Avada Software Infrared360 vs PubSub+ Platform comparison

Avada Software and Solace are both solutions in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category. Avada Software is ranked #12, while Solace is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.5. Avada Software holds a 4.7% mindshare in MOM, compared to Solace’s 12.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Avada Software users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Solace users who would recommend it.

Avada Software Infrared360

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Avada Software Infrared360 and PubSub+ Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Avada Software Infrared360

Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

12th

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (70th), Business Activity Monitoring (6th), Server Monitoring (35th)

PubSub+ Platform

Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Message Queue (MQ) Software (8th), Event Monitoring (11th), Streaming Analytics (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category, the mindshare of Avada Software Infrared360 is 4.7%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PubSub+ Platform is 12.7%, down from 16.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
PubSub+ Platform	12.7%
Avada Software Infrared360	4.7%
Other	82.6%

Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

Featured Reviews

Walter Kuhn

ICT Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Role-based access to queues, giving us more insights into problems

* We now have the possibility of getting a central perspective on all tenants. * We have defined access roles for developers. Therefore, they can 'read in' their queues on the development and testing stages. With special roles, they may also write. This improves our development and testing cycle. * For operative systems, we have restricted the access. Still, selected people can react if something is happening in the various BOQs.

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Deepankar Bbhowmick

Integration Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Messaging design has become visual and reliable and now supports fast microservice communication

The unique functions I appreciate about PubSub+ Platform are that it allows me to design my solution in a graphical manner, which is not available in many other products, and the design can also be pushed to the actual infrastructure layer, making it quite advantageous. Mesh technology is useful in scenarios where different geographies have to be connected, although such situations are not commonly found. It is beneficial but not a super-used feature of PubSub+ Platform. The event replay function is quite mature in PubSub+ Platform, allowing me to replay messages that are days in the past, which is a good feature. The main benefits PubSub+ Platform provides for the end-user include building a robust and scalable system with very low network latency, which improves the customer experience, whether using mobile phones or applications. This type of messaging framework is extremely important, and Solace is a very good product in that space. Nowadays, most applications are built using microservices technology, with small microservices interchanging messages via PubSub+ Platform. Without it, realizing a scalable system would not be possible; for example, one cannot have Netflix or similar services that require quick data transit and a good user experience, ensuring that data cannot be lost in transit. The analytics part of PubSub+ Platform is quite useful as it can connect with many analytical software tools, mainly for analysis of system logs, such as Splunk, DataDog, or Prometheus. It has the flexibility to connect with any of these and supports OpenTelemetry, which is not available in many other products, making traceability very easy. I can see how a message travels from a source system to the target system, end-to-end, along with what happens to that message along the path, making the analytics quite good.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Administration, Monitoring, and Delegation are the most valuable features of the solution."

"The ability for development teams to have access to their MQ queues has freed us up as administrators to do things other than chase down an application’s message for research purposes."

"Monitoring that ties into our incident management system"

"We have easily created use case testing harnesses for specific flows that incorporate various message types."

"I highly recommend Infrared360 for an all-in-one IBM MQ tool."

"The administration piece makes it very easy to do MQ administration. It gives us a lot more flexibility and capabilities."

"It has role-based access to queues, giving us more insights into problems."

"One way it's helped the business is how you're able to empower MQ users, without your administrators, to be able to do different types of processes in the environment."

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"This solution reduces the latency to access changes in real-time and the effort required to onboard a new subscriber. It also reduces the maintenance of each of those interfaces because now the publisher and subscribers are decoupled. Event Broker handles all the communication and engagement. We can just push one update, then we don't have to know who is consuming it and what's happening to that publication downstream. It's all done by the broker, which is a huge benefit of using Event Broker."

"The way we can replicate information and send it to several subscribers is most valuable. It can be used for any kind of business where you've got multiple users who need information. Any company, such as LinkedIn, with a huge number of subscribers and any business, such as publishing, supermarket, airline, or shipping can use it."

"Capital markets couldn't operate today if Solace were down."

"When it comes to granularity, you can literally do anything regarding how the filtering works."

"We've built a lot of products into it and it's been quite easy to feed market data onto the systems and put entitlements and controls around that. That was a big win for us when we were consolidating our platforms down. Trying to have one event bus, one messaging bus, for the whole globe, and consolidate everything over time, has been key for us. We've been able to do that through one API, even if it's across the different languages."

