We performed a comparison between Oracle SOA Suite and Zend PHP Engine 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."I found the adapters to be most useful."
"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."
"Valuable features include connectors and BAM."
"Provides connectivity between discrete systems and has availability."
"The stability of the solution is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features for us are the APIs, which we commonly use, as well as the scheduling capabilities and file transfers."
"It performs better in real-time transactions."
"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."
"The cache modules that Zend provides have been able to optimize and accelerate the loading of the pages when there was exponential growth in data volume and quantity of requests. At the same time, the monitoring console allowed us to have a real-time understanding of the resources and to make decisions when they were at the limit."
"Faster web app implementation, when PHP dev is required by customers."
"The fact that it is available open-source is the best feature."
"Zend Engine is the core of PHP. It makes PHP fast, efficient, and basically, the language of choice for web applications."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Offers a complete environment to develop PHP applications. It is valuable because it allows you to have a complete stack (PHP, MySQL, Zend Server) enabling the building of a development environment, and to deploy to the production system."
"Zend Engine gives the flexibility to use external modules to easily expand the functionalities you need for your web project."
"It offers good support for various types of classes, along with many open source libraries that we can readily utilize in our application development process. This gives us a lot of options when it comes to custom development solutions, without having to worry about licensing or other programming-related issues."
"If the disk space expansion can be made more flexible, not requiring a database restart, it would be a major benefit."
"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."
"I want to see easier integration connections with other cloud-based tools."
"SOA, OSB, SOA Cloud Service."
"The web services need to be more robust."
"Other solutions might be better componets such as Salesforce."
"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."
"The solutions can improve the communication or translations between formats, such as JSON and XML. The JSON REST API could improve."
"The main area that Zend needs to improve is to support asynchronous programming tasks, which is facilitated in PHP 7, but not at the same degree as HHVM."
"Although it offers a complete environment to develop and deploy PHP applications, it has some limitations. For example, when the volume of data increased exponentially, I had problems scaling the system."
"The biggest problem with PHP is you have to write lot of conditions or have to use a framework."
"A general scripting language should be further developed and should be embedded into it."
"The process of installing and configuring the product is a bit complex and could be improved."
"Integration of MVC with ORM tools for PHP is okay, but lacking a short list of decent ORM tools for PHP to choose from; there is ample room for improvement in both areas."
"Its object oriented programming language needs improvement."
"The solution can be quicker."
Oracle SOA Suite is ranked 8th in Application Infrastructure with 65 reviews while Zend PHP Engine is ranked 12th in Application Infrastructure with 10 reviews. Oracle SOA Suite is rated 8.0, while Zend PHP Engine 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 Zend PHP Engine writes "The fact that it is available open-source is the best feature". Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with Mule ESB, WebLogic Suite, Apache Web Server, Microsoft .NET Framework and TIBCO ActiveMatrix, whereas Zend PHP Engine is most compared with Apache Web Server and NGINX Plus. See our Oracle SOA Suite vs. Zend PHP Engine report.
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