IBM Event Streams Reviews

Name: IBM Event Streams
Brand: IBM
Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

Vendor: IBM

4.2 out of 5

3 reviews
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Built on open source Apache Kafka, IBM Event Streams is an event-streaming platform that helps you build smart applications that can react to events as they happen. IBM Event Streams is based on years of operational expertise IBM has gained from running Apache Kafka event streams for enterprises

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IBM Event Streams is the #11 ranked solution in top Message Queue Software. PeerSpot users give IBM Event Streams an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. IBM Event Streams is most commonly compared to Apache Kafka: IBM Event Streams vs Apache Kafka. IBM Event Streams is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 74% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 25% of all views.

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Ismail El-Dahshan

Digital Transformation Expert at areebah

Feb 7, 2024

We use IBM Event Streams to facilitate event-driven architecture for MDQ services within the banking environment The product's interface needs improvement. Additionally, there could be a management console to create and manage clusters. We have been using IBM Event Streams for a year. I rate…

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Ismail El-Dahshan

Digital Transformation Expert at areebah

Apr 5, 2022

A lot of financial technology uses the Event Stream in MQ in order to send and receive messages The triggering and the events that they have triggered as well as the route of the message according to the events are very useful. The triggering scenarios and routing scenarios are all good. It's a…

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Thabiso Mofokeng

IBM MQ Specialist / Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Sep 27, 2020

I don't know if it's because of experience, but for me, it was easy to install. It's just a matter of having an RPM, then click next, next, and next again. The difficult part comes in when you have to configure the security. That is the most difficult part, but it's not that difficult. It takes less than two hours to install. Two hours max, because I did one yesterday. I installed it on AWS and it was easy to install the software. It was less than an hour for the bare minimum installation. Setting up the security, took close to two hours.

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IBM Event Streams market share

As of May 2024, the market share of IBM Event Streams in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category stands at 0.8%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The system efficiently processes and calculates the data flow within the cluster using DLP functionality."
"The stability has been good."
"I'm an administrator, and what I like most is the interface, the security, and the storage."

Room for Improvement

"The product's interface needs improvement."
"It would be helpful if they could help us explain why they, as in, the customers, should use the product and the overall benefits."
"In the next release, I would like to see the GUI allow you to configure the security section."

Pricing

"The platform is averagely priced."
"The pricing needs to be improved."

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IBM Event Streams customers

American Airlines, UBank, Bitly, Eurobits, Active International, Bison, Contextor, Constance Hotels, Resorts & Golf, Creval, Deloitte, ExxonMobil, FaceMe, FacePhi, Fitzsoft, Fuga Technologies, Guardio, Honeywell, Japanese airline, Jenzabar, KONE