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We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and WSO2 Enterprise Integrator based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed IBM App Connect vs. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator Report (Updated: May 2023).
768,886 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies.""It has an efficient design flow.""It's stable to use, connect with the cloud, and to deploy.""The most valuable feature is the security.""The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification.""The most valuable feature is the user-friendliness of the application.""App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container.""Very scalable, flexible, and user-friendly."

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"The solution's technical support is very knowledgeable.""I like the user-friendly system and development of the service-oriented architecture.""The productivity is the most valuable feature. It is very easy to write remediations.""The customer service executives are very responsive.""The learning curve for this solution is very good.""In my opinion, the most valuable aspect of this solution is its extensive range of adaptors and connectors. This feature holds significant importance and provides great value to users.""The solution's customer service is good.""It's a very complete product. It allows us to network security and add more layers of security to the system."

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Cons
"The addition of string functionality would be a benefit, particularly in the ESQL space that IBM already uses internally.""The interface could be better.""IBM needs to enhance and have a stronger offering for the event streaming part because this is the future needed for the containerization and the new integration requirement.""When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated.""In the next release, I would like to get some quality connectors.""Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find.""They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better.""The installation of containers could be simplified, as it currently requires a senior-level installer."

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"The administration side is complex and could use significant improvements to enhance the solution's functionality.""You cannot include the validation of XPath.""The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required.""In my opinion, the administration model and interface, of Carbon, are lacking in terms of its features and user experience.""They should introduce better pricing for small companies.""The micro integrator should be improved. There is room for enhancement considering alternative integration components.""WSO2 libraries are not mature enough. For example, if you want to integrate with Kafka using its Kafka library, it often has many bugs.""I would like to see them bring back a feature, from earlier versions, that was very useful in debugging and finding issues."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It is very expensive if we want to scale."
  • "The price could be better."
  • "The licensing cost for IBM App Connect is very high."
  • "The cost depends upon the consumer."
  • "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."
  • "The solution's pricing isn't cheap, but you can get good discounts based on your competitive deal."
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  • "The open-source, unsupported version is available free of charge."
  • "The solution costs about 20,000 or 30,000 euros per year, per instance."
  • "The cost is better than IBM Cloud Pak."
  • "It is a low-cost solution."
  • "The pricing of WSO2 Enterprise Integrator for enterprise subscriptions can be considered expensive, especially from the perspective of someone who prefers open-source software."
  • "I rate the product price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution's pricing isn't cheap, but you can get good discounts based on your competitive deal.
    Top Answer:We use the product mainly for the integration of enterprise applications.
    Top Answer:WSO2's analytics capability is good, considering the ELC support they provide.
    Top Answer:The product has reasonable and competitive pricing for enterprise customers. It is expensive for small businesses especially. They are using the open-source solution, and they find it expensive since… more »
    Top Answer:The micro integrator should be improved. There is room for enhancement considering alternative integration components. Some workloads may benefit from optimization or additional features… more »
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    8.3
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    IBM Cast Iron
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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

    WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, core to the WSO2 Integration Agile Platform, is an open source Integration product for cloud native and container-native projects. It enables enterprise integration experts to build, scale, and secure sophisticated integration solutions to achieve digital agility. Unlike other integration products, WSO2 Enterprise Integrator already contains integration runtimes, message brokering, business process modeling, analytics and visual tooling capabilities.

    Sample Customers
    United Way of Allegheny County, Saint-Gobain CPS, Ricoh, SunTrust Banks Inc.
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    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm38%
    Computer Software Company23%
    Manufacturing Company15%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization55%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Financial Services Firm6%
    Energy/Utilities Company3%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company30%
    Comms Service Provider20%
    Manufacturing Company20%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company26%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Government6%
    Energy/Utilities Company5%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise71%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise61%
    Large Enterprise30%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business47%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise42%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise58%
    Buyer's Guide
    IBM App Connect vs. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator
    May 2023
    Find out what your peers are saying about IBM App Connect vs. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator and other solutions. Updated: May 2023.
    768,886 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 20 reviews while WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is ranked 19th in Data Integration with 18 reviews. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Very flexible and user-friendly; embeds with other technologies; no dependency on queue manager". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 Enterprise Integrator writes "Consolidated, reliable, and has responsive technical support". IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS, whereas WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is most compared with Red Hat Fuse, IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, webMethods Integration Server and Mule ESB. See our IBM App Connect vs. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator report.

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