Aurea CX Messenger vs OpenESB comparison

Aurea and OpenESB are both solutions in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category. Aurea is ranked #12 with an average rating of 9.0, while OpenESB is ranked #14. Aurea holds a 0.6% mindshare in E, compared to OpenESB’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Aurea users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of OpenESB users who would recommend it.

Aurea CX Messenger

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 3, 2025

Aurea CX Messenger and OpenESB are competing in the enterprise service bus category. Aurea CX Messenger appears to have the upper hand in support and user satisfaction, while OpenESB is noted for its features and value.

Features: Aurea CX Messenger provides advanced message routing, high reliability, and robust security protocols. OpenESB offers open-source architecture, extensibility, and integration with various middleware solutions. The main difference is in adaptability and resource requirements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Aurea CX Messenger presents a straightforward deployment model with strong customer support and managed services simplifying maintenance. OpenESB requires more configuration and technical expertise for deployment. Its community-driven support could be beneficial for companies with in-house skills.

Pricing and ROI: Aurea CX Messenger involves a higher initial cost but offers compelling ROI due to stability and support. OpenESB, being open-source, has lower upfront costs, appealing for budget-conscious users, though it might lead to higher maintenance costs over time.

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Categories and Ranking

Aurea CX Messenger

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

12th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Activity Monitoring (3rd), Message Queue (MQ) Software (9th), SOA Governance (3rd), Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) (7th)

OpenESB

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

14th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the mindshare of Aurea CX Messenger is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenESB is 1.5%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

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Radhey Rajput

Sr. IT Analyst at NCR Corporation

Lightweight and efficient solution

It's very good and lightweight. But, it does not provide web service communication. But it is excellent for internal connections One valuable feature is the messaging broker. If there is a disruption, it restores the messages. And when the application is running, it delivers all the messages. The…

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PaulPerez

Integration Architect at Pymma consulting

Enables us to define the business process and integrate it with other software

I used to work with Integration Bus. What is interesting is that the two products were made mainly by the same team, but OpenESB is lighter, you can run it on a simple GBM. It's lighter and has quite a few resources, no application server, and no database. This provides you with more intelligence because there is some kind of friction in the routing service, and you can play with that friction to provide some connection policy, like the last deployed policy. For example, if you were to install version one, and afterward, you deployed version two, automatically — if you decided that your connection will be the right deployed connection — you would be routed to the last version. If it doesn't work, you would just need to redeploy version one. Also, there are higher-level concepts, such as the interface of services, which allows you to define your interface and choose the method of implementation, like Java for example. On the other hand, with OpenESB, I am more connected. At the monitoring level, you can trust the level and replay the process, which is interesting, but because you have to store everything on the database, you have a conventional system that makes your system require more resources. The push ability to extract data from the process and then publish it in the data container is very interesting. For example, by using a database like Google's big data analytic search, you can create your own analytics from the data in your process without disturbing the process.

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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

"ESB: Provides all kind of possibilities to resolve business needs. A lot of ready to use services plus custom Java services. I used a lot of them all."

"The solution offers excellent stability."

"The solution is highly scalable, this is very important for us. It can handle a lot of messages."

"The Messenger Broker is a really good feature."

"SDM: User-friendly tool which allows for a seamless approach to performing hotfixes, if required."

"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is very easy to develop. Most of it is graphical, but we also have the option to add any custom call that you need."

"The process-oriented solution allows you to define choreography and orchestration."

"One of the most valuable features is being able to implement business processes while keeping track of the design from BPMN to a BPEL Implementation."

"The core is very stable."

"OpenESB pushes the organization to clearly define service boundaries and interfaces. So it motives the business and the development teams to clearly define their business services and processes they want to implement. OpenESB supports fine and coarse-grain granularity for the services and supports top-down and bottom-up approaches for the services, processes definition, and composition."

Cons

"You should not hurry with upgrades without testing the whole product completely."

"The improvement is that it should be on the cloud and use web services."

"It should include/add more services with the product as per market demand. It should include custom Java services developed by any organization or provide a platform where users/developers can share ideas/custom services, etc."

"I don't know if the last version has the cloud option, but maybe that could be good. That could be something that is included."

"Aurea CX Messenger could improve by making better use of the new APIs"

"The solution needs to improve support for new, more recent protocols on the API."

"Regarding its management, a web console being able to synchronize distributed instances would be great."

"Cloud deployment is weak and needs to be improved."

"The documentation needs to be better."

"The documentation of the product must be improved. It could be tricky to find the right documentation on a topic since the documentation is spread in many places. I advise the new joiner to contact the community to get entry points and additional documentation. Tutorial and Video must be present to take up the product."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"You pay nothing for licensing, because the commercial model is a subscription. Other environments, such as QA and Development, are included in the subscription"

"Much better than Oracle SOA Suite."

"The pricing is not so high."

"The Community Edition is a full product you can use in production, it does not have limitations like other alternatives."

"There are two versions. The first is the community version, which is free and contains the last part of the feature, but if you want to get the Enterprise version, you'll have to pay €60,000 which covers support and two instances on production."

"The cost for the prediction instrument is high because it is charged per instances based on prediction, but the rest of the solution is free."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

16%

Insurance Company

Media Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Hospitality Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Aurea CX Messenger?

The Messenger Broker is a really good feature.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Aurea CX Messenger?

The pricing is not so high. I will rate it a seven out of ten, where one is the lowest and ten is the highest. There are no additional fees to the standard license.

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What needs improvement with Aurea CX Messenger?

The improvement is that it should be on the cloud and use web services because the earlier version is not using web service and cloud functionality. If Aurea could include these features in the fut...

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Also Known As

CX Messenger Enterprise, Aurea Sonic ESB, Aurea Sonic, Aurea Sonic MQ

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Overview

CX Messenger lets your technology keep pace with your business. Aurea’s industry leading Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) lets you adapt and change your infrastructure with plug-and-play speed and ease.

Aurea

OpenESB is a Java-based open-source enterprise service bus. It can be used as a platform for both enterprise application integration and service-oriented architecture. OpenESB allows you to integrate legacy systems, external and internal partners and new development in your Business Process.

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Sample Customers

Heathrow, HomeServe, Paypal, Freedom Mortgage

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