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."The availability performance matrix and the reporting capabilities are the solution's most valuable features."
"We like Microsoft System Center's Operations Manager. That is primarily why we use it."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it helps us manage our company's application pool, license pool, application update pool, and OS updates."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft System Center is its GUI (graphical user interface)."
"The deployment and asset management features are the most valuable. These are the product's main features."
"Managment Packs for Microsoft-specific products, help us implement the best practices for each product."
"Many processes could be implemented out-of-the-box, and this helped to adopt processes in areas which we lacked."
"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."
"Middleware jobs developing for EC, ERP, and shipping systems become easier."
"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."
"The integration with various products."
"The product allows you to visualize how a company is working currently by providing rich possibilities for analysis such as the audit trails and therefore shows where improvements might be valuable."
"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 most valuable features for us are the APIs, which we commonly use, as well as the scheduling capabilities and file transfers."
"The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the option to design, and the development can happen at the same time."
"The multi-tenancy support needs to be improved. We need to have the ability to manage several different environments from one central point of administration."
"Most of the documentation is online, however, there are some gaps there. The product documentation still refers back to the 2012 Server. We're pretty much in 2022. There's a ten-year gap there."
"They should have some customized solutions or internal development, then maybe it could be easier to use different solutions or some self-developed solution."
"Something super important that we need is this integration via Intune Configuration Manager."
"In Microsoft System Center, it is difficult to follow the steps to create dataflows at times."
"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."
"For me, the tool's UI seems to be too old."
"The deployment could be made easier by including add-ons like Hudson and Maven."
"An area for improvement in Oracle SOA Suite is the cost. It could be lower."
"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."
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"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."
"Other solutions might be better componets such as Salesforce."
"The installation and adjustment process seems too complex."
Microsoft System Center is ranked 15th in Application Infrastructure with 18 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 "Makes user management and application management easy for users". 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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