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We performed a comparison between Avada Software Infrared360, IBM B2B Integrator, and SWIFTnet FIN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"We have easily created use case testing harnesses for specific flows that incorporate various message types.""It has role-based access to queues, giving us more insights into problems.""It's what we use for monitoring our MQ system, so the features that they provide are just really, really good.""Monitoring that ties into our incident management system""The administration piece makes it very easy to do MQ administration. It gives us a lot more flexibility and capabilities.""It allows non-technical users to inspect their individual components within the total infrastructure without disturbing other components and without bothering the technical teams."

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"The most valuable feature of IBM B2B Integrator is its security and flexibility.""The best feature is that many companies use the solution so there is a lot of peer support.""Everything from the order to fulfillment to the payment process, except for physical packing and shipping, is fully automated for some customer orders.""The most valuable features are the flexibility and the range of EDI standards that IBM Sterling can handle.""It is easy of use and it's easy to maintain. It's also faster to on-board partners.""The technical support on offer through the portal is very helpful and responsive.""The solution offers good integration capabilities.""IBM B2B Integrator is a great tool, robust, reliable, low-maintenance, and ideal solution."

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"It provides the ability to interact with financial institutions and apply the same rules."

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Cons
"The UI can be cumbersome - but we are still using the Viper interface and we have not had the time to check out the Alloy interface which is supposed to be much improved.""We are still working with the FTE/MFT subscription monitoring and reporting functionality. That is an area in which we would like to see further development taking place.""We desire a dashboard that could accumulate BOQ lengths per tenant on one screen for all tenants.""One area where they could improve is with their documentation. Some sections are not up to date with new release information and providing additional samples in some areas would be very helpful.""The user interface could be sexier and more ergonomic. The competing products have similar problems.""Some of the graphics in the interface could be improved. It's pretty basic. Some interfaces are not up to what you're used to seeing on other, more Windows-like tools."

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"The dashboard is not integrated and should be bundled by the product vendor.""Map translator needs more enhancements.""API integration could be improved. The legacy system could be on the cloud.""API-Fication required, and there should be more clarity on their cloud migration strategy.""The mapping, visibility, deployment, and the dashboard could be improved and updated. The communication logs are very poor. They are not easily understood, and we need to navigate to many places for many reasons. You can't just pull the information; it's very tough.""The tool requires you to write a lot of code in Java and XSLT, which makes development tough.""Patching or upgrading the product is a bit of a nightmare. It would be nice if they removed the installation manager port. We find it complicates upgrading and patching a great deal.""The reporting features could be better. right now, they are lacking a bit."

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"I would like for them to work in real-time."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Because the licensing is at the QMGR level, you need to have at least a small cushion of licenses for occasional enterprise needs."
  • "Our internal budget calculation model incorporates the pricing per endpoint for any new projects. However, as our footprint for distributed queue managers shrinks as part of our shared middleware hub deployment, the initial licensing and support costs have been reduced over the last five years."
  • "Avada Software's licensing metric is very good because the license fees are based on the number of connections (which have not increased for us very much over the years) rather than the CPU processing power (which increases significantly whenever our hardware is upgraded) or the number of users (which has increased for us a lot since our original purchase)."
  • "Start small, then increase licensing later as per your demand."
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  • "We pay an annual fee based on the number of VPUs. It's fairly reasonable. We're in the middle of analyzing other products, and they're all pretty much in the same range."
  • "The solution is priced at $20,000 to $30,000 per year with no extra costs."
  • "The pricing is based on how many cores are used and the type of cores."
  • "Licensing depends upon the package you opt for within the solution. The solution is a bit costly compared to the other integration tools in the market."
  • "The price of IBM B2B Integrator is too high. However, IBM may be willing to give a discount if there are negotiations. If they see that there is a good opportunity for them they can provide a discount."
  • "The product costs more than 40K."
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    Also Known As
    Infrared360
    IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, Sterling Gentran Integration Suite
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    Overview

    Avada Software specializes in Enterprise Middleware solutions. Founded by some pioneers in SOA, MQ and J2EE technology, Avada’s Flagship product, Infrared360, is a holistic & innovative private cloud enabled portal providing self-service administration, monitoring, load testing, auditing & statistical reporting for Enterprise Middleware including IBM’s middleware stack of MQ, IIB (message broker), WAS, and Datapower, as well as other applications servers such as  JBoss, TC Server, Weblogic, and other messaging technologies such as Tibco EMS and Kafka*.

    Accessed via any web browser on any device, Infrared360 is a single web application, yet scales to 2500+ endpoints without deploying anything (no agents, no scripts) to those endpoints.

    Using trusted ‘spaces’ and delegated visibility and control, the portal uniquely provides different business units or even different application users virtual ‘spaces’ in which to work.  Within those spaces are only the objects and resources the user has been granted visibility.  Role policy dictates permissions on those resources.

    It is the ONLY Enterprise Messaging Solution with a built in SOA engine that lets you leverage internal and external services for managing and correcting problems within your middleware messaging environment.                 

      *Kafka coming soon 

    IBM B2B Integrator helps you securely integrate complex B2B processes with your partner communities. It provides a single, flexible B2B gateway that enables your organization to meet a wide range of B2B integration needs. The solution can improve business processes beyond enterprise boundaries and increase visibility into and across supply and demand chains.

    FIN enables financial institutions to exchange individual structured (MT and ISO 15022 message formats) financial messages securely and reliably. FIN is used by over 10,800 financial institutions and their corporate customers worldwide to exchange over 22.3+ million messages per day across a wide range of business areas within the banking and securities industries.

    FIN value-added processing includes:

    • Message validation to ensure messages are formatted according to SWIFT message standards.
    • Delivery monitoring and prioritization.
    • Message storage and retrieval.

    It is based on a distributed processing architecture with full, built-in redundancy to ensure maximum availability.

    Sample Customers
    USBank, Southwest Airlines, Visiting Nurse Services of New York, Aon Hewitt, Parker Hannifin,  Cantonal Bank of Zurich (ZKB), Hagemeyer NA, and many others
    Bonnie Plants, Toshiba Europe, Florida Hospital
    Alcatel-Lucent, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Canadian National Railway, General Electric Company, Huawei, Novartis International, Standard Bank, UniCredit, Volvo
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm73%
    Government27%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm31%
    Insurance Company11%
    Transportation Company8%
    Computer Software Company6%
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    Financial Services Firm21%
    Transportation Company13%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Logistics Company8%
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    Computer Software Company20%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Retailer9%
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    Financial Services Firm58%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Comms Service Provider4%
    Retailer4%
    Company Size
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise36%
    Large Enterprise36%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise80%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise65%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise64%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise82%
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