We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and OpenESB 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)."It is a scalable solution."
"Support for PCA and non-PCA services is valuable."
"What I like most is the stability."
"It's high-speed and it can be remotely administered via an API."
"I like the tool's security. Also, all functionalities are integrated within on platform."
"The scalability of the solution is good."
"It is very easy to set up and configure, even for users with no prior experience."
"Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot of security features."
"One of the most valuable features is being able to implement business processes while keeping track of the design from BPMN to a BPEL Implementation."
"OpenESB pushes the organization to clearly define service boundaries and interfaces. So it motives the business and the development teams to clearly define their business services and processes they want to implement. OpenESB supports fine and coarse-grain granularity for the services and supports top-down and bottom-up approaches for the services, processes definition, and composition."
"The process-oriented solution allows you to define choreography and orchestration."
"The core is very stable."
"The programming language is only supported in XSLT and Gateway script."
"The IBM community does not have much engagement from the IT community in Saudi Arabia and developers for this solution are difficult to find."
"The initial setup isn't so easy, you need who has experience working with the solution to help."
"For the workloads that are not too high, appliance is a little bit expensive."
"Some pre-packaged connectors for integration with various applications, such as SaaS offerings, would be a useful addition."
"The two biggest issues of this solution are the complexity and the maintenance procedures."
"The solution requires a lot of training manuals in order to get to know it better and to be able to use it effectively."
"The user interface or the application development perspective and customization of the tool could be a little better."
"Regarding its management, a web console being able to synchronize distributed instances would be great."
"The documentation needs to be better."
"The documentation of the product must be improved. It could be tricky to find the right documentation on a topic since the documentation is spread in many places. I advise the new joiner to contact the community to get entry points and additional documentation. Tutorial and Video must be present to take up the product."
"Cloud deployment is weak and needs to be improved."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 6th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 26 reviews while OpenESB is ranked 13th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 4 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while OpenESB is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Easy to use, plenty of functionality, but expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenESB writes "Enables us to define the business process and integrate it with other software". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM Integration Bus, whereas OpenESB is most compared with WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, Mule ESB, Oracle Service Bus and Red Hat Fuse.
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