We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and Oracle SOA Suite 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."Everything is coupled together and comes as one solution."
"This product does the job in terms of executing the workflow."
"It provides a very robust environment to build an integration framework or workflow patterns that we have. A lot of changes or modifications have been made to this solution over the past few years. The features that they have added this time have helped developers like us to work on the developmental environment and leverage all the capabilities of the tool. This is what I like about this solution."
"Responsive Portal + Process Federation Server. This set of solutions offers a unified worklist to our customers."
"IBM BPM should become cloud-native. It should also add a cloud deployment feature."
"The solution is stable."
"One of the most notable things is how you can develop use cases with the customers, internal customers, but directly within. The software process model that BPM supports is really exciting in that aspect."
"It makes the company business processes work more efficiently."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the option to design, and the development can happen at the same time."
"The product provides transparency in finances."
"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."
"It performs better in real-time transactions."
"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."
"Valuable features include web service development and cloud connectivity."
"Provides connectivity between discrete systems and has availability."
"In case there is something that doesn't work out of the box, you have the flexibility to customize it."
"We thought there might have been a little more discussion early on about, "Hey, if you're doing this, set it up this way," or some best practices or some guidance that we didn't get."
"We still have a couple of issues that we are working on right now with stability. Mostly on the configuration side of the tool, and it has been about a month that we have been working to stabilize the platform."
"The business would like to use the product with a lot less IT and equipment involvement."
"IBM BPM is stable, but sometimes there are issues with the server."
"Except for the Lucene the index - we had a couple of issues in the Process Portal where the Lucene index went out of sync, and we had to work at least 15 - 20 hours to have it back in sync with the database."
"There are a few areas, like triggering mechanisms, externally exposed variables, and changing its values."
"Finding errors and bugs on the system is not easy. We can't seem to use the events or logs to find them, so it makes it difficult to debug the system. They really need to work on their debugging features to make is much, much easier. It would improve the solution considerably and should be something they add in a future release."
"The solution can improve integration with SAP, CRM, and Salesforce, which is not capital-intensive."
"The web services need to be more robust."
"The installation and adjustment process seems too complex."
"They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times."
"Other solutions might be better componets such as Salesforce."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"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's also not developer-friendly."
"The Maven integration in JDeveloper is very basic and might be enhanced to allow the proper use of Maven."
IBM BPM is ranked 7th in Application Infrastructure with 105 reviews while Oracle SOA Suite is ranked 8th in Application Infrastructure with 65 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while Oracle SOA Suite is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM BPM writes "Offers good case management and its integration with process design but there's a learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SOA Suite writes "Easy to setup, provides good support and scalable solution ". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Pega BPM, Appian, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow, whereas Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with Mule ESB, WebLogic Suite, Apache Web Server, TIBCO ActiveMatrix and Microsoft .NET Framework. See our IBM BPM vs. Oracle SOA Suite report.
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