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    IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AIBM® webMethods offers a hybrid, enterprise-grade integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that allows users to securely control applications, APIs, B2B and files across environments and locations.

    $2,500

    per month

    Pega Platform

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APega Platform is a combined business process management and robotic process automation (RPA) platform with advanced workforce analytics from Pegasystems.

    $0.45

    one-time fee per case**

    Verint Case Management Professional [Citizen Engagement]

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AVerint® Case Management Professional™ is a cloud-based service that enables two distinct use cases for two distinct markets - Citizen Engagement and CCaaS. Citizen Engagement Verint® Case Management Professional™ automates customer/citizen interactions across both assisted and self-service channels, enabling engagement across hundreds of city / local government services whilst maximizing the opportunity for self-service. The…N/A
    Pricing
    IBM webMethods Hybrid IntegrationPega PlatformVerint Case Management Professional [Citizen Engagement]
    Editions & Modules
    IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration Standard Tier
    $2,500
    per month
    Low-code Factory Edition
    $0.45
    one-time fee per case**
    Standard Edition
    $0.80
    one-time fee per case**
    Enterprise Edition
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    Pricing Offerings
    IBM webMethods Hybrid IntegrationPega PlatformVerint Case Management Professional [Citizen Engagement]
    Free Trial
    YesYesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details**350,000 cases / year minimum. Additional cases available in blocks of 150,000.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    78%
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    Features
    IBM webMethods Hybrid IntegrationPega PlatformVerint Case Management Professional [Citizen Engagement]
    Cloud Data Integration
    Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration and Pega Platform and Verint Case Management Professional [Citizen Engagement]
    Feature
    IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration
    7.4
    23 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Pega Platform
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    Verint Case Management Professional [Citizen Engagement]
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    Pre-built connectors7.722 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connector modification6.821 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for real-time and batch integration7.522 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality services7.522 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data security features7.421 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring console7.522 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration and Pega Platform and Verint Case Management Professional [Citizen Engagement]
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    Pega Platform
    5.3
    63 Ratings
    37% below category average
    Verint Case Management Professional [Citizen Engagement]
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    Dashboards00 Ratings4.062 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings6.062 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.061 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration and Pega Platform and Verint Case Management Professional [Citizen Engagement]
    Feature
    IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration
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    Pega Platform
    8.0
    66 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Verint Case Management Professional [Citizen Engagement]
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    Process designer00 Ratings9.065 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings7.957 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings10.065 Ratings00 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings7.151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings7.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings5.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings9.059 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings8.956 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration and Pega Platform and Verint Case Management Professional [Citizen Engagement]
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    Pega Platform
    9.0
    50 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Verint Case Management Professional [Citizen Engagement]
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    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings9.050 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration and Pega Platform and Verint Case Management Professional [Citizen Engagement]
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    Pega Platform
    4.4
    9 Ratings
    59% below category average
    Verint Case Management Professional [Citizen Engagement]
    -
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    Content management00 Ratings4.49 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM webMethods Hybrid IntegrationPega PlatformVerint Case Management Professional [Citizen Engagement]
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.8
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    7.9
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
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    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Online Training
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
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    Implementation Rating
    7.3
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    10.0
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    Configurability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    1.0
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    Vendor post-sale
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    User Testimonials
    IBM webMethods Hybrid IntegrationPega PlatformVerint Case Management Professional [Citizen Engagement]
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    In any scenario where a distributed enterprise IT landscape needs a unified approach to solve the challenges of enabling a common information supply chain where different stakeholders as well as citizen developers can be empowered to contribute, participate and own their own parts of the integration landscape - IBM webMethods offers a capable, architecturally sound and cost efficient way of supporting a wide range of enterprise system integration needs.
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    Pegasystems
    Pega Platform has introduced the low code feature, using app studio seasonal and professional developer can develop application easily and quickly. The initial application can be build by Business analyst and product owner who has less knowledge of Pega Platform, further application can be enhanced/extended by professional developer. We can develop end to end application and promote to higher environment. Easily we can perform parallel development using branch.
