We performed a comparison between IBM Integration Bus and OpenESB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, MuleSoft, Software AG and others in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)."We use IBM Integration Bus for document conversions."
"The message queue, like, message queue connectors. Then they have a built in connectors for most of the systems, like SAP, oracle database, and this Civil connector is there. Of course, we have this SQL database connector So those built in connectors are there. For the almost most of the systems, we have built in connectors. And second thing is that it is a stateless Integration, so it doesn't maintain a state of the integration. Bus the Stitches Integration makes it very fast."
"REST API design and development support are useful. Building and exposing APIs using GUI API designer with editor makes implementation a breeze."
"The product is a user-customized tool so that you can adjust it to your specific needs pretty well with little trouble."
"IBM Integration Bus' most valuable features are its performance, fast and easy development, and easy support."
"IBM Integration Bus has been effective in facilitating our messaging and service-oriented architecture (SOA) or bus architecture. So, we're already utilizing it to transform the data from the source it's sending. It converts the data from the format the source sends it into the format the destination system requires. So we are transforming the messages, which are required by the destination system; that's the one way."
"I am into microservices using Java Spring Boot, but if we are using legacy systems, IBM Integration Bus is very good for them. They have their own computational logic called EC12, their own proprietary language. You can do any kind of complex logic and can implement other ESVs that I have seen."
"I recommend it for large enterprises but only for specific use cases. You need to have a relatively mature integration practice in your organization to leverage its capabilities fully."
"The core is very stable."
"OpenESB pushes the organization to clearly define service boundaries and interfaces. So it motives the business and the development teams to clearly define their business services and processes they want to implement. OpenESB supports fine and coarse-grain granularity for the services and supports top-down and bottom-up approaches for the services, processes definition, and composition."
"The process-oriented solution allows you to define choreography and orchestration."
"One of the most valuable features is being able to implement business processes while keeping track of the design from BPMN to a BPEL Implementation."
"I can't say that there is any improvement I’m looking for. I’m new and haven’t connected with all features. For all drawbacks that were in the old version, I think they have been solved. The scalability needs improvement."
"We have come across many customer complaints about the excessive time it takes for IBM to provide customer and technical support."
"I would like to see more metered rest and API support. IBM is already working on it on Version 11, but it still needs improvement."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"The solution needs to improve it's security and its proactive notification of security issues."
"Licensing is too high. It is quite expensive."
"Its licensing or subscription model should be improved for more flexible adoption. There should also be more ease of use."
"IBM could improve its connectivity."
"Cloud deployment is weak and needs to be improved."
"The documentation of the product must be improved. It could be tricky to find the right documentation on a topic since the documentation is spread in many places. I advise the new joiner to contact the community to get entry points and additional documentation. Tutorial and Video must be present to take up the product."
"The documentation needs to be better."
"Regarding its management, a web console being able to synchronize distributed instances would be great."
IBM Integration Bus is ranked 1st in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 63 reviews while OpenESB is ranked 13th in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 4 reviews. IBM Integration Bus is rated 8.0, while OpenESB is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Integration Bus writes "Scalable solution with efficient integration features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenESB writes "Enables us to define the business process and integrate it with other software". IBM Integration Bus is most compared with Mule ESB, IBM WebSphere Message Broker, Oracle Service Bus, webMethods Integration Server and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas OpenESB is most compared with WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, Mule ESB, Oracle Service Bus and Red Hat Fuse.
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