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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

    Solid Edge

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ASolid Edge is a software solutions for product development — 3D design, simulation, manufacturing, data management, and cloud collaboration. Solid Edge aims to combine the speed and simplicity of direct modeling with the flexibility and control of parametric design.

    $110

    per month

    Pricing
    Oracle BPM SuiteSolid Edge
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Design and Drafting XaaS
    $110.00
    per month
    Foundation XaaS
    $267.00
    per month
    Classic XaaS
    $335.00
    per month
    Premium XaaS
    $481.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle BPM SuiteSolid Edge
    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 SuiteSolid Edge
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
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    Siemens AG
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    Oracle BPM SuiteSolid Edge
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Oracle BPM Suite and Designcenter Solid Edge
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    5 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Designcenter Solid Edge
    -
    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 Designcenter Solid Edge
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.4
    6 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Designcenter Solid Edge
    -
    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 Designcenter Solid Edge
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    4 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Designcenter Solid Edge
    -
    Ratings
    Social collaboration tools6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Oracle BPM Suite and Designcenter Solid Edge
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.0
    3 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Designcenter Solid Edge
    -
    Ratings
    Content management7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Score6.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle BPM SuiteSolid Edge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.1
    (16 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.3
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle BPM SuiteSolid Edge
    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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    Siemens AG
    Well Suited for:
    • Integrated designs performed by multiple designers simultaneously (designs requiring a Product Lifecycle Management system);
    • Designs requiring a high degree of parameterisation;
    • Large companies where specific standards and best practices are applied to all models and drawings created.
    Not Well Suited for:
    • Personal use in designing one-off models and drawings;
    • Small business use where very few of the expensive features are actually used.
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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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    Siemens AG
    • It has very good user interface in classic or ordered environment.
    • In 2D or drafting, you can give any Geometric tolerancing and symbols to any dimension. There is a wide range of options available.
    • You can convert any files in step file (.stp) and can open it in other designing applications easily.
    • After converting 3D drawings in 2D you can make changes in 2D drawing by converting it in the draft. You can also add details like cross-sections and detailed view.
    • You can directly make threads without creating holes.
    Incentivized
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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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    Siemens AG
    • Being used to 2-key and 3-key commands from the keyboard, it would be nice if this was more robust in Solid Edge. The capability of programming keystroke commands exists in Solid Edge, but it would be more user friendly in that regard.
    • Editing hatches can be a challenge.
    • I'm not a fan of the ribbon bar, but that seems to be a feature across software platforms in Windows.
    Incentivized
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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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    Siemens AG
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Oracle
    Not easy to debug errors.
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    Siemens AG
    As mentioned previously, Siemens Solid Edge is not the most user-friendly of products at all. It requires intense training to make sure that the basics are understood, and after that, there are numerous other training interventions needed to be able to perform expert-level CAD functions. The GUI is not intuitive, as many other packages are, and the features built-in are not well defined. The process to use many of these features is counter-intuitive and requires a mind-shift.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Siemens AG
    I have been involved with support and training of Solid Edge for 24 years. Given that I based my business model on support, and have been successful for all these years, I know excellent support. Siemens support for Solid Edge, "GTAC", is the definition of support for a product in every aspect.
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    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    Overall satisfactory
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    Siemens AG
    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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    Siemens AG
    FreeCAD is often better than Solid Edge 2021 when converting files, but I hope this changes with 2023 NX is overall more powerful, but that is to be expected (and you cant add it above because it is too short for whatever reason).
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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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    Siemens AG
    • It took about 20 hours of use to get the basics of Synchronous Technology, and with just a basic competency I was able to make useful changes to the design. One of those changes was impossible to do our other CAD program.
    • My use lately has mostly been on personal time and self-driven, so learning other aspects and features of Solid Edge has been slower. Creating a drawing for a part required a few hours to learn and do the first time, but luckily there were YouTube videos for examples. With practice, I would expect the time to reflect what it takes in SolidWorks (about 30 minutes).
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