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We performed a comparison between Aurea CX Messenger, IBM MQ, and VMware RabbitMQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The Messenger Broker is a really good feature.""The features that I have found most valuable are that it is very easy to develop. Most of it is graphical, but we also have the option to add any custom call that you need.""SDM: User-friendly tool which allows for a seamless approach to performing hotfixes, if required.""The solution is highly scalable, this is very important for us. It can handle a lot of messages.""The solution offers excellent stability.""ESB: Provides all kind of possibilities to resolve business needs. A lot of ready to use services plus custom Java services. I used a lot of them all."

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"Reliability is the most valuable feature. MQ is used to support critical business applications.""The high availability and session recovery are the most valuable features because we need the solution live all day.""IBM MQ is the right choice because of the stability and the performance. And from the support perspective, it's enough to have a really small team.""We like IBM MQ for our synchronous communications and transactional applications that require a lot of CPS.""The initial setup is easy.""Technical support is quite helpful.""The solution allows one to easily configure an IBM MQQueueManager.""We have implemented business to business transactions over MQ messaging. The guaranteed and once only delivery ensures business integrity."

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"We have been able to set up a messaging system that facilitates data integration between the software modules that we sell.""It can be configured to be a very fast message broker. I like the stability, the built-in admin tools and plugin architecture.""We use VMware RabbitMQ to transfer information from one point to another.""The message routing is the most valuable feature. It is effective and flexible.""The solution has really cool features to use. Its management console is excellent. You can utilize plugins to view the performance of the whole service on one network.""The most valuable feature is that it's really customizable.""RabbitMQ will help to remove a lot of the complexities and create a loosely coupled codebase.""Some of the most valuable features are publish and subscribe, fanout, and queues."

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Cons
"The improvement is that it should be on the cloud and use web services.""Aurea CX Messenger could improve by making better use of the new APIs""The solution needs to improve support for new, more recent protocols on the API.""I don't know if the last version has the cloud option, but maybe that could be good. That could be something that is included.""You should not hurry with upgrades without testing the whole product completely.""It should include/add more services with the product as per market demand. It should include custom Java services developed by any organization or provide a platform where users/developers can share ideas/custom services, etc."

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"Sometimes, not all messages are consumed in the queues. File transfers need improvement.""Should have more integration in the monitoring tools.""The memory management is very poor and it consumes too much memory.""In the next release, I would like for there to be easier monitoring. The UI should be easier for non-technical users to set up appliances and servers.""We would like to see the IBM technical support team extend their hand to providing support for other cloud vendors like Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS""I would just like a more user-friendly experience to do common administration tasks. I know that you can use MQ Explorer, but having something that's already built in would definitely be useful.""The solution requires a lot of work to implement and maintain.""It needs a User Interface which is better than the aging MQ Explorer. The existing solution MQ Explorer is outdated."

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"VMware RabbitMQ's configuration process could be easier to understand.""Their implementation is quite tricky. It's not that easy to implement RabbitMQ as a cluster.""When you have complex tasks, RabbitMQ is hard to use.""The solution needs improvement on performance.""The support feature could benefit from some improvement in terms of accessibility and responsiveness.""The next release should include some of the flexibility and features that Kafka offers.""They should improve on the ability to scale your queues in a very simple and elegant way with the same power that they have would be great.""I’d like this dashboard to use web sockets, so it would actually be in real time. It would slightly increase debugging, etc."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Much better than Oracle SOA Suite."
  • "You pay nothing for licensing, because the commercial model is a subscription. Other environments, such as QA and Development, are included in the subscription"
  • "The pricing is not so high."
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  • "It's super expensive, so ask them if they can consolidate some other licensing costs. But, IBM is IBM, so I guess we'll pay for it."
  • "IBM MQ has a flexible license model based on the Processor Value Unit (PVU) and I recommend it."
  • "Use the new and lightweight version (Liberty) to lower licensing costs. It is also easier to upgrade/maintain."
  • "I think the pricing is reasonable, especially with IIB as a part of it."
  • "Pricing could be better, as with all IBM products. But their performance in production, along with security and scalability, will pay returns in the long run."
  • "99.999 percent availability for less than a penny per message over the past 25 years. IBM MQ is the cheapest software in the IBM software portfolio, and it is one of the best."
  • "IBM MQ appliance has pricing options, but they are costly."
  • "In terms of cost, IBM MQ is slightly on the higher side."
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  • "The pricing is okay."
  • "This is an open source solution."
  • "are using the open-source version, which can be used free of cost."
  • "The pricing for RabbitMQ is reasonable. It is worth the cost."
  • "The solution's pricing is cost-effective as it does not involve significant expenses. Licensing is required only for the server, while clients do not need any licensing. Therefore, it proves to be a cost-efficient option."
  • "It is an open-source platform. Although, we have to pay for additional features."
  • "It is an open-source product."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The Messenger Broker is a really good feature.
    Top Answer:The pricing is not so high. I will rate it a seven out of ten, where one is the lowest and ten is the highest. There are… more »
    Top Answer:The improvement is that it should be on the cloud and use web services because the earlier version is not using web… more »
    Top Answer:Hi As someone with 45+ years of experience in the Transaction and Message Processing world, I have seen many "MQ"… more »
    Top Answer:Apache Kafka is open source and can be used for free. It has very good log management and has a way to store the data… more »
    Top Answer:IBM MQ has a great reputation behind it, and this solution is very robust with great stability. It is easy to use… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature is asynchronous calls, which are easy to configure.
    Top Answer:We needed to configure additional plugins. While it was relatively easy to do this on-premises, it became more… more »
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    Also Known As
    CX Messenger Enterprise, Aurea Sonic ESB, Aurea Sonic, Aurea Sonic MQ
    WebSphere MQ
    RabbitMQ by Pivotal, Rabbit, RabbitMQ
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    Overview

