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Aurea CX Messenger vs IBM MQ comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 27, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Aurea CX Messenger
Ranking in Business Activity Monitoring
4th
Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software
11th
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
9th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (13th), SOA Governance (6th)
IBM MQ
Ranking in Business Activity Monitoring
1st
Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software
1st
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
174
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category, the mindshare of Aurea CX Messenger is 3.7%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM MQ is 21.0%, down from 26.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Queue (MQ) Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM MQ21.0%
Aurea CX Messenger3.7%
Other75.3%
Message Queue (MQ) Software
 

Featured Reviews

Radhey Rajput - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. IT Analyst at NCR Corporation
Lightweight and efficient solution
It's very good and lightweight. But, it does not provide web service communication. But it is excellent for internal connections One valuable feature is the messaging broker. If there is a disruption, it restores the messages. And when the application is running, it delivers all the messages. The…
David Pizinger - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Technical Leader at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Has faced unexpected VM restarts but continues to deliver messages reliably
I'm not sure if we've utilized IBM MQ's high availability. Our MQ VMs are set up in clusters, and I think our queue managers are set up in pairs. However, I don't know if we actually use any specific high availability features of IBM MQ that are out of the box. We have it architected with high availability because we use F5 load balancers, and everything about our architecture is highly available. I haven't personally used the management tools with IBM MQ, but we do have them, and our middleware folks leverage them. I can't really comment on them because I don't use them myself. I don't think the management tools help optimize message flows, and I'm not really aware of how they help in this. I'm not familiar with dynamic routing for IBM MQ.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Before this, there was a separate front-end software setup for different departments in the organization, which is now clubbed together and provides a single platform for all departments functioning on different business aspects."
"SDM: User-friendly tool which allows for a seamless approach to performing hotfixes, if required."
"The solution's stability is excellent; it's one of the best features, and we haven't experienced any bugs or glitches that have affected its performance."
"Easy to deploy new services."
"The solution is highly scalable, this is very important for us. It can handle a lot of messages."
"My advice to anyone considering Aurea CX Messenger is just try it; from my experience, it is very easy to deploy, very easy to develop and to implement in production."
"Sonic is lightweight, scalable, and does the work; easy to start, setup, and manage, and compared with Oracle much easier and cheaper."
"ESB: Provides all kind of possibilities to resolve business needs. A lot of ready to use services plus custom Java services. I used a lot of them all."
"MQ is a very quiet product: It does what it's supposed to do, is very reliable and scalable, and when there is a problem it's usually because someone did something wrong or wrote something wrong, and once that gets corrected, it just keeps running day and night without missing a beat."
"From the infrastructure point of view, it's a great improvement and it's more flexible to the latest hardware."
"All the features are valuable."
"MQ was, to me, pretty much the gold standard in regards to what it does."
"Secure, safe, and very fast."
"The best thing about IBM MQ solution is that it's guaranteed delivery and it's fast."
"So far, it's helped us with our Maximo integration between the users and the database administrators."
"I'd advise new users to try it out as it is easy to integrate, scalable, and stable."
 

Cons

"Aurea CX Messenger could improve by making better use of the new APIs"
"I would definitely like to see marketing for this product."
"The improvement is that it should be on the cloud and use web services."
"You should not hurry with upgrades without testing the whole product completely."
"The 2015 version was a nightmare at the beginning compared with 2013 version."
"Another issue, which again, I'm not aware if they already have because we have not updated to the latest version, but all the DevOps features would be nice to have because right now they are using their own deployment features."
"The solution needs to improve support for new, more recent protocols on the API."
"They should not be frequently upgrading the product version."
"I would like to see message duplication included."
"the level of training as well as product marketing for this product are not that great. You rarely find a good training institute that provides training. Many of the architects in several organization are neither aware of the product nor interested in using it. IBM should provide good training on products like this."
"One possible area with room for improvement is some integration with the alert system to alert us in case of any failure of any message to be transmitted from one source to another; maybe that could help."
"The price is always an issue."
"Maybe the administration interface could be improved."
"IBM MQ could improve capacity, monitoring, and automatization."
"Maybe processing could be faster, in terms of EPS."
"We've used it and it hasn't been great. It didn't seem like we could get the answers we needed without having to use professional services."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is not so high."
"You pay nothing for licensing, because the commercial model is a subscription. Other environments, such as QA and Development, are included in the subscription"
"Much better than Oracle SOA Suite."
"The price is high."
"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the tool's price a seven. The product is expensive."
"This solution requires a license and we have purchased an enterprise license."
"The pricing needs improvement."
"Our costs haven't increased but they also have not improved."
"The price of IBM MQ could improve by being less expensive."
"I think IBM needs to look at its pricing. The prices of IBM products should be simple. The old way of pricing should now be moving on to the cloud to be pay as you go, a plan-based kind of pricing."
"The solution costs are high, it is going to cost a fair bit for annual operating costs and support."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
11%
Non Profit
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise19
Large Enterprise147
 

Questions from the Community

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Also Known As

CX Messenger Enterprise, Aurea Sonic ESB, Aurea Sonic, Aurea Sonic MQ
WebSphere MQ
 

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Sample Customers

Heathrow, HomeServe, Paypal, Freedom Mortgage
Deutsche Bahn, Bon-Ton, WestJet, ARBURG, Northern Territory Government, Tata Steel Europe, Sharp Corporation
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