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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cherokee Web Server

    N/AN/ACherokee is an open source enterprise web server.N/A

    Oracle BPM Suite

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Oracle Business Process Management Suite is an integrated environment for developing, administering, and using business applications centered around business processes.N/A

    Oracle WebLogic Server

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AOracle WebLogic Server is a unified and extensible platform for developing, deploying and running enterprise applications, such as Java, for on-premises and in the cloud. WebLogic Server offers a scalable implementation of Java Enterprise Edition (EE) and Jakarta EE.N/A
    Pricing
    Cherokee Web ServerOracle BPM SuiteOracle WebLogic Server
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cherokee Web ServerOracle BPM SuiteOracle WebLogic Server
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cherokee Web ServerOracle BPM SuiteOracle WebLogic Server
    Considered Multiple Products
    Open Source
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    Oracle
    Chose Oracle BPM Suite
    We have selected Oracle BPM Suite because we use Oracle Middleware Suite in our Production system. BPM is part of [the] Middleware Suite. We selected BPM as a frontend system for our business process. We also use BPM to integrate BPM with several other Oracle ecosystem[s]. …
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    Oracle
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    Key User Insights
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    78%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    Cherokee Web ServerOracle BPM SuiteOracle WebLogic Server
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Cherokee Web Server and Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle WebLogic Server
    Feature
    Cherokee Web Server
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    5 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards00 Ratings6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Cherokee Web Server and Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle WebLogic Server
    Feature
    Cherokee Web Server
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.4
    6 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    -
    Ratings
    Process designer00 Ratings8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings4.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Cherokee Web Server and Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle WebLogic Server
    Feature
    Cherokee Web Server
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    4 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    -
    Ratings
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Cherokee Web Server and Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle WebLogic Server
    Feature
    Cherokee Web Server
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.0
    3 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    -
    Ratings
    Content management00 Ratings7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of Cherokee Web Server and Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle WebLogic Server
    Feature
    Cherokee Web Server
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    7.2
    37 Ratings
    10% below category average
    IDE support00 Ratings00 Ratings9.033 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.435 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings00 Ratings5.837 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings00 Ratings8.836 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings00 Ratings5.537 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings00 Ratings5.425 Ratings
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    Cherokee Web ServerOracle BPM SuiteOracle WebLogic Server
    Small Businesses
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    Score7.3 out of 10
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cherokee Web ServerOracle BPM SuiteOracle WebLogic Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    7.2
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    -
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    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cherokee Web ServerOracle BPM SuiteOracle WebLogic Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    Oracle BPM is well suited to organizations and environments that have a good understanding of their business processes and organizational structures. Trying to introduce a tool such as Oracle BPM into the organization without a good grasp on how the business operates is a recipe for disaster as the implementation will uncover all of the dirty secrets of an organizations business processes and bring them to light. BPM is not to be utilized for smaller service orchestrations or technical service implementations, these should be handled by the Oracle SOA Suite using the BPEL process manager, leaving BPM to handle the organizational business processes, referring to and including lower level services and BPEL processes as needed.
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    Oracle
    If you need to have complex options in place you can count on Weblogic to be a robust Applicational Server you can rely on. But you would need to keep an eye on maintaining the framework updated quite frequently to avoid security breaches and subsequent severe situations. If you don't have other infrastructure for test purposes, I wouldn't advise you on having devs and QA installing this heavy application in their local machines, there are other lightweight solutions that would be a better fit for that.
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    Pros
    Open Source
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    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM [Suite] can support unlimited number of cases. No limitations in cases raised.
    • Oracle Weblogic can handle multiple traffic. [It] can handle lots of heavy load[s].
    • Oracle BPM has extensive integration with database[s]. Huge number[s] of customization can be created.
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    Oracle
    • The brand relation between Java and WebLogic Application Server usually provides a quicker access to programming features and their availability for the applications deployed.
    • The access to centralized configuration both from console and command line WLST eases the implementation of changes major or not in an organized and expedite way.
    • The maturity of the product is also visible in the available tools provided by the product itself, for both monitoring of resources and alerting for availability and thresholds
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    Cons
    Open Source
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    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM is left behind by other tools more modern in terms of user experience, usability and ability to integrate with everything else.
    • To really harvest the potential of Oracle BPM you need to do it in JDeveloper and with ADF. This restricts its usage to very technical people.
    • The administration of the Oracle BPM tools has really put a burden on our team. It is running on Weblogic and we experience issues very often either with performance or with a bad configuration of the system.
    • As with all Oracle products, the price can be an issue for smaller shops.
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    Oracle
    • Debugging issues has been difficult sometimes, the documentation is too dense and finding the the root cause for an specific issue takes time.
    • The Oracle WebLogic Server console UI feels old and gives a sense of lack of innovation even though it provides so much functionality.
    • I'm not sure if Oracle WebLogic Server supports more modern frameworks, but it feels more like a Java EE specific, maybe there's an opportunity there to appeal to newer application platforms
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    In many scenarios it should have provided more features. It took a lot of effort while debugging, making it difficult to maintain.
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    Oracle
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    Usability
    Open Source
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    Oracle
    Not easy to debug errors.
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    Oracle
    Oracle WebLogic Server has so many features that sometimes it's hard to find the right place to setup things, I think the dated user interface does not help with that either. This has a direct impact when deciding to use it as your application server, you'd need to have the right people and invest the time needed to master it. If you're application justifies it then it will definitely be a great choice in the long run.
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    Performance
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    Oracle
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    Oracle
    Oracle WebLogic Application Server is great at security, performance and features.
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    Support Rating
    Open Source
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    Oracle
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    Oracle
    The Oracle support is not great sometimes. They take a long time and need a lot of data over and over to resolve issues.
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    Implementation Rating
    Open Source
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    Oracle
    Overall satisfactory
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    Oracle
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
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    Oracle
    We evaluated Bonita and found that it might fit a smaller-sized company better; we found that Oracle BPM Suite scaled much more evenly. We almost went with one of the competitors, but in the end chose Oracle BPM Suite after we factored in the cost of VMware licensing. There are literally tons of analytics on the back end which are great for upper management, but not so much for average users, but this fits our business model quite well.
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    Oracle
    I believe the Oracle WebLogic Suite is probably a better all encompassing suite of development tools for the IT department. [It] is probably a bit more expensive than other competitors like Apache Tomcat or NGINX, but is worth the investment if you consider the savings from time to get code into production.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
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    Oracle
    • You'll most certainly need a deep dive and extensive training before your users can even think of using the product and they are very expensive.
    • Lack of documentation makes it very difficult to manage the application if any error is encountered which will result in you ending up hiring a dedicated person to look into the application once it's deployed.
    • For a very large org., if properly implemented and used, it can help identify the cost-intensive and inefficient processes.
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    Oracle
    • WebLogic Application Server definitely had a positive ROI since all the applications are deployed on a single platform and making maintenance extremely cost effective.
    • Since all major cloud vendors support and maintain WebLogic, it gives us an opportunity to explore possibilities to move the organizational infrastructure on to the cloud without too much effort.
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