Fiorano ESB vs OpenESB comparison

Fiorano and OpenESB are both solutions in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category. Fiorano is ranked #10 with an average rating of 10.0, while OpenESB is ranked #14. Fiorano holds a 1.2% mindshare in E, compared to OpenESB’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Fiorano users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of OpenESB users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 3, 2025

Fiorano ESB and OpenESB are competing products in the Enterprise Service Bus market. Despite Fiorano's strengths, OpenESB seems to have the upper hand with its robust features.

Features: Fiorano ESB offers comprehensive development tools, adaptability across platforms, and seamless integration with diverse applications. OpenESB provides open-source flexibility, extensive customization options, and strong integration capabilities for custom solutions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Fiorano ESB has a straightforward deployment model with robust customer support. OpenESB, more complex in deployment due to its open-source nature, offers substantial documentation and community support.

Pricing and ROI: Fiorano ESB typically has a higher initial setup cost with a significant ROI. OpenESB offers a lower-cost alternative as an open-source solution, yielding high ROI with optimal deployment and customization.

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Categories and Ranking

Fiorano ESB

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

10th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

8.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

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 Fiorano ESB is 1.2%, down from 1.2% 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.

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it_user696684

Director Of Information Systems at a transportation company with 51-200 employees

Amazing what you can do with JavaScript and other scripting languages within Fiorano.

1) Ease of use 2) Little to no development needed 3) Robust micro adapters - all that i need is there 4) Easily add features with .jar files 5) Easily add features with .net 6) Amazing what you can do with JavaScript and other scripting languages within Fiorano 7) Product logging and debug features 8) Stablity - up 24x7 with no issues 9) Amazing support

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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

"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 platform's most valuable feature is data transformation."

"The ability to compliment out-of-the-box integration components with small custom code."

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

"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."

"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."

Cons

"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."

"Fiorano ESB's logging feature and data availability need improvement."

"Error logging is not very user-friendly. It requires the error logging to be configured in many different places."

"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."

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the product's pricing a five out of ten."

"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."

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

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Fiorano ESB?

The platform's most valuable feature is data transformation.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fiorano ESB?

I rate the product's pricing a five out of ten.

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What needs improvement with Fiorano ESB?

Fiorano ESB's logging feature and data availability need improvement.

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Overview

The Fiorano ESB implements a brokered, peer-to-peer (often referred to as super peer) system architecture, which combines the management benefits of centralized hub-and-spoke systems with the performance benefits of fully distributed peer-to-peer systems, while avoiding the particular disadvantages of both of these individual approaches.

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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

Polaris Transport, Harris Exelis, Aboitiz Power, Dyckerhoff AG, Gamma-Dynacare, DHL, Bajaj Finserv, Ecole hételire 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

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