Learn what your peers think about IBM WebSphere Message Broker. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: December 2024.
Independent Consultant - IT Technician Level 4 / Projects Technician at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Consultant
2019-09-25T05:10:00Z
Sep 25, 2019
The licensing costs for this solution are paid by the customer-side, and not by my employer. IBM products are generally more stable and have more features, but also come at a greater cost.
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 software can be costly, but having a contract has helped manage and potentially lower costs over time.
It's a very expensive solution.
The solution is expensive. I give the cost a one out of ten. We pay for an annual license.
The licensing costs are a bit costly. I rate it a seven out of ten, with one being affordable and ten being expensive.
This product is expensive.
There are always additional fees.
The price is very high and it's the main reason that we are searching for alternatives.
This product is more expensive than competing products.
The pricing is too high. There are no fees over and above the main licensing fee, however.
The licensing costs for this solution are paid by the customer-side, and not by my employer. IBM products are generally more stable and have more features, but also come at a greater cost.