IBM Integration Bus vs. SAP NetWeaver BPM

IBM Integration Bus

SAP NetWeaver BPM

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Integration Bus	Score 9.7 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
SAP BPM	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management is a business process management offering and application infrastructure. It supports joint modeling of processes, central process execution via a Java-based engine, provision of interfaces for users, and integration of business rules into processes.	N/A

Pricing

IBM Integration Bus

SAP NetWeaver BPM

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM Integration Bus	SAP BPM
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	IBM Integration Bus	SAP NetWeaver BPM

Features

IBM Integration Bus

SAP NetWeaver BPM

Reporting & Analytics

Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	IBM Integration Bus - Ratings	SAP NetWeaver BPM 10.0 2 Ratings 24% above category average
Dashboards	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Standard reports	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Custom reports	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings

Process Engine

Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
	IBM Integration Bus - Ratings	SAP NetWeaver BPM 10.0 2 Ratings 18% above category average
Process designer	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Process simulation	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Business rules engine	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
SOA support	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Process player	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Support for modeling languages	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Form builder	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Model execution	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings

Collaboration

Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
	IBM Integration Bus - Ratings	SAP NetWeaver BPM 10.0 2 Ratings 18% above category average
Social collaboration tools	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings

Content Management Capabilties

Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
	IBM Integration Bus - Ratings	SAP NetWeaver BPM 10.0 2 Ratings 21% above category average
Content management	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings

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User Ratings
	IBM Integration Bus	SAP NetWeaver BPM
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Integration Bus	SAP NetWeaver BPM
Likelihood to Recommend	IBM Routing, protocol transformation, message transformation and service aggregation are very well performed by WebSphere Message Broker (WMB). It is not very suitable for integration with databases. Incentivized Srinivasa Manne Principal Software Engineer Developer Read full review	SAP It is well suited when we need to integrate business processes with SAP ERP and SAP CRM - the solution can be integrated with business rules/procedures defined in SAP ERP/CRM and NetWeaver can be used to monitor the rules and flag off exceptions. When there are multiple workflows running, it tends to slow down running of these processes. Also, it entirely depends on SAP portal for it to run efficiently. Incentivized SS Shiv Shivakumar Acquisitions Leader Read full review
Pros	IBM Graphical data mapper Support for different programming languages Integration with MQ Support for different parsers Incentivized Srinivasa Manne Principal Software Engineer Developer Read full review	SAP Virtual paper trail. Iterations of process and current documentation are all stored as "artifacts", leaving a great trail. Configuration of users. BPM somewhat magically determines which users will be impacted and automates rules. A pro (that is also a con) is the design interface. If you know what you are doing, it is incredibly powerful and malleable. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	IBM Logging Debugging Code quality tools Feature specific installation Incentivized Srinivasa Manne Principal Software Engineer Developer Read full review	SAP Live readings would be nice. Easier to maneuver Work with all systems with the press of one keystroke Incentivized Stephanie Chapman Team Leader Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	IBM No answers on this topic	SAP As a big fan of SAP in general, the BPM solution fits right in with all the other things SAP does well, and does it with incredible efficiency Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	IBM No answers on this topic	SAP We have our own tech support for systems, I would say they probably could use more training on it, I don't really think it's anything regarding the SAP system, but more the knowledge they have on the system itself. It seems to take longer for them to fix any issues we may come across. Incentivized Stephanie Chapman Team Leader Read full review
Alternatives Considered	IBM Websphere message broker supports a lot more protocols than any other similar tool. Incentivized Srinivasa Manne Principal Software Engineer Developer Read full review	SAP I found the initial setup of NetWeaver is much simpler than other products especially in an SAP environment where we have SAP ERP/HRM/CRM as it can be well integrated with other SAP products. The only drawback is the need/dependency on SAP Portal. It is better suited in an environment where SAP ERP is running. Incentivized SS Shiv Shivakumar Acquisitions Leader Read full review
Return on Investment	IBM It helped us in improving the speed to market for our services/APIs. Learning curve is quite long Incentivized Srinivasa Manne Principal Software Engineer Developer Read full review	SAP Helped us harness integrated benefit from having SAP ERP/CRM by leveraging NetWeaver to define business processes/rules and monitor exceptions Did not have any negative experience except for the fact that at times when multiple rules run, it can be somewhat slow Incentivized SS Shiv Shivakumar Acquisitions Leader Read full review
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