IBM WebSphere Message Broker vs Oracle SOA Suite comparison

IBM and Oracle are both solutions in the Application Infrastructure category. IBM is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.4. IBM holds a 1.5% mindshare in AIS, compared to Oracle’s 3.9% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Oracle SOA Suite and IBM WebSphere Message Broker are prominent players in the integration tools category. Oracle SOA Suite seems to provide a more comprehensive set of tools for business process management, but IBM WebSphere Message Broker holds an edge in terms of data processing performance.

Features: Oracle SOA Suite is recognized for service virtualization, process automation, and its seamless integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware products. It also offers a robust set of native integration tools and plugins. IBM WebSphere Message Broker excels in handling complex data transformations, protocol mediation, and provides flexibility for integrating legacy systems. It is known for high performance in processing and integration tasks.

Room for Improvement: Oracle SOA Suite needs enhancement in performance as it can be resource-heavy, which may lead to slower processing and higher CPU use. Improved micro-services support and enhanced error handling are also desired. IBM WebSphere Message Broker, on the other hand, could benefit from being more cost-effective and less complex. Reducing its reliance on other IBM products could also improve its adoption rate.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle SOA Suite’s deployment is primarily on-premises and is noted for its complexity. Customer service experiences vary, with some delays in technical support. IBM WebSphere Message Broker also favors on-premises deployment, but customer support, while satisfactory, could improve with quicker response times and less need for additional purchases.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle SOA Suite is regarded as expensive but offers value through a comprehensive feature set when used effectively. It may not be ideal for smaller businesses despite competitive pricing with other Oracle products. IBM WebSphere Message Broker's higher costs may deter some users and impact ROI if not fully utilized. Careful planning is necessary to align either product with business needs for effective ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM WebSphere Message Broker

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

16th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (8th)

Oracle SOA Suite

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

9th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SOA Governance (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of IBM WebSphere Message Broker is 1.5%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SOA Suite is 3.9%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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BrajendraKumar

Technical Architect at HCL Technologies

Offers large-sized business information processing with a time-saving setup and impressive stability

I primarily use two previews of the product for Dev and two for QA as part of the production process. Whatever tools our company is using, the cost of a license in IBM WebSphere Message Broker is about 80% of all these software or tools. The message routing capabilities satisfy workflow efficiency. The product supports message formats of XML, JSON, and SSID, which are around 24 KB to 50 KB in size. The solution supports communication protocols like STTP and TCP. Features like DataGraph need to be introduced in IBM WebSphere Message Broker. Some of the clients of our organization are using an outdated version of IBM WebSphere Message Broker for which the vendor doesn't provide direct support anymore. For the aforementioned version, our company professionals can solve the queries on their own without seeking support from IBM. During the installation of a prior version of IBM WebSphere Message Broker, sometimes I have to configure the failovers through the cluster, where issues arise, and I often seek help from the support team. The solution is being used by some medicine companies in our organization that receive sales orders from the EDR or JDE. I would not recommend the product to others as its becoming obsolete and they can rather choose a middleware solution from Amazon or Azure. But I would overall rate the product a nine out of ten.

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MANOHAR SADDALA

IT Specialist at Eagle Hills

Enables seamless integration with multiple systems

I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. It's not much more dynamic, not as dynamic as you may think, like seeing it in the cloud. In order to use it, you need to have the download servers and then scale up your systems. Oracle SOA Suites serves as a middle layer between applications. For example, let's say you have SAP, and we have Salesforce or Oracle ERP system. Users connect to those systems and perform certain activities or transactions on the applications. Now, if any data needs to be synchronized or any integration needs to happen between these applications, we use the Oracle SOA Suite. It acts as the bridge between the applications, not between the users. It's like having endpoints between the applications. Currently, we have 20 endpoints; 20 systems are connected to it, which is great. Oracle SOA Suite is being used daily. We are using it to its maximum potential.

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Pros

"The documentation, performance, stability and scalability of the tool are valuable."

"The most valuable feature of IBM WebSphere Message Broker is the ability to facilitate communication with legacy systems, offering a multitude of great capabilities. For example, if there is a mainframe system in place with a web service serving as the front end. In that case, the solution enables efficient protocol transformations to convert all request payloads into a format that the legacy systems can accept, rendering the integration and transformation processes seamless and highly effective."

"Message Broker is valuable because most of the applications are using MQ. Even in my current engagement, the few applications which I audit to onboard the bank are using MQ."

"It has many interfaces and you can connect to any backend source that has another format, and convert it to the desired format."

"It's reliable for our day-to-day operations, ensuring fast and secure data integration across different systems."

"The solution has good integration."

"The transactions and message queuing are the most valuable features of the solution."

"Performance-wise, this solution is really good."

