IBM App Connect vs Rivery comparison

IBM and Rivery are both solutions in the Cloud Data Integration category. IBM is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.3, while Rivery is ranked #19 with an average rating of 8.0. IBM holds a 3.6% mindshare in CDI, compared to Rivery’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Rivery users who would recommend it.

IBM App Connect

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100% willing to recommend

IBM App Connect

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

IBM App Connect and Rivery compete in the data integration space. While IBM App Connect offers competitive pricing, Rivery is favored for its advanced features.

Features: IBM App Connect offers seamless integration of cloud and on-premise applications, automation capabilities for optimizing workflows, and comprehensive integration across multiple systems. Rivery provides data pipeline management, supports real-time solutions for modern data infrastructure, and offers effective transformation and scalability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM App Connect ensures a straightforward deployment with a strong support structure for enterprise integration. Rivery focuses on rapid, intuitive deployment and maintains responsive customer service, emphasizing user-friendly operations.

Pricing and ROI: IBM App Connect is cost-effective, offering competitive pricing with focus on long-term ROI through effective integration. Rivery, with a higher initial cost, delivers substantial ROI driven by its feature-rich, tailored pipeline solutions and operational efficiencies.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

IBM App Connect

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

13th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Rivery

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

19th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (35th), Migration Tools (3rd), Cloud Migration (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of IBM App Connect is 3.6%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rivery is 1.1%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IBM App Connect	3.6%
Rivery	1.1%
Other	95.3%

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Emirhan Guven

Team Leader, Software Development at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

Transforms data efficiently and navigates licensing challenges with ease

The transition between version 12 and version 13 presents some challenges. While version 12 had approximately 10 features, version 13 includes around 200 features with cloud platform compatibility. The learning curve for developers moving from version 12 to 13 could be smoother. When using new components, better context explanations would be beneficial. In version 13, accessing new features requires connecting through a web browser, which can be challenging to understand. The explanation of new features could be more user-friendly.

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Doron Matmoni

Manager, Application at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees

Data pipelines have become streamlined and now connect diverse sources with strong support

How Rivery can be improved is a challenging question, but I think something with the graphics could be better because when there is a lot of code inside, it needs to be more user-friendly. I am not talking about the source-to-target, but when we implement a lot of code, you need a different visual of how you use it, such as what you see in DBT. There is a problem where sometimes I run a river and something in the UI does not get refreshed because I think of browser cache limits, which is annoying. I always need to refresh, and then I am not sure, so I have to go inside the river and look in the log to see if it has finished or not, which takes my time. At the end of the day, when I am running the river, I need it to be done before I go to the next step. Something in the UI could work more smoothly to show it easily. I am not sure why it happens, and I am not sure if there is a solution for it, but if it could be more clear, that would be very nice, such as sending an email once the river is really done.

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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

"It has an efficient design flow."

"The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."

"There is a friendly interface for configuration, and integration is made easy."

"It's a powerful application for collaboration. It has many features for customization and integration."

"The solution is very fast-paced when it comes to making things right. We can quickly download what we need if we need any app migrations for our software business. We can download it plenty of times when we need to use it. It gives us very high speed for delivering any development."

"It's stable to use, connect with the cloud, and to deploy."

"When using IBM stacks, IBM App Connect is suitable and integrates well with other IBM products like WebSphere."

"The most valuable feature is the security."

More IBM App Connect pros

"Rivery has positively impacted my organization by enabling us to create a stable pipeline, and we can expand the variety of the data sources as we go very easily, with no worries, and with a lot of confidence in the fact that it can be done."

"Rivery has positively impacted my organization by helping me streamline my data ingestion and transformation processes, especially in combination with Snowflake."

"Connects to many APIs in the market and new ones are being added all the time."

"The solution's most valuable features are that it is quick to connect and simple to use."

Cons

"The setup time for App Connect could be improved."

"The product should improve its support."

"IBM App Connect is scalable. From the administration side, they need to improve the RBAC model, as well as the clustering of this product. It will be good if we can start up the cluster, via IBM Connect Console. Some other products like MuleSoft, are providing this type of administration. MuleSoft is easy to use and user friendly."

"In the next release, I would like to get some quality connectors."

"IBM App Connect occasionally crashes for various reasons, requiring problem-solving intervention."

"Updates are constantly delayed."

"Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find."

"The addition of string functionality would be a benefit, particularly in the ESQL space that IBM already uses internally."

More IBM App Connect cons

"Lineage and an impact analysis or logic dependency are lacking."

"Pricing is a little steep for smaller organizations, I would say. The product's pricing model could be a little bit better."

"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was unfortunately not so good in my recent data project."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price could be better."

"It is very expensive if we want to scale."

"The cost depends upon the consumer."

"The licensing cost for IBM App Connect is very high."

"The solution's pricing isn't cheap, but you can get good discounts based on your competitive deal."

"Initially, App Connect was quite expensive because the cost was based on the number of processors we used. However, it's now based on containers, which means we can be more specific about our consumption and get a better price."

"IBM App Connect's pricing is high compared to other products."

"App Connect is not cheap."

"I rate the tool's price as six out of ten if I consider the lowest price to be one and the highest price to be ten."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

11%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	21

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Questions from the Community

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...

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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...

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What is your primary use case for IBM App Connect?

I am a developer specializing in IBM App Connect. We have a customer interested in comparing ESB tools, such as webMethods, which was previously owned by Software AG company before IBM acquired the...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rivery?

The tool's price can be a little steep for a small organization. I rate the tool's price as six out of ten if I consider the lowest price to be one and the highest price to be ten.

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What needs improvement with Rivery?

I don't know what could be improved in terms of what my company was used to previously or after moving over to Rivery. I have not had much experience with platforms other than Rivery. For me, Rival...

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What is your primary use case for Rivery?

My company has started to use the Rivery extract data from Hive. It is like a project management sort of program, and we started to use Rivery to get the data from there over into Mavenlink, so we ...

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Overview

Rapidly connect public clouds, private clouds and on-premises application

App Connect Professional is IBM’s cloud integration offering which delivers an integration solution
• With ease-of-use, flexibility and increased responsiveness to the evolving business needs, while removing the daunting complexities of integration.
• Provides the powerful combination of a ‘simple integration experience’ for business users looking to automate how their applications talk to each other; coupled with a ‘configuration based integration’ approach for IT.
• App Connect Professional is for the teams and integration developers who need to solve more complex problems and need powerful tooling for integration scenarios

IBM

Rivery is a serverless, SaaS DataOps platform that empowers companies of all sizes around the world to consolidate, orchestrate, and manage internal and external data sources with ease and efficiency.

By offering comprehensive data solutions and partnering with complementary technology providers, including Google, Snowflake, Tableau, and Looker, Rivery enables data-driven companies to build the perfect ecosystems for all their data processes.

Rivery

Sample Customers

United Way of Allegheny County, Saint-Gobain CPS, Ricoh, SunTrust Banks Inc.

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