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Oracle SOA Suite vs WebLogic Suite comparison

Oracle SOA Suite and WebLogic Suite are both solutions in the Application Infrastructure category. Oracle SOA Suite is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.4, while WebLogic Suite is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.7. Oracle SOA Suite holds a 3.9% mindshare in AIS, compared to WebLogic Suite’s 3.4% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Oracle SOA Suite users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of WebLogic Suite users who would recommend it.
Oracle SOA Suite
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85% willing to recommend
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97% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Oracle SOA Suite and WebLogic Suite compete in the middleware solutions category. Oracle SOA Suite appears to have the upper hand due to its superior integration capabilities and ease of development for SOA composites, while WebLogic Suite is recognized for its robust deployment features and high availability.

Features: Oracle SOA Suite includes technology adapters for seamless integration with third-party systems, advanced monitoring capabilities through Real-Time Integration and Business Insight, and strong support for Java Enterprise Edition. WebLogic Suite is commended for its robustness, high availability, advanced clustering, and replication features, making it highly scalable for large enterprises.

Room for Improvement: Oracle SOA Suite could improve its stability, speed, and resource consumption, enhance support for mobile solutions, and streamline its user interface and error handling. WebLogic Suite could simplify its configuration process, enhance integration with cloud solutions, and reduce the complexity of multi-tenant configurations. Both products would benefit from improved support services and documentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle SOA Suite primarily supports on-premises setups but also offers public cloud deployments. WebLogic Suite provides broader deployment models, including hybrid cloud options. Both products face challenges in technical support, with users noting variability in service quality and response times.

Pricing and ROI: Both Oracle SOA Suite and WebLogic Suite are expensive compared to open-source alternatives, justified by their comprehensive features. Oracle SOA Suite’s licensing requires careful optimization to control costs, while WebLogic Suite’s high initial costs are offset by robust functionalities. Aligning licensing with business needs is essential for both products to maximize ROI, making them more suitable for organizations leveraging their full capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle SOA Suite
Ranking in Application Infrastructure
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
SOA Governance (1st)
WebLogic Suite
Ranking in Application Infrastructure
11th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of Oracle SOA Suite is 3.9%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WebLogic Suite is 3.4%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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MANOHAR SADDALA - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Mari Pandian - PeerSpot reviewer
Coding flexibility with good integration but users need coding knowledge
We are an Oracle partner and work with many Oracle applications for integration purposes. WebLogic is used for integrating various Oracle applications and third-party services WebLogic allows us to do the coding as per the customer's requirements. It helps us meet their needs by integrating their…
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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

"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."
"Valuable features include web service development and cloud connectivity."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the option to design, and the development can happen at the same time."
"The new product has come out with SOA Cloud Service and Integration Analytics as well, which gives more options for clients to pick their point of requirements."
"I found the adapters to be most useful."
"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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"It integrates various applications easily, provided there is a coder available."
"A valuable feature is its integration with Oracle Database."
"WebLogic Suite provides a stable application server experience."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides one place where you can control all of the services."
"Robust solution; console and enterprise management tools are really easy to work."
"This is a robust solution."
"The product is reliable."
"The program is scalable."
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Cons

"The interface is too complicated. Making modifications still requires too much technical knowledge."
"I want to see easier integration connections with other cloud-based tools."
"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 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."
"Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses."
"They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times."
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"I would like to see the licensing policy simplified."
"There is no need for improvement with WebLogic Suite, although its coherence is a bit more complicated."
"I think the support could be much better."
"There are sometimes issues with clusters."
"WebLogic requires a person with coding knowledge for easy configuration and quick integrations."
"I noticed a few areas for improvement in WebLogic Suite. If you use the pure play higher-availability features, then yes, it can be switched over to the other system from the high-availability point of view, but that comes with a certain price. If you prefer simpler high-availability, that requires manual intervention. I'd also recommend a tuning feature in WebLogic Suite because it's not self-tuning, and this means you need thorough expertise to do the tuning and leverage the best benefit out of it. If Oracle makes WebLogic Suite automated or self-driven, then it becomes a wonderful product, similar to what Oracle did for the Autonomous Database which is self-driven or has an autonomous operating system. If automation is added in the next release of the solution, combined with more affordable pricing, though as a technical person, I know how much goes into having automation as a feature, and it could be difficult to lower the price, but if Oracle can do it, then that would make WebLogic Suite better."
"Support could be better. The expertise when we have some Oracle WebLogic issues and challenges is not there. The issues are not being addressed in time. This really needs to be improved going forward."
"Sometimes there are issues when we work on a VM because people use it to put all of their reports on it at the same time. Then I have to restart and rebuild the machine."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"Oracle pricing is expensive. Support is based on your license. AWS is much better than Oracle in this regard."
"The product is moderately priced."
"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."
"The pricing is not very high as compared to its competitors."
"This product is WebLogic based, hence it can be both resource hungry as well as expensive from a licensing point of view."
"There is a license required for this solution and the price could be reduced."
"Technical support is very costly."
"Scaling is costly."
"The product comes bundled with Oracle Premier Support."
"The cost of the WebLogic Suite license is a bit high."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Government
8%
Educational Organization
6%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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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 do you like most about WebLogic Suite?
The solution is useful for centralizing data.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WebLogic Suite?
We have an enterprise license, and the pricing is stable. The license does not apply to the current solution.
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What needs improvement with WebLogic Suite?
There is no need for improvement with WebLogic Suite, although its coherence is a bit more complicated.
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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.

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Oracle WebLogic Suite is an integrated solution for building onpremise cloud application infrastructures that span web server, application server and data grid technology tiers. It includes Oracle WebLogic Server, an application server for developing and deploying applications across conventional and cloud environments, Oracle Coherence Enterprise Edition, Oracle Web Tier, Oracle TopLink, Oracle Java Mission Control and Flight Recorder, and other component technologies.

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Sample Customers

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