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BMC AMI DevX vs IBM App Connect comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
1.0
BMC AMI DevX boosted efficiency, halving project time, reducing errors, and saving a day weekly in programming efforts.
Sentiment score
7.3
IBM App Connect enhances ROI by reducing resource needs and managing complex operations, requiring skilled practitioners for optimal results.
IBM App Connect definitely saves significant time, approximately 50 to 60%.
Senior QA Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.7
BMC AMI DevX support is responsive and effective, though complex issues may need more experienced staff for resolution.
Sentiment score
6.7
IBM App Connect's 24/7 support offers timely help, though complex issues need escalation and response times could improve.
Every time I open a case, I get an immediate response.
Devops Engineer / Ispw Admin at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
When opening a ticket with the global team, problems are resolved promptly and effectively.
Team Leader, Software Development at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
The customer support is available 24/7.
Senior QA Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The technical support from IBM is good.
Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.8
BMC AMI DevX offers superior scalability and functionality, praised for global use and efficient access by various-sized companies.
Sentiment score
7.5
IBM App Connect excels in cloud scalability, notably in Kubernetes, though costs and larger payloads can challenge Hypervisor Edition.
BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline runs on one LPAR, and no matter where someone is in the world, they have to use it on that LPAR.
Devops Engineer / Ispw Admin at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
IBM App Connect demonstrates good scalability.
Team Leader, Software Development at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
I would rate the scalability of IBM App Connect as nine out of ten.
Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
IBM App Connect is very scalable and a flexible tool.
Senior QA Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.5
BMC AMI DevX is highly stable post-configuration, though occasional issues arise with new releases and frequent updates.
Sentiment score
7.6
IBM App Connect is praised for stability, with issues mostly in complex cases and quick responses to reported problems.
IBM App Connect occasionally crashes for various reasons, requiring problem-solving intervention.
Team Leader, Software Development at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
 

Room For Improvement

BMC AMI DevX users want improved vendor collaboration, compatibility, user interface, tutorials, and better disaster recovery and installation simplification.
IBM App Connect needs improvements in logging, interface, integrations, setup, cost, security, debugging, observability, and reliability.
I have to put my cursor on the field and tap it to bring focus there, or use the tab key multiple times to get to a field on the screen.
Devops Engineer / Ispw Admin at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
Pricing and licensing clarity is important because the licensing is complex and can slow down adoption and planning.
Senior QA Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I find it particularly good for on-premises and now cloud use.
Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Version 13 includes around 200 features with cloud platform compatibility.
Team Leader, Software Development at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
 

Setup Cost

BMC AMI DevX pricing is competitive, particularly with Topaz Workbench included, though confusion arises with certain licensed features.
IBM App Connect is costly but valued by enterprises for quality; licensing complexities require expertise and allow for discounts.
For insurance companies with simple JDBC connections, the process is straightforward.
Team Leader, Software Development at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
 

Valuable Features

BMC AMI DevX provides developer collaboration, code management, cloud access, visual tools, and Agile support, enhancing development efficiency.
IBM App Connect offers easy integration with minimal coding, pre-built adapters, security, scalability, rapid deployment, and flexible integration.
They can back out the entire deployment set, which handles everything and brings them back to the previous versions.
Devops Engineer / Ispw Admin at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
Overall, 50 to 60% of the time is saved when using IBM App Connect.
Senior QA Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The features I find most valuable are message routing, message transformation, and protocol translation.
Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The transformation capabilities in IBM App Connect are particularly beneficial.
Team Leader, Software Development at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

BMC AMI DevX
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Software Configuration Management (1st), Debugging (6th), Database Development and Management (16th), Mainframe Application Development (1st), Test Data Management (5th), Mainframe Testing Tools (1st), Data Masking (4th), AI Software Development (217th)
IBM App Connect
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (13th)
 

Featured Reviews

FI
Devops Engineer / Ispw Admin at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
Tight deployment controls have secured production and simplified complex release rollbacks
The best feature of BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline that impresses me is the fallback functionality. The fallback functionality impresses me because when developers deploy large releases involving multiple components, such as COBOL programs, underlying copy books, and CICS modules, backing out changes would typically become a nightmare. With ISPW, developers can back out the entire release or entire package. If they deployed 100 components and want to back out everything, they can do so with one function and back out all components without worrying about backing out each individual component. They can back out the entire deployment set, which handles everything and brings them back to the previous versions. Developers can also selectively back out a subset of the deployed components. They also have the ability to revert to not just the most previous version but can go back several versions if they choose to do so. This gives them a lot of flexibility.
Nirav Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior QA Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Cloud workflows have accelerated integrations and now demand better debugging and DevOps support
IBM App Connect provides many features, but there are several areas for improvement. Better debugging and observability would help us track any single transaction end-to-end across steps and connectors. Features such as a step-by-step line view and one-click download for flow execution would be beneficial. Improved CI/CD pipeline and GitOps experience would be valuable. The team wants flows as code and predictable promotion across development, test, and production environments. Stronger native Git integration, export-import functionalities, and first-class pipeline templates like Jenkins, GitHub, and Azure DevOps would be beneficial. More cloud-native, lightweight runtime options would be very helpful. Connector reliability and consistency need improvement because some connectors feel more mature than others, and version changes can break mapping. Pricing and licensing clarity is important because the licensing is complex and can slow down adoption and planning. Some improvement areas include handling very complex structures that the platform currently does not support. Improvements on the DevOps side, particularly providing templates, would be beneficial. The platform is somewhat expensive and hard to predict in terms of cost. Debugging features need to be provided. For CI/CD, the flows are not truly accurate and need improvement.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
33%
Insurance Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Computer Software Company
9%
Retailer
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise16
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise21
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your primary use case for BMC Compuware Topaz Enterprise Data?
We do development for our customers and we use Topaz to do backend systems for some Latin American banks. It's for enterprise data. It runs on AWS. I'm working on performance testing to do batch pe...
What do you like most about IBM App Connect?
I like the adapters. The adapters help us achieve scalability. If you want to connect to SAP, there's an adapter. Salesforce? There's an adapter. You want to connect to another system? There's like...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM App Connect?
Configuration time varies by implementation. For insurance companies with simple JDBC connections, the process is straightforward. However, companies requiring multiple configurations for ODBC, JDB...
What is your primary use case for IBM App Connect?
IBM App Connect serves as our integration platform, allowing us to connect application systems and data without heavy load or heavy coding. In my current organization, we use the AWS cloud, and IBM...
 

Also Known As

File-AID, Data for Db2, Code Debug, Data Studio, Workbench for Eclipse, Code Pipeline
IBM Cast Iron
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Helvetia, The IMT Group, Hapag-Lloyd, Royal Bank of Canada, Chunghwa Telecom
United Way of Allegheny County, Saint-Gobain CPS, Ricoh, SunTrust Banks Inc.
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