We performed a comparison between IBM Integration Bus and OpenESB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, MuleSoft, Software AG and others in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)."REST API design and development support are useful. Building and exposing APIs using GUI API designer with editor makes implementation a breeze."
"One of the most valuable features is App Connect Enterprise makes it possible to deploy it in the OpenShift cluster, which is very good. Overall the solution is very flexible."
"The message queue connectors are the most valuable feature. They have built-in connectors for most of the systems, like SAP and Oracle Database."
"The most valuable feature is the security."
"It aligns well with containerized environments, which increases its scalability and high availability."
"It is very straightforward. It is very user-friendly integration."
"The product is a user-customized tool so that you can adjust it to your specific needs pretty well with little trouble."
"I consider the solution to be one of the most stable in the market."
"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."
"The process-oriented solution allows you to define choreography and orchestration."
"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 core is very stable."
"Its documentation is currently lacking. We have different environments where we use our configuration services, but we are not able to find documentation about how to deploy the local code to the server and how to set it up on a server level. I would like more documents from IBM that explain which variables should be in your machine while building a project, and when you deploy the code into the server, what should be their values. There are some variable values. I could not find such documentation. While working on a project, I developed the code on a local machine, and while deploying the code to our test environment, I made a couple of mistakes. We had to change some values at the server level, but we couldn't find any documentation regarding this, which made the task difficult."
"I would like to see more metered rest and API support. IBM is already working on it on Version 11, but it still needs improvement."
"I would like for them to make the training much easier."
"The tracing and debugging features are not up to date with more modern technology available."
"The user interface could be improved in a future release."
"IBM does not support orchestration, which is how they designed it, and other BPM tools in the market support orchestration. If they merged the BPM capability into this product, then it would be a better solution."
"Technical support is something that should be better."
"The solution needs instruction or guidance."
"The documentation needs to be better."
"Cloud deployment is weak and needs to be improved."
"Regarding its management, a web console being able to synchronize distributed instances would be great."
"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."
IBM Integration Bus is ranked 1st in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 63 reviews while OpenESB is ranked 13th in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 4 reviews. IBM Integration Bus is rated 8.0, while OpenESB is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Integration Bus writes "Scalable solution with efficient integration features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenESB writes "Enables us to define the business process and integrate it with other software". IBM Integration Bus is most compared with Mule ESB, IBM WebSphere Message Broker, Oracle Service Bus, webMethods Integration Server and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas OpenESB is most compared with WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, Mule ESB, Oracle Service Bus and Red Hat Fuse.
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