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"The transactions and message queuing are the most valuable features of the solution.""The most valuable feature of IBM WebSphere Message Broker is the ability to facilitate communication with legacy systems, offering a multitude of great capabilities. For example, if there is a mainframe system in place with a web service serving as the front end. In that case, the solution enables efficient protocol transformations to convert all request payloads into a format that the legacy systems can accept, rendering the integration and transformation processes seamless and highly effective.""It has many interfaces and you can connect to any backend source that has another format, and convert it to the desired format.""We only use the basic features, but the most valuable one for us is the Publish-subscribe pattern.""The solution has good integration.""Message Broker is valuable because most of the applications are using MQ. Even in my current engagement, the few applications which I audit to onboard the bank are using MQ.""Straightforward development and deployment.""Performance-wise, this solution is really good."

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"The solution is very easy to use. I can download the trial version and just give it a go."

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"Technical support is very slow and needs to be improved.""It is currently a weighty product.""Technical support is good but they could have a better response time.""The solution can add container engines such as docker.""Stability and pricing are areas with shortcomings that need improvement.""The installation configuration is quite difficult.""The images and size of the containers are too big and I think that they should be more lightweight.""The user interface is designed mainly for experts, much in the way a BPM or another integration tool is."

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"The EPA, from what I understand, lacks a lot of features and it doesn't really know how to interface with legacy systems or how to develop APIs for legacy systems."

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  • "IBM products are generally more stable and have more features, but also come at a greater cost."
  • "The price is very high and it's the main reason that we are searching for alternatives."
  • "This product is more expensive than competing products."
  • "I feel with IBM, when you want certain functions or features, you have to continuously purchase add-ons. There are always additional fees."
  • "The solution is expensive."
  • "The solution is expensive."
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    Top Answer:It is a scalable solution...The setup is easy.
    Top Answer:The solution is expensive. I give the cost a one out of ten. We pay for an annual license.
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    WebSphere Message Broker
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    Overview
    WebSphere Message Broker is an enterprise service bus (ESB) providing connectivity and universal data transformation for service-oriented architecture (SOA) and non-SOA environments. It allows businesses of any size to eliminate point-to-point connections and batch processing regardless of platform, protocol or data format.
    JBossESB is the next generation of EAI - better and without the vendor-lockin characteristics of old. As such, many of the capabilities mirror those of existing EAI offerings: Business Process Monitoring, Integrated Development Environment, Human Workflow User Interface, Business Process Management, Connectors, Transaction Manager, Security, Application Container, Messaging Service, Metadata Repository, Naming and Directory Service, Distributed Computing Architecture. Plus JBossESB is part of an SOI (Service Oriented Infrastructure). However, SOA is not simply a technology or a product: it's a style of design, with many aspects (such as architectural, methodological and organisational) unrelated to the actual technology.
    Sample Customers
    WestJet, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Sharp Corporation, Michelin Tire
    Rancore, Sprint, ResMed, Brazil's Ministry of Health, ING Services Polska
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm27%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Insurance Company9%
    Retailer7%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Government14%
    Manufacturing Company10%
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    Small Business18%
    Large Enterprise82%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise74%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise74%
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    IBM WebSphere Message Broker is ranked 8th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 11 reviews while JBoss ESB is ranked 14th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). IBM WebSphere Message Broker is rated 7.8, while JBoss ESB is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of IBM WebSphere Message Broker writes "For new applications that are being onboarded, we engage this tool so the data can flow as required but there's some lag in the GUI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JBoss ESB writes "Easy to use with flexible pricing, but needs more flexibility surrounding integrations". IBM WebSphere Message Broker is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods Integration Server, Mule ESB, IBM DataPower Gateway and IBM BPM, whereas JBoss ESB is most compared with Mule ESB, Red Hat Fuse, Oracle Service Bus, IBM Integration Bus and webMethods Integration Server.

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