IBM B2B Integrator Stability

AS
Software Developer at a wholesaler/distributor with 201-500 employees

The solution is pretty stable. 

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TT
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

B2B Integrator's stability is rock-solid. It never goes down. It's one of the bank's most prized uptime software products.

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AK
Global EDI Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It has a good range of tuning possibilities. If the capacity is designed correctly, it's very stable.

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SK
Owner

The product is very stable. I rate its stability a nine out of ten.

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Sabarish Sabarish - PeerSpot reviewer
Electronic Data Interchange Developer at Blume Global

Even though I don't have much experience with other integration tools, the stability of the IBM B2B Integrator is pretty good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution between six and a half to seven out of ten since it can be better.

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PK
Integration Lead / B2b Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The solution is stable. 

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AliChouman - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Sales Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

IBM B2B Integrator is a reliable solution.

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Michele Illiano - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Division at Innovery

The solution is generally stable. When it's not, this is usually not related to the product. It may be that there are some database issues.

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AT
Sr. Application Developer at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

We have not experienced any major issues in terms of the stability. There is continuous support that we receive from IBM.

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it_user631776 - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Architect at Delphi

It's very stable, but it's got its quirks. For example, all the file-based data is stored in a database.

There is an option for a user file system, but the recommended approach by IBM is primarily to use a database to store all the file data. This is not an optimum way to do things. We're already running into a lot of database space issues, in archiving, etc. But, again, that is implementation criteria.

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it_user632787 - PeerSpot reviewer
B2B Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

I think it's very stable. I don't really have a lot of issues.

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it_user631752 - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We never had any major stability issues, to be frank. We had only one issue that was more in the infrastructure, but the system has been stable for a pretty long time. We haven't had a need to upgrade the system because it was that stable. The only issue is that in the current version that we are on, one of the security features is not available. In order to get new features that are available, we are thinking about upgrading. But, other than that, from the stability standpoint, it's pretty stable; no issues at all.

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it_user634863 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Out of 10, I would give stability a seven, only because I think in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, there are still some bugs. We have a secure proxy, perimeter servers, IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and the File Gateway. When you do full restarts for refreshes or maintenance, when you bring them back up, you can't do an SI restart cleanly without also doing the proxy. You have to do everything as kind of a package restart. Otherwise, you'll get some crazy things happening with the adapters. Now, that is on a 5.2.5 version. We're going to go to 5.2.6 in a couple months here. We’re hoping they eliminate that and we have our IBM lab advocate that works closely with us to address our concerns.

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it_user631713 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's pretty stable. We generally don't apply the latest patches and the latest versions as they come out. We give it some time before we go ahead and install it, because the general IBM tendency has been to follow a version with a couple of hot fixes on top of it. In the past, we have had issues when we did upgrade to the latest version.

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SR
Senior Software Solution Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's a very tested and proven solution. If you're talking about that product portfolio-wise, product-wise, it's quite reliable. We can see in the Gartner Quadrant Table that IBM is always well-positioned. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.

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it_user631743 - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Techinical Lead at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product is very stable. We use version 5.2. We used 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 as well. It was previously Gentran Integration Suite and then it was branded as IBM Sterling B2B Integrator. Version 5.2 is stable.

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it_user631728 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at First Citizens

We have had no issues with stability.

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VP
Integration Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I would rate B2B Integrator eight out of 10 for performance but 10 out of 10 for stability. 

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NR
Solution Architect at O.C. Tanner

The stability of the solution totally depends upon a company and as to what they are looking at the moment. Right now, we are looking at the Sterling B2B solution, so it is good.

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it_user634824 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior B2B Professional at Sea Level Solutions

The stability is unbelievably good and we have a Sterling hotline for all of our Sterling questions. They're very responsive. IBM is a little bit of a cumbersome thing in front of it, but we know how to get out around that and it works out very well. What happens is a customer that spends $1,000,000 in their budget, they get support all the time as they need it and the company itself doesn't have to be technically savvy. All they need to do is interface with our company, Sea Level Solutions, and they have everything they need to keep business running.

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it_user634797 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This product has been in the marketplace for such a long time. The current version, 5.24, has been very stable for the last year and a half. The 5.26 version is a very simple upgrade.

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it_user634887 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Account Executive at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

It is mostly stable, depending on certain factors as there are a lot of different components. Some platforms are stable; all in all, I don't see any recent issues with stability.

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MV
Dev Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Stability is still not where it's supposed to be. There is always a challenge when we upgrade things and improve on new versions.

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it_user634851 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Application Development at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The stability is good. We have experienced some issues with unexpected downtime from IBM Sterling. So for the most part it is good, but we have seen interruptions.

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it_user631734 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at First Citizens Bank

It's very stable, it is a good product that you can have.

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JM
Subject Matter Expert at HCL

It's pretty stable.

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JB
Director at LFL Corp

It's kind of always on and hasn't given us any grief in terms of downtime and five nines plus, and online capability.

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VV
Applications Integration Analyst at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is a pretty stable solution.

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it_user213024 - PeerSpot reviewer
President and CEO at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Stability is good.

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it_user632661 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Manager at Garanti Bank

Stability is good because we are using the high availability mode. We are using two SFG (Sterling File Gateway) nodes. They are clusters in an active-active configuration, and we don't have any interruptions. The only bottleneck is in the database part and we are working to do something about it by speaking with IBM to see how we can solve this problem.

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it_user634812 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal IT Program Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

It is more than 90% stable. I haven't seen it slowing down or crashing, or any of those types kind of things.

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it_user632793 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect

Stability is something that we're working on. It's a brand new system. It's a debut system, and we have one tenant on board. We are planning to bring in 15 more tenants. So, this is not something that was introduced a long time ago. The stability is great right now. We are working with IBM to size our system and extrapolate our needs for the next five years. As of now, the stability is good, but we are looking for better and a highly scaled system in the near future.

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it_user632721 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did experience stability issues. That part I'm not too happy about. I think we need to work on it. Sometimes it is slow, so we had to kind of clean out the database. We are trying to look more into that.

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it_user634803 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Enterprise Architecture at PSCU

The stability has been fine in our ecosystem. We could have done the deployment implementation a little differently because we have two sites.

We should have had two sites up and running. That deployment was a little lacking. I think we probably could have fostered something a little better.

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it_user631692 - PeerSpot reviewer
B2Bi EDI/MFT Technical Lead at Bridgestone america

I've been using it since 1994-95, starting out with Gentran:Server. It's been around forever and it's very stable, very portable, very flexible.

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Mohamed Jaffar - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead at MOL-IT India Pvt. Ltd.

It's a stable solution. The stability is the best part.

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it_user634869 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I think it's pretty stable. It needs some additional things like visibility. That's why we look to partners who provide that kind of visibility. That is something that could be changed.

The product is stable. There are some things that they can do to enhance it, to make it a little bit more stable in terms of visibility of transactions.

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GB
General Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The solution is very stable for us. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. the performance has been reliable. 

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UR
SAP Integrations (Cloud & On-Prem) & API Technical Solutions Consultant at B2BInfosys.com

The stability of IBM products is better than other vendors.

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Buyer's Guide
IBM B2B Integrator
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about IBM B2B Integrator. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,847 professionals have used our research since 2012.