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Oracle SOA Suite pros and cons

Vendor: Oracle
4.0 out of 5
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PROS

Oracle SOA Suite enables visualization and analysis of company processes through audit trails, revealing areas for potential improvement.
The suite provides valuable integration features including connectors, BAM, web service development, and cloud connectivity.
Oracle SOA Suite facilitates connectivity across diverse systems, with capabilities in SOAP and REST integration, as well as support for XML and JSON transformations.
The suite allows for designing and developing simultaneously, with the flexibility to customize solutions when needed.
Oracle SOA Suite excels in integration capabilities, supporting APIs, scheduling, file transfers, and adapters, crucial for connecting disparate systems.

CONS

Maven integration in JDeveloper is basic and could be enhanced.
Integration with other cloud-based tools should be easier.
There could be a single login for accessing various parts of SOA like BPEL.
Performance can degrade with multiple connections to SOA platform.
Licensing cost remains high and may not suit smaller organizations.
 

Oracle SOA Suite Pros review quotes

it_user364167 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle SOA BPEL Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 4, 2016
This product has helped a lot with major integrations with different partners and clients, making it easy to manage customers, orders, bills, invoices, and device registrations while allowing us to activate our hardware devices ourselves in no time.
it_user254577 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project and IT Architecture Manager at a security firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 23, 2016
It's a good suite of products designed to implement an SOA architecture.
it_user129357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 27, 2016
It is a very good ESB if your team has JEE knowledge.
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it_user415716 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Jun 4, 2018
The product allows you to visualize how a company is working currently by providing rich possibilities for analysis such as the audit trails and therefore shows where improvements might be valuable.
it_user422811 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Apr 12, 2016
Another organizational benefit is that less human intervention is required when running the suite of products in SOA.
it_user423588 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Ace Director at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Apr 13, 2016
By implementing SOA, underpinned by Oracle SOA Suite, we have been able to help customers save thousands of dollars by optimizing business processes, shortening software development lifecycles by being more agile and reusing services and APIs, and our business is able to deliver products to the market quicker and cheaper.
it_user424380 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Oracle SOA / Java Consultant with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 14, 2016
Since the SOA Suite provides many components, it is an extensive toolkit for a developer, who can, with relatively little coding, quickly achieve complex functionality.
it_user106299 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Technical Architecture with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 14, 2016
Bringing all the data to central warehouse and generating reports that helps business to forecast business strategy is one of the most useful features.
it_user429042 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior SOA Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 21, 2016
Overall, it's a mature and complete platform, ideal for implementing high-quality business solutions.
it_user430998 - PeerSpot reviewer
Department Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Apr 25, 2016
With the integration platform in place, it is easier and quicker to make the integrations they need.
 

Oracle SOA Suite Cons review quotes

it_user364167 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle SOA BPEL Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 4, 2016
As this is not the best product, it comes with minor or major bugs which Oracle keeps improving from time to time.
it_user254577 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project and IT Architecture Manager at a security firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 23, 2016
In version 12c, it's unusable. It doesn't do what it's suppose to do (collect and show KPIs).
it_user129357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 27, 2016
The quality of support is not always equivalent. In general, it must improve.
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it_user415716 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Jun 4, 2018
The Maven integration in JDeveloper is very basic and might be enhanced to allow the proper use of Maven.
it_user422811 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Apr 12, 2016
Although the SOA Suite solutions integrate well with Oracle Fusion middleware products, it lacks similar integration with Enterprise Manager.
it_user423588 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Ace Director at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Apr 13, 2016
API Management and BPM both need work, but I believe Oracle is already working on this.
it_user424380 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Oracle SOA / Java Consultant with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 14, 2016
Managing (infrastructure) database growth and performance tuning can be a challenge.
it_user106299 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Technical Architecture with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 14, 2016
We have always seen issues around integration tools and it's difficult to resolve issues sometimes when things pile up.
it_user429042 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior SOA Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 21, 2016
Framework extensibility needs to be worked on.
it_user430998 - PeerSpot reviewer
Department Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Apr 25, 2016
Nevertheless, the stability when used with JDeveloper needs improvement.