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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 Java SE

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AOracle Java SE is a programming language and gives customers enterprise features that minimize the costs of deployment and maintenance of their Java-based IT environment.N/A
    Pricing
    Oracle BPM SuiteOracle Java SE
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle BPM SuiteOracle Java SE
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Oracle BPM SuiteOracle Java SE
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
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    Oracle
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    96%
    Would buy again
    23 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    16 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    24 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    Features
    Oracle BPM SuiteOracle Java SE
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle Java SE
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    5 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Oracle Java SE
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle Java SE
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.4
    6 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Oracle Java SE
    -
    Ratings
    Process designer8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process simulation7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules engine9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    SOA support8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder4.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model execution8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle Java SE
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    4 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Oracle Java SE
    -
    Ratings
    Social collaboration tools6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle Java SE
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.0
    3 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Oracle Java SE
    -
    Ratings
    Content management7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    Java Cloud
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle BPM SuiteOracle Java SE
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (33 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (19 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle BPM SuiteOracle Java SE
    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 Java SE is well suited to long-running applications (e.g. servers). Java Swing (UI toolkit) is now rather outdated, lacking support for modern UI features. JavaFX, the potential replacement for Swing, has now been separated out of Java core. Ideally, there would be a path to migrate a large application incrementally from Swing to JavaFX, but due to different threading models and other aspects, it is difficult. At this point, it is probably better to use an embedded web browser (e.g. JxBrowser) to provide a modern UI in HTML/Javascript and keep just the business logic in Java.
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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.
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    Oracle
    • Plenty support built into the tool and IDE like Maven, Ant, Eclipse, IntelliJ.
    • Strong object-orientation language and clear project structure.
    • Wrapper underlines hardware and memory management so the developers can focus on business and implementation.
    • It offers a huge library and framework support from third-parties and the community.
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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
    • Commercial Licensing in 2019. Oracle will charge commercial organizations using Java SE for upgrading to the latest bug fixes and updates. Organizations will now need to either limit their implementation of Java SE or may need to drop it altogether.
    • Slow Performance. Due to the all of the abstraction of the JVM, Java SE programs take much more resources to compile and run compared to Python.
    • Poor UI appearance on all of the major GUI libraries (Swing, SWT, etc.). Through Android Studio, it is easy to get a native look/feel for Java apps, but when it comes to desktops, the UI is far from acceptable (does not mimic the native OS's look/feel at all).
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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
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Oracle
    Not easy to debug errors.
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    Oracle
    Oracle Java SE provides the new features along with timely security patches. New features like Record patterns and pattern matching for switches are very useful. With every new release of Java, it is getting better. Sequenced collections are also an interesting feature added to Java. With all these new features, backward compatibility is also maintained.
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    Java is such a mature product at this point that there is little support from the vendor that is needed. Various sources on the internet, and especially StackOverflow, provide a wealth of knowledge and advice. Areas that may benefit from support is when dealing with complex multithreading issues and security libraries.
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    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    Overall satisfactory
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    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    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.
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    Oracle
    Chose to go with Java instead of Python or C++ due to the expertise on the ground with the technology, for its ease of integration with our heterogeneous setup of production servers, and for the third party library support which we've found was able to address some challenging aspects of our business problem.
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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
    • The different versions make it harder to work with other companies where some use newer versions while some use older versions, costing time to make them compatible.
    • Licenses are getting to be costly, forcing us to consider OpenJDK as an alternative.
    • New features take time to learn. When someone starts using them, everyone has to take time to learn.
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