IBM DataPower Gateway vs WSO2 Enterprise Integrator comparison

IBM DataPower Gateway

Read 28 IBM DataPower Gateway reviews

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96% willing to recommend

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Read 18 WSO2 Enterprise Integrator reviews

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75% willing to recommend

IBM DataPower Gateway

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Executive Summary

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

Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed IBM DataPower Gateway vs. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator Report (Updated: July 2024).

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IBM DataPower Gateway vs. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

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Categories and Ranking

IBM DataPower Gateway

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Infrastructure (6th), SOA Application Gateways (3rd), API Management (8th)

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

7th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (18th)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the mindshare of IBM DataPower Gateway is 5.0%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is 4.8%, down from 5.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

Unique Categories:

Application Infrastructure

2.9%

SOA Application Gateways

7.1%

Data Integration

0.6%

Featured Reviews

Naresh Jatangi

Middleware Administrator at Pronteff IT Solutions

Jul 21, 2022

Many security features, easy to use and not much development is needed

We use both cloud and on-premise solutions. We focus on the BFSI, one of India's largest banks, as well as the financial sector and telecommunications. We implement the solution for our clients and currently have more than 70 staff members on our team. Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot…

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Danilo Duran

Incident Manager at Iguatemi Empresa de Shopping Centers SA

Jul 12, 2023

Allows us to network security and add more layers of security to the system

I use the solution to transfer data from different formats, like XML to JSON, and orchestrate the solution and put it in a message block. Since we have already built all the systems, WSO2 helps us to make the software compatible with each other. WSO2 makes those systems work together like a team.…

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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

"The MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) is great because it allows you to easily expose services using various protocols – web services, REST (JSON), and others. This flexibility simplifies things."

"The API Connect gateway service and the SQL injection feature is good."

"What I like most is the stability."

"The most valuable features for our business include the ability to monitor and log data transactions and handle multiple request at an enterprise level."

"I like all of the features in this product and it does what it's supposed to do."

"The solution is stable."

"It is a scalable solution."

"The performance is good. It's been very stable."

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"The learning curve for this solution is very good."

"It's a consolidated product. It works and it does its job pretty well."

"The productivity is the most valuable feature. It is very easy to write remediations."

"It was mostly easy to set up the product."

"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 drag-and-drop features for connectors are very valuable."

"The solution has two main parts: integration and transformation. It's very user-friendly and easy to understand for everyone."

"The solution's customer service is good."

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Cons

"Additional documentation needs to be provided for complex automations."

"The components that they include in the product that are, in fact, a WTX, really need to be removed from the product because they tend to fail."

"IBM DataPower Gateway is quite big for smaller organizations, looking at different types of clients who are virtually assisted in this, I would say it's not really a good product for smaller firms."

"In the next release, I would like to see the product price reduced. It should be cheaper."

"The solution requires a lot of training manuals in order to get to know it better and to be able to use it effectively."

"Its support services could be better."

"The IBM community does not have much engagement from the IT community in Saudi Arabia and developers for this solution are difficult to find."

"Small and medium-sized companies might look for cloud-hosted applications due to the cost."

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"They should introduce better pricing for small companies."

"In my opinion, the administration model and interface, of Carbon, are lacking in terms of its features and user experience."

"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"The setup can be difficult for those not familiar with the solution."

"The administration side is complex and could use significant improvements to enhance the solution's functionality."

"The server is very specific and it is very difficult to get experience with it."

"If I have to buy software, then it becomes expensive for me."

"One of the reasons that we are looking for a replacement is their way of defining integration. The language of the XML structures that I use to describe the integrations are not that standard, and it's not easy to find people who are familiar with this approach."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution has a return on investment but is a little expensive."

"It is an expensive solution."

"Most customers' use case budgets are not inlined with the price of IBM DataPower Gateway. It is too expensive."

"As far as I know, they have a perpetual license for this product. They are paying perpetual fees rather than an annual subscription or annual pricing."

"The total cost of IBM DataPower Gateway would depend on the configuration, but in my experience, it can amount to 60,000 Euros per box, even for the virtual version. Usually, customers need high availability and a non-production environment, so the total price for IBM DataPower Gateway can be quite a lot. It can be 200,000 Euros or a similar figure."

