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We performed a comparison between IBM WebSphere Message Broker and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"Performance-wise, this solution is really good.""The solution has good integration.""The documentation, performance, stability and scalability of the tool are valuable.""The most valuable feature of IBM WebSphere Message Broker is the ability to facilitate communication with legacy systems, offering a multitude of great capabilities. For example, if there is a mainframe system in place with a web service serving as the front end. In that case, the solution enables efficient protocol transformations to convert all request payloads into a format that the legacy systems can accept, rendering the integration and transformation processes seamless and highly effective.""The transactions and message queuing are the most valuable features of the solution.""Straightforward development and deployment.""Integration and mapping are easy, which is a major advantage.""It is a scalable solution...The setup is easy."

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"The most valuable features are the monitoring, ease of use, and easy to understand development GUI.""The most valuable feature is that it is a service-oriented architecture, SOA-based.""TIBCO has the platform in terms of speed and ease of use.""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 solution is very stable.""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 technology is really easy to learn.""The most attractive and beneficial feature is the ease of development."

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Cons
"Technical support is very slow and needs to be improved.""Stability and pricing are areas with shortcomings that need improvement.""Technical support is good but they could have a better response time.""The installation configuration is quite difficult.""Today I probably wouldn't go for Message Broker because of the cost structure, support, and the whole ecosystem around IBM.""The solution can add container engines such as docker.""The images and size of the containers are too big and I think that they should be more lightweight.""I know that Message Broker was a very tightly copied product with another IBM product, that is, IBM MQ. I would like to have a little bit more decoupling from the IBM MQ because it should not be a prerequisite for IBM WebSphere Message Broker usage."

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"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.""In the configuration, where we need to customize, it takes more time that we expect it to, ideally.""The initial setup process could be easier.""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.""We'd like to see improvements in product support.""The solution is very expensive when you use multiple components, it would b better if this could be reduced.""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."

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  • "IBM products are generally more stable and have more features, but also come at a greater cost."
  • "The price is very high and it's the main reason that we are searching for alternatives."
  • "This product is more expensive than competing products."
  • "I feel with IBM, when you want certain functions or features, you have to continuously purchase add-ons. There are always additional fees."
  • "The solution is expensive."
  • "The solution is expensive."
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  • "When it comes to cost, TIBCO is much more competitive than a product like Pega."
  • "The licensing cost is a challenge for quite a few customers."
  • "The price is on the higher side. For the same price, if I go to the previous version, I would have got a lot more capacity with similar kinds of features."
  • "Its licensing cost is considerably high as compared to other ESBs."
  • "The biggest issue disadvantage of TIBCO is that it is expensive."
  • "Price-wise, I would say that the product is expensive."
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    Top Answer:It is a scalable solution...The setup is easy.
    Top Answer:The solution is expensive. I give the cost a one out of ten. We pay for an annual license.
    Top Answer:Stability and pricing are areas with shortcomings that need improvement.
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of the solution is that the performance is robust.
    Top Answer: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… more »
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    Also Known As
    WebSphere Message Broker
    ActiveMatrix Service Bus
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    Overview
    WebSphere Message Broker is an enterprise service bus (ESB) providing connectivity and universal data transformation for service-oriented architecture (SOA) and non-SOA environments. It allows businesses of any size to eliminate point-to-point connections and batch processing regardless of platform, protocol or data format.
    TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is a platform for developing, deploying, and managing applications that conform to a service-oriented architecture. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is a lightweight enterprise service bus that helps organizations bridge the mediation gap in their SOA infrastructure. It reduces complexity and increases flexibility and reuse by replacing hard-coded service dependencies with configuration, and can be used to onboard services from a third-party environment or a TIBCO-based infrastructure. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus provides service mediation capabilities to the TIBCO ActiveMatrix SOA platform. Service mediation allows you to adapt to changing requirements for developing mediation flows.
    Sample Customers
    WestJet, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Sharp Corporation, Michelin Tire
    Colonial Life, CTBC Bank, New World Mobility, QUALCOMM, Swisscom Mobile, T-Mobile USA, Tata Teleservices, Telecom Italia
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm27%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Insurance Company9%
    Retailer7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Energy/Utilities Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business20%
    Large Enterprise80%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise75%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise77%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise72%
    Buyer's Guide
    IBM WebSphere Message Broker vs. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about IBM WebSphere Message Broker vs. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    IBM WebSphere Message Broker is ranked 8th in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 11 reviews while TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is ranked 9th in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 12 reviews. IBM WebSphere Message Broker is rated 7.8, while TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM WebSphere Message Broker writes "For new applications that are being onboarded, we engage this tool so the data can flow as required but there's some lag in the GUI". 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 WebSphere Message Broker is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods Integration Server, Mule ESB, IBM DataPower Gateway and IIS, whereas TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Mule ESB, Oracle Service Bus, Red Hat Fuse and Workday Business Process Framework. See our IBM WebSphere Message Broker vs. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus report.

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