We performed a comparison between Oracle Service Bus, TIBCO ActiveMatrix 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)."This product is not complicated and very easy to learn."
"Supports multiple protocol technologies and web services."
"There are always continuous improvements that are happening."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that you can connect with different applications."
"Overall it is a pretty good solution."
"I am a part of the software developing team and I mainly use this solution for the integrating applications."
"The solution is quite stable overall. We haven't witnessed any performance issues so far."
"The stability is consistently high, with only one notable issue encountered."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that the performance is robust."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a service-oriented architecture, SOA-based."
"It's very stable and reliable."
"The stability of this solution is excellent."
"The product’s most valuable feature is stability."
"The technology is really easy to learn."
"TIBCO has the platform in terms of speed and ease of use."
"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."
"From a user perspective, the feature which I like the most about Integration Server is its designer."
"Given that you have one integration API in place, it takes very minimal effort to scale it to any other application that might want to use the same. Its flow-based development environment is a breeze and makes it really easy to re-use most of the existing components and build up a new API."
"Broker and UM are the best features."
"It's a visual tool, so our transformations can be quickly implemented without a lot of fuss. The fact that we have an easy way to expose REST services is also very interesting. It offers the possibility to connect over GMS to synchronize message brokers."
"What I found most valuable in webMethods Integration Server is that it's a strong ESB. It also has strong API modules and portals."
"One of the most important features is that it gives you the possibility to do low-level integration. It provides a lot of features out of the box, and over the years, it has matured so much that any problem that is there in the market can be solved with this product. We can meet any requirements through customizations, transformations, or the logic that needs to be put in. Some of the other products struggle in this aspect. They cannot do things in a certain way, or they have a product limitation, whereas, with webMethods, I have never faced this kind of problem."
"It has a good integration server, designer, and a very good API portal."
"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."
"The inconvenient part about working with this product is that it's very heavy, requiring a lot of people and a lot of resources."
"Security features can be improved to better protect the server."
"If they can containerize this, that would be nice. If they can provide docker images and offer support for those containers, that would be great."
"This solution would benefit from having more cloud-based adapters."
"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."
"It's very complex and hard to learn. There's a steep learning curve."
"This solution should work better with RESTful services."
"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."
"The solution is very expensive when you use multiple components, it would b better if this could be reduced."
"We'd like to see improvements in product support."
"Our version does not have cloud capabilities."
"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."
"In the next release, there should be improvements made to the API manager."
"In the configuration, where we need to customize, it takes more time that we expect it to, ideally."
"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."
"Upgrades are complex. They typically take about five months from start to finish. There are many packages that plug into webMethods Integration Server, which is the central point for a vast majority of the transactions at my organization. Anytime we are upgrading that, there are complexities within each component that we must understand. That makes any upgrade very cumbersome and complicated. That has been my experience at this company. Because there are many different business units that we are touching, there are so many different components that we are touching. The amount of READMEs that you have to go through takes some time."
"As webMethods Integration Server is expensive, that's its area for improvement."
"This product has too many gaps. You find them after update installations. This should be covered by automatic testing."
"The UI for the admin console is very old. It hasn't been updated for years and is pretty much the same one that we started with. This is something that could be refreshed and made more modern."
"t doesn't represent OOP very well, just a method and proprietary interface called IData."
"In terms of improvement, it would be better if it adapted quicker to open standards. It took a while for API specification before the last version was available. The spec of version two was rather quick."
"Business monitoring (BAM) needs improvement because the analytics and prediction module very often has performance problems."
"Other products have been using AI and cloud enhancements, but webMethods Integration Server is still lagging in that key area."
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