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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    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

    TIBCO ActiveSpaces

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AActiveSpaces from TIBCO supports an application infrastructure.N/A
    Pricing
    Oracle WebLogic ServerSAP BPMTIBCO ActiveSpaces
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle WebLogic ServerSAP BPMTIBCO ActiveSpaces
    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
    Oracle WebLogic ServerSAP BPMTIBCO ActiveSpaces
    Considered Multiple Products
    Oracle
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    78%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Oracle WebLogic ServerSAP BPMTIBCO ActiveSpaces
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of Oracle WebLogic Server and SAP NetWeaver BPM and TIBCO ActiveSpaces
    Feature
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    7.2
    37 Ratings
    10% below category average
    SAP NetWeaver BPM
    -
    Ratings
    TIBCO ActiveSpaces
    -
    Ratings
    IDE support9.033 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security management8.435 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administration and management5.837 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application server performance8.836 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Installation5.637 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance5.525 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Oracle WebLogic Server and SAP NetWeaver BPM and TIBCO ActiveSpaces
    Feature
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    -
    Ratings
    SAP NetWeaver BPM
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    26% above category average
    TIBCO ActiveSpaces
    -
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    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 WebLogic Server and SAP NetWeaver BPM and TIBCO ActiveSpaces
    Feature
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    -
    Ratings
    SAP NetWeaver BPM
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    TIBCO ActiveSpaces
    -
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    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 WebLogic Server and SAP NetWeaver BPM and TIBCO ActiveSpaces
    Feature
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    -
    Ratings
    SAP NetWeaver BPM
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    TIBCO ActiveSpaces
    -
    Ratings
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Oracle WebLogic Server and SAP NetWeaver BPM and TIBCO ActiveSpaces
    Feature
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    -
    Ratings
    SAP NetWeaver BPM
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    21% above category average
    TIBCO ActiveSpaces
    -
    Ratings
    Content management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Oracle WebLogic ServerSAP BPMTIBCO ActiveSpaces
    Small Businesses
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    AWS Auto Scaling
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
    Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle WebLogic ServerSAP BPMTIBCO ActiveSpaces
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.2
    (44 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Support Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    User Testimonials
    Oracle WebLogic ServerSAP BPMTIBCO ActiveSpaces
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    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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    Cloud Software Group
    TIBCO ActiveSpaces is useful for storing in memory data which enables fetching data quickly and efficiently. We can make use of TIBCO ActiveSpaces APIs for storing and retrieving data. In our organization, we store user session details in TIBCO ActiveSpaces and this session detail is used for authentication and authorizing user. We have integration TIBCO ActiveSpaces with React UI and TIBCO Business Works.
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    Pros
    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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    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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    Cloud Software Group
    • Like all other IMDG solutions, Tibco ActiveSpaces provides a scalable and distributed cache solution, which is supposed to have high throughput and high availability.
    • As it is under the Tibco umbrella, it is seamlessly integrated with other Tibco products.
    • It breaks the traditional "local cache" boundary and limitation, instead unifies many "local physical memory" to create one huge "In-Memory Data Grid", and serves the data provider/consumer application logically as one "Memory Cloud."
    • A lot of non-frequently updated data can be cached in this IMDG, to allow fast access, which saves the I/O latency caused by many traditional file system-backed storage solutions.
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    Cons
    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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    SAP
    • Live readings would be nice.
    • Easier to maneuver
    • Work with all systems with the press of one keystroke
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    Cloud Software Group
    • ActiveSpaces 3.2 is not compatible with the latest version of TIBCO Business Event 5.x. And ActiveSpaces 2.x is not compatible with ActiveSpaces 3.x hence there is a big difference in the BusinessEvents supported version of AS and the latest.
    • ActiveSpaces takes more disc space and TIBCO does not offer data compression logic out of the box. Developers need to do extra coding to use java snippets to compress and decompress the payload. Although the data compression gives must better performance and speed to the system.
    • The compression and decompression API are not offered by TIBCO out of the box, which is a shame. These are so easy and simple to implement, still TIBCOdoes not provide them as an option out of the box.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Cloud Software Group
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    Usability
    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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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    TIBCO ActiveSpaces is easy to install and integrate with other product suites. It is easy to understand and implement as well. TIBCO ActiveSpaces supports multiple databases for storing the data(we are using Oracle Database). All the master data related to the users is being stored using TIBCO ActiveSpaces which keeps the data in memory and help to retrieve it quickly. It has helped to prevent concurrent login sessions by the same user as session details are stored in TIBCO ActiveSpaces and we override the existing user session with the new session details.
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    Performance
    Oracle
    Oracle WebLogic Application Server is great at security, performance and features.
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    SAP
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    Cloud Software Group
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    Support Rating
    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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    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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    Cloud Software Group
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    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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    Cloud Software Group
    Actually, we are gradually replacing the Tibco ActiveSpaces with Redis (for caching purpose only) or Hazelcast (for embedded mode and also for in-memory distributed computation purpose + in-memory distributed IPC purpose).
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    Return on Investment
    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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    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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    Cloud Software Group
    • Developers with basic knowledge of TIBCO and general data knowledge can easily design and develop an ActiveSpaces based cached solution. As the ActiveSpaces concepts are very simple and easy to understand.
    • Some business areas can predict the high influx of a service usage during a certain period. Business will be highly rewarded if they can identify these business areas and provide a cached solution using TIBCO AS.
    • Again, this is not a TIBCO ActiveSpaces only advantage and this is true for any/all caching products.
    • Some examples for the previous points are
    • a. telecom company pre-loading (eager load) customer's usage for the last month, right before releasing/issuing the bills to the customers.
    • b. Airline industry loading the customer's itinerary a week before his travel start date. Hence the last minute scrambling to fetch the customer's itinerary travel plans can be avoided.
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