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We performed a comparison between IBM B2B Integrator and SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Business-to-Business Middleware solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed IBM B2B Integrator vs. SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"Everything from the order to fulfillment to the payment process, except for physical packing and shipping, is fully automated for some customer orders.""The technical support on offer through the portal is very helpful and responsive.""B2B provides a secure communication channel.""Out-of-box process orchestration yields quick implementations.""The solution is useful for transferring files from one format to another format. Also, the solution is useful in translation.""The most valuable features are the flexibility and the range of EDI standards that IBM Sterling can handle.""The most valuable feature of IBM B2B Integrator is its security and flexibility.""I find the codeless communications, SFTP or FTP, valuable."

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"It is a JavaScript or a Java-based system within their mapping tool. You can actually write a lot of code in there. We can perform a lot of the translations even within our mapping, whereas we used to have to do custom programming on our back-end systems to fully integrate.""Among the most important [features] are the BIC 6 Converter and the communication protocols, which have the newer security features for certificates and encryption.""We use Message Tracking, which is a very good feature. Message Tracking has about 300 to 400 business people who can find documents and ask the integration team about them. For example, they looking for a document that the vendor or trading partner tells them that they sent, but they don't see it in the ERP system yet. So, they go to SEEBURGER Message Tracking, which can tell them if we received it already from the outside and what happened, e.g., if it went to SEEBURGER BIS or if it's already in the ERP system. It's a very simple tool to use. They also can use that tool to see the source document.""It used to take half an hour to move one file from one location to another. Now, it takes 10 minutes.""The product has the ability to handle high volumes of data efficiently.""We haven't had any issues with scaling.""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.""Mapping Designer provides excellent flexibility."

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Cons
"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.""The mapping, visibility, deployment, and the dashboard could be improved and updated. The communication logs are very poor. They are not easily understood, and we need to navigate to many places for many reasons. You can't just pull the information; it's very tough.""There are also some features in the solution that are not user-friendly, like code lists with no search options. So, we must navigate hundreds of pages to check for one entry.""The dashboard is not integrated and should be bundled by the product vendor.""API-Fication required, and there should be more clarity on their cloud migration strategy.""The web interface of B2B is quite outdated and not particularly user-friendly.""The one thing that is lacking is easy visibility. It's hard to provide business users with a view into the statuses of their transactions.""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."

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"There might be some improvements they could make to the portal, but they're not anything that stops me from working.""The solution's documentation is not up to the mark and needs to be improved.""A person whom I work with, and is not very technical, found the setup complex, as there are a lot of steps.""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.""The initial setup is not the straightforward. It took couple of months for us to set up.""The product is not integrated very well with different cloud providers. We did work with the vendor to build a solution for Amazon, but there is no solution for other cloud providers like Google or Azure. The vendor needs to create adapters so that if we have a requirement to transfer data from our data center to another cloud, outside of Amazon, we would be delighted with that.""The speed of development needs improvement. If you acquire any customization, it can be a slightly slow process. I would like to see more flexibility around customizations. The time frame right now depends on the sophistication and customization, but we have to go through a process of getting them to develop, implement, and test it. This might take a couple of weeks. If it was a simpler system to customize, the time could probably be cut by half or down by even 25 percent of what it would normally take.""I find the solution quite confusing to use, especially when looking at the tree structure."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We pay an annual fee based on the number of VPUs. It's fairly reasonable. We're in the middle of analyzing other products, and they're all pretty much in the same range."
  • "The solution is priced at $20,000 to $30,000 per year with no extra costs."
  • "The pricing is based on how many cores are used and the type of cores."
  • "Licensing depends upon the package you opt for within the solution. The solution is a bit costly compared to the other integration tools in the market."
  • "The price of IBM B2B Integrator is too high. However, IBM may be willing to give a discount if there are negotiations. If they see that there is a good opportunity for them they can provide a discount."
  • "The product costs more than 40K."
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  • "The pricing seems to be competitive and the maintenance is standard."
  • "The pricing and licensing is very competitive."
  • "I did a review of other options out there, as we moved into the future and our SAP implementation, that this would be the right solution. It was very comparable to other manage services out there. Thus, there wasn't any clear-cut reason to go in another direction."
  • "The cost of the SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS) can be considered high. We have elected to have SEEBURGER consulting do the installation. Licensing could also be considered high. However, one would be hard pressed to find another product that does all that this one does."
  • "It has a very goofy pricing model in the sense that they have so many components and it's not very clear what components you require to do your work. When you ask for that, you learn that there's a surcharge for them. It's not that you buy a product and you can use all the compatibilities. They have all these different bits and pieces of it and you have to pay extra for all those things."
  • "Pricing, compared to the tool that we had earlier, is cheaper."
  • "The way they have their licensing structure set up, they have a lot of different modules. For us, we did not really know if we were licensed for certain things or not. We had to reach out to them multiple times to tell them that we were looking for this or that capability. We had to buy licenses for different things at different points in time, not knowing that we could have it bundled initially."
  • "The pricing is cheap. In fact, when I saw the pricing, I thought, "Really? What's the catch?" But the functionality that we get out of it, for the price we pay, is great value."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:IBM B2B Integrator is a great tool, robust, reliable, low-maintenance, and ideal solution.
    Top Answer:API integration could be improved. The legacy system could be on the cloud.
    Top Answer:SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite is a highly stable solution that offers rich features for our B2B integration.
    Top Answer:I've heard that the solution is cheaper when compared to other products in the market.
    Top Answer:The solution's documentation is not up to the mark and needs to be improved.
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    Also Known As
    IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, Sterling Gentran Integration Suite
    SEEBURGER BIS
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    Overview

