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IBM MQ

TIBCO FTL

IBM MQ

Read 30 IBM MQ reviews.

30,258 views|22,252 comparisons

TIBCO FTL

1,090 views|842 comparisons

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Sunil Sahoo

Manager at a financial services firm

We don't lose messages in transit and we can store messages and forward them when required

People have started using the likes of Kafka, Spark and other new messaging technologies. But when you take the likes of banks into consideration,... Read more »

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"The price is high.""There is a different platform price between Windows, z/OS, and iSeries.""IBM products, in general, have high licensing costs and support costs are too high.""Most of our customers are quite happy with the solution but they have an issue with the cost. They want to move to cheaper solutions.""It is a very expensive product compared to the open source products in the market.""It would be a 10 out of 10 if it wasn't so expensive.""It's a very expensive product.""IBM MQ is expensive and they charge based on the CPU."

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What is MQ software? Top Answer: Hi As someone with 45+ years of experience in the Transaction and Message Processing world, I have seen many "MQ" solutions that have come into the market place. From my perspective, while each… more » What do you like most about IBM MQ? Top Answer: The most valuable feature is the stability. It's perfect in this way. Read all 29 answers What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM MQ? Top Answer: Whatever the price is, it's worth it. Read all 16 answers	Ask a question Earn 20 points
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1st out of 16 in Message Oriented Middleware Views 30,258 Comparisons 22,252 Reviews 28 Average Words per Review 539 Rating 8.3	8th out of 16 in Message Oriented Middleware Views 1,090 Comparisons 842 Reviews 0 Average Words per Review 0 Rating N/A
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WebSphere MQ
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Overview
IBM MQ provides the universal messaging backbone for service-oriented architecture (SOA) connectivity. It connects virtually any commercial IT system, whether on premise, in the cloud, or a mixture. For more than 20 years IBM has led the market in messaging middleware and more than 10,000 businesses across all geographies and industries rely on IBM MQ. Visit for your trial here.	TIBCO FTL connects with TIBCO eFTL, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, TIBCO Messaging, Apache Kafka Distribution and TIBCO Messaging, Eclipse Mosquitto Distribution providing one platform to address all inter-application communication needs and receive data from IoT devices via MQTT and publish into Kafka streams. It caters a centralized monitoring and management streamlines an administrator's job. Other features including InfluxDB historical statistics and Grafana dashboards make for maintenance and downtime. TIBCO FTL is cloud-ready with Docker images provided for deployment in the PaaS of your choice for your applications development. It's optimized to leverage the latest advancements in hardware and networking technologies such as 10GbE, RDMA, 40Gb Infiniband and OFED and it uses a content-based filtering for data distribution.
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Sample Customers
Deutsche Bahn, Bon-Ton, WestJet, ARBURG, Northern Territory Government, Tata Steel Europe, Sharp Corporation	Information Not Available
Top Industries
REVIEWERS Financial Services Firm36% Retailer13% Insurance Company12% Healthcare Company7% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company34% Comms Service Provider15% Financial Services Firm13% Media Company6%	VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company41% Financial Services Firm13% Comms Service Provider13% Real Estate/Law Firm5%
Company Size
REVIEWERS Small Business5% Midsize Enterprise9% Large Enterprise85% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Small Business6% Midsize Enterprise5% Large Enterprise89%	No Data Available

IBM MQ is ranked 1st in Message Oriented Middleware with 30 reviews while TIBCO FTL is ranked 8th in Message Oriented Middleware. IBM MQ is rated 8.2, while TIBCO FTL is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of IBM MQ writes "We don't lose messages in transit and we can store messages and forward them when required". On the other hand, IBM MQ is most compared with Apache Kafka, VMware RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ and PubSub+ Event Broker, whereas TIBCO FTL is most compared with TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, TIBCO Rendezvous, TIBCO eFTL and PubSub+ Event Broker.

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