We performed a comparison between Infor ION and SAP Process Orchestration 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."ION is good for building custom middleware boxes."
"We haven't had any issues with ION so far."
"I have found the most valuable feature to be the ability to monitor integration performance and the reasons for the failure of inbound and outbound transactions. We can see both inbound and outbound transactions, and it gives us a mirror image or the whole history of all inbound and outbound transactions between Infor M3 Business Engine and the third parties."
"The tool's most valuable feature is middleware capabilities."
"The monitoring tools are the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup is easy...The solution gets automatically connected. The deployment takes six months. I rate its setup phase a ten out of ten."
"SAP Process Orchestration has all the features that are necessary."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Great monitoring tools and has its own alert framework."
"The main benefit is that the solution is low maintenance. Moreover, it's the license cost is very low because it's part of the package. The maintenance is standard maintenance. And the updates are regular. So there's a regular update and you can choose whether you want to do those updates or not."
"The product has good technical support but you usually will not need it because it is quite stable."
"SAP Process Orchestration is middleware where we are able to manage and interact with everything from a single location. One of the most beneficial areas is monitoring which is very easy because it is all in one place. There are many adapters added recently that can be used for new functionality. The solution is easy to operate and it is more mature than the cloud solution provided by SAP."
"I would like to see ION add automated setup and integration with Salesforce. They need to work on these types of tools."
"The dashboard is not very simple and can be a bit tricky."
"Infor ION doesn't provide connectors for all integration touchpoints. Sometimes, we may have to build our own. It incurs additional costs for the customer."
"ION's integration with older applications could be better."
"Process Orchestration needs to provide secure connectivity as no one has any data information."
"The solution needs to move to the cloud."
"Data modeling is an area of concern in the product where improvements are required."
"It does not have all of the industry-standard solutions available in PO and it is not plug and play, so we have to do a lot of development."
"The solution could improve by making it more user-friendly by limiting the code required. We have to add some code in some cases where we need complex logic or some other functions. If this was able to be done in a more simplified manner then it would save a lot of effort and time."
"It is not a scalable solution for the cloud. I would not recommend this for the cloud."
"The cloud capability features need improvement."
"The solution could be more scalable."
Infor ION is ranked 8th in Business-to-Business Middleware with 4 reviews while SAP Process Orchestration is ranked 1st in Business-to-Business Middleware with 28 reviews. Infor ION is rated 8.6, while SAP Process Orchestration is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Infor ION writes "It's bundled, so I don't need to purchase an additional product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Process Orchestration writes "A tool that can be useful for small integrations and large integrations". Infor ION is most compared with Mule Anypoint Platform and BizTalk Server, whereas SAP Process Orchestration is most compared with Mule Anypoint Platform, SAP Data Services, IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, webMethods Integration Server and IBM B2B Integrator. See our Infor ION vs. SAP Process Orchestration report.
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