Oracle WebCenter Portal vs. Oracle WebLogic Server

Based on my experience with Oracle WebCenter Portal, it is best suited for [Oracle's] existing customers who are already familiar with Oracle products but need to look for [a] specific topic in a broad sense. It is also suitable for people who are not Oracle customers yet but has industry experience and simply looking to enhance their Oracle knowledge and compare [it] with other products in the industry. I think it's less appropriate for people who are looking for answers to very specific technical questions for an Oracle product.

Incentivized

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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• Allows personalization integration
• Allows API integration
• Google search integration

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

• Unexpected cryptic error messages.
• The site does not seem to have SSO capability as I have logged into my user account already, but it still can't verify at the Support page
• AI should be built into the portal to auto-assist when error occurs.

Incentivized

• The Admin UI should be further simplified, the UI design was not too user-friendly— too many options and clicks required, difficult for the new beginners to figure out what they are looking for.
• The admin server becomes the single failure point, although Oracle suggested some workarounds by setting VIP and VHost, it was not quite easy and straight forward.
• Domain replication is hard, requiring a lot of knowledge and scripts efforts.
• Admin will hang if the node manager communication encounters some issues for one or some nodes in the domain/cluster.
• Not able to kill/terminate the stuck thread, the only way is to restart the managed server (JVM)
• License cost is too high, for small businesses.

Incentivized

I would have given it a 10 but sometimes the hogging threads become a issue and needs server bounce. Except that, we are very pleased with the product.

Incentivized

Oracle WebLogic Application Server is great at security, performance and features.

Incentivized

The Oracle support is not great sometimes. They take a long time and need a lot of data over and over to resolve issues.

Incentivized

It's all comparable and very expensive.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• It's hard to calculate specifically the ROI Oracle WebCenter Portal had.
• After all, this is a portal for users to find information.
• This is a starting point for users to navigate, and it would be dependent on how far the users drill down to get the specific information they need to grow their business.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized