We performed a comparison between OpenESB and webMethods Integration Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."One of the most valuable features is being able to implement business processes while keeping track of the design from BPMN to a BPEL Implementation."
"OpenESB pushes the organization to clearly define service boundaries and interfaces. So it motives the business and the development teams to clearly define their business services and processes they want to implement. OpenESB supports fine and coarse-grain granularity for the services and supports top-down and bottom-up approaches for the services, processes definition, and composition."
"The process-oriented solution allows you to define choreography and orchestration."
"The core is very stable."
"It's obvious that the heart of the product lies here. It's comprised of all aspects of ESB (Enterprise Gateway, Adapter, TN, Java) and BPM (task, rules engine)."
"I like the stability of the webMethods Integration Server."
"The product supports various types of digital documents, including XMLs and EDI."
"The development is very fast. If you know what you're doing, you can develop something very easily and very fast."
"High throughput and excellent scalability."
"The most valuable feature of webMethods Integration Server is all the capabilities it provides. We leverage most of the features, that they have offered to us. Our vendor has made some additional features on top of the webMethods Integration Server and we use all the features together."
"The main assets are its flow language, debugging, and Broker. Flow language is far better and more flexible for debugging."
"The synchronous and asynchronous messaging system the solution provides is very good."
"The documentation needs to be better."
"Regarding its management, a web console being able to synchronize distributed instances would be great."
"Cloud deployment is weak and needs to be improved."
"The documentation of the product must be improved. It could be tricky to find the right documentation on a topic since the documentation is spread in many places. I advise the new joiner to contact the community to get entry points and additional documentation. Tutorial and Video must be present to take up the product."
"It is quite expensive."
"The orchestration is not as good as it should be."
"Business monitoring (BAM) needs improvement because the analytics and prediction module very often has performance problems."
"I would like to see the price improve."
"The product must add more compatible connectors."
"The initial setup of the webMethods Integration Server is not easy but it gets easier once you know it. It is tiresome but not difficult."
"Documentation needs tuning. There is a lot of dependency with SoftwareAG. Even with the documentation at hand, you can struggle to implement scenarios without SAG’s help. By contrast, IBM’s documentation is self-explanatory, in my opinion."
"The deployment should be simplified."
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OpenESB is ranked 13th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 4 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 60 reviews. OpenESB is rated 8.6, while webMethods Integration Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OpenESB writes "Enables us to define the business process and integrate it with other software". On the other hand, the top reviewer of webMethods Integration Server writes "Event-driven with lots of helpful formats, but minimal learning resources available". OpenESB is most compared with WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, Mule ESB and Oracle Service Bus, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods.io Integration, Mule ESB, TIBCO BusinessWorks and Boomi iPaaS. See our OpenESB vs. webMethods Integration Server report.
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