"The most useful features has been the WAN optimization and probably the HybridEdge, which requires some third-party adapters or plugins. The idea that we can position Solace as a protocol-agnostic message transport fabric is key to our company having all manners of asynchronous messaging protocols from MQ, Kafka, JMS, etc. I really like the WAN optimization: Send once over a WAN, then distribute locally as many times as there are subscribers."

"One of the main reasons for using PubSub+ is that it is a proper event manager that can handle events in a reactive way."

"The main benefits PubSub+ Platform provides for the end-user include building a robust and scalable system with very low network latency, which improves the customer experience, whether using mobile phones or applications."

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Cons

"One area where they could improve is with their documentation. Some sections are not up to date with new release information and providing additional samples in some areas would be very helpful."

"The UI can be cumbersome - but we are still using the Viper interface and we have not had the time to check out the Alloy interface which is supposed to be much improved."

"The user interface could be sexier and more ergonomic."

"Some of the graphics in the interface could be improved. It's pretty basic. Some interfaces are not up to what you're used to seeing on other, more Windows-like tools."

"The user interface could be sexier and more ergonomic. The competing products have similar problems."

"We are still working with the FTE/MFT subscription monitoring and reporting functionality. That is an area in which we would like to see further development taking place."

"We desire a dashboard that could accumulate BOQ lengths per tenant on one screen for all tenants."

"We definitely need a better overview in terms of a dashboard giving us insights."

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"We have requested to be able to get into the payload to do dynamic topic hierarchy building."

"Potential areas for improvement in PubSub+ Platform are its authentication mechanisms, which could be slightly better."

"The product should allow third-party agents to be installed. Currently, it is quite proprietary."

"It could be cheaper. It could also have easier usage. It is a brilliant product, but it is quite complex to use."

"If you create one event in the past, you cannot resend it."

"I heard that it is quite expensive compared to Kafka."

"The solution could be improved by enhancing the message pooling size for persistent messages to handle both small and large messages effectively."

"Make it open source :-) with limited features so that this is not a barrier for using the technology in some places where they will only use open source technology despite then just paying for support (and paid features) on any used open source technology in the organization, as its a misnomer in my view the amount of large companies claiming to only use open source but then using products that are paid versions with additional features included."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Because the licensing is at the QMGR level, you need to have at least a small cushion of licenses for occasional enterprise needs."

"Start small, then increase licensing later as per your demand."

"Our internal budget calculation model incorporates the pricing per endpoint for any new projects. However, as our footprint for distributed queue managers shrinks as part of our shared middleware hub deployment, the initial licensing and support costs have been reduced over the last five years."

"Avada Software's licensing metric is very good because the license fees are based on the number of connections (which have not increased for us very much over the years) rather than the CPU processing power (which increases significantly whenever our hardware is upgraded) or the number of users (which has increased for us a lot since our original purchase)."

"The licensing is dependent on the volume that is flowing. If you go for their support services, it will cost some more money, but I think it is worth it, especially if you are just starting your journey."

"The pricing and licensing were very transparent and well-communicated by our account manager."

"We are looking for something that will add value and fit for purpose. Freeware is good if you want to try something quickly without putting in much money. However, as far as our decision is concerned, I don't think it helps. At the end of the day, if we are convinced that a capability is required, we will ask for the funding. Then, when the funding is available, we will go for an enterprise solution only."

"It could be cheaper. Its licensing is on a yearly basis."

"The price of PubSub+ Event Broker is reasonable for the capability it offers. However, when compared to others solutions on the market it is expensive."

"There are different tiers where you can choose what would work for you. As a customer, you need to know roughly how many messages a month you will use."

"Having a free version is critical for our technology operations use case. This is primarily because our technology operations team is a cost center in our company. They are not profit drivers and having a free version for installation will probably meet our needs. Even for production, it'll support up to a 100,000 messages per second. I don't think in technology operations that we have that many events and alerts from our detection tools. Even if I have 20 or 30 event detection products out there, they're only going to publish the things which are critical or warnings. I don't think we'll ever reach a 100,000 messages per second."

"We have been really happy with the product licensing rates. It has been free for us, up to a 100,000 transactions per second, and all we have to do is pay for support. Making their product available and accessible to us has not been a problem at all."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Construction Company

12%

Printing Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

22%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Retailer

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	5

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	15

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PubSub+ Event Broker?

