IBM App Connect vs. IBM webMethods

IBM App Connect is well-suited to serve as a central integration hub, particularly for scenarios involving data transformation, complex routing logic, and dynamic backend routing. It excels at enabling legacy system modernization and supports real-time, event-driven architectures effectively. However, it is less appropriate for simple point-to-point integrations or for use cases requiring workflow process management and human task orchestration, where BPM or lightweight automation tools may be more suitable.

I have personally used and implemented IBM webMethods, Oracle Integration Suite, SAP XI, and many more. I find that IBM webMethods, once implemented, has a super low maintenance cost. I have seen IBM webMethods implemented and not upgraded for 10 years, yet it works smoothly.

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• 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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• Connecting different systems, applications and data sources to ensure smooth operations.
• Improves our company's efficiency
• Handles large data volumes and complex integrations ek

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• Documentation - Documentation for older versions of the product was more detailed, with more examples.
• Sometimes not very intuitive, you need a certain learning curve.
• Some concepts are difficult to grasp or explain, due to "legacy" reasons (e.g. when to use DFDL vs MRM?)

• Complex logic is hard to understand in simple diagrammatic user interface
• User interface too simplistic for solutions that are complicated or go against the grain
• Runtime observability could be improved

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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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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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Usually, the IBM Ops team provides a resolution or a response for 80% of defects raised in my project. There is one which has been open on their end for more than 3 months. With literally no response even after multiple follow-ups.

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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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webMethods does better for end to end integrations whereas Azure is more focused on APIs. We selected webMethods because we felt their integrations, especially to mainframe environments, were much better than the others. IBM has been in this space for a long time and know it well. Otherwise, the features were comparable across products. Pricing and mainframe integrations were our primary differentiators.

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• 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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• Time to market
• Connectivity with mutilple databases and maintain transaction boundaries
• Flexibility to maintain vm based and microservices architecture at same time.

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