We performed a comparison between IBM Integration Bus and Sopera Advanced Service Factory based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, MuleSoft, Software AG and others in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)."The most valuable features of the IBM Integration Bus are the flexibility to easily integrate with other solutions, such as SAP or any other vendors."
"I really like SQL integration nodes, HTTP nodes, event handling, event monitoring, the performance of the solution."
"The solution's features are all quite useful. We use all of them."
"Having the solution come from IBM you know you are receiving a product of quality in components and in the services, it is very good."
"The multi-approach and the multi-capabilities are valuable."
"It makes the communication between multiple and heterogeneous applications so easy. We can bring together different messages and applications from different platforms and connect them through IBM Integration Bus."
"This solution is very reliable and it is easy to learn."
"REST API design and development support are useful. Building and exposing APIs using GUI API designer with editor makes implementation a breeze."
"I have found the best feature are the administrative controls."
"It would be beneficial for it to function more as an iPaaS, with the runtime available in the cloud, potentially on platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud."
"Session management can sometimes hand forcing server reboots."
"The solution is complex and there is a need for more resources and greatly improved quality."
"There are a couple of things I want improved, but I think they have already touched upon all those things in the most recent version. I'm not using the most recent version—I use a version older than the most recent—but I'm sure that if I looked into and explored it, I would see more support on the CI/CD and more support for unit testing automation. I've read that they released all these things in the new version of App Connect. Once I explore the new version of this tool, I'll probably have a better idea of suggested improvements."
"The next versions are moving toward container use. It would be a shame to make the product highly complex just to support one pattern of deployment. It is my hope that IBM continues to focus on practical functionality that is simple and cost-effective."
"The solution needs instruction or guidance."
"The solution needs to simplify its documentation, such as the user and operation manuals, to make them even easier to understand."
"Performance can be an issue sometimes. The tool occasionally crashes due to memory-related problems. We've reported these issues to IBM, and they are actively working on improving the tooling experience."
"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."
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IBM Integration Bus is ranked 1st in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 64 reviews while Sopera Advanced Service Factory is ranked 18th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). IBM Integration Bus is rated 8.0, while Sopera Advanced Service Factory is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM Integration Bus writes "Scalable solution with efficient integration features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sopera Advanced Service Factory writes "Functional administrative controls, highly scalable, and reliable". IBM Integration Bus is most compared with Mule ESB, webMethods Integration Server, IBM WebSphere Message Broker, Oracle Service Bus and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas Sopera Advanced Service Factory is most compared with .
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