IBM Integration Bus vs. Octopus Deploy
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![]() IBM Integration Bus | Score10 out of 10 | N/A | IBM Integration Bus, replacing the former WebSphere Message Broker, is used to connect applications together, regardless of the message formats or protocols that they support. This connectivity helps to ensure diverse applications can interact and exchange data with other applications in a flexible, dynamic, and extensible infrastructure. | N/A |
Octopus Deploy | Score8.8 out of 10 | Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees) | Australian company Octopus Deploy offers their eponymous automated deployment and release management software that integrates with the user's preferred CI server and adds deployment & ops automation capabilities. Octopus Deploy enables developers, release managers, and operations folks to bring all automation into a single place. The vendor states that by reusing configuration variables, environment definition, API keys, connection strings, permissions, service principals, and automation logic,… | $0 per month |
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| Additional Details | — | Octopus Deploy offers a Free tier (Cloud and Server) and a 30-day free trial of the Enterprise tier. No credit card needed. Octopus also offers a Professional tier with 8/5 support (9 am–5 pm on weekdays). The Enterprise tier provides advanced features for teams to scale, including high availability, DevOps Insights, ServiceNow & Jira Service Management integration, unlimited instances, 24/7 support & service credits, and a dedicated Customer Success Manager. | ||||||||||||||
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No answers on this topic | 94% Would buy again 17 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 94% Delivers good value for the price 16 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 100% Happy with the feature set 18 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 100% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 14 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 100% Implementation went as expected 17 Answers | |
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| Small Businesses | No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic |
| Medium-sized Companies | Mule ESB Score8.3 out of 10 | Atlassian Bamboo Score6.7 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | ![]() IBM DataPower Gateway Score9.5 out of 10 | Atlassian Bamboo Score6.7 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 7.0 | 8.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 8.0 |
| Usability | - | 8.0 |
| Performance | - | 8.5 |
| Support Rating | - | 8.2 |
| Contract Terms and Pricing Model | - | 8.5 |
| Ease of integration | - | 8.5 |
| Professional Services | - | 9.1 |
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