Oracle SOA Suite vs PRTG Network Monitor comparison

The compared Oracle and Paessler GmbH solutions aren't in the same category. Oracle is ranked #8 in AIS , with an average rating of 7.9, and holds a 4.1% mindshare in the category. Paessler GmbH is ranked #5 in NMS , with an average rating of 7.7, and holds a 4.2% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Paessler GmbH users who would recommend it.

Oracle SOA Suite

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85% willing to recommend

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91% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle SOA Suite

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Infrastructure (8th), SOA Governance (1st)

PRTG Network Monitor

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

100

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (5th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (6th), Cloud Monitoring Software (8th)

Mindshare comparison

Oracle SOA Suite and PRTG Network Monitor aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Oracle SOA Suite is designed for Application Infrastructure and holds a mindshare of 4.1%, down 4.7% compared to last year.
PRTG Network Monitor, on the other hand, focuses on Network Monitoring Software, holds 4.2% mindshare, down 5.5% since last year.

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Q&A Highlights

it_user82725

Sr Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mar 16, 2016

Can PRTG be used to monitor Oracle SOA suite components or should we choose Nagios instead?

PRTG is quite basic for this type of application monitoring, it'll give you some general metrics but what you're asking for is better done with Nagios, though its architecture and the information it provides won't give you the best metrics either. In this case your safest bet would be Zabbix, although both Nagios and Zabbix will steal a lot of your time until you can tune them to the detail level you're expecting, since neither count on "professional" plugins like the one ZenOSS can give you, but of course that's gonna cost a hole in your company's wallet.

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Manoj Satpathy

Assistant consultant at vvolve management consultants

Provides good performance and error handling, but its initial setup is complex and could be improved

We use Oracle SOA Suite for application integration in our company. We were using the on-premises version of the product. Since Oracle SOA Suite has its own engine, you can build your integrations, deploy, and use them. We used the Oracle BPEL Process Manager for Orchestration when we had a lot of business logic. Oracle Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Oracle VPN come under the Oracle SOA integration platform. Compared to other solutions like SnapLogic, Oracle SOA Suite is not easy to use. Oracle SOA Suite is suitable for customers with a big complex integration process, where performance and infrastructure stability are more important. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

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Noman-Saleem

Network Support Officer at Habib Metropolitan Bank Ltd

Detects suden changes but significant pricing concerns affect the effectiveness of network traffic troubleshooting

We use PRTG Network Monitor for monitoring traffic on interfaces and the behavior of network traffic. If there are sudden changes in traffic or any configuration issues, we can sort them out using PRTG. It's very helpful for troubleshooting and monitoring traffic utilization on our interfaces…

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

Pros

"Valuable features include connectors and BAM."

"It performs better in real-time transactions."

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

"What I like best about Oracle SOA Suite is Oracle support. I also like the tool features, especially the integration feature."

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

"The product provides transparency in finances."

"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."

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

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"Accessibility, ease of use (Web GUI, MobileApps). In general, compared with other software"

"It is pretty simple to use, which is always a good thing. It's been very reliable in updating us if any issues crop up."

"The most valuable feature of PRTG Network Monitor is real-time monitoring."

"The sensors and remote probes are phenomenal. We use them for all of our global sites. The problem with our global sites are that they are all VPNs. If the link goes down, you can't monitor other solutions, as it just goes off the grid. Having remote probes allows them to still carry on and get the information that we need when it comes back up, sending the information to us."

"PRTG is simple to manage. First, you can create a template for a device, then apply it to hundreds of similar devices. That's a great advantage."

"It is nice to have one place where all the information is right there in front of us."

"PRTG Network Monitor's best features are its flexibility, ease of implementation, user-friendliness, and intuitive interfaces."

"The feature whereby it shows when my hard drives are moving towards thresholds that would be considered outages, before they reach that point - that is valuable."

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Cons

"The Maven integration in JDeveloper is very basic and might be enhanced to allow the proper use of Maven."

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

"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."

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

"The deployment could be made easier by including add-ons like Hudson and Maven."

"SOA, OSB, SOA Cloud Service."

"The web services need to be more robust."

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"We would like more cloud native sensors for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc. A lot of businesses are moving in that direction, so having something where we can pull performance stats out of these cloud services would be great for us."

"More training videos for installing and configuring this software would have been nice, especially when working with a lot of devices."