"The appliance is a bit on the expensive side for the workloads that are not too high."

"The cost of this product varies from customer to customer and the relationship with IBM, including how many offerings from IBM are already being used."

"The tool's initial costing is expensive for small banks and financial institutions."

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"The cost is better than IBM Cloud Pak."

"It is a low-cost solution."

"The open-source, unsupported version is available free of charge."

"The solution costs about 20,000 or 30,000 euros per year, per instance."

"I rate the product price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

"The pricing of WSO2 Enterprise Integrator for enterprise subscriptions can be considered expensive, especially from the perspective of someone who prefers open-source software."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

30%

Computer Software Company

10%

Insurance Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

27%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM DataPower Gateway?

The MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) is great because it allows you to easily expose services using various protocols – web services, REST (JSON), and others. This flexibility simplifies things.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM DataPower Gateway?

I would rate the pricing a two out of ten, with one being high price, and ten being low price. It's high-priced for smaller companies. But it is okay for enterprises. So, the price could be more fl...

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What needs improvement with IBM DataPower Gateway?

The price could be more flexible for different clients.

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What do you like most about WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

WSO2's analytics capability is good, considering the ELC support they provide.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

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 sin...

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What needs improvement with WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

The micro integrator should be improved. There is room for enhancement considering alternative integration components. Some workloads may benefit from optimization or additional features. Additiona...

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Also Known As

WebSphere DataPower, IBM DataPower, IBM WebSphere DataPower

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Overview

IBM DataPower Gateway is a robust, secure next-generation enterprise-grade single multichannel API gateway that supplies dynamic access, integration, control, and outstanding security. The solution is available in a broad range of workload capabilities, including application programming interface (API), service oriented architecture (SOA), B2B, cloud, web, and mobile. These dynamic capabilities ensure users are able to quickly increase the reach of an organization's critical IT resources to new channels, which will provide shareholders, team members, and clients with safe, secure access at all times.

DataPower Gateway is very flexible and is widely available in virtual, cloud, traditional, physical, Docker, and Linux form factors.

IBM DataPower Gateway Features

IBM DataPower Gateway has many value-added features. Some of these features are included below:

Control: The solution provides decision point authorization and authentication for all standards, including Lightweight Direct Access Protocol (LDAP) and Open Authorization (OAuth), which allow for better access control across an organization’s entire network.
DataPower dashboard: The dashboard is specifically designed to enhance performance and determine problematic processes. The solution provides intuitive real-time performance transparency to diagnose operational and performance anomalies and offer repair and restoration recommendations.
Enhanced messaging: Users are able to easily mediate messaging and protocols by incorporating the best of today’s traditional and modern application standards.
Integration: IBM DataPower Gateway offers super fast mainframe connectivity, database connectivity, transport protocol bridging, content-based routing, and any-to-any message transformation, ensuring secure and immediate connect service.

IBM DataPower Gateway Benefits

IBM DataPower Gateway provides many benefits. Some of those benefits include:

Flexibility: The solution is easy to use and configure and provides for a pleasant, intuitive overall user experience. The solution can immediately be used out of the box, which makes overall process management simple.
Protection: The solution provides sturdy continuous service protection and application performance using robust powerful routing and traffic control.
Security: The solution’s enterprise-grade De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) ready gateway enables users to enforce the desired runtime application security across all messaging protocols.
Profitability: The solution’s design ensures significant reduction of development costs in addition to the streamlining of overall operations. Users are able to achieve reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and experience a near-immediate ROI.

Reviews from Real Users

“My company has a good impression of IBM DataPower Gateway. What I like about it is that because it's an appliance, it's a turnkey solution that's very fast and out of the box. Another valuable feature of IBM DataPower Gateway is that it's easy to integrate with other products.”- Bálint T., Solution Manager at Intalion

“You don't have to have a separate DMC proxy because DataPower Gateway is an appliance and will take care of a lot of security features. These include data validations, encryption, as well as XML or any type of scripting or security threats that are present. From a security point of view, being an appliance in the DMC zone, IBM DataPower Gateway will take care of the entire security angle for the infrastructure.” - Sathyan K., Founder/Director at perfTech Solutions Pvt Ltd

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

RBL Bank, Availity

West

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