IBM WebSphere Message Broker vs WebLogic Suite comparison

"The most valuable feature of IBM WebSphere Message Broker is the ability to facilitate communication with legacy systems, offering a multitude of great capabilities. For example, if there is a mainframe system in place with a web service serving as the front end. In that case, the solution enables efficient protocol transformations to convert all request payloads into a format that the legacy systems can accept, rendering the integration and transformation processes seamless and highly effective."

"It has many interfaces and you can connect to any backend source that has another format, and convert it to the desired format."

"Integration and mapping are easy, which is a major advantage."

"Performance-wise, this solution is really good."

"The documentation, performance, stability and scalability of the tool are valuable."

"We only use the basic features, but the most valuable one for us is the Publish-subscribe pattern."

"It is a scalable solution...The setup is easy."

"Message Broker is valuable because most of the applications are using MQ. Even in my current engagement, the few applications which I audit to onboard the bank are using MQ."

"What I've been seeing as the most valuable characteristics of WebLogic Suite include robustness and scalability. It's a really good solution, and I'm not saying this because my company is a partner of WebLogic Suite. I also like that with the newer versions of the solution, you can deploy WebLogic Suite faster. Oracle also provides excellent technical support."

"The solution is useful for centralizing data."

"The feature that I have found to be the most valuable is the ease of deployment."

"The most valuable feature is that it provides one place where you can control all of the services."

"Scalability on the solution is great. It's very very easy to scale."

"WebLogic Suite is scalable."

"Robust solution; console and enterprise management tools are really easy to work."

"It integrates well with other solutions."

"The solution can add container engines such as docker."

"The user interface is designed mainly for experts, much in the way a BPM or another integration tool is."

"Stability and pricing are areas with shortcomings that need improvement."

"The installation configuration is quite difficult."

"It is currently a weighty product."

"Technical support is good but they could have a better response time."

"I know that Message Broker was a very tightly copied product with another IBM product, that is, IBM MQ. I would like to have a little bit more decoupling from the IBM MQ because it should not be a prerequisite for IBM WebSphere Message Broker usage."

"There is some lag in the GUI. There have been some performance issues and maybe it's because of the application data."

"Sometimes there are issues when we work on a VM because people use it to put all of their reports on it at the same time. Then I have to restart and rebuild the machine."

"The licensing for the solution is pretty expensive. It may be the most expensive solution, if you were to compare it to the competition."

"The support is not good."

"The restart capability needs to be improved because it takes us 15 minutes to restart any application."

"This solution would benefit from the inclusion of a ripple start function for clusters."

"I think the support could be much better."

"Lacking a solution for smaller applications."

"There are sometimes issues with clusters."

"This product is more expensive than competing products."

"The solution is expensive."

"IBM products are generally more stable and have more features, but also come at a greater cost."

"I feel with IBM, when you want certain functions or features, you have to continuously purchase add-ons. There are always additional fees."

"The solution is expensive."

"The price is very high and it's the main reason that we are searching for alternatives."

"The licensing cost of IBM WebSphere Message Broker needs to be reduced"

"The product comes bundled with Oracle Premier Support."

"There is a license required for this solution and the price could be reduced."

"Scaling is costly."

"Technical support is very costly."

"The cost of the WebLogic Suite license is a bit high."