Aurea CX Messenger vs webMethods.io comparison

"The Messenger Broker is a really good feature."

"The solution offers excellent stability."

"The solution is highly scalable, this is very important for us. It can handle a lot of messages."

"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."

"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is very easy to develop. Most of it is graphical, but we also have the option to add any custom call that you need."

"SDM: User-friendly tool which allows for a seamless approach to performing hotfixes, if required."

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

"It integrates well with various servers."

"The most valuable feature of the webMethods Integration Server is its reliability. It has a lot of great documentation from the service providers. Additionally, it is easy to use."

"I like the solution's policies, transformation, mediation, and routing features."

"One [of the most valuable features] is the webMethods Designer. That helps our developers develop on their own. It's very intuitive for design. It helps our developers to speed the development of services for the integrations."

"With webMethods, the creation of servers and the utilization of Trading Networks facilitate B2B integration. It resolves any related issues effectively."

"I would say the core Web-based integrations work the best. They are the most efficient and robust implementations one can do with webMethods."

"We needed a tool that was able to orchestrate and help us configure our APIs so that we could maintain and see the heartbeat, traffic, trends, etc."

"You should not hurry with upgrades without testing the whole product completely."

"It should include/add more services with the product as per market demand. It should include custom Java services developed by any organization or provide a platform where users/developers can share ideas/custom services, etc."

"The improvement is that it should be on the cloud and use web services."

"Aurea CX Messenger could improve by making better use of the new APIs"

"I don't know if the last version has the cloud option, but maybe that could be good. That could be something that is included."

"The solution needs to improve support for new, more recent protocols on the API."

"This is a great solution and the vendor could improve the marketing of the solution to be able to reach more clients."

"Other products have been using AI and cloud enhancements, but webMethods Integration Server is still lagging in that key area."

"The on-premises setup can be difficult."

"With performance, there is room for improvement in regards to if we would like to put another extra layer of security on it, such as SSL. This is affecting their performance quite significantly. They need to improve the process of managing the SSL and other things inside their solutions, so there will not be quite such a significant impact to the performance."

"​Large file handling is pretty hard comparatively to other middleware tools."

"Support is expensive."

"When migration happens from the one release to an upgraded release from Software AG, many of the existing services are deprecated and developers have to put in effort testing and redeveloping some of the services. It would be better that upgrade releases took care to support the lower-level versions of webMethods."

"It is quite expensive."

"You pay nothing for licensing, because the commercial model is a subscription. Other environments, such as QA and Development, are included in the subscription"

"The pricing is not so high."

"Much better than Oracle SOA Suite."

"The price is high and I give it a five out of ten."

"The product is very expensive."

"There are no hidden costs in addition to the standard licensing fees for webMethods. For corporate organizations, it's a very cheap or fairly priced product, but for growing or small businesses, it's quite expensive. These businesses would probably need to consider an enterprise services bus at some point. Thus, from a pricing point, it closes out non-cooperate businesses."

"The solution's development license is free for three to six months. We have to pay for other things."

"It is a cost-effective solution."

"Currently, the licensing solution for this product is pretty straightforward. The way that Software AG has moved in their licensing agreements is very understandable. It is very easy for you to see where things land. Like most vendors today, they are transaction based. Therefore, just having a good understanding of how many transactions that you are doing a year would be very wise. Luckily, there are opportunities to work with the vendor to get a good understanding of how many transactions you have and what is the right limit for you to fall under."

"The solution’s pricing is too high."

"Initialy good pricing and good, if it comes to Enterprise license agreements."