IBM App Connect vs WSO2 Enterprise Integrator comparison

The compared IBM and WSO2 solutions aren't in the same category. IBM is ranked #11 in CDI , with an average rating of 8.2, and holds a 4.7% mindshare in the category. WSO2 is ranked #25 in DI , with an average rating of 8.1, and holds a 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of WSO2 users who would recommend it.

IBM App Connect

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100% willing to recommend

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

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75% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and WSO2 Enterprise Integrator based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed IBM App Connect vs. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator Report (Updated: May 2023).

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IBM App Connect vs. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

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

Categories and Ranking

IBM App Connect

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Data Integration (11th)

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (25th), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (7th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Data Integration and Access solutions, they serve different purposes. IBM App Connect is designed for Cloud Data Integration and holds a mindshare of 4.7%, up 3.3% compared to last year.
WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, on the other hand, focuses on Data Integration, holds 0.5% mindshare, up 0.4% since last year.

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Featured Reviews

Mehdi El Filahi

Co-Founder at tenekit

Offers flexible adapters, good scalability but logging can be difficult at times

There is room for improvement in the logging messages. Sometimes, if you put someone new into App Connect, they can abandon it the same day. The logging is really painful. However, IBM has made efforts to integrate with Elasticsearch for logging, so that's an improvement. Overall, the logging can be difficult at times. One more important point is that if IBM improves its CI/CD capabilities, it will make a big difference. Right now, I have to create my own CI/CD setup from scratch for every client, which is inefficient. Back in 2013, I worked with Sonic ESB, and even then, it had CI/CD with Maven. With App Connect, you need to build everything yourself when using tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, or CircleCI. IBM really needs to provide official support for this.

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Ritesh_Shah

Senior Solution Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Decreases the development timeframe and costs

The main issue with the product is pricing. It uses core-based pricing for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator and API Manager. It would be best if you had APIM by default. It provides many connectors for easy integration with third-party systems. Often, customers decide to develop using open-source tools like Spring Boot if there aren't many connectors required to avoid increasing costs. They'll develop this way and then deploy using APIM, the bare minimum needed. It is mainly required for very complicated setups with many connectors. In the implementations I've seen, people often used open-source tools because there weren't many third-party systems involved—just their organization's own systems. From WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, I expect them to bring up more and more connectors in the future. That's the main expectation. Having more connectors in various areas will help us when discussing new requirements. I don't have any specific use case right now, so I can't name a particular connector. But, as new technologies emerge, the relevant connectors should be there for those. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator mainly helps with the integration part, which can be simplified only if you have relevant connectors for whatever you're doing.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."

"I would say that the most valuable feature is the array of connectors and integration tools."

"There is a friendly interface for configuration, and integration is made easy."

"It's a powerful application for collaboration. It has many features for customization and integration."

"It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies."

"The solution is very fast-paced when it comes to making things right. We can quickly download what we need if we need any app migrations for our software business. We can download it plenty of times when we need to use it. It gives us very high speed for delivering any development."

"It has an efficient design flow."

"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."

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"It was mostly easy to set up the product."

"The drag-and-drop features for connectors are very valuable."

"The connectors have been the most impactful features for handling integrations. I can use these connectors when I need specific connectivity with a third party, like a core banking system in BFSI. I don't need to do all the development. I take the specific connector, put in the IP address and password, and it takes care of everything."

"Currently, I find the configuration part quite valuable, where you can easily configure things."

"The installation process is easy."

"The solution's technical support is very knowledgeable."

"The solution's customer service is good."

"The learning curve for this solution is very good."

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Cons

"It is not easy to deploy. It requires someone with a high level of knowledge in the solution to deploy it, not just anyone can do it."

"I've been using IBM App Connect for about twenty-five years, and while I like it, there are some areas for improvement. The trace policy is ridiculous, and the biggest issue is the cost—it's expensive. People would use it much more if the price point weren't so high."

"In the next release, I would like to get some quality connectors."

"The setup time for App Connect could be improved."

"IBM needs to enhance and have a stronger offering for the event streaming part because this is the future needed for the containerization and the new integration requirement."

"They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better."

"The product should improve its support."

"The interface could be better."

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"If I have to buy software, then it becomes expensive for me."

"One of the reasons that we are looking for a replacement is their way of defining integration. The language of the XML structures that I use to describe the integrations are not that standard, and it's not easy to find people who are familiar with this approach."

"WSO2 libraries are not mature enough. For example, if you want to integrate with Kafka using its Kafka library, it often has many bugs."

"You cannot include the validation of XPath."

"The micro integrator should be improved. There is room for enhancement considering alternative integration components."

"The customization can be a bit difficult."

"They should release upgrades more frequently."

"The server is very specific and it is very difficult to get experience with it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"App Connect is not cheap."

"Initially, App Connect was quite expensive because the cost was based on the number of processors we used. However, it's now based on containers, which means we can be more specific about our consumption and get a better price."

"The licensing cost for IBM App Connect is very high."

"The cost depends upon the consumer."

"IBM App Connect's pricing is high compared to other products."

"It is very expensive if we want to scale."

"The price could be better."

"The solution's pricing isn't cheap, but you can get good discounts based on your competitive deal."

"The solution costs about 20,000 or 30,000 euros per year, per instance."

"The cost is better than IBM Cloud Pak."

"I rate the product price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

"The open-source, unsupported version is available free of charge."

"It is a low-cost solution."

"The pricing of WSO2 Enterprise Integrator for enterprise subscriptions can be considered expensive, especially from the perspective of someone who prefers open-source software."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

49%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

25%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM App Connect?

I like the adapters. The adapters help us achieve scalability. If you want to connect to SAP, there's an adapter. Salesforce? There's an adapter. You want to connect to another system? There's like...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM App Connect?

IBM App Connect's pricing is high compared to other products.

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What is your primary use case for IBM App Connect?

Our company has a big project for delivery and e-commerce sites. We use IBM App Connect to deliver information to our end users after they buy our products. We get information from many places, suc...

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What do you like most about WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

WSO2's analytics capability is good, considering the ELC support they provide.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

The product has reasonable and competitive pricing for enterprise customers. It is expensive for small businesses especially. They are using the open-source solution, and they find it expensive sin...

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What needs improvement with WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

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Overview

Rapidly connect public clouds, private clouds and on-premises application

App Connect Professional is IBM’s cloud integration offering which delivers an integration solution
• With ease-of-use, flexibility and increased responsiveness to the evolving business needs, while removing the daunting complexities of integration.
• Provides the powerful combination of a ‘simple integration experience’ for business users looking to automate how their applications talk to each other; coupled with a ‘configuration based integration’ approach for IT.
• App Connect Professional is for the teams and integration developers who need to solve more complex problems and need powerful tooling for integration scenarios

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WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, core to the WSO2 Integration Agile Platform, is an open source Integration product for cloud native and container-native projects. It enables enterprise integration experts to build, scale, and secure sophisticated integration solutions to achieve digital agility. Unlike other integration products, WSO2 Enterprise Integrator already contains integration runtimes, message brokering, business process modeling, analytics and visual tooling capabilities.

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Sample Customers

United Way of Allegheny County, Saint-Gobain CPS, Ricoh, SunTrust Banks Inc.

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