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IBM Integration Bus vs Sopera Advanced Service Factory comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Integration Bus
Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
68
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Sopera Advanced Service Fac...
Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
19th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the mindshare of IBM Integration Bus is 24.3%, up from 22.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sopera Advanced Service Factory is 0.1%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Ashraf Siddiqui - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 29, 2024
Helpful for complex integrations because it has tools and functionality to integrate with other systems
Everything needs to be improved. As far as integration and the cloud are concerned, things are moving to the cloud side. When you use Kubernetes and similar technologies, IBM Integration Bus doesn't greatly facilitate these environments. Maybe I don't know enough about that, but I feel that when it comes to the DevOps environment, the tool needs to be deployed on production in a way that's just like pods. Cloud integration needs to be more facilitated with the DevOps environment. This IBM technology needs to adapt because in the recent world, in the real world, we see that everything is just a cloud pod. Whenever you need to scale anything, you just put some cloud and pod and improve it, make any server and deploy it. But in IBM Integration Bus, there is a problem because we can't do this as easily. In short, IBM needs to more emphasize or more integrate with the cloud environments as well, similar to DevOps. There are limitations in IBM Integration Bus when it comes to DevOps.
SG
May 21, 2021
Functional administrative controls, highly scalable, and reliable
The primary use case is to integrate cloud and on-premise environments making them into a hybrid system 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…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Facilitates communication between parties and legacy systems."
"The multi-approach and the multi-capabilities are valuable."
"IBM Integration Bus has a complete set of tools that are implemented between rules when it comes to run time, but it's not easy to understand."
"The product is a user-customized tool so that you can adjust it to your specific needs pretty well with little trouble."
"I am into microservices using Java Spring Boot, but if we are using legacy systems, IBM Integration Bus is very good for them. They have their own computational logic called EC12, their own proprietary language. You can do any kind of complex logic and can implement other ESVs that I have seen."
"The product helps efficiently work with different connectors from different back-end systems."
"The solution is stable and can scale relatively easily."
"I have found the inbound and outbound adapter confirmations valuable."
"I have found the best feature are the administrative controls."
 

Cons

"This solution would benefit from improvements to the configuration interface."
"We have to stop the integration server to start the debugging process."
"We have come across many customer complaints about the excessive time it takes for IBM to provide customer and technical support."
"I would like to be able to run and install this solution on different platforms."
"Migrating to this solution is complex and it would be helpful if they had a way to convert existing integrations."
"IBM Integration Bus isn't particularly user-friendly and has a big learning curve."
"The solution is too expensive for smaller companies."
"Storage capacity of the product should be addressed."
"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

"Support costs are high compared to the competition. Otherwise, the support is good."
"As customers, we always try to buy things as cheaply as possible. But the price for the IBM Integration Bus is fine. When we compare it to competitors, it's pretty much the same. However, there are a lot of open-source integration platforms coming to the market as well. So overall, the price is fine as far as licensed products are concerned."
"The solution requires a license and is very expensive here in India."
"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."
"IBM Integration Bus is expensive. There are cheaper products in the marketplace."
"The pricing could be improved to make it more competitive."
"I generally do not get involved in the licensing or pricing because I'm a hardcore technical guy, but I'm aware of the fact that IBM is highly expensive, so not everybody can afford it. All the products are licensed."
"This solution is less expensive than competitors."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
7%
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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 do you like most about IBM Integration Bus?
The message queue, like, message queue connectors. Then they have a built in connectors for most of the systems, like SAP, oracle database, and this Civil connector is there. Of course, we have thi...
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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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