We performed a comparison between IBM Integration Bus and Sopera Advanced Service Factory 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)."I am into microservices using Java Spring Boot, but if we are using legacy systems, IBM Integration Bus is very good for them. They have their own computational logic called EC12, their own proprietary language. You can do any kind of complex logic and can implement other ESVs that I have seen."
"REST API design and development support are useful. Building and exposing APIs using GUI API designer with editor makes implementation a breeze."
"The Cloud Pak for Integration is a useful feature."
"The multi-approach and the multi-capabilities are valuable."
"The features I have found most valuable in this solution are transformation and routing."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is that it is clear and easy to learn."
"The most valuable thing is the loose coupling and making the change in only one stack of the ESB layer or the middleware layer."
"I have found the best feature are the administrative controls."
"They need to come up with Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS). It should also have a feature for integrating with those applications that are on the cloud."
"The cloud deployment of the IBM Integration Bus should be made easier."
"They should add connectors to banking applications and other specific industries."
"Performance can be an issue sometimes. The tool occasionally crashes due to memory-related problems. We've reported these issues to IBM, and they are actively working on improving the tooling experience."
"It would be beneficial for it to function more as an iPaaS, with the runtime available in the cloud, potentially on platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud."
"It needs improvement in terms of technical support as well as in terms of integration of data mining. I am not convinced about many things in this solution, such as the conversion of the DFDL or copybook file, which is the conversion from a text file to XML. It is very complex. They should also provide more information about this solution in the IBM Knowledge Center. I can get a lot of information from the IBM Knowledge Center about DataStage, but I don't get that much information about IBM Integration Bus. There is hardly any information even on the internet and various channels such as YouTube. They can provide good step-by-step documentation based on a company's requirements. It would be really helpful. My company is mainly looking for data mining and communicating with multiple servers. IBM Integration Bus is good for communicating with multiple servers, but it needs improvement for XML conversion and data mining. We have a lot of old systems that use XML."
"Migrating to this solution is complex and it would be helpful if they had a way to convert existing integrations."
"IBM Integration Bus isn't particularly user-friendly and has a big learning curve."
"This solution is running on the Eclipse platform and this is where all the designing takes place. The Eclipse performance should be improved. The Open Studio tool we have been using for the development is not up to the industry standard and the performance should be improved."
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IBM Integration Bus is ranked 1st in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 63 reviews while Sopera Advanced Service Factory is ranked 18th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). IBM Integration Bus is rated 8.0, while Sopera Advanced Service Factory is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM Integration Bus writes "Scalable solution with efficient integration features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sopera Advanced Service Factory writes "Functional administrative controls, highly scalable, and reliable". IBM Integration Bus is most compared with Mule ESB, IBM WebSphere Message Broker, Oracle Service Bus, webMethods Integration Server and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas Sopera Advanced Service Factory is most compared with .
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