We performed a comparison between IBM WebSphere Message Broker, Oracle Service Bus, and webMethods Integration Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, MuleSoft, Software AG and others in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)."The documentation, performance, stability and scalability of the tool are valuable."
"It has many interfaces and you can connect to any backend source that has another format, and convert it to the desired format."
"We only use the basic features, but the most valuable one for us is the Publish-subscribe pattern."
"Performance-wise, this solution is really good."
"Integration and mapping are easy, which is a major advantage."
"The transactions and message queuing are the most valuable features of the solution."
"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."
"Straightforward development and deployment."
"The solution is quite stable overall. We haven't witnessed any performance issues so far."
"Monitoring feature that allows tracking of the web's UI development."
"Service Bus is good at routing the transformation."
"I am a part of the software developing team and I mainly use this solution for the integrating applications."
"We've been pleased with the level of technical support."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that you can connect with different applications."
"With Oracle Service Bus, we can connect with different types of systems. Another feature I like the most is the security feature."
"The most valuable feature is the adapters."
"Currently, we're using this solution for the integration server which helps us to integrate with the mainframe."
"Best feature is Insight for monitoring, and as a debugging tool. It has saved us a lot of time during crisis situations."
"The comprehensiveness and depth of Integration Servers' connectors to packaged apps and custom apps is unlimited. They have a connector for everything. If they don't, you can build it yourself. Or oftentimes, if there is value for other customers as well, you can talk with webMethods about creating a new adapter for you."
"What I found most valuable in webMethods Integration Server is that it's a strong ESB. It also has strong API modules and portals."
"The product is very stable."
"The main assets are its flow language, debugging, and Broker. Flow language is far better and more flexible for debugging."
"The development is very fast. If you know what you're doing, you can develop something very easily and very fast."
"A product with good API and EDI components."
"Stability and pricing are areas with shortcomings that need improvement."
"Technical support is very slow and needs to be improved."
"Today I probably wouldn't go for Message Broker because of the cost structure, support, and the whole ecosystem around IBM."
"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."
"The images and size of the containers are too big and I think that they should be more lightweight."
"There is some lag in the GUI. There have been some performance issues and maybe it's because of the application data."
"The weak point of OSB is the single point of failure."
"There are times when I select components in composite and they do not appear, and I cannot figure out why."
"It's very complex and hard to learn. There's a steep learning curve."
"The inconvenient part about working with this product is that it's very heavy, requiring a lot of people and a lot of resources."
"We have faced a problem with the heap memory side, but that is stable now."
"There is significant room for improvement in the monitoring capabilities."
"There are some loopholes in service and support."
"An area for improvement in Oracle Service Bus is the roadmap for its product launch. Currently, it's unclear, so Oracle should develop a roadmap for version 12c, so people can see what's coming out of that version of Oracle Service Bus. Cloud hosting is an additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of Oracle Service Bus."
"We got the product via a reseller, and the support from the reseller has been less than desirable."
"I would like to see the price improve."
"Business monitoring (BAM) needs improvement because the analytics and prediction module very often has performance problems."
"Other products have been using AI and cloud enhancements, but webMethods Integration Server is still lagging in that key area."
"This product is for larger companies. Compared to TIBCO I think webMethods is better in terms of ease of use and support."
"The interface needs some work. It is not very user-friendly."
"One area that needs improvement is the version upgrade process. Many customers I've worked with encounter challenges when transitioning from their current version, such as x or 9, to a newer version. The process is not smooth, and they must shift their entire website."
"When migration happens from the one release to an upgraded release from Software AG, many of the existing services are deprecated and developers have to put in effort testing and redeveloping some of the services. It would be better that upgrade releases took care to support the lower-level versions of webMethods."
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