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Oracle SOA Suite

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What is Oracle SOA Suite?

The 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…

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What is Oracle SOA Suite?

The 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.

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Oracle SOA Suite Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

The 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.

Boomi, IBM Business Automation Workflow, and Microsoft BizTalk Server are common alternatives for Oracle SOA Suite.

The most common users of Oracle SOA Suite are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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December 20, 2018

Oracle Service Bus Unlimited

Verified User
Employee in Corporate
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have oracle service bus to proxy and server more than 200 endpoints. We mostly proxy many legacy systems that expose their functionality as a SOAP web service. We have also built full-fledged services which also are providers and not just consumers. It's not used across the organization.
Pros and Cons
  • Location Transparency of sensitive endpoints
  • Proxy legacy systems exposed as web services
  • Transformation and routing
  • Service aggregation of various services
  • Rest services support is not good
  • Preview of transformations
  • Tracing of requests in a detailed manner
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Return on Investment
  • Oracle service bus has helped us modernize our applications and systems using SOA
  • We could quickly proxy hundreds of services without any hassles
  • Deployment to multiple environments with changes to customization file has helped us quickly ramp up the services
Alternatives Considered
When we wanted an enterprise service bus, the AquaLogic Service bus was our first choice and it had very stable features. It was later bought by Oracle and we have used it for several years. SnapLogic and Mule ESB are upcoming and very promising. SnapLogic is completely born in the cloud and seems to be very promising.
Other Software Used
Users and Roles
25
We were an IT services company catering to a government client from Europe. We built their tax system and modernized it using SOA principles and Oracle Service Bus. It has really transformed them and made them more agile and loosely coupled. They could expose their legacy systems such as Delphi as web services.
Support Headcount Required
5
Knowledge of Oracle Weblogic and Oracle Service Bus was required to support. We had a infrastructure team which helps with deployment, installation and configuration of Weblogic, Java and Oracle Service Bus domains on unix.
Business Processes Supported
  • Proxy legacy system services
  • Provide authentication to services
  • Load balance endpoints on various servers
Innovative Uses
  • We have made sure all services are going through Oracle Service Bus. This way we could track and monitor usage of services.
Future Planned Uses
  • We hope to move to cloud in near future and hope that Oracle Service Bus helps in that journey
Likelihood to Renew
8
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.
Products Replaced
No
Key Differentiators
  • Product Reputation
  • Vendor Reputation
  • Existing Relationship with the Vendor
We wanted a product which works in combination with our existing infrastructure. We have been using Weblogic as our application server and Oracle Service Bus was then AquaLogic Service Bus. Both were from same vendor BEA. Later both became part of Oracle. Oracle is very reputed and so we continued to sail the same boat for over a decade.
Evaluation Lessons Learned
We would now look for more of a Cloud transformation and Cloud centric software. A good example is SnapLogic. It is very light and quick and totally browser based. You do not need an IDE or you do not need to worry about integrating cloud services and systems. It's totally ready for it.
Support Rating
6
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.
Premium Support
Not Sure
Bug Resolution
Yes
It was not resolved to our satisfaction. We had to do multiple back and forth conversations to get a response.
Exceptional Examples of Oracle SOA Suite Support
I do not think there was any such instance with our issues with Oracle service bus. It is otherwise a very stable product. So, we found bypass to the issue and redesigned our service.
Usability
9
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.
Easy Tasks
  • Creating proxy and business services was easy
  • adding features like basic authentication was easy
  • transformation of services using xpath/xquery was good
Difficult Tasks
  • Rest service support was limited
  • Transforming to Json was manual and no inbuilt support
  • Preview of transformation was missing
Mobile Interface Availability and Impressions
No
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