    CX Messenger lets your technology keep pace with your business. Aurea’s industry leading Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) lets you adapt and change your infrastructure with plug-and-play speed and ease.

      IBM MQ is a middleware product used to send or exchange messages across multiple platforms, including applications, systems, files, and services via MQs (messaging queues). This solution helps simplify the creation of business applications, and also makes them easier to maintain. IBM MQ is security-rich, has high performance, and provides a universal messaging backbone with robust connectivity. In addition, it also integrates easily with existing IT assets by using an SOA (service oriented architecture).

      IBM MQ can be deployed:

      • On-premises
      • In the cloud
      • Hybrid cloud

      IBM MQ supports the following APIs:

      • MQI (Message Queue Interface)
      • REST
      • .NET
      • MQTT
      • JMS
      • IBM MQ Light


      IBM MQ Features

      Some of the most powerful IBM MQ features include:

      • High availability
      • Stability and scalability
      • Flexible deployment options
      • Uniform clusters
      • Automated and intelligent workload balancing
      • Broad language, API, and messaging protocol support
      • Administrative features that simplify messaging management
      • Open standards development tools
      • Simple management tools

      IBM MQ Benefits

      Some of the benefits of using IBM MQ include:

      • Multi-style messaging: IBM MQ supports simple multi-style messaging, making it easy to connect diverse systems with support for message queuing, transactions, and more.

      • Reduced risk: With IBM MQ you will never lose a message, and messages are never delivered more than once.

      • Cloud-native: Because IBM MQ has a minimal infrastructure, it is suitable to be cloud-native, and therefore has the capability to always remain on.

      • Available anywhere: Using IBM MQ, you have access to secure messaging anywhere, at any time.

      • Secure: IBM MQ makes sure to keep your data safe by using TLS secured communications, providing access identity management, message-level security, and more measures to protect your information.

      • Easy for application programmers: To use IBM MQ, application programmers do not need to have any knowledge of communications programming.

      • Technical support: IBM MQ has a large user community and also provides support 24/7 as needed.

      Reviews from Real Users

      Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by IBM MQ users who are currently using the solution.

      PeerSpot user Sunil S., a manager at a financial services firm, explains that they never lose messages are never lost in transit, mentioning that he can store messages and forward them as required: "Whenever payments are happening, such as incoming payments to the bank, we need to notify the customer. With MQ we can actually do that asynchronously. We don't want to notify the customer for each and every payment but, rather, more like once a day. That kind of thing can be enabled with the help of MQ."

      Another PeerSpot reviewer, Luis L. who is a solutions director at Thesys Technologies, says that IBM MQ is a valuable solution and is "A stable and reliable software that offers good integration between different systems."

      The head of operations at a financial services firm notes that "I have found the solution to be very robust. It has a strong reputation, is easy to use, simple to configure in our enterprise software, and supports all the protocols that we use."

      In addition, a Software Engineer at a financial services firm praises the security benefits of it and states that “it has the most security features I've seen in a communication solution. Security is the most important thing for our purposes."

    RabbitMQ is the most popular open source message broker, with more than 35,000 production deployments world-wide. RabbitMQ is lightweight and easy to deploy on premises and in the cloud and runs on all major operating systems. It supports most developer platforms, multiple messaging protocols and can be deployed in distributed and federated configurations to meet high-scale, high-availability requirements.

    Sample Customers
    Heathrow, HomeServe, Paypal, Freedom Mortgage
    Deutsche Bahn, Bon-Ton, WestJet, ARBURG, Northern Territory Government, Tata Steel Europe, Sharp Corporation
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    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Insurance Company6%
    Government5%
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    Financial Services Firm39%
    Retailer10%
    Insurance Company9%
    Computer Software Company6%
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    Financial Services Firm37%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Government5%
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    Computer Software Company22%
    Retailer17%
    University11%
    Financial Services Firm11%
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    Financial Services Firm27%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Manufacturing Company6%
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    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise82%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise75%
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    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise46%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise71%
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