We performed a comparison between Oracle Service Bus and webMethods Integration Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Monitoring feature that allows tracking of the web's UI development."
"The communication between applications is already defined, which means that you don't have to redefine your service infrastructure at the lower level."
"The routing and aggregation are the most valuable features. It's split and join."
"We've been pleased with the level of technical support."
"The solution is quite stable overall. We haven't witnessed any performance issues so far."
"What I found most valuable in Oracle Service Bus is its time to market. It's excellent."
"Overall it is a pretty good solution."
"The interface is fine and the solution is quite robust."
"webMethods Integration Server is an easy-to-use solution and does not require a lot of coding."
"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."
"We needed a tool that was able to orchestrate and help us configure our APIs so that we could maintain and see the heartbeat, traffic, trends, etc."
"It's very flexible and a good platform to use."
"I like the stability of the webMethods Integration Server."
"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."
"One valuable feature is that it is event-driven, so when new data is available on the source it can be quickly processed and displayed. Integration is definitely another useful feature, and B2B is one area where webMethods has its own unique thing going, whereby we can do monitoring of transactions, monitoring of client onboarding, and so on."
"Application integrations are offered out-of-the-box, and that is extremely important to us. This is one of the main use cases that we have for it. It is about 60 to 70 percent of the workload in our application today."
"We have faced a problem with the heap memory side, but that is stable now."
"Security needs to be more integrated."
"Security features can be improved to better protect the server."
"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."
"The pricing of the product could be better. It's a bit high."
"It would be ideal if they could optimize it a bit."
"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."
"The Software AG Designer could be more memory-efficient or CPU-efficient so that we can use it with middle-spec hardware."
"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."
"The certifications and learning resources are not exposed openly enough. For instance, they have a trial version which comes with only a few basic features, and I think that community-wise they need to offer more free or open spaces where developers can feel encouraged to experiment."
"Support is expensive."
"There should be better logging, or a better dashboard, to allow you to see see the logs of the services."
"The solution has big instances when deployed under microservices or in a containerized platform. They need to improve that so that it is competitive with other integration solutions, like Redis and Kafka. Deployments under microservices with those solutions are much more lightweight, in the size of the runtime itself, compared with Software AG."
"We'd like for them to open up to a more cloud-based solution that could offer more flexibility and maybe a better rules engine or more integration with rules engines."
"It would be nice if they had a change management system offering. We built our own deployer application because the one built into webMethods couldn't enforce change management rules. Integration into a change management system, along with the version control system, would be a good offering; it's something that they're lacking."
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Oracle Service Bus is ranked 6th in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 12 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 1st in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 22 reviews. Oracle Service Bus is rated 7.6, while webMethods Integration Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle Service Bus writes "Oracle Serice Bus is a beautiful platform for integration based on Orchestraion with a powerful process engine and many connectors and additional tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of webMethods Integration Server writes "Its single hybrid-integration platform makes it easy to troubleshoot and quickly resolve issues. Upgrades are complex". Oracle Service Bus is most compared with Mule ESB, IBM Integration Bus, Red Hat Fuse, TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with Mule ESB, SAP Process Orchestration, IBM Integration Bus, TIBCO BusinessWorks and Boomi AtomSphere Integration. See our Oracle Service Bus vs. webMethods Integration Server report.
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