We performed a comparison between IBM B2B Integrator, Mule ESB, and SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"I find the codeless communications, SFTP or FTP, valuable."
"Everything from the order to fulfillment to the payment process, except for physical packing and shipping, is fully automated for some customer orders."
"The solution is useful for transferring files from one format to another format. Also, the solution is useful in translation."
"The solution offers good integration capabilities."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and the range of EDI standards that IBM Sterling can handle."
"The most valuable features assist with understanding data formats and transforming data."
"It's highly stable, and the redundancy is amazing. B2B Integrator also has a high availability option to work in a cluster environment. You rarely have issues operating it because of the HA."
"Very flexible product; it allows implementing different flows on the same infrastructure."
"Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."
"The product offers a community edition that is free of cost."
"Scalability and load balancing."
"The solution offers multiple deployment options."
"Mule ESB has a user-friendly design, and everything is in one place. The API and architecture are popular right now. Also, MuleSoft has a large and supportive online community."
"The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot."
"Easy connectivity and easy integration."
"The most valuable feature is that it's programmer-friendly, so it's very easy to develop APIs."
"One valuable feature is the scalability. We have not had to add processing power or hardware since we installed it. Also, we are able to create and deploy maps to migrate from another EDI platform very quickly."
"The platform has been very consistent and responsive."
"The entire framework is something that is very easy to use, easy to set up, and extremely straightforward. Once you develop a process and once you get it deployed within the process engine, with the latest 6.52 features, the processing engine is actually smart enough to make a decision as to which process engine has less load, and it can exchange messages with that process engine."
"We can code in Java, which is really good feature. There is very vast command available, which can be used in mapping."
"It used to take half an hour to move one file from one location to another. Now, it takes 10 minutes."
"It has enabled digital business processes. It's the connection between our ERP system and the rest of the company. We were able to automate processing invoices digitally like an inbound invoice and FastPay payments."
"It's the reliability. And the message tracking is quite good, where we can go in and see if we have an issue."
"SEEBURGER has helped us to enable digital business transformation. Every time we add a new customer, there is a digital footprint. This is no longer a manual process."
"The dashboard is not integrated and should be bundled by the product vendor."
"API integration could be improved. The legacy system could be on the cloud."
"The user interface is outdated. B2B Integrator was developed in the United States in the nineties, and the graphical user interface hasn't improved since. It's tough because you have to program the software in XML. Nowadays, other methods are easier to work with."
"IBM B2B Integrator could improve the business process itself, there is no resignation of duties and in terms of the console should be changed in a way that is more user-friendly."
"The tool requires you to write a lot of code in Java and XSLT, which makes development tough."
"End-to-end visibility and monitoring application required. The control center is available and covers this area, but it still fails in many monitoring scenarios."
"When working on an elaborate rule, I end up creating it in notepad and then pasting it into the Extended Rule window, which is not convenient."
"Map translator needs more enhancements."
"It would be much more beneficial if the solution included AI and business process management."
"The current version will not be supported for much longer."
"It should have some amount of logging."
"In order to meet the new trend of active metadata management, we need intelligent APIs that can retrieve new data designs and trigger actions over new findings without human intervention."
"From the product perspective, it was sometimes hard to manage the dependencies. When we had to add dependencies on a couple of different packages, it was sometimes confusing. It was hard to update them with Anypoint Studio, as well as with MuleSoft. There were challenges with that. So, that's one of the areas that could be improved."
"We would like to have a built-in logging framework in which we can do auditing."
"It's not easy to troubleshoot and we still can't make it work."
"The solution's setup needs to be a bit more straightforward and its support needs to respond faster."
"A true debugger that allows you to step through the process would be a good improvement. Right now, we are limited to reading the log file generated by the test screen in Mapping Designer."
"Difficult in handling large amounts of data, like when the file has more than 100MB in size."
"When we got SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS), it was clear that it was going to take more of a technical person. It does take a technically-rooted individual to operate it. It's not something for your everyday guy to do. For what it's doing for us, a dedicated resource is required."
"Java is very old technology and they should move away from it, to anything that's better."
"In the BIS, if I want to have some API functionalities, that is a separate tool. The integration between the API tool and the BIS is not that straightforward. If they were to combine these tools and give us one suite, that would be helpful. Today I have a lot of partners onboard. I have something like 50,000 partners doing API transactions. If I want to introduce a new tool for API management, I have to do a lot of workarounds. But if it were integrated well within the existing suite, it could be straightforward for me."
"The ability to bind a mapping to an agreement seems a bit clunky. It would be nice to have a better way of navigating to a map name rather than using a drop down list."
"I would've liked, from day one, to learn how to do my own mapping. That would have saved a lot of time and effort if that had been brought forward earlier. It's there, I just didn't know about it. Also, some tidier, easier-to-use interfaces would help."
"We wanted to use API. We were told that in 6.52 we could use API management. Later on, we found that API management wasn't that completely integrated into the 6.52 solution, and if you wanted to have the whole API suite you might have to go to 6.7, the latest one."
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