge benefit."

"We strongly rely on our SAP data. We need access to the information to analyze it, so the solution allows us to make use of the data that we get from SAP. This is the most valuable aspect of the solution."

"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."

"The most valuable feature of SAP NetWeaver is the integration and it is a complete solution."

"It is the central point for all our data storage. We have one single version of the truth that we can communicate to all our customers."

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Cons

"The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved."

"The web services need to be more robust."

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

"They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times."

"Its function options can be improved."

"The technical support is good, we have premier support which costs extra."

"The installation and adjustment process seems too complex."

"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."

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

"Has become somewhat unstable recently."

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

"The initial setup is a little complex. The users are not able to install the prerequisite drivers or are not able to follow the SOP because they don't have access to SAP Logon. If users already have access, it will take seven to 10 days to deploy the solution. If they do not, it may take a maximum of 25 to 30 days."

"SAP NetWeaver it's still complex for a normal user unless you memorize those action codes."

"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."

"SAP NetWeaver PI is not connected to the cloud."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."

"It is necessary to evaluate the requirement regarding the platform usage and what the main operation area of the platform will be."

"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."

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

"The product is moderately priced."

"Oracle pricing is expensive. Support is based on your license. AWS is much better than Oracle in this regard."

"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."

"The licensing costs are on a yearly basis."

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

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

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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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