WebLogic Suite Reviews

We mainly use this program for forms and reports, as well as application provisioning for Java and so on.

This solution has greatly improved security wise over the last couple of years. The user experience is much better now than it was in the previous version, version 12. And the new inference manager is also much better.

All the areas of this program needs to improve. The integration with other providers and the user management could be better, and the upgrades are pretty complicated. So I would like to see that being improved in the next version.

The program is stable and we haven't had any issues so far.

The program is scalable. You can create domains so we're fine with it. We currently have around 50 internal users and we have customers that which are big, state companies or government companies that use our solutions extensively. 

The first line of support in India is quite bad, but as we go further into the problems, we are referred to some really good technical guys, and they are really great. But it's not immediately opened as a priority one issue of support, so that's pretty bad.

The initial setup was complex at first, but we soon got the hang of it and then it wasn't too bad. To deploy it by hand takes a couple of hours, but provisioning with a custom script takes around 10 minutes. It depends on the environment it will be run in.

My advice to others would be: don't complicate things. Keep it simple. On a scale from one to 10, I rate this solution a seven. I think the support could be much better. So perhaps the developers can work on that. Also, the WebLogic management console could be more intuitive or more up to date, because it's still the old console from version 10. Bring us up to enterprise manager or cloud control, which has been in design and very intuitive.

It performs well.

It is connected with our systems, and our systems run on Oracle. It is beneficial because it integrates with our internal systems. This resolves half of our problems for our internal system integration, data retrieval, and subscription to specific events.

A valuable feature is its integration with Oracle Database. We have another system running Oracle Database which can be easily updated from the database and pushed to the middleware. Also, it easily connects to other Oracle products and services.

We need to have more adapters and connectors, especially healthcare system adapters. This solution doesn't have connectors to other external applications. We connect with other vendors' and other companies' systems, therefore we have been asking Oracle for specific interfaces because we have been unable to integrate with these systems using any adapters.

It is stable.

Scaling is costly. 

Technical support is very costly.

We tried to connect our healthcare systems with Oracle, and it needs a lot of support. We would needs to hire a consultant, and the consultant would cost us $4,000 a day. Therefore, it's very costly to integrate with the other systems, which is why we are looking for other alternatives.

I was not involved in the initial setup.

In general, it is a costly solution.

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I rate this solution as a seven out of 10, because it is not fully satisfying our needs. It is good in specific areas, but it's not satisfying all of our requirements. It is not a one stop shop.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor:

• It is affordable.
• Easy to use.
• Ready documentation, training, and examples.
  

Our team works on it every day but; I don't do the technical work. I'm an operations manager and I  manage the team.

It runs smoothly and everything works fine. 

It integrates well with other solutions.

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. That is more of an issue with the users though. 

I have around 10 years of experience working with this solution.

We have between 40 to 60 users who use this solution.

The setup was complex but there weren't any issues.

I would rate it a seven out of ten. 

The client is happy and there are some issues sometimes with the scalability but it's probably because of the users. Otherwise, we don't have any other problems. Sometimes there are issues with the reports. 

WebLogic Suite is a solution that I use myself and I also provide services to my customers.

In my company, it is a standalone instance that is not connected to a cluster.

This solution hosts our Oracle Business Intelligence application, OBIEE, and other Oracle applications.

The most valuable feature is that it provides one place where you can control all of the services. You can switch on and off individual services, which comes in very handy.

The restart capability needs to be improved because it takes us 15 minutes to restart any application.

This is a heavy application, like everything that comes from Oracle.

Debugging with this solution is tough and a bit complex.

The interface is not very user-friendly.

I have been using WebLogic Suite for between two and three years.

We have close to 500 users.

We have been in contact with Oracle support, although not for this solution.

In general, Oracle support is good.

We did not use another solution prior to this one.

We only had to deploy this solution once. Since that time, we have switched it off and on every two or three months for maintenance.

We manage one of the instances ourselves, and the other one is outsourced to a third-party in the US.

Oracle is costly compared to the other solutions that we have. It is double the price of a similar solution that we use from Microsoft.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We have JBoss, too, and it's far better than JBoss. It’s more powerful, in terms of the number of sessions you can run on WebLogic, compared to the other product.

Our transactions, our business runs smoother. It provides greater efficiency and performance.

The patching is painful; if they wouldn’t release as frequently. Every time you have a patch, you have to upgrade. I’d like to see them improve the release of the patches; instead of monthly, maybe every three months; or specify which patches are critical, which everyone should have, and which ones are optional, like how the OS patches are.

We haven’t had any stability issues; it's pretty stable.

We haven't had any scalability issues.

We have seen good ROI on Oracle compared to JBoss.

We looked at JBoss. We decided to use the Oracle product because our Oracle stack is pretty stable. We have SPARC and we have Oracle databases. It makes sense in terms of getting better ROI.

If you don’t want any outages, you want peace of mind, and your application running smoothly, I would say go for WebLogic. Why would you want a painful experience? It's smooth.

I think that the best feature of WebLogic, as far as middleware goes, is that it's very license-friendly. It's a part of the suite of products that our DBA has included, and I trust that because it means the DBA really wanted it. There are multiple products that compete with WebLogic, but it's completely Oracle, which means that the licensing with other Oracle products is great.

Because it's in the middleware layer, I would like to see better scalability for scaling up. Also, they should provide sizing guidelines so that customers can take it and deploy it.

WebLogic has been there for a while. I've had my hands on it since it Oracle acquired the company in 2008.

We've had no issues deploying it.

It's a no-brainer that it’s stable. The only thing you should pay attention to is how scalable it is.

You should run your workload on WebLogic then see if it scales well. Then based on that, you keep on adding the WebLogic server to scale more.

I think technical support is knowledgeable, but in some instances I've seen they are completely focused on one single product, not seeing the whole end-to-end solution of the customer. That's where they get lost.

My role is to set up the solution for the application team. They use it to fetch data and I think for the main part they use it for ULT or APL. I'm a database administrator and business analyst and we're a customer of WebLogic. 

I like that the solution is a bit more robust than the API. Also, the setup is straightforward so I rarely have issues in that area or with administering. I think the monitoring tools and the documentation are not bad. 

For improvement, I think the area of clusters are sometimes problematic and we do have issues around that.  

I've been using this solution for two years. 

This is quite a stable solution, we may have had some initial issues but it's fine now. 

I think the scalability is fine. 

The documentation for this solution is very good so I haven't had contact with technical support. 

The initial setup doesn't take much time although it really depends on the quality of the infrastructure. 

This is a straightforward application. It's easy to set up and use if you have the proper documentation, it's not overly challenging. There is a lot of documentation available and what you really need is the technical know how. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of 10. 

The solution's ease of use is its most valuable feature.

The solution needs to share more information in terms of training. There needs to be more documentation involved to help those who are completely new to the product.

The solution is stable.

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

We haven't had much interaction with technical support, so I can't speak to any direct experience.

We didn't set up the solution ourselves. Rather, we hired our vendor to handle all of the implementation details for us.

A vendor set up the solution on our behalf.

We use the on-premises deployment model.

It's a good product. I'd recommend it to others. 

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.