App Connect ESB
What do you like best about the product?
Orchestration of message flows both synchronous and asynchronous calls have made easy to use. New UI of v12 is quite impressive.
What do you dislike about the product?
Debugging through through the flow when multiple threads appear and sometimes becomes complex to track the details.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Orchestration, schema validations
A mature solution that can be used for the integration between the applications
What is most valuable?
IBM App Connect is a mature product because it's been there since the mainframe time, and it's evolving.
We use IBM App Connect for the integration between the applications. You can unify the integration layer into one layer, where you manage the whole integration process. You can simplify the management, operation, and maintenance of the integration layer.
If you want to fix any of your APIs or integration connections, you don't need to do it on all tenants. You need to do it only once in one place, and it will reflect on only one channel. It works with multiple languages and protocols. So, you need to create it once and use it on any different applications that you have.
What needs improvement?
IBM needs to enhance and have a stronger offering for the event streaming part because this is the future needed for the containerization and the new integration requirement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using IBM App Connect since 2012.
How are customer service and support?
The overall competence of the solution's first-tier support should be improved since the second and third-tiers are good. The solution also needs to enhance remote support, including opening remote sessions with customers and not depending only on collecting logs. They need to go to layers two and three to connect with you on your system. Having it in earlier stages can speed up solving the problems quickly.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used IBM Integration Bus.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution's pricing isn't cheap, but you can get good discounts based on your competitive deal.
What other advice do I have?
IBM has a complete bundle offering, which is very good because it gives the customer agility and flexibility in using the software. Earlier, if I bought one license, I needed to trade it or remove it to buy new software. Now, I have one license that I can exchange as per my usage, which is good.
As a new offering, they have the Red Hat OpenShift as a containerization platform. They have it embedded with the license; you get it for free. If you want to go into containerization with other products, like MuleSoft or TIBCO, you need to pay for the Red Hat OpenShift, which is an expensive platform.
IBM bundled all the integration software into one bundle, called the cloud platform integration, where with one license, you can have multiple products and pay as per your consumption. You have Cloud Platform Integration, and you can use it for multiple products like App Connect, API Connect, and MQ.
Overall, I rate IBM App Connect a nine out of ten.
Very fast deploy
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy configuration and update fix.
Operator Openshift easy deploy.
Documentation very simple acess.
Support IBM very fast.
Autoscale on Openshift Support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing on premisse.
Pricing on IBM cloud.
Pricing on AWS cloud.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scale
Stable product with efficient features for data transformation
What is our primary use case?
We use IBM App Connect for business use cases involving data transformations. It can perform tasks such as converting XML to JSON, XML to CSV, or vice versa. Additionally, it can handle API conversions with mapping and transformation rules, simplifying the development process. It offers security features for APIs. It includes support for TLS (Transport Layer Security) and encryption mechanisms.
What needs improvement?
IBM App Connect should improve security features and have a faster mechanism than MuleSoft, which has better capabilities.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using IBM App Connect for eight years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product's stability is good. However, we encounter issues with complex services. I rate its stability a seven out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a scalable platform. I rate its scalability an eight and a half out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support services need improvement in terms of response time.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have used MuleSoft before. Both products have similar capabilities. Large enterprises use App Connect more, while MuleSoft is more suitable for medium or small enterprises.
How was the initial setup?
The product's deployment for on-premise servers is easy. At the same time, it is tedious to deploy on clusters. We use the DevOps pipeline for on-cloud deployments. It takes a few seconds to complete the process.
What other advice do I have?
I rate IBM App Connect an eight out of ten. I recommend others for the product if you need to build highly scalable and secured services. In the case of services for enterprises with a high volume of APIs, I advise them to use the enterprise version of the product.
Best API creation and integration tool for banking solution
What do you like best about the product?
It gives us ample ways to create a managable,secure,fast and reliable service or API which is easy to host and requires less support. Although the software comes with inbuilt logging integration option but also it gives us more nodes to explore.
What do you dislike about the product?
While working with the app connect , the only problem about it was heap size issue where it takes more memory while debugging and also the trace file issue which keeps on generating with its node
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's actually solving a major problem of businesses by creating banking application and adding a extra security layer in it . It is a also contributing much in microservice architecture.
Integration made Easy
What do you like best about the product?
IBM new offering IBM App Connect is have all the features which are required for event based architecture and out of the box cloud connectivity make it easier to scale .
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of marketing from IBM which making the organisation to leave IBMs integration suite and use open source tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Industry trusted integration tool to connect not only the API exposed platform but some legacy and ERP software like SAP, MQ and file based
IBM APP CONNECT REVIEW
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to connect and integrate with other application softwares
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as such but the load balancing could be better while connecting with other applications like sap transport management tool
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping us to integrate various applications in the business landscape
IBM app connect User
What do you like best about the product?
its very easy to intigrate and its easy to deploye, API developement is become very easy bcoc of app connect
What do you dislike about the product?
some time app is not working properly, and the cost of product is also bit high
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
managing APIs and importining them, and bcoz of node we dont need to write so much code so its become easy to use
review for APP CONNECT
What do you like best about the product?
It helps integrating various applications
What do you dislike about the product?
User experience is not upto the mark .The application gets choppy while deployment
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helped me in developing almost 1000+ APIs effectively . It is easy to understand and helps creating various APIS in short time .
The impact of seamless integration using IBM App Connect
What do you like best about the product?
It has a user-friendly interface which empowers scalability and performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
For successful integration, it may require some deep technical expertise and custom coding and configuration to a beginner.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There is no longer fragmentation of business processes since IBM App Connect streamlines all business processes by making workflow seamless thus increasing productivity.