"While the desktop app is good, they could slightly improve it. We would like it to be a single pane of glass. At the moment, you can only see certain portions of information. You have to scroll through to make it more granular. We want them to develop the desktop app to be more user-friendly."

"The automation should be improved."

"The solution has to evolve as an end-to-end monitoring solution. It has to do better at understanding the application at the deepest level."

"It probably has this already, but if it had a mobile app that would be helpful. For example, on a day like today when I'm out, if I could just fire it up and see green, green, green, green, green or red, that would be good."

"I would like to see Office 365 monitoring. Essentially, it doesn't do it. I assumed not at all, but apparently it does it slightly. However, due to issues with APIs, they currently don't provide full monitoring for O365."

"It would be nice if it gave us alerts via Gmail or SMS message."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

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

"The product is moderately priced."

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

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

"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."

"We have unlimited devices and sensors, and it is a bit pricey, but we do have unlimited sensors. With all things considered the price is fine, related to the solution itself. PRTG Network Monitor is good value for money."

"The pricing is okay and it is cheaper than some competing products."

"The scalability is there, but smaller companies might need CAM software to be able afford the product."

"The pricing for PRTG in our case is reasonable because we have a lot of applications to monitor within PRTG. It is not that expensive."

"PRTG Network Monitor is very expensive."

"PRTG is now available as PRTG Enterprise Monitor, and the price varies depending on the total number of sensors the customer buys"

"Because we are only on the free version, we have a limited number of sensors. Therefore, we are not monitoring as much as we want to be to obtain historical information."

"Cost was a factor when selecting this solution, but it just did everything we wanted it to do."

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Comparison Review

it_user174738

IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 31, 2015

Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor

I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…

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Answers from the Community

it_user82725

Sr Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mar 16, 2016

Can PRTG be used to monitor Oracle SOA suite components or should we choose Nagios instead?

2 out of 4 answers

it_user70647

Works

Nov 26, 2014

PRTG is a network monitoring tool that uses SNMP protocol. You can configure weblogic server to use SNMP protocol to communicate with PRTG using agents. The same thing for Oracle ESB, by enabling SNMP traps in the Oracle Servcie bus. I think your business requirement as well as budget, will determine which monitoring tool you can use. I think all network monitoring tools, using SNMP traps, can do the job. Any SW or applications can build an SNMP traps to communicate with the monitoring tool. You can consult Oracle's manuals for more details. I hope this will be helpful. All the best, Ashraf Galal

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it_user155127

Engineer with 51-200 employees

Nov 26, 2014

Hi, I've no experience with PRTG, but you can find that on their site: http://www.paessler.com/oracle_monitoring I used to practice some time ago Nagios, on Linux boxes with web Logic, and it adapted well to our needs. I'm no longer experimenting with supervision tools as i switched to backup and storage. Regards E.Boutang

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Educational Organization

53%

Computer Software Company

Government

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

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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What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?

PRTG network monitor is one of the best tool i have ever used for the monitoring. It have auto discovery option. it avoid the configuring the device in PRTG. It automatically discover the device an...

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What do you like most about PRTG Network Monitor?

The tool is integrated with our email for the alerts.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PRTG Network Monitor?

PRTG comes in different bands: there are options with 500, 1500, 2500, and so on. Pricing is by the number of devices, not by sensor.

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Overview

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

PRTG Network Monitor runs on a Windows machine within your network, collecting various statistics from the machines, software, and devices which you designate. PRTG comes with an easy-to-use web interface with point-and-click configuration. You can easily share data from it with non-technical colleagues and customers, including via live graphs and custom reports. This will let you plan for network expansion, see what applications are using most of your connection, and make sure that no one is hogging the entire network just to torrent videos.

To monitor a large IT environment, it's important to be able to scale PRTG up. Paessler PRTG Enterprise Monitor includes all the proven capabilities of PRTG Network Monitor, which are enhanced by exclusive ITOps Board for a service-oriented, central overview of multiple PRTG servers.

Sample Customers

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

Jameson Bank, Sidnix, RungeICT, MedicalAnimal, Truck-lite, GamingGrids, The Covell Group, Forsythn County Schools, NetMass, Musgrove Park Hospital, Lanes Health, Columbia Southern University, Vodafone, Intrust Bank

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