IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs SAP Process Orchestration comparison

IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs. SAP Process Orchestration

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Categories and Ranking

IBM InfoSphere Information ...

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (34th), Metadata Management (7th)

SAP Process Orchestration

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business-to-Business Middleware (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

IBM InfoSphere Information Server and SAP Process Orchestration aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. IBM InfoSphere Information Server is designed for Data Integration and holds a mindshare of 0.9%, up 0.9% compared to last year.
SAP Process Orchestration, on the other hand, focuses on Business-to-Business Middleware, holds 6.4% mindshare, down 10.8% since last year.

Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IBM InfoSphere Information Server	0.9%
Informatica PowerCenter	6.0%
SSIS	5.7%
Other	87.4%

Data Integration

Business-to-Business Middleware Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SAP Process Orchestration	6.4%
IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services	15.1%
webMethods.io	11.9%
Other	66.6%

Business-to-Business Middleware

Featured Reviews

UmeshKumar1

Business Analyst Team Lead at Accenture

Prompt support, reliable, but lacking scalability

IBM InfoSphere Information Server has multiple tools in that product suite. However, we mainly use it as an integration tool I have been using IBM InfoSphere Information Server for approximately five years. IBM InfoSphere Information Server is stable. IBM InfoSphere Information Server should be…

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Vasanth Kumar Sabaapathi

Senior Lead Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Simplified integrations bring flexibility and efficiency to diverse industries through comprehensive features and robust support

SAP is already trying to make improvements for SAP Process Orchestration by releasing updates every quarter, including patches and modules, and from a security standpoint, while it's a tightly coupled tool, they are introducing a lot of enhancements aligned with current market trends. There are standard contents readily available for starting integrations, which suit around 90% of every industry across verticals including pharma, manufacturing, and employee data central with SuccessFactors integration. Regarding functionality-wise improvements in SAP Process Orchestration, they are now incorporating the Salesforce system. Previously, we needed to rely on a third-party adapter for integration within SAP, but now they are building their own adapters to connect with Salesforce. Additionally, there are options like data connectors using Ariba coming up with SAP Process Orchestration. There's much more to explore, especially as they release new patches, enhancements, and adapters each quarter.

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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

"IBM InfoSphere Information Server is stable."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"The integration with different technologies is the most valuable feature."

"This solution is extremely flexible and scalable."

"The initial setup is easy."

"The monitoring tools are the most valuable feature."

"SAP Process Orchestration offers easy maintainability and is a very flexible tool that easily adapts to any integration standards and artifacts that are readily available."

"The solution provides very good and central logging systems. It offers high flexibility with vertical and horizontal extend capacity."

"The most valuable feature is the seamless integration with backend systems."

"The solution offers very good documentation and manuals to assist with understanding the solution."

"SAP Process Orchestration provides extensive integrations with external partners, supports B2B operations, and has prepackaged content that saves development time."

"The most valuable features of SAP Process Orchestration are its system monitoring and alerts."

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Cons

"This solution would benefit from the engine being made more lightweight."

"IBM InfoSphere Information Server should be more scalable. It should have the option to change the configuration to run on a single, non-multiple node, or multi-threading processing."

"Their technical support needs improvement."

"There are certain shortcomings in the cloud side of the solution, where improvements are required."

"The solution is not very scalable because it is at the end of its life."

"Data modeling is an area of concern in the product where improvements are required."

"Some configurations can be a little tricky."

"I think the main area that SAP PO should improve on is offering pre-delivered content like they do when you use SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI). SAP should not forget that they still have a lot of customers using Process Orchestration and they should focus more on providing pre-delivered content in SAP PO."

"SAP Process Orchestration could improve from an API standpoint. This is not an API management tool, which is one of its drawbacks. However, SAP has released an SAP Cloud Platform Integration which has all of the features, such as API management along with process integration to replace what they had previously."

"Process Orchestration needs to provide secure connectivity as no one has any data information."

"It's very difficult to find errors in a simple way."

"SAP needs to improve a lot in terms of the orchestration part so that more adapters can be provided to users, which are areas where the solution has downsides."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing cost of IBM InfoSphere Information Server depends on how many users there are."

"Normally, you will have to choose CPU-based licensing...I rate the tool price a five out of ten."

"It is a very expensive solution. We only pay for the license."

"My company deals with different pricing models of the product, according to which we don't pay for the solution directly, but we do pay for the maintenance part."

"The cost of SAP products is quite high but the quality is really good."

"The price of SAP Process Orchestration was reasonable."

"The solution is highly-priced."

"There are fees in addition to the licensing."

"We subscribe to annual licenses, and the competitive license cost is reasonable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

20%

Government

16%

Insurance Company

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

15%

Computer Software Company

12%

Retailer

Energy/Utilities Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	26

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM InfoSphere Information Server?

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

What needs improvement with IBM InfoSphere Information Server?

There are certain shortcomings in the cloud side of the solution, where improvements are required. In our company, we are presently in the process of doing a PoC phase since we have the solution cu...

What is your primary use case for IBM InfoSphere Information Server?

I use IBM InfoSphere Information Server in retail banking for transformation purposes.

What do you like most about SAP Process Orchestration?

It provides essential features such as continuous monitoring of all interfaces are crucial for our needs.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Process Orchestration?

The price for SAP Process Orchestration is a little high when compared to market trends, which is just how the business is. I would rate it an eight.

What needs improvement with SAP Process Orchestration?

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Also Known As

InfoSphere Information Server, IBM Information Server

SAP NetWeaver Process Integration, NetWeaver Process Integration

Overview

IBM InfoSphere Information Server is a market-leading data integration platform which includes a family of products that enable you to understand, cleanse, monitor, transform, and deliver data, as well as to collaborate to bridge the gap between business and IT. InfoSphere Information Server provides massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities to deliver a highly scalable and flexible integration platform that handles a variety of data volumes (big, small, and everything in between).

IBM

SAP NetWeaver Process Integration facilitates the integration of business processes that span different departments, organizations, or companies. SAP PI is based on general standards so as to enable 3rd-party systems to be integrated. At the center of SAP PI is an XML-based communication that uses HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). Irrespective of the scenario used, the application-specific contents are transferred in messages in user-defined XML eXtensible Markup Language) from the sender to the receiver either via the Integration Server, or directly between the systems involved. SAP PI can be installed in different ways: Dual usage type installation: Based on both AS ABAP and AS Java. and Advanced Adapter Engine Extended (AEX): Based on AS Java only.

SAP

Sample Customers

Canadian National Railway Company, Chickasaw Nation Division of Commerce, Swedish Armed Forces, BG RCI, Janata Sahakari Bank Ltd., University of Arizona, Biogrid Australia

Lenovo, Dansk Supermarked A/S, Ego Pharmaceuticals Pty. Ltd, Kaeser Kompressoren

IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs. SAP Process Orchestration