IBM WebSphere Message Broker vs Oracle Service Bus vs webMethods.io comparison

IBM and Oracle are both solutions in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category. IBM is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #4 with an average rating of 7.5. IBM holds a 4.1% mindshare in E, compared to Oracle’s 11.4% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

IBM WebSphere Message Broker

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84% willing to recommend

Oracle Service Bus

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94% willing to recommend

webMethods.io

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94% willing to recommend

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Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the mindshare of IBM WebSphere Message Broker is 4.1%, down from 5.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Service Bus is 11.4%, up from 11.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of webMethods.io is 11.0%, up from 9.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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BrajendraKumar

Technical Architect at HCL Technologies

Offers large-sized business information processing with a time-saving setup and impressive stability

I primarily use two previews of the product for Dev and two for QA as part of the production process. Whatever tools our company is using, the cost of a license in IBM WebSphere Message Broker is about 80% of all these software or tools. The message routing capabilities satisfy workflow efficiency. The product supports message formats of XML, JSON, and SSID, which are around 24 KB to 50 KB in size. The solution supports communication protocols like STTP and TCP. Features like DataGraph need to be introduced in IBM WebSphere Message Broker. Some of the clients of our organization are using an outdated version of IBM WebSphere Message Broker for which the vendor doesn't provide direct support anymore. For the aforementioned version, our company professionals can solve the queries on their own without seeking support from IBM. During the installation of a prior version of IBM WebSphere Message Broker, sometimes I have to configure the failovers through the cluster, where issues arise, and I often seek help from the support team. The solution is being used by some medicine companies in our organization that receive sales orders from the EDR or JDE. I would not recommend the product to others as its becoming obsolete and they can rather choose a middleware solution from Amazon or Azure. But I would overall rate the product a nine out of ten.

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Awa Sri

Director at Nehish Software Solutions

Offers valuable features of API management and protocol definition

The initial setup process of Oracle Service Bus is quite easy. The installation of the product can be completed in one or two hours, but the total deployment time varies from case to case. I believe the entire deployment of Oracle Service Bus can be finished within a day. One engineer is enough to deploy the solution. The solution can be easily maintained.

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MohanPrasad

Senior Consultant at Brillio

Smooth integration and enhanced deployment with high licensing cost

webMethods.io was used to integrate APIs through the webMethods.io platform, trigger database events, and connect backend APIs through a Java backend. It was used extensively for integration purposes in my organization Integration became smoother, troubleshooting was easier, and deployment and…

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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 WebSphere Message Broker is one of the best middleware solutions"

"The transactions and message queuing are the most valuable features of the solution."

"The solution has good integration."

"Straightforward development and deployment."

"The documentation, performance, stability and scalability of the tool are valuable."

"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's reliable for our day-to-day operations, ensuring fast and secure data integration across different systems."

"We only use the basic features, but the most valuable one for us is the Publish-subscribe pattern."

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"The main advantage of Oracle Service Bus is the possibility to integrate different systems using workflows and different architectures in the same product."

"Supports multiple protocol technologies and web services."

"Monitoring feature that allows tracking of the web's UI development."

"The most valuable feature is the adapters."

"The communication between applications is already defined, which means that you don't have to redefine your service infrastructure at the lower level."

"What I found most valuable in Oracle Service Bus is its time to market. It's excellent."

"There are always continuous improvements that are happening."

"The interface is fine and the solution is quite robust."

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"It is good for communicating between the systems and for publishing and subscribing. We can easily retrieve data. It is good in terms of troubleshooting and other things."

"From a user perspective, the feature which I like the most about Integration Server is its designer."

"What I like the most about the solution is that it comes with ready-made tools like handling security tokens and OAuth."

"The stability is good."

"It is a bundled product stack for A2A and B2B usage. It is one of the best products which I have used during my integration career."

"The main assets are its flow language, debugging, and Broker. Flow language is far better and more flexible for debugging."

"Application integration, business process integration, and B2B partner integration are valuable. But among these, I feel B2B partner integration is the most valuable. This module integrates two business partners and exchanges data through electronic data interchange messages in the form of specific standards, without any manual process needed."

"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."

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Cons

"As our business requirements evolve, we require more dynamic capabilities to adapt and scale our services accordingly."

"Stability and pricing are areas with shortcomings that need improvement."

"The installation configuration is quite difficult."

"Technical support is very slow and needs to be improved."

"The images and size of the containers are too big and I think that they should be more lightweight."

"It is currently a weighty product."

"The product's features are not being upgraded or enhanced by the vendor"

"Today I probably wouldn't go for Message Broker because of the cost structure, support, and the whole ecosystem around IBM."

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"The inconvenient part about working with this product is that it's very heavy, requiring a lot of people and a lot of resources."

"What needs improvement in Oracle Service Bus is the connectivity between adapters such as the Salesforce adapter and database adapters. The limited number of adapters compatible with Oracle Service Bus makes you want to switch to a different solution."

"This solution would benefit from having more cloud-based adapters."

"The initial setup is likely complex for many organizations."

"The interface console is very slow. Even in production, we need to increase the RAM or CPU. And even after that, the performance is still not good in production."

"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."

"Security features can be improved to better protect the server."

"The connectivity with the solution is an area that needs to be improved. On occasion, requests are lost due to losing connectivity."

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"Forced migration from MessageBroker to Universal Messaging requires large scale reimplementation for JMS."

"As webMethods Integration Server is expensive, that's its area for improvement."

