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Axway AMPLIFY Application Integration vs IBM B2B Integrator comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Axway AMPLIFY Application I...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (59th)
IBM B2B Integrator
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
47
Ranking in other categories
Business-to-Business Middleware (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Axway AMPLIFY Application Integration and IBM B2B Integrator aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Axway AMPLIFY Application Integration is designed for Data Integration and holds a mindshare of 0.8%, up 0.6% compared to last year.
IBM B2B Integrator, on the other hand, focuses on Business-to-Business Middleware, holds 8.6% mindshare, up 6.5% since last year.
Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Axway AMPLIFY Application Integration0.8%
SSIS4.0%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)3.8%
Other91.4%
Data Integration
Business-to-Business Middleware Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM B2B Integrator8.6%
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform9.8%
SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite9.6%
Other72.0%
Business-to-Business Middleware
 

Featured Reviews

GC
Principal Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
The solution is robust and affordable, but it needs to improve its scalability and visibility of integrations
The initial setup is easy. It is very simple to start with. The last release from Axway provided many ways to simplify and speed up integration. The solution is deployed on the cloud and on-premises. We use Google, Amazon, and Azure as our cloud providers. The time taken for deployment is very short because the tool is robust.
reviewer2742345 - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager Neverhack Spain at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Experience with robust integrator reveals strong performance and potential for interface updates
Based on my experience and my clients' feedback, there are a few points IBM can improve for IBM B2B Integrator. One of these is the graphical user interface. For several years, IBM has been promising to renew this interface, which has an ancient, old aesthetic, though it contains many functionalities. Creating a new interface would incur a very high internal cost with no new profitability for IBM. This is one of the points where customers say it feels like working in the 1990s with this interface. Another significant issue is that the platform is not multi-tenant. It's not possible to have different tenants in the cloud. This creates problems when trying to create SaaS offers based on IBM B2B Integrator, as there is the possibility that some workflow for a customer can be visible to another one. Since it's not multi-tenant, it's running on the same tenant of the platform. This is the main issue that the platform has.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature is that API Gateway is extremely flexible for any feature, such as connecting to Active Directory to pull the users and their authentication information."
"Axway AMPLIFY Application Integration is very easy to use."
"Axway AMPLIFY Application Integration is quite a stable solution."
"The product is robust."
"The most valuable feature is that API Gateway is extremely flexible for any feature, such as connecting to Active Directory to pull the users and their authentication information. There are three ways to connect to Active Directory, and the reason for this is that the computing environments of our customers are very different. Every feature in API Gateway has got multiple methodologies for accomplishing those tasks, which is important because customers are constantly changing their security models, IT models, networks, etc. API Gateway is very flexible. It is not a one size fits all sort of situation where it is very rigid, and you can only use these pull-down menus, and that's all it ever does. It is much more open than that. It can give you fabulous reports on your users, usage, security issues, and the data sets that are going through there. You'll suddenly have visibility on the movement of data within or between your organization and other organizations. The other thing is that you're connecting API to API, which is machine to machine. The things that were done manually in an Excel spreadsheet before exchanging data through email are now done machine to machine and server to server. It speeds up the velocity of your business."
"If anybody has a B2Bi business case, this is definitely one of the solutions, a mature solution in the market that they can consider."
"They've modernized the solution recently and added some things where BDI translators have been around for a long time, and they've added things like advanced coms and global mailboxing to make it much more real-time with higher availability."
"As I've mentioned, the reason why we chose Sterling B2B Integrator instead of others was that it has an end-to-end solution."
"The solution is fast and easy to use."
"It helps us to consolidate multiple divisions into one Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) source."
"They get better and better every time they have a new version."
"The valuable feature is the ability to integrate across various enterprise systems."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and the range of EDI standards that IBM Sterling can handle."
 

Cons

"The product must improve its visibility and scalability."
"The most important point to improve is the capability to deploy in large enterprises."
"Because it is so flexible, you really need someone who knows Axway Gateway or has been through the training and is certified."
"The problem is the registry to configure the systems, and it's not really scalable for companies with offices worldwide."
"Because it is so flexible, you really need someone who knows Axway Gateway or has been through the training and is certified. Just because you know APIs doesn't mean you're going to walk into that API Gateway and understand what to click on. If you're going to get something done quickly, you need to find an engineer from a company who has some experience with it. It is easy to learn, but if you're doing on-the-job training, it is going to take you longer to get your project accomplished."
"We often need to change property files for accounts, and I don't always have access to them. For core mapping, we need to install JDK"
"With Sterling Integrator, as it comes out of the box, there's not a lot of things that have been developed; a lot of it you have to develop yourself with BPML and developing APIs and things like that for web solutions and the front end."
"The one thing that is lacking is easy visibility. It's hard to provide business users with a view into the statuses of their transactions."
"API integration could be improved. The legacy system could be on the cloud."
"We did experience stability issues. That part I'm not too happy about."
"There is no end-to-end built in visibility at least until we moved to IBM managed services."
"There's a lot still to be improved in the component, as there are many challenges in terms of B2B tools."
"Better integration with other IBM products is definitely the main piece with room for improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Users need to pay an annual licensing fee for the solution."
"API Gateway is priced on the number of transactions you run through it. API Gateway is free, and you can install as many API Gateways as you like or are necessary for your network. For example, if all of the data is inside your network or firewall, you may just need one API Gateway. If you have external customers trying to come into your organization through your firewall, you're going to need one API Gateway outside the firewall and one inside the firewall. If you have a lot of remote offices, you may want to put API Gateway in some of those offices as well. They only charge you for your usage of it. In other words, the number of transactions going through it. That's a good benefit."
"The product is not expensive."
"The solution is priced at $20,000 to $30,000 per year with no extra costs."
"The product costs more than 40K."
"Licensing depends upon the package you opt for within the solution. The solution is a bit costly compared to the other integration tools in the market."
"We pay an annual fee based on the number of VPUs. It's fairly reasonable. We're in the middle of analyzing other products, and they're all pretty much in the same range."
"The price of IBM B2B Integrator is too high. However, IBM may be willing to give a discount if there are negotiations. If they see that there is a good opportunity for them they can provide a discount."
"The pricing is based on how many cores are used and the type of cores."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Construction Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Outsourcing Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise32
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM B2B Integrator?
Regarding pricing, IBM B2B Integrator rates in the middle range. This integrator has embedded all the functionality needed to handle files and messages. It tends to be very expensive because the IB...
What needs improvement with IBM B2B Integrator?
From the automation perspective, IBM B2B Integrator has its own powerful workflow, but compared to other applications such as MuleSoft or Boomi, they have many cloud connectors and multiple connect...
What is your primary use case for IBM B2B Integrator?
IBM B2B Integrator is majorly used in banks for managed file transfer, integrating with their external and internal applications for large files, especially huge files which need to be transferred,...
 

Also Known As

Integrator, Axway Integrator, AMPLIFY Application Integration
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, Sterling Gentran Integration Suite
 

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Sample Customers

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