We performed a comparison between IBM WebSphere Message Broker and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a scalable solution...The setup is easy."
"We only use the basic features, but the most valuable one for us is the Publish-subscribe pattern."
"Performance-wise, this solution is really good."
"The documentation, performance, stability and scalability of the tool are valuable."
"The solution has good integration."
"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."
"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 most valuable features are the monitoring, ease of use, and easy to understand development GUI."
"The most attractive and beneficial feature is the ease of development."
"TIBCO has the platform in terms of speed and ease of use."
"It is easy to develop. It has a very wide range of features. The older versions are very stable, and there are no issues with the product."
"It's very stable and reliable."
"The stability of this solution is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a service-oriented architecture, SOA-based."
"The solution is very stable."
"The user interface is designed mainly for experts, much in the way a BPM or another integration tool is."
"It is currently a weighty product."
"The images and size of the containers are too big and I think that they should be more lightweight."
"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."
"Technical support is good but they could have a better response time."
"Stability and pricing are areas with shortcomings that need improvement."
"Technical support is very slow and needs to be improved."
"Today I probably wouldn't go for Message Broker because of the cost structure, support, and the whole ecosystem around IBM."
"The initial setup process could be easier."
"We'd like to see improvements in product support."
"Issues with the support, the fees, and the termination of the professional services are reasons we are looking for other solutions."
"I don't like the product's API management platform, as it doesn't offer users enough functionality to help with API lifecycle management, making it a product that is way behind its competitors."
"The solution is very expensive when you use multiple components, it would b better if this could be reduced."
"Our version does not have cloud capabilities."
"If TIBCO could be able to sort the size of their base image in the Container edition, it would be really marvelous. Right now it's around 299 MB. We'd really want it to reduce to a few MBs."
"The intermediate version that we are using has stability issues. These stability issues should be resolved, but it seems like TIBCO is not focusing on resolving these issues. The resolution timelines are quite high even for high-priority incidents. Its price should be lower. Its licensing cost is considerably high as compared to other ESBs."
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IBM WebSphere Message Broker is ranked 8th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 11 reviews while TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is ranked 9th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 12 reviews. IBM WebSphere Message Broker is rated 7.8, while TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus 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 TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus writes "A robust product that needs to improve the functionality it offers related to API lifecycle management". IBM WebSphere Message Broker is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods Integration Server, Mule ESB and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Mule ESB, Oracle Service Bus and Red Hat Fuse. See our IBM WebSphere Message Broker vs. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus report.
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