We performed a comparison between IBM WebSphere Message Broker, Oracle Service Bus, and webMethods Integration Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, MuleSoft, Software AG and others in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)."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."
"Performance-wise, this solution is really good."
"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."
"Straightforward development and deployment."
"Integration and mapping are easy, which is a major advantage."
"The solution has good integration."
"The documentation, performance, stability and scalability of the tool are valuable."
"It is a scalable solution...The setup is easy."
"It is stable."
"Monitoring feature that allows tracking of the web's UI development."
"The most valuable feature is the adapters."
"The routing and aggregation are the most valuable features. It's split and join."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that you can connect with different applications."
"I am a part of the software developing team and I mainly use this solution for the integrating applications."
"Service Bus is good at routing the transformation."
"The interface is fine and the solution is quite robust."
"One [of the most valuable features] is the webMethods Designer. That helps our developers develop on their own. It's very intuitive for design. It helps our developers to speed the development of services for the integrations."
"Most of the work in our organization can be more easily done using the tool."
"I like the stability of the webMethods Integration Server."
"They are the building blocks of EAI in SAG products, and they offer a very good platform."
"How simple it is to create new solutions."
"It's obvious that the heart of the product lies here. It's comprised of all aspects of ESB (Enterprise Gateway, Adapter, TN, Java) and BPM (task, rules engine)."
"High throughput and excellent scalability."
"The ease of mapping... is the single largest feature. It gives us the ability to craft anything. A lot of single-purpose technologies, like Mirth, are good for healthcare messages, but we use webMethods not only for healthcare messages but for other business-related purposes, like integrations to Salesforce or integrations to Office 365. It's multi-purpose nature is very strong."
"Technical support is good but they could have a better response time."
"Technical support is very slow and needs to be improved."
"The user interface is designed mainly for experts, much in the way a BPM or another integration tool is."
"I know that Message Broker was a very tightly copied product with another IBM product, that is, IBM MQ. I would like to have a little bit more decoupling from the IBM MQ because it should not be a prerequisite for IBM WebSphere Message Broker usage."
"There is some lag in the GUI. There have been some performance issues and maybe it's because of the application data."
"Stability and pricing are areas with shortcomings that need improvement."
"The solution can add container engines such as docker."
"The installation configuration is quite difficult."
"An area for improvement in Oracle Service Bus is the roadmap for its product launch. Currently, it's unclear, so Oracle should develop a roadmap for version 12c, so people can see what's coming out of that version of Oracle Service Bus. Cloud hosting is an additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of Oracle Service Bus."
"We have faced a problem with the heap memory side, but that is stable now."
"There are issues, especially if you want to create some compensation in your service bin."
"The support for GraphQL needs to be improved, and the response time for global support could be faster."
"The pricing of the product could be better. It's a bit high."
"Security features can be improved to better protect the server."
"Lacks sufficient cloud compatibility."
"There is significant room for improvement in the monitoring capabilities."
"Need to see more API portal features like monetizing APIs and private cloud readiness."
"Forced migration from MessageBroker to Universal Messaging requires large scale reimplementation for JMS."
"In terms of scale, I would give it a four out of 10."
"One area that needs improvement is the version upgrade process. Many customers I've worked with encounter challenges when transitioning from their current version, such as x or 9, to a newer version. The process is not smooth, and they must shift their entire website."
"This product has too many gaps. You find them after update installations. This should be covered by automatic testing."
"The product needs to be improved in a few ways. First, they need to stabilize the components of the whole platform across versions. Also, they should stop replacing old components with brand new ones and, rather, improve by evolution."
"Version control is not very easy. The packages and the integration server are on Eclipse IDE, but you can't compare the code from the IDE. For example, if you are working on Java code, doing version control and deployment for a quick comparison between the code isn't easy. Some tools or plug-ins are there, such as CrossVista, and you can also play with an SVN server where you have to place your package, and from there, you can check, but you have to do that as a separate exercise. You can't do it from the IDE or webMethods server. You can't just right-click and upload your service."
"A while ago, they were hacked, and it took them a very long time to open their website again in order to download any service packs or any features. I don't know what they could do differently. I know that they were vulnerable, and there was some downtime, but because they were down, we were unable to download any potential service packs."
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