We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and WSO2 Enterprise Integrator 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."It can look for the various security threats, productions, payload scanning, and perform routing based on the content type."
"The most valuable feature is the security appliance, it's very secure."
"I like the tool's security. Also, all functionalities are integrated within on platform."
"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."
"It is very easy to set up and configure, even for users with no prior experience."
"The performance is good. It's been very stable."
"The product's most valuable features are AAA policies and security features."
"The solution is robust."
"The solution's customer service is good."
"The customer service executives are very responsive."
"Currently, I find the configuration part quite valuable, where you can easily configure things."
"The learning curve for this solution is very good."
"The solution's technical support is very knowledgeable."
"The productivity is the most valuable feature. It is very easy to write remediations."
"I like the user-friendly system and development of the service-oriented architecture."
"The drag-and-drop features for connectors are very valuable."
"The user interface or the application development perspective and customization of the tool could be a little better."
"The product should be more adapted to the DevOps process."
"The initial setup isn't so easy, you need who has experience working with the solution to help."
"The programming language is only supported in XSLT and Gateway script."
"Traceability could be improved, especially for business operations. The traceability of the transactions could be an improvement point for DataPower to work on. It would be better if they provided JSON support. JSON protocol data has changed format. It started performing internal transformation to JSONx. This might be an additional complexity."
"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."
"For the workloads that are not too high, appliance is a little bit expensive."
"I would like to see them bring back a feature, from earlier versions, that was very useful in debugging and finding issues."
"I would like to see better documentation for the open-source version."
"You cannot include the validation of XPath."
"There are a lot of security settings that when you apply you have to re-apply again every time you modify a setting. It is something that really needs to be enhanced."
"The server is very specific and it is very difficult to get experience with it."
"In my opinion, the administration model and interface, of Carbon, are lacking in terms of its features and user experience."
"The micro integrator should be improved. There is room for enhancement considering alternative integration components."
"The integration capabilities need to be improved."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 6th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 26 reviews while WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is ranked 7th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 18 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Easy to use, plenty of functionality, but expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 Enterprise Integrator writes "Consolidated, reliable, and has responsive technical support". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM Integration Bus, whereas WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is most compared with Red Hat Fuse, IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, webMethods Integration Server and SnapLogic. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator report.
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