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"The Oracle SOA Suite has many useful features, and different organizations may place different emphases on the importance of each feature. Certain features are particularly important to the organization, such as the ability to access databases and transform messages, as well as the use of proxy services to secure web services with usernames and passwords. These features can be critical for enabling effective integration and data exchange between systems and applications."

"Enables our Product Manager to post products to different outside EC platforms with only one interface and one process."

"The product allows you to visualize how a company is working currently by providing rich possibilities for analysis such as the audit trails and therefore shows where improvements might be valuable."

"The most valuable feature of the facility, as the partner link, is to try to use third-party services and logic in your own vehicle to orchestrate the information."

"The new product has come out with SOA Cloud Service and Integration Analytics as well, which gives more options for clients to pick their point of requirements."

"We were able to scale out using multiple application and web servers balanced by hardware load balancers and Weblogic clustering."

"This is one of the critical products for my company and we use it extensively. We currently use each and every feature of Oracle SOA."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the option to design, and the development can happen at the same time."

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Cons

"I know that Message Broker was a very tightly copied product with another IBM product, that is, IBM MQ. I would like to have a little bit more decoupling from the IBM MQ because it should not be a prerequisite for IBM WebSphere Message Broker usage."

"Today I probably wouldn't go for Message Broker because of the cost structure, support, and the whole ecosystem around IBM."

"Stability and pricing are areas with shortcomings that need improvement."

"The user interface is designed mainly for experts, much in the way a BPM or another integration tool is."

"Technical support is good but they could have a better response time."

"As our business requirements evolve, we require more dynamic capabilities to adapt and scale our services accordingly."

"There is some lag in the GUI. There have been some performance issues and maybe it's because of the application data."

"Technical support is very slow and needs to be improved."

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"If the disk space expansion can be made more flexible, not requiring a database restart, it would be a major benefit."

"An important area that can be improved is the product's data monitoring. When we use the solution for interfacing or end-to-end data monitoring, we want to know exactly where the data is going and exactly where it is failing, or where there is an issue."

"It's also not developer-friendly."

"The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved."

"An area for improvement in Oracle SOA Suite is the cost. It could be lower."

"I want to see easier integration connections with other cloud-based tools."

"Another area of improvement is performance. Because with multiple solutions connecting to the SOA platform, the performance of the SOA platform can be affected in time. So, that could be one area that could be improved with the SOA."

"The web services need to be more robust."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This product is more expensive than competing products."

"The price is very high and it's the main reason that we are searching for alternatives."

"IBM software can be costly, but having a contract has helped manage and potentially lower costs over time."

"I feel with IBM, when you want certain functions or features, you have to continuously purchase add-ons. There are always additional fees."

"The licensing cost of IBM WebSphere Message Broker needs to be reduced"

"The solution is expensive."

"IBM products are generally more stable and have more features, but also come at a greater cost."

"The solution is expensive."

"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."

"This product is WebLogic based, hence it can be both resource hungry as well as expensive from a licensing point of view."

"Oracle pricing is expensive. Support is based on your license. AWS is much better than Oracle in this regard."

"The pricing is not very high as compared to its competitors."

"It is necessary to evaluate the requirement regarding the platform usage and what the main operation area of the platform will be."

"Based on my knowledge, Oracle SOA Suite doesn't have user-based licensing. It has a system-based licensing model, so you pay for whole systems. Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution, so it's a four out of ten for me."

"The product is moderately priced."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM WebSphere Message Broker?

It is a scalable solution...The setup is easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM WebSphere Message Broker?

IBM software can be costly, but having a contract has helped manage and potentially lower costs over time.

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What needs improvement with IBM WebSphere Message Broker?

There could be greater flexibility and agility in service creation for the product. As our business requirements evolve, we require more dynamic capabilities to adapt and scale our services accordi...

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What do you like most about Oracle SOA Suite?

The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle SOA Suite?

Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution.

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What needs improvement with Oracle SOA Suite?

The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved. A big challenge for Oracle SOA Suite is that you don't get too many technical resources.

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Also Known As

WebSphere Message Broker

SOA Suite

Overview

WebSphere Message Broker is an enterprise service bus (ESB) providing connectivity and universal data transformation for service-oriented architecture (SOA) and non-SOA environments. It allows businesses of any size to eliminate point-to-point connections and batch processing regardless of platform, protocol or data format.

IBM

Oracle SOA Suite is a comprehensive, standards-based software suite to build, deploy and manage integration following the concepts of service-oriented architecture (SOA). The components of the suite benefit from consistent tooling, a single deployment and management model, end-to-end security and unified metadata management. Oracle SOA Suite helps businesses lower costs by allowing maximum re-use of existing IT investments and assets, regardless of the environment (OS, application server, etc.) they run in, or the technology they were built upon. Its easy-to-use, re-use focused, unified application development tooling and end-to-end lifecycle management support further reduces development and maintenance cost and complexity.

For more information on Oracle SOA Suite, visit Oracle.com

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