IBM App Connect vs. IBM Event Streams

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM App Connect
Score 8.6 out of 10
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IBM’s App Connect is a cloud-based data integration platform with data mapping and transformation capabilities within connectors between high-volume systems. App Connect also offers near-real time data synchronization and an API builder that is adaptable to the user’s coding skill level.N/A
IBM Event Streams
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
IBM Event Streams is a high-throughput, fault-tolerant, event streaming solution. Powered by Apache Kafka, it provides access to enterprise data through event streams, enabling businesses to unlock insights from historical data, and identify and take action on situations in real time and at scale.N/A
Pricing
IBM App ConnectIBM Event Streams
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM App ConnectIBM Event Streams
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Features
IBM App ConnectIBM Event Streams
Cloud Data Integration
Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of Product A and Product B
IBM App Connect
8.8
7 Ratings
7% above category average
IBM Event Streams
-
Ratings
Pre-built connectors9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Connector modification8.16 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for real-time and batch integration9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Data quality services9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Data security features9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring console8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
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Score 9.2 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
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Apache Kafka
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Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM App ConnectIBM Event Streams
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(8 ratings)
7.9
(15 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(10 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM App ConnectIBM Event Streams
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
- great when you need to integrate applications without any message lost or duplicated and when transnationality is important - if you need the highest throughput possible and not much (or not at all) mapping is required, a system like Kafka is more appropriate
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IBM
We used it in two cases, and it went pretty good with both. We used it for analytics and logging alongside event-based communication between different tech-stacks. One thing that users need to keep in mind is that it has a limited knowledgebase and will need a good understanding of Kafka to use it efficiently. So choose it carefully and when its needed
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Pros
IBM
  • Just the ability to display and consume data through a single dashboard makes this a great application for our business purposes.
  • With the ability to consume their exposed API, data validation and manipulation becomes a breeze.
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IBM
  • It is adaptive and helps us create more engaging experiences on our platforms.
  • The Key metrics dashboard is rich with insights.
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Cons
IBM
  • The development and the transformation capability is not so great. I believe IBM is looking to incorporate some of features of IBM APP Connect into API Connect.
  • The authentications features are no way close to CA API Management (f.k.a Laye r7).
  • The development experience is not as good as Apigee's.
  • The GUI should be improved. Maybe the product team should see the other API management tools in their offering.
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IBM
  • Provide Capabilities to connect the Event Streams via REST Proxy.
  • Schema Registry to handle Avro Formats.
  • Provide Kafka Connect Sink & Source Connectors.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
It is the best on-premise application to cloud integration in the market. I guess IBM is planning to integrate IBM App Connect with the IBM API Connect solution.
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IBM
No answers on this topic
Usability
IBM
You can do some really powerful things with this system. The overall design is an attempt to make configurable some of the routine tasks/common functionality, but allow for development/customization of the core of the application.
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IBM
The product was very user friendly and extremely easy to get started with. The documentation is excellent and the free tier makes it very easy to get started with without having to make deep or long term financial commitments.
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Support Rating
IBM
Support is good, however it takes longer than expected to get responses. When bugs are reported they often seem to fall into a black hole.
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IBM
I met with the support team and they have deep technical and development understanding of the needs and the problems which IBM Event Streams addresses. If you are looking for a product backed by a highly technical support team then IBM Event Streams is probably the best choice. I was specifically impressed by the level of technical understanding my support team demonstrated.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
We did not select Cast Iron as our iPaaS solution, it was the weakest competitor in the field that we evaluated. Our experience was that it was not nearly as easy to learn, without in-depth training and guidance, and the developer UI was extremely buggy. We subjected each of the vendors to a battery of integrations, from simple to challenging, and it fell short on each one. One of the most simple integrations was grabbing a CSV file from an FTP source, parsing the data, doing a small amount of transformation, then inserting that data into an Azure MSSQL DB. After 2 hours on the phone with the Cast Iron support team, we were still unable to get this working.
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IBM
In Event Streams, applications send data by creating a message and sending it to a topic. To receive messages, applications subscribe to a topic. High availability and reliability. Event Streams offers a highly available and reliable Apache Kafka service running on IBM Cloud. Event Streams. Event Streams stores three replicas of your data to ensure the highest level of resilience across three availability zones.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • I don't see any negative Impact .
  • I like using this tool to do my job.
  • I am comfortable using this tool.
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IBM
  • In using downstreams, the minimal features and the rate of releases were slow, makes us feel that there's no upgrades and other than that there's poor marketing of the product.
  • The adoption around the service is low, requires focused marketing.
  • Lack of visibility into topic depth , Monitoring capabilities
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