    IBM B2B Integrator helps you securely integrate complex B2B processes with your partner communities. It provides a single, flexible B2B gateway that enables your organization to meet a wide range of B2B integration needs. The solution can improve business processes beyond enterprise boundaries and increase visibility into and across supply and demand chains.

    With SEEBURGER’s experienced team behind you, and SEEBURGER BIS as the foundation of your hybrid integration strategy, you’re prepared for whatever comes your way – even as your business gains complexity and integration requirements increase.

    SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS) is a unified, agile, secure and scalable platform that solves integration challenges across your business and ecosystem, so that you can make valuable connections between clouds, applications and people.

    Our platform provides integration across all scenarios, including B2B/EDI, MFT, API and ERP on-premises, in the cloud and hybrid, in addition to expert support that is unmatched in the industry for your simplest to your most complex integrations.

    Your APIs are likely multiplying quickly, and if you’re looking for a solution to manage, secure and scale them properly, you get all of the benefits and less of the hassle with our API Management toolkit.

    Bring us your toughest B2B/EDI challenges. We help with difficult onboarding and partner connections, and will save you time and effort to complete complex projects. We make B2B easy with pre-packaged, re-usable content and automation capability, so your team can make the connection, and move on to the next mission.

    Simplify your workload with our iPaaS solution. SEEBURGER iPaaS enables your team to save man-hours connecting data, applications and systems, by letting us handle all the time-consuming platform operations. We cover maintenance, updates, security, scalability and more.

    Did you know that without managed file transfer (MFT), your company is at greater risk for a data breach? It’s as simple, and as dangerous, as that. The security and control you get with our centralized, easy-to-use solution ensures less risk for the company, and more sleep at night for you.

    Our customers say it best! Check out our reviews you’ll see that SEEBURGER’s rock-solid, built-from-the-ground-up platform, is combined with an expert team, and stellar service. We power your connections, future-proof your vision and give you a competitive edge.

    Sample Customers
    Bonnie Plants, Toshiba Europe, Florida Hospital
    Altis, Autoliv, Cebi, Cofresco, MoneyGram International, Samsonite Europe, VSP Global, BMW Group, OSRAM, Magna, Lavazza
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Transportation Company13%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Logistics Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Retailer8%
    REVIEWERS
    Retailer21%
    Manufacturing Company18%
    Transportation Company15%
    Logistics Company12%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Retailer5%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise65%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise65%
    REVIEWERS
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise88%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise67%
    Buyer's Guide
    IBM B2B Integrator vs. SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about IBM B2B Integrator vs. SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    IBM B2B Integrator is ranked 4th in Business-to-Business Middleware with 42 reviews while SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite is ranked 5th in Business-to-Business Middleware with 37 reviews. IBM B2B Integrator is rated 8.0, while SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM B2B Integrator writes "A widely-used, on-premises solution with tons of peer support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite writes "Gives us the flexibility to hook up to systems using any protocol out there". IBM B2B Integrator is most compared with Mule ESB, SAP Process Orchestration, IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, SPS Commerce Fulfillment (EDI) and Cleo Integration Cloud Platform, whereas SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite is most compared with SAP Cloud Platform, IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, Mule ESB, webMethods Integration Server and Microsoft Azure API Management. See our IBM B2B Integrator vs. SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite report.

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