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webMethods.io pros and cons

Vendor: IBM

4.0 out of 5

94 reviews
94% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

WebMethods.io offers high throughput, scalability, and comprehensive integration capabilities, including application, B2B interactions, and robust modules for Oracle and Salesforce. The Integration Server provides reliable ESB and strong API features, yet faces challenges with large-scale reimplementation, pricing, and complex migration. Despite its API Gateway managing APIs efficiently, users report stability issues, replacement of old components, and difficulties handling large files, resulting in performance concerns for files over 16 MB and affordability for smaller businesses.

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PROS

webMethods.io offers high throughput and excellent scalability, functioning well for both A2A and B2B processes.

It provides ease of implementation and flexible handling of business logic, integrating Enterprise Gateway, Adapter, TN, Java, and BPM.

Its flow-based development environment allows minimal effort in scaling integration APIs and reusing components effectively.

With powerful monitoring features like Insight, webMethods.io significantly aids in crisis management and efficient operations.

The platform enables application integration, communication, and data exchange, particularly excelling in B2B partner integration through electronic data interchange.

CONS

webMethods.io requires significant effort in transitioning existing services during version upgrades, causing disruption.

Users report high pricing and expensive licensing costs, especially for long-term users.

Challenges exist with stability and performance, particularly when integrating additional security layers.

The logging functionality is inadequate, complicating transaction history management without standalone solutions.

API monetization and advanced analytics are lacking, requiring external tools for comprehensive monitoring.

webMethods.io Pros review quotes

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Product Group Lead Warehousing Solutions at Kühne + Nagel (AG & Co.) KG

Jul 10, 2017

High throughput and excellent scalability.

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Works at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Jul 13, 2017

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.

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Associate Vice President at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 18, 2017

Ease of implementation and flexibility to hold the business logic are the most valuable features.

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Ivan Herlambang

Integration Engineer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Dec 20, 2018

It's obvious that the heart of the product lies here. It's comprised of all aspects of ESB (Enterprise Gateway, Adapter, TN, Java) and BPM (task, rules engine).

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Technical Architect

Sep 19, 2017

They are the building blocks of EAI in SAG products, and they offer a very good platform.

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WebMethods / Java Developer at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sep 20, 2017

How simple it is to create new solutions.

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Technology Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 24, 2017

It frankly fills the gap between IT and business by having approval and policy enforcement on each state and cycle of the asset from the moment it gets created until it is retired.

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Senior Consultant

Feb 14, 2018

webMethods platform is used to build an EAI platform, enabling communication between many internal systems and third-party operators.

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IT Delivery Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 6, 2018

Best feature is Insight for monitoring, and as a debugging tool. It has saved us a lot of time during crisis situations.

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Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 7, 2018

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.

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webMethods.io Cons review quotes

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Product Group Lead Warehousing Solutions at Kühne + Nagel (AG & Co.) KG

Jul 10, 2017

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

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Works at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Jul 13, 2017

Need to see more API portal features like monetizing APIs and private cloud readiness.

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Associate Vice President at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 18, 2017

wM SAP Adapter User Guide - Example, like Message Broker setup was unclear, leading to issues during Testing and we had refer the internet forums to understand that there is a Message Broker Cleanup utility and that needs to be setup as well.

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Ivan Herlambang

Integration Engineer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Dec 20, 2018

t doesn't represent OOP very well, just a method and proprietary interface called IData.

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Technical Architect

Sep 19, 2017

This product is for larger companies. Compared to TIBCO I think webMethods is better in terms of ease of use and support.

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WebMethods / Java Developer at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sep 20, 2017

In terms of scale, I would give it a four out of 10.

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Technology Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 24, 2017

Rapid application development has to be considered, especially for UI, where user interference is crucial.

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Senior Consultant

Feb 14, 2018

Business monitoring (BAM) needs improvement because the analytics and prediction module very often has performance problems.

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IT Delivery Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 6, 2018

The product needs to be improved in a few ways. First, they need to stabilize the components of the whole platform across versions. Also, they should stop replacing old components with brand new ones and, rather, improve by evolution.

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Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 7, 2018

The stability of the various modules of the product suite have been a bit of a concern lately. Though their support team is always easy to reach out to, I would prefer it not come to that.

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