"The on-premises setup can be difficult."

"Support is expensive."

"It is quite expensive."

"Prices should be reduced, ideally by up to 30% for long-term customers like us."

"Large file handling is pretty hard comparatively to other middleware tools."

"A potential drawback of webMethods.io API is its adaptability to legacy systems, which can vary in compatibility."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"IBM products are generally more stable and have more features, but also come at a greater cost."

"The licensing cost of IBM WebSphere Message Broker needs to be reduced"

"The price is very high and it's the main reason that we are searching for alternatives."

"IBM software can be costly, but having a contract has helped manage and potentially lower costs over time."

"The solution is expensive."

"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."

"We have an unlimited yearly license."

"Oracle Service Bus is a bit expensive"

"This is a very expensive product and the price varies depending on factors such as the number of processors and the number of users. Our licensing fees are approximately $300,000."

"The pricing is on the higher side."

"I'm not aware of how much Oracle Service Bus costs."

"The price of this solution is better than the subscription-based Mule ESB."

"The pricing and licensing costs for webMethods are very high, which is the only reason that we might switch to another product."

"I don’t have much idea about prices, but webMethods API Portal is not something cheaper."

"This is an expensive product and we may replace it with something more reasonably priced."

"The product is very expensive."

"Its cost depends on the use cases."

"Sometimes we don't have a very clear idea what the licensing will entail at first, because it can be very customizable. On one hand, this can be a good thing, because it can be tailored to a specific customer's needs. But on the other hand it can also be an issue when some customer asks, "What's the cost?" and we can't yet give them an accurate answer."

"I do see a lack of capabilities inside of the monetization area for them. They have a cloud infrastructure that is pay per use type of a thing. If you already use 1,000 transactions per se, then you can be charged and billed. I see room for improvement there for their side on that particular capability of the monetization."

"It is an expensive tool. I rate the product price a nine out of ten, where ten means it is very expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

29%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

13%

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM WebSphere Message Broker?

IBM software can be costly, but having a contract has helped manage and potentially lower costs over time.

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What needs improvement with IBM WebSphere Message Broker?

There could be greater flexibility and agility in service creation for the product. As our business requirements evol...

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What is your primary use case for IBM WebSphere Message Broker?

We use the product for exposing services at the application level, integrating with various architectures like WebSph...

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What do you like most about Oracle Service Bus?

The stability is consistently high, with only one notable issue encountered.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Service Bus?

I view both Oracle and IBM products as expensive. There are no significant differences in pricing between these produ...

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What needs improvement with Oracle Service Bus?

The main problem could be related to timeout issues. This can happen due to legacy systems that might not allow the u...

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What do you like most about Built.io Flow?

The tool helps us to streamline data integration. Its BPM is very strong and powerful. The solution helps us manage d...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Built.io Flow?

webMethods.io is expensive. We have multiple components, and you need to pay for each of them.

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What needs improvement with Built.io Flow?

webMethods.io needs to incorporate ChatGPT to enhance user experience. It can offer a customized user experience.

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Comparisons

IBM Integration Bus vs IBM WebSphere Message Broker

Compared 49% of the time

IBM DataPower Gateway vs IBM WebSphere Message Broker

Compared 13% of the time

IBM BPM vs IBM WebSphere Message Broker

Compared 10% of the time

Mule ESB vs IBM WebSphere Message Broker

Compared 10% of the time

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Mule ESB vs Oracle Service Bus

Compared 28% of the time

IBM Integration Bus vs Oracle Service Bus

Compared 25% of the time

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator vs Oracle Service Bus

Compared 14% of the time

Red Hat Fuse vs Oracle Service Bus

Compared 9% of the time

IBM DataPower Gateway vs Oracle Service Bus

Compared 6% of the time

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IBM App Connect vs webMethods.io

Compared 8% of the time

IBM Integration Bus vs webMethods.io

Compared 7% of the time

Apigee vs webMethods.io

Compared 7% of the time

IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services vs webMethods.io

Compared 4% of the time

Boomi iPaaS vs webMethods.io

Compared 4% of the time

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Also Known As

WebSphere Message Broker

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Built.io Flow, webMethods Integration Server, webMethods Trading Networks, webMethods ActiveTransfer, webMethods.io API

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.

IBM

Oracle Service Bus transforms complex and brittle architectures into agile integration networks by connecting, virtualizing, and managing interactions between services and applications. Oracle Service Bus delivers low-cost, standards-based integration for mission critical SOA environments where extreme performance, scalability and reliability are critical requirements.

Oracle Service Bus enables companies to use the values of their enterprise applications portfolio. From on-premise, to the cloud to mobile devices, Service Bus allows companies to leverage their existing investments in new ways by extending the performance and scalability leadership of Oracle SOA and API Management.

Oracle

webMethods.io Integration is a powerful integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that provides a combination of capabilities offered by ESBs, data integration systems, API management tools, and B2B gateways.

IBM

Sample Customers

WestJet, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Sharp Corporation, Michelin Tire

MakeMyTrip Ltd., Griffith University, Colab Consulting Pty. Ltd., Pacfico Seguros Generales, IGEPA IT-SERVICE GmbH, Guangzhou Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Pacfico Seguros Generales, Bank Audi S.A.L., Rydges Sydney Airport, Intelligent Pathways, Nacional Monte de Piedad IAP

Cisco, Agralogics, Dreamforce, Cables & Sensors, Sacramento Kings

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