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 #8 with an average rating of 7.9, while WebLogic Suite is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.0. Oracle SOA Suite holds a 4.1% mindshare in AIS, compared to WebLogic Suite’s 3.3% 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

WebLogic Suite

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97% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Oracle SOA Suite and WebLogic 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

Oracle SOA Suite

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SOA Governance (1st)

WebLogic Suite

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

12th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of Oracle SOA Suite is 4.1%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WebLogic Suite is 3.3%, down from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Mari Pandian

Business Head - Enterprise Solutions at ImageGrafix Software FZCO

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

Pros

"Middleware jobs developing for EC, ERP, and shipping systems become easier."

"The ability to stand up a highly available SOA Suite, which has full DR capabilities, in a remote center and synchronize the databases using Data Guard."

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

"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."

"In case there is something that doesn't work out of the box, you have the flexibility to customize it."

"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."

"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 Oracle SOA Suite is all the platform's capabilities."

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"The most valuable feature is that it provides one place where you can control all of the services."

"This is a robust solution."

"The program is scalable."

"A valuable feature is its integration with Oracle Database."

"The solution is very scalable. It's easy to add processes even if you are new to the solution."

"WebLogic adds a lot of value to business and investments."

"What I've been seeing as the most valuable characteristics of WebLogic Suite include robustness and scalability. It's a really good solution, and I'm not saying this because my company is a partner of WebLogic Suite. I also like that with the newer versions of the solution, you can deploy WebLogic Suite faster. Oracle also provides excellent technical support."

"It integrates well with other solutions."

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Cons

"The web services need to be more robust."

"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."

"Its function options can be improved."

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

"I want to see easier integration connections with other cloud-based tools."

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

"Other solutions might be better componets such as Salesforce."

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"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."

"The content search is not easy."

"WebLogic requires a person with coding knowledge for easy configuration and quick integrations."

"This solution would benefit from the inclusion of a ripple start function for clusters."

"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."

"The licensing for the solution is pretty expensive. It may be the most expensive solution, if you were to compare it to the competition."

"I think the support could be much better."

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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."

"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."

"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."

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

"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."

"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

19%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

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.

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

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.

Sample Customers

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

State Revenue Office Victoria, Colab Consulting Pty. Ltd., Reliance Commercial Finance, Center for Railway Information Systems, Sascar, Banca Transilvania, UL, Chhattisgarh Infotech and Biotech Promotion Society, MCB Bank, Pacfico Seguros Generales

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