IBM Event Automation vs. Microsoft StreamInsight

IBM Event Automation

Microsoft StreamInsight

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Event Automation	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	IBM Event Automation enables businesses to accelerate their event-driven efforts. The event streams, event endpoint management and event processing capabilities help lay the foundation of an event-driven architecture for unlocking the value of events.	N/A
Microsoft StreamInsight	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft StreamInsight is Microsoft’s Complex Event Processing technology to help businesses create event-driven applications and derive better insights by correlating event streams from multiple sources with near-zero latency.	$0

Pricing

IBM Event Automation

Microsoft StreamInsight

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM Event Automation	Microsoft StreamInsight
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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An SQL Server 2012 license is required to install the full Microsoft StreamInsight 2.1 package.

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Best Alternatives
	IBM Event Automation	Microsoft StreamInsight
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Confluent Score 9.2 out of 10	Confluent Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Spotfire Streaming Score 5.7 out of 10	Spotfire Streaming Score 5.7 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	IBM Event Automation	Microsoft StreamInsight
Likelihood to Recommend	8.1 (14 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.2 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.9 (9 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Event Automation	Microsoft StreamInsight
Likelihood to Recommend	IBM IBM Event Streams is well suited for companies developing event driven Microservices. One of the biggest challenger with microservices is that your data gets distributed into little silos - event streaming (or better known as event sourcing) allows you to get a central source of truth in your event store. We are taking this approach with IBM Event Streams and it is well suited for building an event streaming / sourcing architecture. Incentivized Hanz van Aardt President Read full review	Microsoft No answers on this topic
Pros	IBM It is adaptive and helps us create more engaging experiences on our platforms. The Key metrics dashboard is rich with insights. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft No answers on this topic
Cons	IBM Provide Capabilities to connect the Event Streams via REST Proxy. Schema Registry to handle Avro Formats. Provide Kafka Connect Sink & Source Connectors. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft No answers on this topic
Usability	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. Incentivized Hanz van Aardt President Read full review	Microsoft No answers on this topic
Support Rating	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. Incentivized Hanz van Aardt President Read full review	Microsoft No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized Engr Aijaz Ali Khushk Project Engineer Read full review	Microsoft No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	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 Incentivized Engr Aijaz Ali Khushk Project Engineer Read full review	Microsoft No answers on this topic
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