We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."My company has a good impression of IBM DataPower Gateway. What I like about it is that because it's an appliance, it's a turnkey solution that's very fast and out of the box. Compared to other gateways, I also like that IBM DataPower Gateway is function-rich. For example, for one of the projects, there was a need for specific transformation and security features available in IBM DataPower Gateway out of the box, so my team just needed to configure the appliance. There was no need for separate development, and I found it quite neat. Another valuable feature of IBM DataPower Gateway is that it's easy to integrate with other products."
"The solution is very easy to work with."
"It can look for the various security threats, productions, payload scanning, and perform routing based on the content type."
"I like all of the features in this product and it does what it's supposed to do."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The product is stable...The product is scalable."
"The most valuable features for our business include the ability to monitor and log data transactions and handle multiple request at an enterprise level."
"The solution is straightforward and for large organizations, it functions well."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that the performance is robust."
"The GUI and IDE features of this solution are easy to work with and to develop. We find application management easy using this solution. It is a stable product"
"The technology is really easy to learn."
"It's very stable and reliable."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring, ease of use, and easy to understand development GUI."
"TIBCO has the platform in terms of speed and ease of use."
"The stability of this solution is excellent."
"It is a costly product."
"The user interface or the application development perspective and customization of the tool could be a little better."
"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 product's cost for data appliances or hardware is quite high. It needs improvement."
"Some pre-packaged connectors for integration with various applications, such as SaaS offerings, would be a useful addition."
"Scripting needs improvement. It's hard for our customers."
"One area that could be improved is the integration with Postgres and SQL databases. Currently, IBM DataPower Gateway only integrates with Oracle databases."
"An area for improvement in IBM DataPower Gateway is its price point because it's a relatively expensive product. Sometimes, when the customer use case is just a very small subset of what's being offered in IBM DataPower Gateway, then the product can be expensive, making my company lose some of the opportunities because of the expensive pricing. A lower price point for IBM DataPower Gateway, even if that results in a less feature-rich version, would be appreciated. In terms of additional features that I'd like to see in the next release of IBM DataPower Gateway, nothing specific comes to mind because IBM constantly improves its standards and provides quarterly updates to the product, so it's quite fine."
"In the configuration, where we need to customize, it takes more time that we expect it to, ideally."
"If TIBCO could be able to sort the size of their base image in the Container edition, it would be really marvelous. Right now it's around 299 MB. We'd really want it to reduce to a few MBs."
"I don't like the product's API management platform, as it doesn't offer users enough functionality to help with API lifecycle management, making it a product that is way behind its competitors."
"The intermediate version that we are using has stability issues. These stability issues should be resolved, but it seems like TIBCO is not focusing on resolving these issues. The resolution timelines are quite high even for high-priority incidents. Its price should be lower. Its licensing cost is considerably high as compared to other ESBs."
"The solution is very expensive when you use multiple components, it would b better if this could be reduced."
"We'd like to see improvements in product support."
"In the next release, there should be improvements made to the API manager."
"Our version does not have cloud capabilities."
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IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 6th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 26 reviews while TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is ranked 9th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 12 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Easy to use, plenty of functionality, but expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus writes "A robust product that needs to improve the functionality it offers related to API lifecycle management". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM Integration Bus, whereas TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Mule ESB, Oracle Service Bus, Red Hat Fuse and Workday Business Process Framework. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus report.
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