Oracle SOA Suite vs SAP NetWeaver comparison

Oracle and SAP are both solutions in the SOA Governance category. Oracle is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.0, while SAP is ranked #3 with an average rating of 9.5. Oracle holds a 21.8% mindshare in SG, compared to SAP’s 3.4% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SAP users who would recommend it.

Oracle SOA Suite

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85% willing to recommend

SAP NetWeaver

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100% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Oracle SOA Suite and SAP NetWeaver based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two SOA Governance solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle SOA Suite

Ranking in SOA Governance

1st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Infrastructure (10th)

SAP NetWeaver

Ranking in SOA Governance

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the SOA Governance category, the mindshare of Oracle SOA Suite is 21.8%, down from 28.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP NetWeaver is 3.4%, down from 6.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

SOA Governance Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle SOA Suite	21.8%
SAP NetWeaver	3.4%
Other	74.8%

SOA Governance

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MANOHAR SADDALA

IT Specialist at Eagle Hills

Enables seamless integration with multiple systems

I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. It's not much more dynamic, not as dynamic as you may think, like seeing it in the cloud. In order to use it, you need to have the download servers and then scale up your systems. Oracle SOA Suites serves as a middle layer between applications. For example, let's say you have SAP, and we have Salesforce or Oracle ERP system. Users connect to those systems and perform certain activities or transactions on the applications. Now, if any data needs to be synchronized or any integration needs to happen between these applications, we use the Oracle SOA Suite. It acts as the bridge between the applications, not between the users. It's like having endpoints between the applications. Currently, we have 20 endpoints; 20 systems are connected to it, which is great. Oracle SOA Suite is being used daily. We are using it to its maximum potential.

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Mohamed Yosufdeen JMH

Technical Manager at Secude

Has helped integrate business processes while protecting sensitive exports with encryption

SAP NetWeaver is going to be soon out of the picture. Now we have SAP S/4HANA, which is the recent technology from SAP. Many companies are migrating from SAP NetWeaver to SAP S/4HANA. Going forward, SAP still supports SAP NetWeaver, and it can fully add more functionalities that it is currently adding in the latest versions also. Whichever functions they are adding newly in SAP S/4HANA, they can add it into SAP NetWeaver as so that SAP NetWeaver also does not become obsolete and becomes useful to the customers who are currently using it. SAP has come up with an in-memory database called HANA, and on top of it, SAP has introduced SAP S/4HANA so that it runs seamlessly on the HANA database. SAP NetWeaver can also run on the HANA database, but if the compatibility with HANA database could be improved for SAP NetWeaver, then it will be more useful.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I found the adapters to be most useful."

"The integration with various products."

"The Oracle SOA Suite has many useful features, and different organizations may place different emphases on the importance of each feature. Certain features are particularly important to the organization, such as the ability to access databases and transform messages, as well as the use of proxy services to secure web services with usernames and passwords. These features can be critical for enabling effective integration and data exchange between systems and applications."

"It performs better in real-time transactions."

"Provides connectivity between discrete systems and has availability."

"The ability to stand up a highly available SOA Suite, which has full DR capabilities, in a remote center and synchronize the databases using Data Guard."

"In Oracle SOA Suite some applications are not able to use REST, but it can support both SOAP and REST. You're able to integrate quite a lot of systems, which may not be able to in other solutions. You can also use XML and JSON. It is a standardizing type of tool. It doesn't matter whether I'm using JSON or XML, it can convert them."

"The most valuable feature of the facility, as the partner link, is to try to use third-party services and logic in your own vehicle to orchestrate the information."

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"It is the central point for all our data storage. We have one single version of the truth that we can communicate to all our customers."

"Finance and distribution are the most important features."

"The solution is scalable."

"The presentation is the most valuable feature. It's very conceptual. We had to follow the instructions very strictly. It's a Dutch or German product and we had to follow it step-by-step."

"The flexibility and the customizability this solution has when adapting to our business requirements is a huge benefit."

"I like that I don't need any extra tools to keep the solution up and running."

"The most valuable feature of SAP NetWeaver is the integration and it is a complete solution."

"The stability is not an issue, and I would rate it at seven out of ten."

