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    IBM webMethods Universal Messaging

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AIBM webMethods Universal Messaging (formerly from Software AG) is message-oriented middleware that provides guaranteed message delivery between distributed applications. It carries data across public, private, and wireless networks, and across heterogeneous systems. According to IBM's documentation, it works without a web server and without changes to firewall policy.N/A
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    Software AG Universal Messaging has excellent performance characteristics, a good high availability story, and works great when you are using the other products in the Software AG webMethods integration platform, as our organization is. It has relatively high licensing costs, …
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    Software AG Universal Messaging is best used in conjunction with Software AG webMethods integration platform, as it works seamlessly with other components of that platform such as webMethods Integration Server and webMethods Trading Networks. It can be used with any messaging client developed in Java or .NET and supports JMS clients, however, it is best suited to being used as one component in an organization that is going to implement the entire webMethods platform to implement their Enterprise Service Bus integration solution.
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    • Low latency high performance messaging and event handling
    • High availability
    • Horizontal scalability
    • Seamless integration with Software AG webMethods integration platform
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    • Logging
    • Administration
    • Observability
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    Software AG Universal Messaging has excellent performance characteristics, a good high availability story, and works great when you are using the other products in the Software AG webMethods integration platform, as our organization is. It has relatively high licensing costs, which is a large negative when compared with open-source solutions such as Apache Kafka. However, Software AG provides good support services, and is a market leader in the integration space, giving some surety for risk-averse organizations that if something goes wrong we have a vendor we can rely on to help fix it.
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    • Enables disparate software systems to be integrated, reducing manual data entry
    • Enables high performance event handling for data lakes and analytics
    • Has relatively high licensing costs
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