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"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.""The transactions and message queuing are the most valuable features of the solution.""The solution has good integration.""Performance-wise, this solution is really good.""It is a scalable solution...The setup is easy.""It has many interfaces and you can connect to any backend source that has another format, and convert it to the desired format.""The documentation, performance, stability and scalability of the tool are valuable.""Integration and mapping are easy, which is a major advantage."

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"Internal workflow approval around ESS and MSS leave days, capex approval as well as internal communication to the business have improved the way my organization functions.""From the use of this solution, we have been able to establish better processes and have greater management of our company.""They integrated it with the SAP router.""Workflow functionality and internal portal capabilities are the most important features."

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

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"The user interface could be improved by making it more user-friendly.""External portal functionality with suppliers and customers needs improvement.""Due to our business, some setups were very complex.""We encountered stability issues, especially on external functionality around its RFP capabilities.""Our customers expect that a page will open within one second, and I doubt this will happen. Also, opening documentation takes time. Fixing this will help the customer and help to meet their expectations."

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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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  • "​SAP is not for every business. It depends on what is required. SAP is always going to be expensive​."
  • "Because India is so competitive in the IT world, people will start to move away from SAP's pricing because they have a market monopoly. Soon, they will start losing the monopoly part to open source and other things. I don't think their monopoly will run for more than three to four years because people are getting away from these monopolies."
  • "The cost of this solution is high."
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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.
    Top Answer:Stability and pricing are areas with shortcomings that need improvement.
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    Also Known As
    WebSphere Message Broker
    NetWeaver Enterprise Portal, SAP Portal
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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.
    SAP Enterprise Portal allows to create attractive corporate portals that leverage the responsive SAP Fiori launchpad experience. The portal is the Web front-end component for SAP NetWeaver, the comprehensive integration and application platform that facilitates the alignment of people, information, and business processes across organizational and technical boundaries. It's ideal for organizations who require access to many applications and services across system landscapes, especially across JAVA and ABAP-based landscapes. The portal offers a single point of access to SAP and non-SAP information sources, enterprise applications, information repositories, databases and services, in and outside your organization. The portal can be accessed from desktops and from mobile devices, it can provide with the tools to manage and analyze its information resources, and to share and collaborate. With its role-based content, and personalization features, the portal enables users - from employees and customers to partners and suppliers - to focus exclusively on data relevant to daily decision-making processes. The technology and architecture of the portal ensures it is built for the enterprise, providing a secure and scalable environment.
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    Financial Services Firm27%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Insurance Company9%
    Retailer6%
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    University19%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Government8%
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    Large Enterprise82%
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    Midsize Enterprise11%
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    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    IBM WebSphere Message Broker is ranked 10th in Application Infrastructure with 11 reviews while SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal is ranked 21st in Application Infrastructure. IBM WebSphere Message Broker is rated 7.8, while SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal is rated 8.0. 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 SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal writes "The UI makes the setup easy to do from anywhere". IBM WebSphere Message Broker is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods Integration Server, Mule ESB, IBM DataPower Gateway and IBM BPM, whereas SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal is most compared with Microsoft .NET Framework, NGINX Plus, Apache Web Server, IBM DataPower Gateway and IBM WebSphere Application Server.

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