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Cons

"Another area of improvement is performance. Because with multiple solutions connecting to the SOA platform, the performance of the SOA platform can be affected in time. So, that could be one area that could be improved with the SOA."

"An area for improvement in Oracle SOA Suite is the cost. It could be lower."

"The product is not user-friendly."

"The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved."

"The technical support is good, we have premier support which costs extra."

"SOA"

"Various parts of SOA, BPEL, and so on, each have their own consoles which need to be accessed individually with different logins. It would be better from an admin perspective if all the consoles were accessible via a single login."

"The interface is too complicated. Making modifications still requires too much technical knowledge."

More Oracle SOA Suite cons

"Scalability would be a good improvement in future releases, if they do release future versions. They tried to create a seamless style, but it's not necessarily scalable to big development environments that we're trying to achieve."

"The initial setup is a little complex. The users are not able to install the prerequisite drivers or are not able to follow the SOP because they don't have access to SAP Logon. If users already have access, it will take seven to 10 days to deploy the solution. If they do not, it may take a maximum of 25 to 30 days."

"Has become somewhat unstable recently."

"It can always improve. It should have the ability to connect with other databases. It was a little bit tough to do that. I would like to have the ability to research certain markets and then integrate it with NetWeaver. I'd like to compare it with other databases from other companies being used in the world so we can integrate it with our own products to compare if we are still current on the market."

"The product documentation can be improved."

"SAP is likely transitioning to S4, so it is unlikely that they will continue to use NetWeaver."

"Though SAP NetWeaver has been pretty stable and mature, some issues arose after some customizations, so that's an area for improvement."

"SAP NetWeaver PI is not connected to the cloud."

More SAP NetWeaver cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Oracle pricing is expensive. Support is based on your license. AWS is much better than Oracle in this regard."

"This product is WebLogic based, hence it can be both resource hungry as well as expensive from a licensing point of view."

"The product is moderately priced."

"It is necessary to evaluate the requirement regarding the platform usage and what the main operation area of the platform will be."

"Based on my knowledge, Oracle SOA Suite doesn't have user-based licensing. It has a system-based licensing model, so you pay for whole systems. Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution, so it's a four out of ten for me."

"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."

"The pricing is not very high as compared to its competitors."

"SAP NetWeaver requires a license, but I'm not sure how the licenses and payments were coordinated."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing a nine to ten since it is an expensive solution."

"It's a very expensive solution."

"The licensing costs are on a yearly basis."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

10%

Performing Arts

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	40

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle SOA Suite?

The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle SOA Suite?

Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution.

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What needs improvement with Oracle SOA Suite?

The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved. A big challenge for Oracle SOA Suite is that you don't get too many technical resources.

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What do you like most about SAP NetWeaver?

The human capital management module is valuable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP NetWeaver?

Software and hardware costs are typically handled by separate departments.

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What needs improvement with SAP NetWeaver?

It needs more improvement in terms of user-friendliness. SAP wasn't user-friendly at all. In interacting with it, it should have a more customizable interface. The interfaces aren't user-friendly, ...

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Also Known As

SOA Suite

NetWeaver, SecurStore

Overview

Oracle SOA Suite is a comprehensive, standards-based software suite to build, deploy and manage integration following the concepts of service-oriented architecture (SOA). The components of the suite benefit from consistent tooling, a single deployment and management model, end-to-end security and unified metadata management. Oracle SOA Suite helps businesses lower costs by allowing maximum re-use of existing IT investments and assets, regardless of the environment (OS, application server, etc.) they run in, or the technology they were built upon. Its easy-to-use, re-use focused, unified application development tooling and end-to-end lifecycle management support further reduces development and maintenance cost and complexity.

For more information on Oracle SOA Suite, visit Oracle.com

Oracle

SAP NetWeaver is an open application platfrom that provides a comprehensive set of tools and Web services technologies that support seamless enterprise application integration, master data management (MDM), system integration, and more.

SAP

Sample Customers

7-Eleven, Arcor SAIC, Banca Transilvania, Eaton Corporation, Emdeon, Ferrovial, Griffith University, National Instruments, Pella Corporation, Vodafone Group Plc,

Schaidt Innovations GmbH & Co. KG, Satellites Unlimited Inc., German Football Association, FMC Corporation, Deutscher Fu_ball-Bund

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