Article written by Brian Wood, Principal Competitive Intelligence Analyst, on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure blog.
Oracle's iPaaS differentiators
What does Oracle offer for iPaaS which others do not? Here are five differentiators for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) integration services:
1) Oracle supports myriad integration use cases, including application integration, data integration, process automation, real-time insight, API management, data quality, streaming, business continuity, and more.
- Other competitors may have limited offerings in either process automation or in data integration. In contrast, Oracle has proven strength across the gamut – covering application integration, process automation, and data as the critical building blocks needed for addressing modern integration needs.
2) Oracle is both easy to use and can address the most demanding performance requirements. We make it simple on the front end for citizen integrators to get going quickly via a sophisticated and intuitive low code environment – while at the same time supporting billions of low-latency messages on the back end to accommodate the scale and performance that our customers require for the critical processes that drive their business.
- Other vendors’ products may require advanced coding skills using proprietary development languages that lock customers into niche technologies or are limited in their ability to perform well at scale, which bogs down customers’ ability to extract the most from their applications and data assets.
3) Oracle integration services pricing is cost effective and not based on connections. With us, the cost is based on service consumption, not an arbitrary metric such as number of connections, so customers only pay for what they use – with enterprise support included in the subscription at no extra charge.
- Connections-based competitors’ pricing often seems inexpensive to start but becomes very costly as connections increase (which is common as enterprises increase their usage of, and reliance upon, applications as the lifeblood of the business). Many organizations continuously integrate increasing quantities of data sources and processes from across their portfolio to support digital transformation.
4) Oracle integration services complement a comprehensive set of SaaS, IaaS, and database services. Sourcing from a “full stack” provider like Oracle makes sense because most companies have a heterogeneous and complex portfolio of apps and services that they need to support – either purchased off the shelf, developed on their own, or integrated with external services. As a result, customers’ needs go beyond “just” integration to also include cloud-native app development, AI enhancements to applications, digital assistants/chatbots, security, content and experience, business analytics, data management, cost-performant cloud infrastructure and SaaS applications, industry-specific apps, and more. Oracle does it all.
- Point-tools challengers have limited ability to address the broad needs of enterprises, which places undue burden on organizations to manage multiple siloed suppliers and the integration between the different products, thus leading to undue risk, cost, and complexity.
5) Oracle is for more than just for Oracle. Besides being best for integrating Oracle applications (as one would expect), Oracle also supports around 100 non-Oracle SaaS and on-premises apps and enterprise systems of record via pre-built integration flows/recipes, auto association, and auto recommendation; these simplify and minimize customer effort.
- Competitors may have a very limited number of connectors for Oracle applications or other popular ecosystem technologies, or their connectors may have weaker functionality than what Oracle provides natively.
