We performed a comparison between Microsoft System Center 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."Many processes could be implemented out-of-the-box, and this helped to adopt processes in areas which we lacked."
"The installation process is easy."
"The availability performance matrix and the reporting capabilities are the solution's most valuable features."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ease of configuration and the easy discovery of the environment."
"Managment Packs for Microsoft-specific products, help us implement the best practices for each product."
"I like the automated features of it that let you schedule those updates and the ability of the product to focus on the specific updates, specific platforms, and products that we're interested in keeping up to date."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"Step-by-step documentation that clarifies the implementation procedure."
"Valuable features include connectors and BAM."
"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."
"Conceptually, how it integrates a lot of essential enterprise process components. That's the most valuable."
"I found the adapters to be most useful."
"The most valuable features for us are the APIs, which we commonly use, as well as the scheduling capabilities and file transfers."
"The integration with various products."
"I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy."
"The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful."
"System Center hasn't updated to keep up with the industry. It needs improvements in the user interface, ease of use, and overall product functionality, particularly the cloud-monitoring features. It needs more capabilities to monitor AWS and Azure infrastructure."
"The platform performance and responsiveness need improvement. It still demands high computing resources."
"The solution's dashboard needs improvement."
"Something super important that we need is this integration via Intune Configuration Manager."
"Could be more user friendly."
"Implementation and integration in the case of multi-tenant environments needs improvement."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"We have some bugs but it's stable. It doesn't break every day. It works. Like other applications, it has a lot of bugs but they're manageable."
"The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved."
"An area for improvement in Oracle SOA Suite is the cost. It could be lower."
"The solutions can improve the communication or translations between formats, such as JSON and XML. The JSON REST API could improve."
"It's also not developer-friendly."
"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."
"I want to see easier integration connections with other cloud-based tools."
"They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times."
Microsoft System Center is ranked 15th in Application Infrastructure with 17 reviews while Oracle SOA Suite is ranked 8th in Application Infrastructure with 65 reviews. Microsoft System Center is rated 7.8, while Oracle SOA Suite is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft System Center writes "Good review of configurations, effective antivirus administration, and has weekly reports". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SOA Suite writes "Easy to setup, provides good support and scalable solution ". Microsoft System Center is most compared with , whereas Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with Mule ESB, WebLogic Suite, Apache Web Server, TIBCO ActiveMatrix and IBM DataPower Gateway. See our Microsoft System Center vs. Oracle SOA Suite report.
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