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SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite pros and cons

Vendor: Seeburger
4.2 out of 5
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PROS

SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite is known for its reliability, ensuring stable and consistent performance even with varied transformation loads.
It offers comprehensive message tracking features that allow users to easily track and manage integration processes and data exchanges.
SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite supports a wide range of business integration needs, including connections to multiple ERP systems like SAP and Oracle, facilitating seamless B2B integrations.
The platform allows for automation of business processes such as order processing and invoice handling, thus reducing manual efforts and potential for errors.
SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite supports the latest communication protocols and security features, including certificate management and data encryption, ensuring secure digital transactions.

CONS

There is limited access to logs, requiring tickets with SEEBURGER for issue resolution.
It's difficult to understand from the application what is broken and why, requiring direct support.
API connectivity and GUI need improvement, with the GUI remaining mostly unchanged for years.
The integration is not consistent, needing new processes and people for each project.
Documentation needs to be improved.
 

SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite Pros review quotes

JW
Apr 21, 2021
With SEEBURGER BIS, you can string as many different activities together in your workflows as you want. You can put them in any order, like a piece of code. One leads into the next, which leads into the next. It is just very flexible from that vantage point. This makes it so easy to use and reduces the number of moving parts that you need to have. It is just a lot less frustrating not having to conform to how some other vendor software works.
reviewer965751 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 29, 2019
One of the things that SEEBURGER always touts is their ability to do "any to any" formatting... it doesn't matter if you want to take a CSV file or an XML file or a flat file or a PDF file or a structure EDI file; you can transform it from one format to another - any to any or even to the same format - which is a really nice feature.
JT
Nov 12, 2020
The entire framework is something that is very easy to use, easy to set up, and extremely straightforward. Once you develop a process and once you get it deployed within the process engine, with the latest 6.52 features, the processing engine is actually smart enough to make a decision as to which process engine has less load, and it can exchange messages with that process engine.
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OR
Mar 31, 2021
One of the most valuable features is the option to have all integration patterns constantly updated in one platform. That is the main strength I see in using SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS). It means I can use a very old-fashioned pattern, combined with a very modern pattern. There are no limitations in terms of combining components because all the components simply fit together.
NM
Mar 16, 2020
If SEEBURGER plans to do something, they will meet their target. We haven't been disappointed by them at all. For example, we had six trading partners to onboard and they said, "We'll make it happen," and they did make it happen. They did exactly what they said they would do. That's a really positive thing.
NS
Sep 5, 2019
SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS) has been good at communicating between two applications, changing formats and using the required protocols... We can have one site communicating in an old FTP or SFTP style, or via file transfer. And with other applications, we could have API or a web service call or some other protocol used to send information.
JH
Dec 17, 2018
The ease of integration of the SEEBURGER product into SAP was pretty seamless. There wasn't any trouble, there weren't any complexities.
LK
Jun 17, 2021
SEEBURGER has helped us to enable digital business transformation. Every time we add a new customer, there is a digital footprint. This is no longer a manual process.
reviewer647442 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 31, 2019
I like that the tool has all the adapters — all the possible protocols that are in the industry. You pay for those adapters but at least it's all in one package. You don't have to get another tool or application to support another partner.
MO
Jan 17, 2019
Among the most valuable features are the EDI translator and a lot of the components which enable creating compliance sets. Having something standard out-of-the-box and being able to use that has been a huge benefit for us.
 

SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite Cons review quotes

JW
Apr 21, 2021
We occasionally get ZIP files. Sometimes the ZIP file has one file inside of it, and sometimes the ZIP file might have 30 files inside of it. We have been working with SEEBURGER to enhance their PKUNZIP process to be able to unzip multiple files in a single workflow instead of just one file. This is still something that is in process.
reviewer965751 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 29, 2019
The BIS Front End needs a little bit of refreshing, especially when it comes to setting up new trading partners and trading partner agreements or transactions. It can be a bit clumsy to copy and rename and then go in and modify.
JT
Nov 12, 2020
In the BIS, if I want to have some API functionalities, that is a separate tool. The integration between the API tool and the BIS is not that straightforward. If they were to combine these tools and give us one suite, that would be helpful. Today I have a lot of partners onboard. I have something like 50,000 partners doing API transactions. If I want to introduce a new tool for API management, I have to do a lot of workarounds. But if it were integrated well within the existing suite, it could be straightforward for me.
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OR
Mar 31, 2021
All the topics we've identified have been placed on the SEEBURGER roadmap already... Among the things we have requested are improvements in the user interface and improvements that would be implemented by completely new modules or improvements in their Cloud Services.
NS
Sep 5, 2019
We wanted to use API. We were told that in 6.52 we could use API management. Later on, we found that API management wasn't that completely integrated into the 6.52 solution, and if you wanted to have the whole API suite you might have to go to 6.7, the latest one.
JH
Dec 17, 2018
When we got SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS), it was clear that it was going to take more of a technical person. It does take a technically-rooted individual to operate it. It's not something for your everyday guy to do. For what it's doing for us, a dedicated resource is required.
LK
Jun 17, 2021
Java is very old technology and they should move away from it, to anything that's better.
reviewer647442 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 31, 2019
It's rather difficult to understand, from the application, what's broken and why it doesn't work. We typically need to get support from them directly, and it's usually in a consulting role, to fix issues.
MO
Jan 17, 2019
They made improvements to the email error alerts that go out, for the EDI technical. Those typically go straight out to the partners. Those messages are significantly clearer and easy to read. The same messages in the front end are not nearly as clear. It's supposed to be the same error, but the message that goes out for EDI is really easy for anybody to read and understand, but you have to be really solution-savvy to understand the message in the system itself.
JD
Sep 12, 2019
We don't have much access to the logs or what's happening. So we have to log a ticket with SEEBURGER. We only get a message that something has failed... we have to open a ticket with SEEBURGER for them to tell us exactly what the issue is... I would like us to be able to be more self-sufficient.