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Categories and Ranking

IBM Integration Bus
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
70
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Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (2nd)
Sopera Advanced Service Fac...
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
9.1
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

RA
Associate Consultant at MindCraft Software Pvt. Ltd.
Efficient data transformation and seamless integration drive successful deployments
As for improvements in IBM Integration Bus, we are getting another feature of the retry mechanism now. Version 8.13 was upgraded, and we started using the retry mechanism itself, and we are using nodes in the development level. They are improving one of the nodes such as the HTTP request node, implementing the indirect retry mechanism itself, and we are getting new features.
SG
Managing Consultant, Techno-Functional, Integration Architect at Gauri Ltd
Functional administrative controls, highly scalable, and reliable
ESB will connect in real-time data between the two systems. For example, for one of our customers, we implemented Salesforce and with an on-premises system but the account master data and project master data did not work together. As soon as it requests the information, I have to fix the data from the SAP on-premise with this solution. This is the use case for service and sales implementations. The solution has enabled us to be able to fix our data by combining the cloud and on-premises systems which has helped a lot.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"In summary, I can recommend this product because it is easy and straightforward to learn and use."
"We've been pleased with the solution's reliability; it's stable, it doesn't crash or freeze, I don't recall facing any bugs or glitches, and it just works well all the time."
"Yes IIB help us to shape up our organization in service oriented architecture."
"The message queue connectors are the most valuable feature. They have built-in connectors for most of the systems, like SAP and Oracle Database."
"IIB is a good candidate to enable all heterogeneous systems to exchange data smoothly without any effort."
"This solution is very reliable and it is easy to learn."
"My favorite feature is the XML-based DFDL mapping, which is a tool that allows you to graphically map legacy data formats to modern data formats."
"The most valuable features of the IBM Integration Bus are flexibility. It's also an alternative for integrating it with other projects, which we are not ready at this time to do, such as switching to tunnels. The tunnels would be used with other partners to make sure everything is secured."
"I have found the best feature are the administrative controls."
"The solution has enabled us to be able to fix our data by combining the cloud and on-premises systems which has helped a lot."
 

Cons

"This solution would benefit from improvements to the configuration interface. It is hard to understand, and one small change can have a huge impact."
"There are a couple of things I want improved, but I think they have already touched upon all those things in the most recent version. I'm not using the most recent version—I use a version older than the most recent—but I'm sure that if I looked into and explored it, I would see more support on the CI/CD and more support for unit testing automation. I've read that they released all these things in the new version of App Connect. Once I explore the new version of this tool, I'll probably have a better idea of suggested improvements."
"The price could be better. It would also be better if they simplified the code."
"Performance can be an issue sometimes. The tool occasionally crashes due to memory-related problems. We've reported these issues to IBM, and they are actively working on improving the tooling experience."
"IBM Integration Bus can improve JSON Schema validations. We don't have any kind of nodes that can support that kind of validation. If we want to containerize it by means of the docker's containers in the clouds, we are not able to manage it very well."
"Technical support is something that should be better."
"IBM Integration Bus solution is expensive and this is one of the reasons we are looking for an alternative, such as MuleSoft."
"IBM Integration Bus can improve by implementing no-code or drag-and-drop adapters development, similar to what is available in Red Hat."
"This solution is running on the Eclipse platform and this is where all the designing takes place. The Eclipse performance should be improved. The Open Studio tool we have been using for the development is not up to the industry standard and the performance should be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution requires a license and is very expensive here in India."
"IBM Integration Bus is expensive."
"The price of the IBM Integration Bus is expensive. If you compare the price to the cloud version you can purchase what you need but the on-premise version price is flat."
"The price is reasonable considering the features we receive."
"The pricing could be improved to make it more competitive."
"IBM Integration Bus itself is prices fair but App-Connect is a bit expensive which we use in conjunction with it."
"It is a highly-priced solution."
"The price of this product could be lower."
"This solution is less expensive than competitors."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
15%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
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Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise47
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Questions from the Community

Migration from IBM Integration Bus to Mulesoft ESB for a large enterprise tech services company
I was previously part of the Oracle SOA/OSB development team. In my current capacity I architected solutions using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform on cloud / on-premises and hybrid modes and on PCE/RTF ...
IBM Integration Bus vs Mule ESB - which to choose?
Our team ran a comparison of IBM’s Integration Bus vs. Mule ESB in order to determine what sort of ESB software was the best fit for our organization. Ultimately we decided to choose IBM Integratio...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Integration Bus?
Regarding the pricing setup cost and licensing for IBM Integration Bus, I believe it is expensive. The IBM tool is now expensive because they moved to the cloud. I am not sure about the previous co...
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Also Known As

IBM WebSphere ESB
Advanced Service Factory
 

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Sample Customers

Salesbox, €sterreichische Bundesbahnen (€BB), Road Buddy, Swiss Federal Railways, Electricity Supply Board, The Hartree Centre, ESB Networks
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