We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and webMethods Integration Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."When using IBM stacks, IBM App Connect is suitable and integrates well with other IBM products like WebSphere."
"It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies."
"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."
"It's a powerful application for collaboration. It has many features for customization and integration."
"There is a friendly interface for configuration, and integration is made easy."
"We use IBM App Connect for the integration between the applications."
"The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."
"Provides good security features."
"What I like best about webMethods Integration Server is its portfolio of connectors."
"The messaging part is the most valuable feature."
"Application integrations are offered out-of-the-box, and that is extremely important to us. This is one of the main use cases that we have for it. It is about 60 to 70 percent of the workload in our application today."
"The synchronous and asynchronous messaging system the solution provides is very good."
"It's very flexible and a good platform to use."
"The MFT component of webMethods, for example, is easy to set up and convenient to use. It handles files very efficiently and it is easy to automate tasks with complex schedules. Monitoring is centralized to MWS which can be used to monitor other products as well (Trading Networks, BPM, MFT, etc.)"
"The main assets are its flow language, debugging, and Broker. Flow language is far better and more flexible for debugging."
"They are the building blocks of EAI in SAG products, and they offer a very good platform."
"One more important point is that if IBM improves its CI/CD capabilities, it will make a big difference. Right now, I have to create my own CI/CD setup from scratch for every client, which is inefficient."
"They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better."
"Updates are constantly delayed."
"The interface could be better."
"The addition of string functionality would be a benefit, particularly in the ESQL space that IBM already uses internally."
"The user interface of IBM App Connect can be a little bit more user-friendly, I would say because the first-time developer is onboarded while using IBM App Connect, he or she may get a little intimidated or daunted looking at all the options available or the pipelines, et cetera."
"IBM App Connect should improve security features."
"Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find."
"webMethods Integration Server could improve on the version control. I'm not sure if Web Method has some kind of inbuilt integration with Bitbucket or GitHub or some kind of version control system. However, that's one area where they can improve."
"wM SAP Adapter User Guide - Example, like Message Broker setup was unclear, leading to issues during Testing and we had refer the internet forums to understand that there is a Message Broker Cleanup utility and that needs to be setup as well."
"The market webMethods Integration Server falls under is a very crowded market, so for the product to stand out, Software AG would need to get traction in the open source community by releasing a new version or a base version and open source it, so people can create new custom components and add it to the portfolio."
"The deployment should be simplified."
"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."
"In terms of scale, I would give it a four out of 10."
"This is a great solution and the vendor could improve the marketing of the solution to be able to reach more clients."
"I'd like to see the admin portal for managing the integration server go up a level, to have more capabilities and to be given a more modern web interface."
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IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 21 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 60 reviews. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while webMethods Integration Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Offers flexible adapters, good scalability but logging can be difficult at times". On the other hand, the top reviewer of webMethods Integration Server writes "Event-driven with lots of helpful formats, but minimal learning resources available". IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, TIBCO BusinessWorks, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SAP Process Orchestration, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods.io Integration, Mule ESB, TIBCO BusinessWorks and Oracle Integration Cloud Service. See our IBM App Connect vs. webMethods Integration Server report.
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