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Pros
"The integration with various products.""The stability of the solution is the most valuable feature.""What I like best about Oracle SOA Suite is Oracle support. I also like the tool features, especially the integration feature.""Valuable features include web service development and cloud connectivity.""It performs better in real-time transactions.""The most valuable features for us are the APIs, which we commonly use, as well as the scheduling capabilities and file transfers.""The most valuable feature of Oracle SOA Suite is all the platform's capabilities.""We were able to scale out using multiple application and web servers balanced by hardware load balancers and Weblogic clustering."

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"The product's deployment phase was very easy.""It is very usable and easy to understand. Antivirus and VPN are the main features being used now. It allows my clients to access the network from home, which was very crucial because of the pandemic.""The most valuable feature is AppFabric's hosting solution, which is what we need for running workflows."

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Cons
"I would like to see divided containers more separately as a microservice.""It's also not developer-friendly.""The product is not user-friendly.""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.""Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses.""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.""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.""An area for improvement in Oracle SOA Suite is the cost. It could be lower."

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"Its price and licensing policy can be improved. It could be a little cheaper. Licensing is sometimes confusing. There are so many different options. It is difficult to find out what to buy or what to choose for my necessity.""The product is unable to connect with different cloud services.""Microsoft will stop supporting the product next year, and we can't run unsupported programs in our systems."

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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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  • "It is expensive, and its licensing is a bit confusing."
  • "The product is affordable, in my opinion."
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    Top Answer:The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful.
    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer:The product's deployment phase was very easy.
    Top Answer:The product is unable to connect with different cloud services. The product should be able to connect with different cloud services. The aforementioned improvement in the product can make the… more »
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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

    Windows Server AppFabric extends Windows Server to provide enhanced hosting, management, and caching capabilities for Web applications and middle-tier services. The AppFabric hosting features add service management extensions to Internet Information Services (IIS), Windows Process Activation Service (WAS), and the .NET Framework 4. This includes Hosting Services and Hosting Administration tools that make it easier to deploy, configure, and manage Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) based services. The AppFabric caching features add a distributed, in-memory object cache to Windows Server that makes it easier to scale out high-performance .NET applications, especially ASP.NET applications.
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    7-Eleven, Arcor SAIC, Banca Transilvania, Eaton Corporation, Emdeon, Ferrovial, Griffith University, National Instruments, Pella Corporation, Vodafone Group Plc,
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    Energy/Utilities Company11%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Computer Software Company9%
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    Large Enterprise59%
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    Oracle SOA Suite is ranked 8th in Application Infrastructure with 65 reviews while Windows Server AppFabric is ranked 18th in Application Infrastructure with 3 reviews. Oracle SOA Suite is rated 8.0, while Windows Server AppFabric is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle SOA Suite writes "Easy to setup, provides good support and scalable solution ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windows Server AppFabric writes "Offers good monitoring capabilities and ease of setup". Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with WebLogic Suite, Mule ESB, Apache Web Server, TIBCO ActiveMatrix and Microsoft .NET Framework, whereas Windows Server AppFabric is most compared with IIS.

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