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.

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IBM DataPower Gateway vs. IBM WebSphere Message Broker

May 2024

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Categories and Ranking

IBM DataPower Gateway

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

5th

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SOA Application Gateways (3rd), API Management (7th)

IBM WebSphere Message Broker

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

8th

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

10th

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the market share of IBM DataPower Gateway is 5.9% and it increased by 12.7% compared to the previous year. The market share of IBM WebSphere Message Broker is 3.1% and it decreased by 50.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

Unique Categories:

Application Infrastructure

2.7%

Featured Reviews

Naresh Jatangi

Middleware Administrator at Pronteff IT Solutions

Jul 21, 2022

Many security features, easy to use and not much development is needed

We use both cloud and on-premise solutions. We focus on the BFSI, one of India's largest banks, as well as the financial sector and telecommunications. We implement the solution for our clients and currently have more than 70 staff members on our team. Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot…

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reviewer2201262

Product Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Jun 1, 2023

A stable and scalable tool for data transformation and enrichment

IBM WebSphere Message Broker can be used for routing, data transformation, and enrichment. It can be used for routing and data It's a routing solution. Irrespective of protocols, we can route the source through the destination. All the features of the solution are important. Stability and…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is easy to use, easy to install, and it's resilient for high availability."

"The solution is straightforward and for large organizations, it functions well."

"You don't have to have a separate DMC proxy because DataPower Gateway is an appliance and will take care of a lot of security features. These include data validations, encryption, as well as XML or any type of scripting or security threats that are present."

"What I like most is the stability."

"I like all of the features in this product and it does what it's supposed to do."

"My company has a good impression of IBM DataPower Gateway. What I like about it is that because it's an appliance, it's a turnkey solution that's very fast and out of the box. Compared to other gateways, I also like that IBM DataPower Gateway is function-rich. For example, for one of the projects, there was a need for specific transformation and security features available in IBM DataPower Gateway out of the box, so my team just needed to configure the appliance. There was no need for separate development, and I found it quite neat. Another valuable feature of IBM DataPower Gateway is that it's easy to integrate with other products."

"Support for PCA and non-PCA services is valuable."

"It can look for the various security threats, productions, payload scanning, and perform routing based on the content type."

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"Straightforward development and deployment."

"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."

"The transactions and message queuing are the most valuable features of the solution."

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

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

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

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

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Cons

"An area for improvement in IBM DataPower Gateway is its price point because it's a relatively expensive product. Sometimes, when the customer use case is just a very small subset of what's being offered in IBM DataPower Gateway, then the product can be expensive, making my company lose some of the opportunities because of the expensive pricing. A lower price point for IBM DataPower Gateway, even if that results in a less feature-rich version, would be appreciated. In terms of additional features that I'd like to see in the next release of IBM DataPower Gateway, nothing specific comes to mind because IBM constantly improves its standards and provides quarterly updates to the product, so it's quite fine."

"The product should be more adapted to the DevOps process."

"It is a costly product."

"I would like the tool to improve its training."

"The product's cost for data appliances or hardware is quite high. It needs improvement."

"They should improve the solution's clustering features."

"The solution requires a lot of training manuals in order to get to know it better and to be able to use it effectively."

"Some pre-packaged connectors for integration with various applications, such as SaaS offerings, would be a useful addition."

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"Today I probably wouldn't go for Message Broker because of the cost structure, support, and the whole ecosystem around IBM."

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

"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."

"The installation configuration is quite difficult."

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

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

"Technical support is very slow and needs to be improved."

"The images and size of the containers are too big and I think that they should be more lightweight."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive in comparison to other products."

"IBM DataPower Gateway is quite expensive to get resources to work on this product. If the price could be cheaper, I think that will make it a little bit better and easily accessible to smaller clients. Then it could compete with other solutions that are available in the market. There's a whole lot of other solutions available that work well and are cheaper than IBM's products."

"The cost of this product varies from customer to customer and the relationship with IBM, including how many offerings from IBM are already being used."

"It's expensive when you compare it with others."

"The solution has a return on investment but is a little expensive."

"It is an expensive solution."

"As far as I know, they have a perpetual license for this product. They are paying perpetual fees rather than an annual subscription or annual pricing."

"The appliance is a bit on the expensive side for the workloads that are not too high."

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

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

"This product is more expensive than competing products."

