We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and webMethods Integration Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Camunda, Apache, Pega and others in Business Process Management (BPM)."We have been quite satisfied with the stability of the solution."
"The product integrates well with other pipelines and solutions."
"Designing processes and workflows is easier, and it assists in coordinating all of the different processes."
"Apache Airflow's best feature is its flexibility."
"The user interface for monitoring and managing workflows has been excellent, particularly in the latest version. c"
"I found the following features very useful: DAG - Workload management and orchestration of tasks using."
"We're running it on a virtual server, which we can easily upgrade if needed."
"This is a simple tool to automate using Python."
"What I found most valuable in webMethods Integration Server is that it's a strong ESB. It also has strong API modules and portals."
"A product with good API and EDI components."
"The most valuable feature of the webMethods Integration Server is its reliability. It has a lot of great documentation from the service providers. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"The development is very fast. If you know what you're doing, you can develop something very easily and very fast."
"Best feature is Insight for monitoring, and as a debugging tool. It has saved us a lot of time during crisis situations."
"They are the building blocks of EAI in SAG products, and they offer a very good platform."
"One valuable feature is that it is event-driven, so when new data is available on the source it can be quickly processed and displayed. Integration is definitely another useful feature, and B2B is one area where webMethods has its own unique thing going, whereby we can do monitoring of transactions, monitoring of client onboarding, and so on."
"Currently, we're using this solution for the integration server which helps us to integrate with the mainframe."
"Airflow should support the dynamic drag creation."
"The problem with Apache Airflow is that it is an open-source tool. You have to build it into a Kubernetes container, which is not easy to maintain, and I find it to be very clunky."
"I want to see Apache Airflow have more integrations with more production-based databases since it is an area where the product lacks currently."
"Apache Airflow could be improved by integrating some versioning principles."
"For admins, there should be improved logging capabilities because Apache Airflow does have logging, but it's limited to some database data."
"The documentation must be improved."
"One specific feature that is missing from Airflow is that the steps of your workflow are not pipelined, meaning the stageless steps of any workflow. Not every workflow can be implemented within Airflow."
"Apache Airflow could be improved with the addition of more frameworks."
"Other products have been using AI and cloud enhancements, but webMethods Integration Server is still lagging in that key area."
"In terms of scale, I would give it a four out of 10."
"Upgrades are complex. They typically take about five months from start to finish. There are many packages that plug into webMethods Integration Server, which is the central point for a vast majority of the transactions at my organization. Anytime we are upgrading that, there are complexities within each component that we must understand. That makes any upgrade very cumbersome and complicated. That has been my experience at this company. Because there are many different business units that we are touching, there are so many different components that we are touching. The amount of READMEs that you have to go through takes some time."
"The UI for the admin console is very old. It hasn't been updated for years and is pretty much the same one that we started with. This is something that could be refreshed and made more modern."
"The orchestration is not as good as it should be."
"The interface needs some work. It is not very user-friendly."
"Version control is not very easy. The packages and the integration server are on Eclipse IDE, but you can't compare the code from the IDE. For example, if you are working on Java code, doing version control and deployment for a quick comparison between the code isn't easy. Some tools or plug-ins are there, such as CrossVista, and you can also play with an SVN server where you have to place your package, and from there, you can check, but you have to do that as a separate exercise. You can't do it from the IDE or webMethods server. You can't just right-click and upload your service."
"The logging capability has room for improvement. That way, we could keep a history of all the transactions. It would be helpful to be able to get to that without having to build a standalone solution to do so."
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Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 60 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while webMethods Integration Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Apache Airflow writes "Enable seamless integration with various connectivity and integrated services, including BigQuery and Python operators ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of webMethods Integration Server writes "Event-driven with lots of helpful formats, but minimal learning resources available". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Informatica Business Process Manager, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods.io Integration, Mule ESB, TIBCO BusinessWorks and Boomi iPaaS.
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