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    Verint
    So it's definitely well suited for government. That was the framework for it, but again, it can be utilized by anybody. It's a case management system that has a very powerful form tool that can be very flexible and incorporated to anything as we've used it in that form.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Translate the data into required format based on system
    • Handles good amount of load and tranefer data into chunks and very much accurate
    • Administration is very easy and easily understable and it has goos secuity features
    • Schedulers works well for pub/sub message pulling and pushing
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    Pegasystems
    • Quick development time. Much of the Pega "rules" are easy to configure and implement.
    • Visually friendly and modern. Much of the UI/UX elements in the system are continuously supported and updated, giving a nice feel to the apps.
    • Many of the configurations and rules Pega gives to the developers can also be delegated to business users. The organization and structure of the client's business can easily be adapted in the Pega platform.
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    Verint
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Clarifying the ongoing and near future roadmap developments in terms of capabilities and architecture
    • Merging features, patterns and platform tooling with the rest of the Cloud Pak for integration toolkit
    • Adding additional support for AI-driven development, low-/no-code features, and code assistant features
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    Pegasystems
    • Need more learning materials. For Beginners who have previous programming experience with another language takes more time to learn.
    • If the developer is met with an issue in pega platform , they have to rely on Pega supporting team to fix it.
    • Customization is available but is not encouraged. Pega does not support faults that occur in customized solutions.
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    Verint
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    The webMethods platform is a fantastic tool for modernizing information systems. It's easy to use and delivers rapid results.The platform is focused on innovation and is accelerating its improvement with the acquisition by IBM.
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    Pegasystems
    Pegasystems has continued to demonstrate a strong partnership with our organization and investment in their product that aligns with our overall vision and need. Pegasystems has engaged us at every level, with the assistance of minor defects to the overall roadmap planning and alignment of our goals
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    Verint
    Amazing product with unlimited uses
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    Usability
    IBM
    IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration is a robust tool that can be used across the Enterprise globally with visibility of the application environment for both on-prem and the cloud. It is used for API gateways and microservices communication services and does a good job in all these areas and is the single tool that we use for connectivity in our hybrid IT environment.
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    Pegasystems
    Pega Platform is enhancing its product and launching new features day by day which help to achieve customers needs. If I talk about the earlier version of Pega Platform (i.e. pega v5 and 6.3) there were many numbers of limitations in Pega Platform and if we need to do some customization then needed to write custom java and jave scripts to achieve the functionally. Now I can say Pega Platform is running with market trends and demand. Pega Platform is giving all the options which support the current technologies like decisioning capabilities, real time processing, mashup, process fabrics etc..
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    Verint
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    Reliability and Availability
    IBM
    The webMethods platform is very stable and does not cause incidents: if it is well configured and tailored at the base. Infrastructure incidents represent 20% of incidents (full disk, memory peaks, etc.) 80% of incidents come from the implementation of the code in the platform. If a code is not optimized and a high volume is observed in production, this can cause incidents. Similarly, if all error cases or conditions are not handled in the code, this can cause errors. Finally, there can be common errors if the applications connected to the platform do not return quality data or are unavailable.
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    Pegasystems
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    Verint
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    Performance
    IBM
    The webMethods platform is designed to handle a high volume of small messages. It's a tool for continuous processing.The incidents I've seen involving application performance declines are caused by: - ​​Code optimization issues - File size issues or fragmentation of the transmitted file - Misuse of the platform (batch processing) - Monitoring data was not purged, and the user was working with millions of data points
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    Pegasystems
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    Verint
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    In the majority of the tickets I've created, support has been very responsive and provided the right solutions or solutions.Resolving a ticket also depends on the information provided by the creator. It's important to provide the technical context and information about the environment, as well as information to help the support team reproduce the incident.
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    Pegasystems
    It’s very slow sometimes, but that may be our servers. Also the Knowledge Library needs some work - again, not sure if it’s our setup or what- but I’m unable to search the body of an article for content, so I have to be very intentional with tagging, but it’s not ideal.
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    Verint
    Support has been strong. Quick answers most times and when the answer isn't quick communication has been great.
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    In-Person Training
    IBM
    We received in-person training from the webMethods team. We received standard training from the vendor and custom training on specific security topics.The training sessions went well but remained very standard and did not adapt to the client's specific business. In-person training is more suitable for rapid skill development. It is necessary to practice for a few weeks to ensure familiarity with the tool.
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    Pegasystems
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    Verint
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    Online Training
    IBM
    I found clear and easy-to-follow training with realistic use cases for quick understanding and a 360° view of the features. The lesson format allows you to progress and learn by breaking down the allocated time.The technical courses are described step by step, allowing you to quickly get to grips with the products