"The solution is expensive."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

30%

Computer Software Company

10%

Insurance Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

27%

Computer Software Company

12%

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM DataPower Gateway?

The MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) is great because it allows you to easily expose services using various protocols – web services, REST (JSON), and others. This flexibility simplifies things.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM DataPower Gateway?

The pricing was not cheap, it was quite expensive. However, the pricing landscape might be different now. The market is more competitive, with players like F5, Cisco, and Siemens entering the space...

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What needs improvement with IBM DataPower Gateway?

DataPower isn't the most user-friendly tool. It is not an easy tool to use. Some things could use better wizards to guide you through processes. Also, the SSL key management is a bit convoluted bec...

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What do you like most about IBM WebSphere Message Broker?

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

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM WebSphere Message Broker?

The solution is expensive. I give the cost a one out of ten. We pay for an annual license.

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What needs improvement with IBM WebSphere Message Broker?

Stability and pricing are areas with shortcomings that need improvement.

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Comparisons

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 1% of the time

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Compared 21% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Also Known As

WebSphere DataPower, IBM DataPower, IBM WebSphere DataPower

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Overview

IBM DataPower Gateway is a robust, secure next-generation enterprise-grade single multichannel API gateway that supplies dynamic access, integration, control, and outstanding security. The solution is available in a broad range of workload capabilities, including application programming interface (API), service oriented architecture (SOA), B2B, cloud, web, and mobile. These dynamic capabilities ensure users are able to quickly increase the reach of an organization's critical IT resources to new channels, which will provide shareholders, team members, and clients with safe, secure access at all times.

DataPower Gateway is very flexible and is widely available in virtual, cloud, traditional, physical, Docker, and Linux form factors.

IBM DataPower Gateway Features

IBM DataPower Gateway has many value-added features. Some of these features are included below:

Control: The solution provides decision point authorization and authentication for all standards, including Lightweight Direct Access Protocol (LDAP) and Open Authorization (OAuth), which allow for better access control across an organization’s entire network.
DataPower dashboard: The dashboard is specifically designed to enhance performance and determine problematic processes. The solution provides intuitive real-time performance transparency to diagnose operational and performance anomalies and offer repair and restoration recommendations.
Enhanced messaging: Users are able to easily mediate messaging and protocols by incorporating the best of today’s traditional and modern application standards.
Integration: IBM DataPower Gateway offers super fast mainframe connectivity, database connectivity, transport protocol bridging, content-based routing, and any-to-any message transformation, ensuring secure and immediate connect service.

IBM DataPower Gateway Benefits

IBM DataPower Gateway provides many benefits. Some of those benefits include:

Flexibility: The solution is easy to use and configure and provides for a pleasant, intuitive overall user experience. The solution can immediately be used out of the box, which makes overall process management simple.
Protection: The solution provides sturdy continuous service protection and application performance using robust powerful routing and traffic control.
Security: The solution’s enterprise-grade De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) ready gateway enables users to enforce the desired runtime application security across all messaging protocols.
Profitability: The solution’s design ensures significant reduction of development costs in addition to the streamlining of overall operations. Users are able to achieve reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and experience a near-immediate ROI.

Reviews from Real Users

“My company has a good impression of IBM DataPower Gateway. What I like about it is that because it's an appliance, it's a turnkey solution that's very fast and out of the box. Another valuable feature of IBM DataPower Gateway is that it's easy to integrate with other products.”- Bálint T., Solution Manager at Intalion

“You don't have to have a separate DMC proxy because DataPower Gateway is an appliance and will take care of a lot of security features. These include data validations, encryption, as well as XML or any type of scripting or security threats that are present. From a security point of view, being an appliance in the DMC zone, IBM DataPower Gateway will take care of the entire security angle for the infrastructure.” - Sathyan K., Founder/Director at perfTech Solutions Pvt Ltd

WebSphere Message Broker is an enterprise service bus (ESB) providing connectivity and universal data transformation for service-oriented architecture (SOA) and non-SOA environments. It allows businesses of any size to eliminate point-to-point connections and batch processing regardless of platform, protocol or data format.

Sample Customers

RBL Bank, Availity

WestJet, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Sharp Corporation, Michelin Tire

Buyer's Guide

IBM DataPower Gateway vs. IBM WebSphere Message Broker

May 2024

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