We performed a comparison between IBM Integration Bus 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."The stability is mostly pretty good."
"It's easy to develop things, and it's easy to handle."
"It has the ability to be deployed without rewriting the code."
"My favorite feature is the XML-based DFDL mapping, which is a tool that allows you to graphically map legacy data formats to modern data formats."
"I found all features valuable. There are a lot of connectors."
"The product is usually very easy to deploy."
"The solution offers good performance and is stable."
"The message queue feature is very valuable."
"TIBCO has the platform in terms of speed and ease of use."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a service-oriented architecture, SOA-based."
"The most attractive and beneficial feature is the ease of development."
"It is easy to develop. It has a very wide range of features. The older versions are very stable, and there are no issues with the product."
"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 stability of this solution is excellent."
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution needs to improve it's security and its proactive notification of security issues."
"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."
"The solution is complex and there is a need for more resources and greatly improved quality."
"Some of the runtime properties need to be improved because if you want to load certificates as sales security, you have to restart the server."
"IBM Integration Bus could be easier to manage, but this is true of all vendors. It doesn't always do what it says on the box."
"The memory footprint should be minimized."
"IBM Integration Bus isn't particularly user-friendly and has a big learning curve."
"The product could be improved by including more resources on SQL."
"We'd like to see improvements in product support."
"Our version does not have cloud capabilities."
"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."
"Issues with the support, the fees, and the termination of the professional services are reasons we are looking for other solutions."
"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 solution is very expensive when you use multiple components, it would b better if this could be reduced."
"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."
"The stability of their latest version is not on par with their classic version 5.X."
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IBM Integration Bus is ranked 1st in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 63 reviews while TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is ranked 9th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 12 reviews. IBM Integration Bus is rated 8.0, while TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Integration Bus writes "Scalable solution with efficient integration features". 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 Integration Bus is most compared with Mule ESB, IBM WebSphere Message Broker, Oracle Service Bus, webMethods Integration Server and WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, whereas TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is most compared with Mule ESB, Oracle Service Bus, Red Hat Fuse, IBM DataPower Gateway and Workday Business Process Framework. See our IBM Integration Bus vs. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus report.
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