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"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.""We have easily created use case testing harnesses for specific flows that incorporate various message types.""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 best feature is that many companies use the solution so there is a lot of peer support.""The most valuable feature of IBM B2B Integrator is its security and flexibility.""B2B provides a secure communication channel.""It's highly stable, and the redundancy is amazing. B2B Integrator also has a high availability option to work in a cluster environment. You rarely have issues operating it because of the HA.""It is easy of use and it's easy to maintain. It's also faster to on-board partners.""Everything from the order to fulfillment to the payment process, except for physical packing and shipping, is fully automated for some customer orders.""It can scale horizontally as well as vertically as a cluster.""I find the codeless communications, SFTP or FTP, valuable."

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"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.""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.""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.""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.""We desire a dashboard that could accumulate BOQ lengths per tenant on one screen for all tenants."

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"The initial setup is complex.""The web interface of B2B is quite outdated and not particularly user-friendly.""The tool requires you to write a lot of code in Java and XSLT, which makes development tough.""IBM B2B Integrator could improve the business process itself, there is no resignation of duties and in terms of the console should be changed in a way that is more user-friendly.""The reporting features could be better. right now, they are lacking a bit.""The dashboard is not integrated and should be bundled by the product vendor.""API integration could be improved. The legacy system could be on the cloud.""There are also some features in the solution that are not user-friendly, like code lists with no search options. So, we must navigate hundreds of pages to check for one entry."

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  • "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.

    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
    Top Industries
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    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%
    Company Size
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise36%
    Large Enterprise36%
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    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise80%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise65%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Avada Software Infrared360 is ranked 68th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability while IBM B2B Integrator is ranked 4th in Business-to-Business Middleware with 42 reviews. Avada Software Infrared360 is rated 8.8, while IBM B2B Integrator is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Avada Software Infrared360 writes "An offsite team performs a daily infrastructure health check and sends reports to the technical/management teams. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM B2B Integrator writes "A widely-used, on-premises solution with tons of peer support". Avada Software Infrared360 is most compared with IBM MQ and Dynatrace, whereas IBM B2B Integrator is most compared with Mule ESB, IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, SAP Process Orchestration, SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite and SPS Commerce Fulfillment (EDI).

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