IBM App Connect vs WSO2 Enterprise Integrator comparison

The compared IBM and WSO2 solutions aren't in the same category. IBM is ranked #8 in CDI , with an average rating of 8.3, and holds a 3.6% mindshare in the category. WSO2 is ranked #25 in DI , with an average rating of 7.6, 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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Categories and Ranking

IBM App Connect

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Data Integration (8th)

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (25th), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (8th)

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 3.6%, up 2.9% compared to last year.
WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, on the other hand, focuses on Data Integration, holds 0.5% mindshare, up 0.5% since last year.

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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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Ilir Lazaj

Senior Consultant at Capgemini

Consolidated, reliable, and has responsive technical support

There is a minor need to improve the ease of configuration. The configuration of the product is not an easy task for everyone. I agree that it has to be that way, as it's a good technology, however, maybe for people with low experience it can be hard. There can be a higher learning curve. The setup can be difficult for those not familiar with the solution. I'd like to see the possibility of configuring the product via consoles with more elasticity without having the need to go to the single files in the file system, add the files manually, and then restarting. We'd like to make some changes, some tuning of the product, using the administration console. If this is extended to the console, it would be great. We need more operations done by the console. It simplifies the life of the worker.

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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

"One of the most beneficial features is the ability to handle multiple communication technologies, like integrating Kafka flows, which is helpful as other teams heavily use it. Regarding error handling, I initially wrote most of the handling myself. While built-in features for error handling are built-in, it largely depends on the developer. We use a custom solution that catches all exceptions, logs them in a database, and replays them as needed. It has been effective for us for over twenty years."

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

"Very scalable, flexible, and user-friendly."

"It has an efficient design flow."

"We use IBM App Connect for the integration between the applications."

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

"The most valuable feature is the user-friendliness of the application."

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

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"I like the user-friendly system and development of the service-oriented architecture."

"It's a very complete product. It allows us to network security and add more layers of security to the system."

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

"The stability is excellent."

"It's a consolidated product. It works and it does its job pretty well."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"Updates are constantly delayed."

"The user interface of IBM App Connect can be a little bit more user-friendly, I would say because the first-time developer is onboarded while using IBM App Connect, he or she may get a little intimidated or daunted looking at all the options available or the pipelines, et cetera."

"IBM App Connect is scalable. From the administration side, they need to improve the RBAC model, as well as the clustering of this product. It will be good if we can start up the cluster, via IBM Connect Console. Some other products like MuleSoft, are providing this type of administration. MuleSoft is easy to use and user friendly."

"IBM App Connect should improve security features."

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

"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."

"The setup can be difficult for those not familiar with the solution."

"There are a lot of security settings that when you apply you have to re-apply again every time you modify a setting. It is something that really needs to be enhanced."

"The customization can be a bit difficult."

"In my opinion, the administration model and interface, of Carbon, are lacking in terms of its features and user experience."

"I would like to see them bring back a feature, from earlier versions, that was very useful in debugging and finding issues."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"The cost depends upon the consumer."

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

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

"App Connect is not cheap."

"The price could be better."

"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."

"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 cost is better than IBM Cloud Pak."

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

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

57%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

28%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Government

Manufacturing Company

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By reviewers

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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?

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 e...

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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

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.

Sample Customers

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

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