We performed a comparison between Oracle SOA Suite and Windows Server AppFabric 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."The most valuable features for us are the APIs, which we commonly use, as well as the scheduling capabilities and file transfers."
"Valuable features include web service development and cloud connectivity."
"I found the adapters to be most useful."
"In case there is something that doesn't work out of the box, you have the flexibility to customize it."
"The stability of the solution is the most valuable feature."
"Conceptually, how it integrates a lot of essential enterprise process components. That's the most valuable."
"We were able to scale out using multiple application and web servers balanced by hardware load balancers and Weblogic clustering."
"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."
"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."
"Its function options can be improved."
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"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."
"The web services need to be more robust."
"If the disk space expansion can be made more flexible, not requiring a database restart, it would be a major benefit."
"Other solutions might be better componets such as Salesforce."
"The deployment could be made easier by including add-ons like Hudson and Maven."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"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."
"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."
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 Mule ESB, WebLogic Suite, Apache Web Server, TIBCO ActiveMatrix and IBM BPM, whereas Windows Server AppFabric is most compared with IIS. See our Oracle SOA Suite vs. Windows Server AppFabric report.
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