2016-03-31T12:04:00Z

What needs improvement with Oracle SOA Suite?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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ES
Reseller
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-09-28T12:33:47Z
Sep 28, 2023

The features we've been installing are really, really robust. The only challenge that we have down here is that most individuals have not improved so much. But the features are quite mature. The only tenant is that they would not have enough knowledge to be able to interact with those features and integrate them with their systems. So, to improve other than the training or the performance of those that are using the package. Another area of improvement is performance. Because with multiple solutions connecting to the SOA platform, in time, the performance of the SOA platform can be affected. So, that could be one area that could be improved with the SOA. Also, licensing is another area of improvement. It seems to be a high cost, especially for our customers. So that is something that we might look at improving.

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Prashan Thilakawardena - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-09-06T08:34:16Z
Sep 6, 2023

The product is not user-friendly. It is very complicated. It is very hard to get the reports.

PN
Real User
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2023-06-23T08:17:42Z
Jun 23, 2023

The deployment could be made easier by including add-ons like Hudson and Maven. The add-ons and tools for deployment need to be improved. Patches should also be improved. Most of our clients are heading towards the cloud. The cloud integration features need to be improved. Almost most of the integration solutions are UI based. Those are very lightweight solutions, whereas SOA Suite is heavyweight. The product should become more lightweight, and it should be UI based.

SP
Real User
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2023-05-25T12:53:55Z
May 25, 2023

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

NA
Real User
Top 5
2023-01-06T13:59:27Z
Jan 6, 2023

I would like to see divided containers more separately as a microservice. Try to convert more in microservices and be less monolith than it is, because at this time it is more monolith than microservice.

AS
Real User
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2022-12-01T15:16:07Z
Dec 1, 2022

An area for improvement in Oracle SOA Suite is the cost. It could be lower. My company even thought about moving to an open-source product, WSO2, but decided that microservice architecture would be best for the company's architectural approach and use cases, such as building systems.

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Hari Kathireshan - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-09-06T09:25:11Z
Sep 6, 2022

There needs to be separate guided learning for the usage of tools. It's also not developer-friendly.

RD
Real User
Top 20
2022-04-25T09:35:00Z
Apr 25, 2022

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.

FG
Consultant
2021-12-27T19:59:04Z
Dec 27, 2021

The resiliency of this application can have problems with a downstream system., sometimes it's unable to recover quickly. You have to restart the services. However, this is most likely because I'm using an old version, which is 12.1.3, but if I upgrade to 12.2, then that will problem will be resolved. I'm in the process of thinking of upgrading it.

MK
Real User
2020-12-01T21:23:39Z
Dec 1, 2020

There are networking and firewall issues that tend to delay our projects. I believe that is the case with any middleware. The documentation and details can be a little better, and more user-friendly. They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times. There is room for improvement in terms of support. In the next version of this solution, I would like to see improvements made to the test environment for real-time testing. There is a lot of new software that isn't there until you deploy, which means that you cannot test real-time.

SF
Real User
2019-09-16T16:22:00Z
Sep 16, 2019

With respect to the feature that allows each process to be accessible and reviewed at a later time, it is a great debug option, but we did notice the database size getting larger by the day. Is there any option available that will allow the process history to be moved to a different schema? If so, it would not affect the performance. If the disk space expansion can be made more flexible, not requiring a database restart, it would be a major benefit.

it_user705708 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2019-01-04T19:40:00Z
Jan 4, 2019

The product is very good considering tracing, ease of use and troubleshooting. However, the development environment requires a big machine with potent CPU/memory, and SOA server takes many minutes to be up, you can't run anything else on the computer. In production, when you have lots of composites running on the SOA server, it takes up to 30 min to restart the server. Microservice was created to solve these weaknesses of standard SOA approach.

WC
User
2018-06-24T15:39:00Z
Jun 24, 2018

This solution should allow for data output to spreadsheets and other formats. During training, it is necessary to be closer to the end user to properly manage the product.

Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2018-05-17T11:06:00Z
May 17, 2018

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.

it_user415716 - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
2016-03-31T12:04:00Z
Mar 31, 2016

The Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which is JDeveloper in this case. Also, the integrated development environment could be better in some points such as the stability and the comprehensibility of errors. EDIT: The Maven integration in JDeveloper is very basic and might be enhanced to allow the proper use of Maven.

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