IIS vs Oracle SOA Suite comparison

Microsoft and Oracle are both solutions in the Application Infrastructure category. Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.3, while Oracle is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.4. Microsoft holds a 12.4% mindshare in AIS, compared to Oracle’s 3.9% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

IIS

Read 56 IIS reviews

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2,186 Comparison Views

89% willing to recommend

Oracle SOA Suite

Read 65 Oracle SOA Suite reviews

1,196 Views
755 Comparison Views

85% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between IIS 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.

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Categories and Ranking

IIS

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

1st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Server (4th)

Oracle SOA Suite

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

9th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SOA Governance (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of IIS is 12.4%, down from 13.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SOA Suite is 3.9%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Infrastructure

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VikramSingh6

Operations Executive at Quess

A simple and easy-to-use solution but not recommended for public apps

I would rate the overall solution a six out of ten. We have around five to six developers and engineers for the solution’s deployment and maintenance. You can use the solution if your website is not too big or complicated. However, if it is big and complicated, then you need to use Apache or Red Hat. This tool can be used for internal purposes. But if you plan to host a public app, then I wouldn’t recommend the tool.

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MANOHAR SADDALA

IT Specialist at Eagle Hills

Enables seamless integration with multiple systems

I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. It's not much more dynamic, not as dynamic as you may think, like seeing it in the cloud. In order to use it, you need to have the download servers and then scale up your systems. Oracle SOA Suites serves as a middle layer between applications. For example, let's say you have SAP, and we have Salesforce or Oracle ERP system. Users connect to those systems and perform certain activities or transactions on the applications. Now, if any data needs to be synchronized or any integration needs to happen between these applications, we use the Oracle SOA Suite. It acts as the bridge between the applications, not between the users. It's like having endpoints between the applications. Currently, we have 20 endpoints; 20 systems are connected to it, which is great. Oracle SOA Suite is being used daily. We are using it to its maximum potential.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"IIS is scalable."

"The solution is the easiest way to publish applications which have been designed by older development tools."

"The solution is simple and very easy to manage compared to Linux."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."

"The most valuable feature of IIS is that it's free, and it works."

"It helps scan and mitigates our vulnerabilities using the best protocols to secure our environment."

"The product is easy to configure."

"What I like the most is that it is easy to use."

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"We were able to scale out using multiple application and web servers balanced by hardware load balancers and Weblogic clustering."

"The most valuable feature of Oracle SOA Suite is all the platform's capabilities."

"I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy."

"The most valuable feature of the facility, as the partner link, is to try to use third-party services and logic in your own vehicle to orchestrate the information."

"The product provides transparency in finances."

"The stability of the solution is the most valuable feature."

"It performs better in real-time transactions."

"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."

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Cons

"Sometimes, we encounter difficult issues, and getting support from Microsoft to resolve those issues is not easy."

"Sometimes if you are using IIS in large-scale scenarios, meaning that if you are deploying an application within IIS service and you are expecting a large number of users to use this application, you can sometimes find some problems, meaning that the service can shut down by itself unexpectedly if you don't configure your IIS with the correct configuration that can handle this number of users."

"The level of technical support the solution offers could be improved."

"We'd like future versions to be more stable."

"The documentation is not very detailed. They need to improve it and add to it. They should ensure there are lots of visuals to help users better understand the solution."

"The product could be more compatible with Linux and macOS, particularly when applying user configuration policies."

"Having no support for other than a Microsoft environment and programming languages limits the usage of IIS in many cases."

"The documentation isn't very good and the options are very complex."

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

"The installation and adjustment process seems too complex."

"The technical support is good, we have premier support which costs extra."

"It's also not developer-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."

"Its function options can be improved."

"The interface is too complicated. Making modifications still requires too much technical knowledge."

"Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is no license needed to use the solution."

"The tool is included with Windows."

"There is no license required for the product as it is role-based. Whenever you go for a Windows platform server, the role has to be installed directly from the server manager. There is no additional cost that has to be paid for that. It is free to use."

"IIS's pricing is not expensive."

"The price of Windows Server IIS is expensive. They have a large user base, and they charge a little bit too much."

"There is a license needed for the solution."

"The cost for IIS is already included in Windows services. We don't have to pay anything extra."

"The price of the cloud system is a bit high."

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"Based on my knowledge, Oracle SOA Suite doesn't have user-based licensing. It has a system-based licensing model, so you pay for whole systems. Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution, so it's a four out of ten for me."

"This product is WebLogic based, hence it can be both resource hungry as well as expensive from a licensing point of view."

"The product is moderately priced."

"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."

"It is necessary to evaluate the requirement regarding the platform usage and what the main operation area of the platform will be."

"The pricing is not very high as compared to its competitors."

"Oracle pricing is expensive. Support is based on your license. AWS is much better than Oracle in this regard."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Government

Educational Organization

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By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Which is better - IIS or NGINX Plus?

IIS is a flexible, secure, and manageable web server to host anything on the web. IIS’s scalable and open architecture can handle the most demanding tasks. From media streaming to web applications,...

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What do you like most about IIS?

The product is flexible.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IIS?

They offer a one-time payment model for the product license, and we pay annually for support. I rate the pricing an eight out of ten.

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What do you like most about Oracle SOA Suite?

The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle SOA Suite?

Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution.

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What needs improvement with Oracle SOA Suite?

The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved. A big challenge for Oracle SOA Suite is that you don't get too many technical resources.

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Comparisons

NGINX Plus vs IIS

Compared 30% of the time

Apache Web Server vs IIS

Compared 21% of the time

Oracle WebLogic Server vs IIS

Compared 16% of the time

Tomcat vs IIS

Compared 14% of the time

JBoss vs IIS

Compared 7% of the time

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WebLogic Suite vs Oracle SOA Suite

Compared 45% of the time

Mule ESB vs Oracle SOA Suite

Compared 35% of the time

Apache Web Server vs Oracle SOA Suite

Compared 12% of the time

IBM DataPower Gateway vs Oracle SOA Suite

Compared 7% of the time

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Also Known As

Windows Server IIS

SOA Suite

Overview

Internet Information Services (IIS) provides a secure, easy-to-manage, modular and extensible platform for reliably hosting websites, services and applications. With IIS, you get choice and control without giving up reliability or security.

Microsoft

Oracle SOA Suite is a comprehensive, standards-based software suite to build, deploy and manage integration following the concepts of service-oriented architecture (SOA). The components of the suite benefit from consistent tooling, a single deployment and management model, end-to-end security and unified metadata management. Oracle SOA Suite helps businesses lower costs by allowing maximum re-use of existing IT investments and assets, regardless of the environment (OS, application server, etc.) they run in, or the technology they were built upon. Its easy-to-use, re-use focused, unified application development tooling and end-to-end lifecycle management support further reduces development and maintenance cost and complexity.

For more information on Oracle SOA Suite, visit Oracle.com

Oracle

Sample Customers

Erste Bank Group, NJVC, Samsung Electronics, Sheraton Hotels and Resorts, Tata Steel Europe, Urban Software Institute

7-Eleven, Arcor SAIC, Banca Transilvania, Eaton Corporation, Emdeon, Ferrovial, Griffith University, National Instruments, Pella Corporation, Vodafone Group Plc,

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