ViaSQL by Adaptigent vs webMethods Integration Server comparison

ViaSQL enables powerful data extraction from complex sources through standard SQL queries. It provides direct access to all your system databases, allowing teams to seamlessly manage enterprise data with ease. The powerful tool opens bi-directional access to both mainframe and distributed data sources, enabling rapid web and cloud application development. Gone are the days of complex and time-consuming legacy data management practices!

Direct Access to Data Sources

With ViaSQL, you can directly access mainframe data using ODBC or JDBC. The native read/write conversion functionality allows you to access both relational and non-relational databases with SQL queries, so your teams don’t need to know anything about mainframe databases.

Call Out From Mainframe Applications

ViaSQL also makes outbound calls from legacy applications by providing COBOL and PL/I access to distributed data sources. It allows for true bi-directional data access from the mainframe without the need to modify any legacy system code.

Bulk Transfer Capabilities

ViaSQL allows you to move large amounts of data between the mainframe and relational databases. It eliminates the need for other expensive and complex Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) systems when copying mainframe data to modern data lakes and warehouses.

Combine Direct and Indirect Data Sources

When used with Adaptive Integration Fabric, ViaSQL allows you to combine direct and indirect data sources by creating workflows that pull data via mainframe applications, as well as directly from data sources. This allows users to not only create highly efficient data extraction systems but also expose data to modern systems such as REST or SOAP APIs.

webMethods Integration Server is widely considered to be the best integration server available in the marketplace today. The solution can help users integrate everything and anything.

webMethods Integration Server allows organizations to display and integrate existing and new business activities. The solution offers components that help users create, test, and install new services. webMethods Integration Server can automate, organize, and construct various gathered services and traditional legacy systems into productive value-added processes. webMethods Integration Server works as a secure platform for distributing and running services. The solution obtains and translates user requests, recognizes and records the requested service, translates and moves the data in the necessary format, receives the information back, and returns the information to the user in the appropriate original format. webMethods is the primary solution used by enterprise organizations for integrating functional coordination with application servers, custom applications, and databases. webMethods makes it easy for enterprise organizations to share electronic documents seamlessly.

Users have several options to audit webMethods Integration Server processes using some of the component metrics below:

• Adapters: Using the SOA extension for webMethods, users can easily monitor the performance of every adapter users have deployed. Available metrics include Adapter Services, Adapter Connection Pools, and Adapter Notifications nodes.
  
  
• Business Processes: A business process is a process that uses a specific set of rules to perform tasks in a prescribed order. Many business processes depend on the successful integration of numerous systems, involving many people in varying roles. With the SOA extension for webMethods, users can easily monitor that workflow, ensuring that processes are being performed as defined.
  
  
• Java Services: This includes services created in Java or in languages coordinated with Java.
  
  
• WebServices: This includes services regarding webserver endpoints and performance.
  
  
• XSLT Services: This service will allow users to transform XML data into other formats and includes the transformation to other services.
  
  
• Thread Pools: This metric uses threads to conduct services, gather documents from the webMethods Broker, and initiate triggers. Documents can be published locally on the server or to the broker that will send the document out. A JMS trigger receives inbound messages and then processes those messages accordingly.

Reviews from Real Users:

“There are a few things about this product that we definitely like. It is very robust. If you build it nicely, you can't go wrong with it. It's rock solid. The development is very fast. If you know what you're doing, you can develop something very easy and very fast.” - Rohit S., Integration Lead at a wellness & fitness company

“One of the most important features is that it gives you the possibility to do low-level integration. We can meet any requirements through customizations, transformations, or the logic that needs to be put in. When clients come to me with any problem, in about 99% of cases, I say, "Yes, it is feasible to do through webMethods." It has reached such a level of flexibility and maturity. Most of the things are available out of the box, and even if something is not available out of the box, we can customize it and deliver it for a client's requirements.” - Sushant D., IT specialist at Accenture