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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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 SOA Suite

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe rapid adoption of cloud-based applications by the enterprise, combined with organizations’ desire to integrate applications with mobile technologies, is dramatically increasing application integration complexity. Oracle SOA Suite 12c, the latest version of the company's unified application integration and SOA solution, offers a simplified cloud, mobile, on-premises and Internet of Things (IoT) integration capabilities within a single platform.N/A

    SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AThe SAP Extension Suite (formerly part of the SAP Cloud Platform) is a legacy solution that enabled businesses to rapidly build and enhance applications, processes and experiences, with the goal of driving agility and flexibility, while extending the value of applications. The product has obsolesced, and modern offerings including SAP Build or theN/A
    Pricing
    Oracle BPM SuiteOracle SOA SuiteSAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle BPM SuiteOracle SOA SuiteSAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Multiple Products
    Oracle
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    Key User Insights
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    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    15 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    Oracle BPM SuiteOracle SOA SuiteSAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle SOA Suite and SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    5 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
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    SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
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    Dashboards6.04 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports6.05 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports6.04 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle SOA Suite and SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.4
    6 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
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    SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
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    Process designer8.06 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process simulation7.06 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules engine9.06 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    SOA support8.06 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player8.05 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages7.04 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder4.05 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model execution8.05 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle SOA Suite and SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    4 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
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    SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
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    Social collaboration tools6.04 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle SOA Suite and SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.0
    3 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
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    SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    -
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    Content management7.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Oracle BPM SuiteOracle SOA SuiteSAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    NativeScript
    Score4.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Oracle BPM SuiteOracle SOA SuiteSAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    User Testimonials
    Oracle BPM SuiteOracle SOA SuiteSAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
    Oracle service bus is great to quickly proxy any legacy services exposed as soap service. It's well suited for aggregating multiple services on a single endpoint. We can point to multiple endpoints on the business service and use a round-robin approach to access the endpoints. It's not well suited for data transformation and quick preview of mappings and transformations. It's not great on path to cloud transformation.
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    Discontinued Products
    The adoption of SAP Extension Suite is growing significantly and it has become a strategic platform for our company. SAP Extension Suite will most likely meet the requirements of most companies to get beyond small workgroup apps and tackle more strategic requirements. The most important thing that SAP Extension delivers is a single UI for development effort for web and mobile deployment.
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    Pros
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    • The Oracle Service Bus makes the management of web services extremely easy. Through its point and click interface, the web service endpoints can be easily modified.
    • The administration console provides useful dashboards to diagnose any service issues.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Reduces the length and cost of system development and integration
    • Empowers developers to acquire a new skill to deliver applications and other services efficiently
    • Enabled the innovation team to transform the way services are accessed and delivered
    • Ensures scalability of apps used simultaneously by thousands of customers
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    Cons
    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
    • Message reporting tied to a database seems counter productive. Better options to eliminate that would not only minimize the maintenance hassle but also gives more ease to manage the product.
    • Polling feature isn't very efficient where the end point JMS queues may still have JMS connections despite not enabling the corresponding poller proxy services.
    • Unable to deploy multiple web services in one go from the OSB Web console.
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    Discontinued Products
    • It was a bit of a hassle to configure at first but once setup it's easy and fast.
    • At a certain time they removed key items used in pipelines to force upgrades.
    • The new UI though works well feels less intuitive than the previous one.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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
    We have had not many issues with Oracle Service Bus and it's very stable for our requirements. It's highly available and helps us implement Tier1 applications on it.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Oracle
    Not easy to debug errors.
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    Oracle
    It's an excellent enterprise service bus and has very stable features. We have been using it since 2008. We did hit into some issues. But, recreating the service helped fix many issues. Also, deployment to various environments was easy. Also, the plugin on Eclipse helps to build proxy and business services quick and easy.
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    Discontinued Products
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
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    Oracle
    We had some issues with MQ connectivity through OSB and our experience was poor with the support team. They do respond. But, it felt like we are ignored and we had bad support. We had to escalate and things used to get dragged for weeks before we get more quality questions on how to pursue investigation.
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    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    Overall satisfactory
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    Oracle being the market leader and has a lot of compatibilities with sources like SOA projects, Oracle database and other JMS feeds.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    We have been able to work in a much more agile way with SAP Extension Suite, and there is a lot of excitement that developing with this platform is significantly faster. SAP Extension Suite is the perfect fit to build great-looking applications that work on any form factor, be it [a] smartphone, laptop, or tablet, and within budget.
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    Return on Investment
    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
    • Improve customer relations/service
    • Create internal/operational efficiencies
    • Improve business process outcomes
    • Improve compliance & risk management
    • Strong services expertise
    • Pre-existing relationships
    • Strong consulting partnership
    • Product functionality and performance
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    Discontinued Products
    • Faster development cycle due to native integration with SAP products
    • Negative short-term ROI due to the lack of training material and significant differences with the previous version of the same tool (SAP Web IDE)
    • Tighter integration with corporate programming guidelines since SAP Extension Suite offers great integration with DevOps pipeline solutions
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