We performed a comparison between IBM B2B Integrator and SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business-to-Business Middleware solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"It can scale horizontally as well as vertically as a cluster."
"Everything from the order to fulfillment to the payment process, except for physical packing and shipping, is fully automated for some customer orders."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and the range of EDI standards that IBM Sterling can handle."
"This solution allows for easy integration with heterogeneous applications."
"It is easy of use and it's easy to maintain. It's also faster to on-board partners."
"Very flexible product; it allows implementing different flows on the same infrastructure."
"The solution is useful for transferring files from one format to another format. Also, the solution is useful in translation."
"It's highly stable, and the redundancy is amazing. B2B Integrator also has a high availability option to work in a cluster environment. You rarely have issues operating it because of the HA."
"SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite is a highly stable solution that offers rich features for our B2B integration."
"When orders come in they go into our ERP system directly, so there is integration there."
"We can use it to script and monitor processes."
"We rarely get hanged processes."
"In our landscape, we have a lot of AS/400s or iSeries and SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS) has a file service listener that allows data to seamlessly be transferred between the SEEBURGER solution and the AS/400."
"If SEEBURGER plans to do something, they will meet their target. We haven't been disappointed by them at all. For example, we had six trading partners to onboard and they said, "We'll make it happen," and they did make it happen. They did exactly what they said they would do. That's a really positive thing."
"The solution is flexible when it comes to adding integrations. It is much easier to use than the other tools we have to move the files. Across the board, we can move files in a short amount of time compared to our other existing tools."
"I like that the tool has all the adapters — all the possible protocols that are in the industry. You pay for those adapters but at least it's all in one package. You don't have to get another tool or application to support another partner."
"The web interface of B2B is quite outdated and not particularly user-friendly."
"End-to-end visibility and monitoring application required. The control center is available and covers this area, but it still fails in many monitoring scenarios."
"There should be a single place to do things, rather than making it complicated, not moving away and truncating the old features but instead coming up with the new and still keeping the old stuff confuses people sometimes."
"The dashboard is not integrated and should be bundled by the product vendor."
"There are also some features in the solution that are not user-friendly, like code lists with no search options. So, we must navigate hundreds of pages to check for one entry."
"The mapping, visibility, deployment, and the dashboard could be improved and updated. The communication logs are very poor. They are not easily understood, and we need to navigate to many places for many reasons. You can't just pull the information; it's very tough."
"The tool requires you to write a lot of code in Java and XSLT, which makes development tough."
"There is no related transaction stored in the database because it's an OLTP application."
"They have their own private cloud. That's the reason we did not go ahead with managing everything by ourselves or moving into the cloud. They said that they're going to be doing it within the next two years, having access to Azure and AWS. That would be something we would like to see."
"There are some aspects at the front, the actual queries that you use, that could be improved. They're all very minor to be honest."
"Some of the functionality for retriggering documents, where you have to step through a termination process and then retrigger it, versus just being able to restart or retrigger more easily, is a bit challenging, depending on the scenario."
"In some of the other tools out there in the market, you can create one service and use that service without creating a copy. That kind of capability currently doesn't exist in this solution."
"It's rather difficult to understand, from the application, what's broken and why it doesn't work. We typically need to get support from them directly, and it's usually in a consulting role, to fix issues."
"We are a little locked in with understanding the errors that we receive. We are working with their support to prevent these issues when they come into the database. We use a SQL database and believe they can do better when it comes working with large databases. We have had few instances where the system is hanging, which are most likely from the database. We are working with their support to find out the problem and fix their system. We have tried to use their notification system to prevent these issues, but they need to improve their monitoring system."
"I would like there to be a feature that could handle the limited server."
"They made improvements to the email error alerts that go out, for the EDI technical. Those typically go straight out to the partners. Those messages are significantly clearer and easy to read. The same messages in the front end are not nearly as clear. It's supposed to be the same error, but the message that goes out for EDI is really easy for anybody to read and understand, but you have to be really solution-savvy to understand the message in the system itself."
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IBM B2B Integrator is ranked 4th in Business-to-Business Middleware with 42 reviews while SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite is ranked 5th in Business-to-Business Middleware with 37 reviews. IBM B2B Integrator is rated 8.0, while SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM B2B Integrator writes "A widely-used, on-premises solution with tons of peer support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite writes "Gives us the flexibility to hook up to systems using any protocol out there". IBM B2B Integrator is most compared with Mule ESB, IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, SAP Process Orchestration, SPS Commerce Fulfillment (EDI) and webMethods Trading Networks, whereas SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite is most compared with SAP Cloud Platform, IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, Mule ESB, Microsoft Azure API Management and webMethods Integration Server. See our IBM B2B Integrator vs. SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite report.
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