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Fiorano ESB vs IBM Integration Bus comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 3, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Fiorano ESB
Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
12th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.1
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Integration Bus
Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
70
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the mindshare of Fiorano ESB is 3.3%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Integration Bus is 16.1%, down from 21.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Integration Bus16.1%
Fiorano ESB3.3%
Other80.6%
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer987933 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr.Manager - Programming and software development at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scalable and easy to maintain
One of the most valuable features is the scalability. Whenever it's required, we can add more servers and scale. We can actually use specific servers for specific stuff. Unlike in other solutions, now we can implement one server purely dedicated to core-banking-related API. This is very important when it comes to the PCI DSS certification.
RA
Associate Consultant at MindCraft Software Pvt. Ltd.
Efficient data transformation and seamless integration drive successful deployments
As for improvements in IBM Integration Bus, we are getting another feature of the retry mechanism now. Version 8.13 was upgraded, and we started using the retry mechanism itself, and we are using nodes in the development level. They are improving one of the nodes such as the HTTP request node, implementing the indirect retry mechanism itself, and we are getting new features.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Fiorano offers multiple adaptors for various interface languages, making it easy to cater to a variety of interfaces."
"The ability to compliment out-of-the-box integration components with small custom code."
"Fully functional interfaces and web services are up in hours, not days, so we spend more time designing XSD than setting up the service."
"The platform's most valuable feature is data transformation."
"It has vastly improved the speed of delivery for custom integrations."
"One of the most valuable features is the scalability. Whenever it's required, we can add more servers and scale. We can actually use specific servers for specific stuff. Unlike in other solutions, now we can implement one server purely dedicated to core-banking-related API. This is very important when it comes to the PCI DSS certification."
"The solution is stable and can scale relatively easily."
"We use IBM Integration Bus for document conversions."
"The error handling and monitoring functionalities of IBM Integration Bus are very good."
"IBM Integration Bus's best feature is integration."
"IBM Integration Bus' most valuable features are its performance, fast and easy development, and easy support."
"IBM Integration Bus is a very strong tool."
"The solution's features are all quite useful. We use all of them."
"We can easily and quickly create and integrate applications with the help of built-in nodes, so we are no longer required to create our own code and development is mostly just drag and drop, making deployment much easier now."
 

Cons

"Fiorano ESB's logging feature and data availability need improvement."
"Fiorano ESB could be improved by becoming more user-friendly."
"Error descriptions are not user friendly."
"Fiorano ESB could be improved by becoming more user-friendly. Most of the pages and generated reports on API usage are already there, but they could be more user-friendly. There could be more selections added to generate reports. Overall, though, Fiorano suits all our needs and has good functionality."
"Error logging is not very user-friendly. It requires the error logging to be configured in many different places."
"IBM could improve its connectivity."
"IBM does not support orchestration, which is how they designed it, and other BPM tools in the market support orchestration. If they merged the BPM capability into this product, then it would be a better solution."
"I would like to be able to run and install this solution on different platforms and using containers and using modern micro-service and cloud environments."
"I don't mind the pricing."
"We have come across many customer complaints about the excessive time it takes for IBM to provide customer and technical support."
"Current aggregation implementation should be deprecated. MQ independent, as well as an intuitive solution, should be proposed."
"I contacted technical support, but I wasn't able to get the correct answer. I feel I wasn't given a good response."
"The next versions are moving toward container use. It would be a shame to make the product highly complex just to support one pattern of deployment. It is my hope that IBM continues to focus on practical functionality that is simple and cost-effective."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the product's pricing a five out of ten."
"Support costs are high compared to the competition. Otherwise, the support is good."
"For small companies, First of all, there are a lot of free products that could be used for integration. It can use the cloud or new implementation in the past. But if the tool is IBM, the official box in your company, you can make your submission and also publish the cloud to the work file. But let’s say, if you are working with premises, then you have to buy a reasonable main full support and gain experience with your product."
"The price of the IBM Integration Bus is expensive. If you compare the price to the cloud version you can purchase what you need but the on-premise version price is flat."
"The pricing of the solution is high."
"The licensing model of IBM Integration Bus is good. It's a yearly subscription. However, the price is depending on the model that you choose. If it's a Cloud version, then you can pay per month or you can pay it annually upfront. There are three-year options available, but it depends on what deployment you have."
"As customers, we always try to buy things as cheaply as possible. But the price for the IBM Integration Bus is fine. When we compare it to competitors, it's pretty much the same. However, there are a lot of open-source integration platforms coming to the market as well. So overall, the price is fine as far as licensed products are concerned."
"IBM provides a quite complicated licensing model."
"Our licensing is based on a five-year contract, and as far as I know, there are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fee."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
25%
Construction Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise47
 

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IBM WebSphere ESB
 

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Sample Customers

Polaris Transport, Harris Exelis, Aboitiz Power, Dyckerhoff AG, Gamma-Dynacare, DHL, Bajaj Finserv, Ecole hételire de Lausanne, Northern California Power Agency, Federal Bank, Commercial Bank of Africa, EasyPay, SSP, General American Corporation, Forex, Beijing Shubei Software Technology, City of Canton, Kent County Council, SJS District, County of Tulare, US Coast Guard, ZUNYI, Fraikin, Nilkamal, Posco, Toyota, UB Group
Salesbox, €sterreichische Bundesbahnen (€BB), Road Buddy, Swiss Federal Railways, Electricity Supply Board, The Hartree Centre, ESB Networks
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