IBM Transformation Extender Reviews

Any-to-any transformations are possible with this product. This is one of the very rare products that supports transformation of data from any format to any other format on the planet. In addition, it also provides plugins/packages for industry data standards like HIPAA, SWIFT, HL7, etc.

Development of transformations is easier and quicker.

My clients are able to easily embrace various industry standard data formats enabling them to support their customers who exchange data in different formats.

The whole WTX suite is the most valuable to me. Every single feature of this product is unique, highly flexible, and scalable for the user's needs. Some examples are:

• Type trees where we define the formats
• WTX maps where we define the business rules for conversion
• Integration designer where we deploy our maps
• The best part is that it can be integrated with any of the standard industry formats: SWIFT, ISO, supply chain, and healthcare standards

I used this product in one of the top five global banks, where the application was built on the WTX suite. This suite was acting as a payment engine connecting the front-end and back-end applications. The amount of volume that it handled was enormous.

This application was one of the highly critical applications in handling almost all of the Asia-Pacific and Middle East volumes and a part of Europe's volume, as well.

The software itself is easy to code, design, and deploy. It was very stable and we never hit any outages during my experience.

The most valuable features are the multiple capabilities that it provides. We use it in a couple of our applications. It's pretty flexible. It's quick to code in, so that also makes a difference.

We use a lot of IBM products, so it's well integrated within the IBM infrastructure. We've got ELAs with IBM, so it's easy in terms of the support. It works out well and it's pretty stable.

We use the mapping tools. We use the solution for mapping. It maps to our data format and then we insert it to the mainframe.

Different trading partners have different file sets. It is very difficult to map their data format into our format. This is a nice tool which converts one format of data to another format.