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IBM MQ vs Software AG Optimize for Infrastructure comparison

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Categories and Ranking

IBM MQ
Ranking in Business Activity Monitoring
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
174
Ranking in other categories
Message Queue (MQ) Software (1st), Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) (1st)
Software AG Optimize for In...
Ranking in Business Activity Monitoring
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Business Activity Monitoring category, the mindshare of IBM MQ is 22.0%, down from 25.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Software AG Optimize for Infrastructure is 4.1%, down from 5.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Activity Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM MQ22.0%
Software AG Optimize for Infrastructure4.1%
Other73.9%
Business Activity Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

Srinivas Krishnamsetty - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, At Tiaa Senior Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Asynchronous messaging has streamlined workflow triggers and supports reliable session rollbacks
The best features IBM MQ offers are the topic and subscription, as well as the IBM MQ session and message rollbacks, especially for JMS integration. IBM MQ serves as the underlying foundation for our JMS messages. IBM MQ has positively impacted my organization by enabling asynchronous processing, which means we do not need to wait for any responses from our downstream systems.
RK
Vice President - Digital Integration at Kellton Tech Solutions Limited
Mature, stable, and powerful managed platform
Sometimes Software AG Optimize for Infrastructure goes through an upgrade cycle of four years to get to the next version. Some of the utilities need to be definitely advanced as well so that migration to the latest version is even smoother and easier. That could probably be the only improvements that they can look at. I definitely think that their cloud version capabilities are still nascent. They need to evolve into offering similar capabilities to the cloud infrastructure as well. That is not specifically SaaS but any managed infrastructure that customers would subscribe to in AWS, Azure, and other public clouds. How to employ Software AG Optimize for Infrastructure and also to see if it can be subscribed as a service from Software AG would be the ideal next steps for this solution to evolve into.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution is scalable; it is flexible because, for us, we used the solution's adapter to provide the connection parameters to send a message, which has been quite easy."
"There are a lot of valuable features, such as high availability, and workload balancing."
"It allows data transmission from multiple platforms in a fault-tolerant manner, that's the biggest feature."
"IBM MQ's flexibility has sped up our active communication."
"One of the most valuable features is the standardization in terms of messaging; if you have MQ, you probably can talk to anybody."
"The solution is very easy to work with."
"The most valuable features of IBM MQ are its guarantee of delivery, ability to handle high volume while maintaining high availability, and robust security measures such as SSL, TLS, and RBAC."
"Reliable integration between MQ servers is the most valuable feature."
"It kind of alleviates all the complexity in the IT support and service teams, and it will make their life easier."
"The infrastructure monitoring features are the most valuable. The primary purpose of Software AG Optimize for Infrastructure is to automate the aspects of monitoring various infrastructure and applications. They will definitely automate an alert automatically, but a lot of such tools differ from each other on aspects of various low-level components that they can monitor."
 

Cons

"It could provide more monitoring tools and some improvement to the UI. I would also like to see more throughput in future versions."
"I believe the stability of the product has decreased since we began using it initially."
"Better error handling, such as a default dead message queue for errors, would be beneficial."
"Some of the new features that their competitors are coming out with, like AMQ with transformation of messages, better security, and even scalability at the microservices level, are areas where MQ is not quite there yet."
"It just needs a better installation."
"I'm rating this software a five because it is quite expensive and complex."
"We've used it and it hasn't been great. It didn't seem like we could get the answers we needed without having to use professional services."
"I would like to see message duplication included."
"Sometimes Software AG Optimize for Infrastructure goes through an upgrade cycle of four years to get to the next version. Some of the utilities need to be definitely advanced as well so that migration to the latest version is even smoother and easier. That could probably be the only improvements that they can look at. I definitely think that their cloud version capabilities are still nascent. They need to evolve into offering similar capabilities to the cloud infrastructure as well. That is not specifically SaaS but any managed infrastructure that customers would subscribe to in AWS, Azure, and other public clouds. How to employ Software AG Optimize for Infrastructure and also to see if it can be subscribed as a service from Software AG would be the ideal next steps for this solution to evolve into."
"Sometimes Software AG Optimize for Infrastructure goes through an upgrade cycle of four years to get to the next version."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution could be reduced, and we are on an annual subscription."
"It's a very expensive product."
"The pricing seems good according to the functionality that the solution provides."
"IBM products, in general, have high licensing costs and support costs are too high."
"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the tool's price a seven. The product is expensive."
"I think it's pretty reasonable, but I'm not so too sure of the current pricing strategy from IBM. We use many bundled services, and most often, we go through a service provided by some other third-party implementation. So, I can't really give an honest opinion about that."
"You have to license per application installation and if you expand vertically or horizontally, you will be paying for more licenses. The licenses are approximately $10,000 to $15,000 a license, it can get expensive quite quickly."
"To implement such an IBM solution, a company has to pay a lot in term of licensing and consultancy. A pricing model might be a better option."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
17%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
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Company Size

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Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise19
Large Enterprise147
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WebSphere MQ
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