Pricing-wise for PubSub+ Platform, I find it a little expensive, so I would rate it at six.

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What needs improvement with PubSub+ Event Broker?

Potential areas for improvement in PubSub+ Platform are its authentication mechanisms, which could be slightly better. While simple authentication using basic methods is easy, moving to more robust...

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PubSub+ Platform is primarily used for guaranteed delivery of messages from across systems, for microservice-based development, and for high-speed data consumption purposes. Guaranteed transmission...

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Also Known As

Infrared360

PubSub+ Event Broker, PubSub+ Event Portal

Overview

Avada Software Infrared360 is a comprehensive monitoring solution designed for businesses to effectively manage their enterprise middleware environments, providing robust support for operational processes.

Avada Software Infrared360 acts as a powerful middleware management tool, offering real-time monitoring and detailed insights into system operations. Designed for seamless integration, it ensures users can troubleshoot and optimize their infrastructure efficiently. With its flexible architecture, users gain centralized control over their middleware systems, making it an invaluable asset for maintaining operational continuity.

What features make Avada Software Infrared360 valuable?

Real-Time Monitoring: Enables live tracking of middleware environments to quickly identify issues.
Centralized Management: Offers a unified platform to oversee all deployments, reducing complexity.
Customizable Dashboards: Allows personalization for enhanced visibility tailored to user needs.
Historical Analytics: Provides data analysis over time to improve system performance and planning.

Which benefits or ROI can users expect from Avada Software Infrared360?

Improved Efficiency: Streamlines operations through centralized and real-time management.
Enhanced Performance: Optimizes system functionality and reduces downtime with immediate issue resolution.
Cost Reduction: Decreases expenses related to managing middleware systems by improving resource allocation.
Scalability: Supports growth by accommodating expanding middleware requirements without significant re-investment.

Avada Software Infrared360 is particularly effective in industries where large-scale middleware management is crucial, such as finance and telecommunications. These sectors benefit from its robust monitoring capabilities and real-time insights, enabling them to maintain high levels of service and operational efficiency.

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PubSub+ Platform is designed for real-time message publishing and outstanding interoperability. With features like intuitive administration and topic filtering, it offers both stability and high performance for scalable deployments across diverse scenarios.

PubSub+ Platform enhances data integration with its event mesh and seamless protocol compatibility, providing a comprehensive solution for organizations tracking shipments, generating reports, and managing transactions. Its granular topic filtering and WAN optimization ensure high utility in event-driven applications and cloud deployments. Users highlight the platform's intuitive administration and ease of management, though some seek improved integration with third-party tools and enhanced observability. Concerns include scalability for large payloads and training resource availability. Despite its interface complexity, PubSub+ remains valuable for trading and market data distribution.

What are the key features of PubSub+ Platform?

Real-time messaging: Facilitates seamless communication across platforms.
Flexible topic hierarchy: Supports dynamic topic taxonomy for efficient data management.
Event mesh: Enhances integration and interoperability with diverse protocols.
Intuitive administration: Simplifies system management and configuration.
WAN optimization: Ensures efficient connectivity for global deployment.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Messaging stability: Offers consistent performance in dynamic environments.
Scalability: Provides seamless expansion to accommodate growing data volumes.
Security: Maintains robust protection for sensitive information.
Support and configuration: Accessible, reliable support, and UI-driven setup streamline the management.

PubSub+ Platform is widely implemented for asynchronous messaging in industries like finance for trading and market data, logistics for shipment tracking, and tech operations management. It enables companies to modernize applications while ensuring data accuracy and efficiency across global systems.

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Sample Customers

USBank, Southwest Airlines, Visiting Nurse Services of New York, Aon Hewitt, Parker Hannifin, Cantonal Bank of Zurich (ZKB), Hagemeyer NA, and many others

FxPro, TP ICAP, Barclays, Airtel, American Express, Cobalt, Legal & General, LSE Group, Akuna Capital, Azure Information Technology, Brand.net, Canadian Securities Exchange, Core Transport Technologies, Crédit Agricole, Fluent Trade Technologies, Harris Corporation, Korea Exchange, Live E!, Mercuria Energy, Myspace, NYSE Technologies, Pico, RBC Capital Markets, Standard Chartered Bank, Unibet

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