Atos DirX Directory vs IBM WebSphere Message Broker comparison

Atos and IBM are both solutions in the Application Infrastructure category. Atos is ranked #25, while IBM is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.0. Atos holds a 0.6% mindshare in AIS, compared to IBM’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of Atos users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 84% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Atos DirX Directory

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84% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

IBM WebSphere Message Broker and Atos DirX Directory compete in enterprise software, with IBM often having the advantage in integration capabilities and Atos excelling in security and identity management.

Features: IBM WebSphere Message Broker focuses on data transformation, message routing, and supporting multiple protocols for high-volume data throughput. It is designed for complex system integrations across platforms. Atos DirX Directory offers powerful identity management features, secure handling, and efficient directory service operations with a detailed focus on security and adaptability in directory services.

Room for Improvement: IBM WebSphere Message Broker could improve user-friendliness, simplify its complex interface, and enhance out-of-the-box scalability options. Atos DirX Directory might benefit from expanding protocol support, simplifying its customization process, and providing more comprehensive cloud integration capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Atos DirX Directory provides straightforward deployment and strong support services for efficient setup and operation. IBM WebSphere Message Broker offers comprehensive deployment options but may require more technical expertise and has a more complex support structure.

Pricing and ROI: IBM WebSphere Message Broker typically involves higher setup costs but can offer substantial long-term ROI with proper implementation due to its robust capabilities. Atos DirX Directory generally has a lower upfront cost, with ROI driven by its efficient identity management, emphasizing security efficiency over integration breadth.

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Categories and Ranking

Atos DirX Directory

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

25th

Average Rating

6.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM WebSphere Message Broker

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

16th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of Atos DirX Directory is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM WebSphere Message Broker is 1.9%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Kleber Fernandes

Diretor Comercial at a security firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

An identity management system with valuable knowledge

We use Atos DirX Directory for cybersecurity with Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solutions Atos DirX Directory helps take care of attacks and manage responses. It also has artificial intelligence to mitigate any attack. The most valuable feature is its knowledge. The price could be…

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BrajendraKumar

Technical Architect at HCL Technologies

Offers large-sized business information processing with a time-saving setup and impressive stability

I primarily use two previews of the product for Dev and two for QA as part of the production process. Whatever tools our company is using, the cost of a license in IBM WebSphere Message Broker is about 80% of all these software or tools. The message routing capabilities satisfy workflow efficiency. The product supports message formats of XML, JSON, and SSID, which are around 24 KB to 50 KB in size. The solution supports communication protocols like STTP and TCP. Features like DataGraph need to be introduced in IBM WebSphere Message Broker. Some of the clients of our organization are using an outdated version of IBM WebSphere Message Broker for which the vendor doesn't provide direct support anymore. For the aforementioned version, our company professionals can solve the queries on their own without seeking support from IBM. During the installation of a prior version of IBM WebSphere Message Broker, sometimes I have to configure the failovers through the cluster, where issues arise, and I often seek help from the support team. The solution is being used by some medicine companies in our organization that receive sales orders from the EDR or JDE. I would not recommend the product to others as its becoming obsolete and they can rather choose a middleware solution from Amazon or Azure. But I would overall rate the product a nine out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The role and attribute-based access control has been greatly improved."

"The most valuable feature is its knowledge."

"The solution offers high performance."

"DirX Directory is the best feature of the product: a very fast, stable LDAP directory."

"The solution has good integration."

"Integration and mapping are easy, which is a major advantage."

"IBM WebSphere Message Broker is one of the best middleware solutions"

"Performance-wise, this solution is really good."

"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."

"It has many interfaces and you can connect to any backend source that has another format, and convert it to the desired format."

"The documentation, performance, stability and scalability of the tool are valuable."

"Message Broker is valuable because most of the applications are using MQ. Even in my current engagement, the few applications which I audit to onboard the bank are using MQ."

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Cons

"An overall modernization of the product is required in order to keep up with newer products."

"The Self-Service Portal is old school and it lacks easy accessibility for users."

"The user interface could be more convenient for people that don't know the tool too intensively."

"The price could be better. It would be better if they developed a better endpoint solution in the next release."

"Needs more available consultants and implementation partners."

"It is currently a weighty product."

"There is some lag in the GUI. There have been some performance issues and maybe it's because of the application data."

"The user interface is designed mainly for experts, much in the way a BPM or another integration tool is."

"As our business requirements evolve, we require more dynamic capabilities to adapt and scale our services accordingly."

"The solution can add container engines such as docker."

"Stability and pricing are areas with shortcomings that need improvement."

"Technical support is good but they could have a better response time."

"The images and size of the containers are too big and I think that they should be more lightweight."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price could be better."

"IBM products are generally more stable and have more features, but also come at a greater cost."

"The licensing cost of IBM WebSphere Message Broker needs to be reduced"

"I feel with IBM, when you want certain functions or features, you have to continuously purchase add-ons. There are always additional fees."

"The price is very high and it's the main reason that we are searching for alternatives."

"IBM software can be costly, but having a contract has helped manage and potentially lower costs over time."

"This product is more expensive than competing products."

"The solution is expensive."

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Also Known As

DirX Directory

WebSphere Message Broker

Overview

DirX Directory is a standards-compliant, high-performance, highly available, reliable and secure Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and X.500 directory server. It offers unlimited scalability with outstanding read and write performance.

Atos

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.

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