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Our users have ranked these solutions according to their valuable features, and discuss which features they like most and why.
You can read user reviews for the Top 5 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Tools to help you decide which solution is best for you.
Users compare and give feedback on Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Tools that they’ve used — based on product reviews, ratings, and comparisons.
#1 webMethods Integration Server
webMethods Integration Server was ranked as PeerSpot’s #1 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Tool of 2021. Our users give webMethods Integration Server an average rating of 8 out of 10.
An IT Manager at a manufacturing company writes, “Its single hybrid-integration platform makes it easy to troubleshoot and quickly resolve issues. Upgrades are complex. Application integrations are offered out-of-the-box, and that is extremely important to us. This is one of the main use cases that we have for it. It is about 60 to 70 percent of the workload in our application today."
PeerSpot user Rully F., Enterprise Architect at PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk., says, “There are three features of Integration Server that are the most valuable. One is the webMethods Designer. That helps our developers develop on their own. It's very intuitive for design. It helps our developers to speed the development of services for the integrations. The second feature is the reliability. Mandiri Bank is the largest bank in Indonesia. That translates it into a humongous volume of transactions that flow down from the channels and go through the Integration Server, and then to the core banking itself. The components of Integration Server need to have 99.999 availability. It needs to be reliable all the time, available, and to be a scalable platform. The third of the highlights of the features of Integration Server is the small footprint for infrastructure. It can run on any commodity hardware, unlike other solutions that need to run on specific hardware.
#2 Mule ESB
Mule ESB was ranked as the #2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Tool of 2021. PeerSpot users give Mule ESB an average rating of 8 out of 10.
A Vice President at a philanthropy firm says Mule ESB “Scaled easily, had good ROI and time to value, and didn't require taking care of the infrastructure. It was pretty fast to develop APIs on this platform, which is something I liked about it. So, the time to value was pretty good."
PeerSpot reviewer Gowtham T., Solutions Architect at a tech services company, mentions, "This tool has exceptional API management and integration connectors in addition to multiple out of the box connectors. The UI is good. From a development perspective, it's pretty easy and pretty intuitive for the developers to work with. We have fresh graduates who have started picking up MuleSoft. Its user interface is pretty intuitive."
Palavesam S., Senior Consultant at a tech services company, comments, “The features that I have found most valuable are that the product is updated regularly and Mule's framework. Overall the performance is good. For our current solution, I think what Mule provides out-of-box is a sufficient product.”
#3 IBM Integration Bus
IBM Integration Bus was ranked as the #3 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Tool of 2021. PeerSpot users give IBM Integration Bus an average rating of 8 out of 10.
Princewill O., Head Banking Application Customization and Reporting at a financial services firm, says, “The feature we find most useful is the ease of development. It provides a variable within our application and it can easily be used across various applications.” In addition, he says, “The solution can scale and the stability is mostly pretty good.”
Richard W., Chief Executive Officer at Responsiv, explains that he is satisfied with the solution because it “Offers secure and consistent data access with resilient communication management.” He also adds, "It allows us to avoid the need for consumers to understand multiple API protocols and security arrangements, and in some circumstances can reduce the impact of systems being unavailable."
Qudrat K., Sr. Manager Software Quality Assurance at UBL, comments that the solution "Promotes the reuse of developed resources to more efficiently consume resources and seamlessly integrates your different applications."
#4 IBM DataPower Gateway
IBM DataPower Gateway was ranked as the #4 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Tool of 2021. PeerSpot users give IBM DataPower Gateway an average rating of 8 out of 10.
An Independent Consultant at a financial services firm says, “its most valuable features include the fact that it's high-speed, its ability to be remotely administered via an API, the fact that it can deal with multiple protocols, and that it's very quick to make changes to the setup.”
PeerSpot user Andile-H., Engineer at a financial services firm, states, "The solution is straightforward and for large organizations, it functions well." He also adds that it has plenty of functionality.
Another reviewer, a Business & Integration Arch Manager at a tech services company, comments, "I like that it is very stable, and we never experience any downtime."
#5 Red Hat Fuse
Red Hat Fuse was ranked as the #5 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Tool of 2021. PeerSpot users give Red Hat Fuse an average rating of 8 out of 10.
A Manager at a energy/utilities company says, "More than a feature, I would say that the reliability of the platform is the most valuable aspect. We have several servers and it is highly resilient, it is always available, and it requires very little maintenance. Of course, when something doesn't work, it's highly complicated. Because of the nature of the applications that we interface with, the product is highly complex but it's highly reliable as well. This is why we keep using it.”
Awais O., Senior Integration Engineer at Systems Limited, explains, “Red Hat Fuse is an ESB. The most important feature of any ESB is its connectivity to diverse systems or endpoints. This is one of the key features that every ESB provides. We can expose APIs and consume them. Red Hat Fuse incorporates all the latest ESB features.”
