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We performed a comparison between Oracle SOA Suite, WebLogic Suite, and Windows Process Activation Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"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 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 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.""I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy.""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.""Middleware jobs developing for EC, ERP, and shipping systems become easier.""Valuable features include web service development and cloud connectivity.""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."

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"The transaction handling of WebLogic and the way it is designed is excellent.""The most valuable feature is that it provides one place where you can control all of the services.""WebLogic adds a lot of value to business and investments.""A valuable feature is its integration with Oracle Database.""The product is reliable.""It easily connects to other Oracle products and services.""The solution is useful for centralizing data.""Robust solution; console and enterprise management tools are really easy to work."

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"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the central console, that allows you to see all of the activated and deactivated computers."

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Cons
"The deployment could be made easier by including add-ons like Hudson and Maven.""Its function options can be improved.""The installation and adjustment process seems too complex.""The product is not user-friendly.""They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times.""I want to see easier integration connections with other cloud-based tools.""SOA, OSB, SOA Cloud Service.""The Maven integration in JDeveloper is very basic and might be enhanced to allow the proper use of Maven."

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"The support is not good.""Support could be better. The expertise when we have some Oracle WebLogic issues and challenges is not there. The issues are not being addressed in time. This really needs to be improved going forward.""I rate the scalability of WebLogic Suite an eight out of ten.""This solution would benefit from the inclusion of a ripple start function for clusters.""The solution needs to share more information in terms of training. There needs to be more documentation involved to help those who are completely new to the product.""Lacking a solution for smaller applications.""I would like to see the licensing policy simplified.""Sometimes there are issues when we work on a VM because people use it to put all of their reports on it at the same time. Then I have to restart and rebuild the machine."

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"The stability of the solution needs improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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."
  • "This product is WebLogic based, hence it can be both resource hungry as well as expensive from a licensing point of view."
  • "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 pricing is not very high as compared to its competitors."
  • "The product is moderately priced."
  • "Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."
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  • "Scaling is costly."
  • "Technical support is very costly."
  • "There is a license required for this solution and the price could be reduced."
  • "The cost of the WebLogic Suite license is a bit high."
  • "The product comes bundled with Oracle Premier Support."
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    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 WebLogic Suite is an integrated solution for building onpremise cloud application infrastructures that span web server, application server and data grid technology tiers. It includes Oracle WebLogic Server, an application server for developing and deploying applications across conventional and cloud environments, Oracle Coherence Enterprise Edition, Oracle Web Tier, Oracle TopLink, Oracle Java Mission Control and Flight Recorder, and other component technologies.

    Windows Process Activation Service generalizes the Internet Information Services (IIS) process model, removing the dependency on HTTP. All the features of IIS that were previously available only to HTTP applications are now available to applications hosting Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services, by using non-HTTP protocols. IIS 7.0 also uses Windows Process Activation Service for message-based activation over HTTP.
    Sample Customers
    7-Eleven, Arcor SAIC, Banca Transilvania, Eaton Corporation, Emdeon, Ferrovial, Griffith University, National Instruments, Pella Corporation, Vodafone Group Plc,
    State Revenue Office Victoria, Colab Consulting Pty. Ltd., Reliance Commercial Finance, Center for Railway Information Systems, Sascar, Banca Transilvania, UL, Chhattisgarh Infotech and Biotech Promotion Society, MCB Bank, Pacfico Seguros Generales
    Bank Alfalah Ltd., Harris Farm Markets, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, John Keells Holdings, Green Prefab, 343 Industries, SM Prime, Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System Ltd.
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    Manufacturing Company14%
    Energy/Utilities Company11%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Computer Software Company9%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Financial Services Firm28%
    Government11%
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    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise59%
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