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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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 BPM

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASAP NetWeaver Business Process Management is a business process management offering and application infrastructure. It supports joint modeling of processes, central process execution via a Java-based engine, provision of interfaces for users, and integration of business rules into processes.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 SOA SuiteSAP BPMSAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle SOA SuiteSAP BPMSAP 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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    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    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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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    Oracle SOA SuiteSAP BPMSAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Oracle SOA Suite and SAP NetWeaver BPM and SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    Feature
    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
    Ratings
    SAP NetWeaver BPM
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    26% above category average
    SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Dashboards00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Oracle SOA Suite and SAP NetWeaver BPM and SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    Feature
    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
    Ratings
    SAP NetWeaver BPM
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Process designer00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Oracle SOA Suite and SAP NetWeaver BPM and SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
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    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
    Ratings
    SAP NetWeaver BPM
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
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    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Oracle SOA Suite and SAP NetWeaver BPM and SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
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    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
    Ratings
    SAP NetWeaver BPM
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    21% above category average
    SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Content management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score4.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
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    Enterprises
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    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle SOA SuiteSAP BPMSAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Oracle SOA SuiteSAP BPMSAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    SAP
    It is well suited when we need to integrate business processes with SAP ERP and SAP CRM - the solution can be integrated with business rules/procedures defined in SAP ERP/CRM and NetWeaver can be used to monitor the rules and flag off exceptions. When there are multiple workflows running, it tends to slow down running of these processes. Also, it entirely depends on SAP portal for it to run efficiently.
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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
    • 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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    SAP
    • Virtual paper trail. Iterations of process and current documentation are all stored as "artifacts", leaving a great trail.
    • Configuration of users. BPM somewhat magically determines which users will be impacted and automates rules.
    • A pro (that is also a con) is the design interface. If you know what you are doing, it is incredibly powerful and malleable.
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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
    • 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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    SAP
    • Live readings would be nice.
    • Easier to maneuver
    • Work with all systems with the press of one keystroke
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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
    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.
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    SAP
    As a big fan of SAP in general, the BPM solution fits right in with all the other things SAP does well, and does it with incredible efficiency
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    Discontinued Products
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    Usability
    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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    SAP
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    Discontinued Products
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    Support Rating
    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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    SAP
    We have our own tech support for systems, I would say they probably could use more training on it, I don't really think it's anything regarding the SAP system, but more the knowledge they have on the system itself. It seems to take longer for them to fix any issues we may come across.
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    Discontinued Products
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    Oracle being the market leader and has a lot of compatibilities with sources like SOA projects, Oracle database and other JMS feeds.
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    SAP
    I found the initial setup of NetWeaver is much simpler than other products especially in an SAP environment where we have SAP ERP/HRM/CRM as it can be well integrated with other SAP products. The only drawback is the need/dependency on SAP Portal. It is better suited in an environment where SAP ERP is running.
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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
    • 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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    SAP
    • Helped us harness integrated benefit from having SAP ERP/CRM by leveraging NetWeaver to define business processes/rules and monitor exceptions
    • Did not have any negative experience except for the fact that at times when multiple rules run, it can be somewhat slow
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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
    Incentivized
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