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    Pegasystems
    The online training is an excellent one, but still it is missing hands on development.
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    Verint
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    When implementing webMethods, it's essential to have the right support and guidance.It's important to map out the interactions, document them, prepare test cases, and implement them while making maximum use of the product's native features.Additional tools must also be planned to automate deployments, visualize logs, and monitor the platform.
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    Pegasystems
    Implementation is totally depend up on the requirement
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    Verint
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    webMethods.io IntegrationDescriptionWe uses webMethods.io Integration to solve some of our application to applications and business to business integration needs. It is the Integration Platform as a Service solution that we use in a mix with our continued use of webMethods Integration Server and Trading Networks on-premises. For any solutions that meet the use cases that we deem an appropriate fit for running in the cloud, we build those solutions using webMethods.io Integration. More specifically, we use webMethods.io Integration to synchronize changes in one application or system, in another application or system, by shipping data mutations via integration messaging and API calls. We also use webMethods.io Integration to integrate with external organizations. Our trading partners and supply chain partners provide APIs that we consume, and vice versa, to notify each other of business process events as they occur in the respective organizations. Please provide some detailed examples of things that webMethods.io Integration (webMethods Integration Cloud) does particularly well. Easy to usePriced competitivelySupports robust and resilient integration solutions please provide some detailed examples of areas where webMethods.io Integration (webMethods Integration Cloud) has room for improvement. These could be features that are hard to use, missing functionality, or just things that you'd like to see done differently. Complex logic is hard to understand in a simple diagrammatic user interface too simplistic for solutions that are complicated or go against the gain runtime observability could be improved please describe some specific scenarios based on your experience where webMethods.io Integration (webMethods Integration Cloud) is well suited, and/or scenarios where it is less appropriate. We don't use webMethods.io Integration for scenarios where we need to integrate to on-premises legacy applications that have limited support for modern security controls such as OAuth 2.0 and transport encryption. Likewise, we don't use it for solutions that involve any of our systems that are controlled by safe-working processes. For those scenarios, of which we have many, we maintain on-premises webMethods Integration Server and Trading Networks instances to build and execute and support and monitor those solutions. This then requires us to hook our on-premises integration platform up to the webMethods.io Integration cloud, to ship messages between the two integration platforms. This all begs the question if a cloud solution cannot be used for all use cases or scenarios that the business has, then why add the complexity of using the cloud at all if you still need to maintain an on-premises solution to support the non-cloud appropriate scenarios. What positive or negative impact (i.e. Return on Investment or ROI) has webMethods.io Integration (webMethods Integration Cloud) had on your overall business objectives?webMethods.io Integration is a cost-effective approach to integration in isolationwebMethods.io Integration as a supplement to on-premises integration is pointless and redundant and just adds complexity to the environment and additional costswebMethods.io Integration is a tough sell for organizations using Microsoft Azure integration products such as Logic AppswebMethods.io Integration has a faster time to market where the use case means standard provided adapters can be used describe how webMethods.io Integration (webMethods Integration Cloud) stacks up against them and why you selected webMethods.io Integration (webMethods Integration Cloud). For any organization which is already using Software AG products on-premises, such as webMethods Integration Server and Trading Networks, or Universal Messaging, evaluating and using webMethods.io Integration is the path of least resistance. It will be incredibly easy for your webMethods team to get up to speed on how to use webMethods.io Integration, and start developing new solutions on it. However in my opinion you should only add cloud to your integration product portfolio if you believe you can move 100% of your integration needs to the cloud. Otherwise, you will need to maintain an on-premises integration solution anyway, which means you end up with a more complex IT landscape by adding cloud to supplement on-premises integration for little benefit in terms of cost, complexity, and resourcing requirements. For organizations that are not already a Software AG shop, you should evaluate webMethods.io Integration on its merits, however, it's usually the right decision to double down on your existing products and vendors if you have no big issues with the current state. This is to say that if you are a Microsoft shop then adding Azure cloud products to your portfolio is pretty much inevitable, and avoiding the complexity of multiple clouds should also be something organizations consider.
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    Pegasystems
    We did evaluate multiple products offerings with Pega Platform capabilities and observed that Pega PRPC rules engine and case management capabilities are better over so many BPM Tools. We also conducted a detailed study with developers to identify the best products out of Suite of BPM products. It's observed that Rules engines integration is very streamlined with forms in Pega whereas other tools multiple have powerful data model capabilities but lacks the ease of creating business rules.
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    Verint
    So again, it's been our only CRM for 10, 11 years. So I really haven't had much flexibility outside just more of what you hear, but what I have seen, they don't have the flexibility in their form software for building their service requests because that's really what the forms are used for, is to collect the data from the citizen and then creates a case.
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    Scalability
    IBM
    I don't know this product
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    Pegasystems
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    Verint
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • + : We and our customers gain time with automatic processes
    • - : It takes a lot of time to design API
    • - : Java is slow. So we need to put a lot of time into flows improvments to reach our goals.
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    Pegasystems
    • For one of the applications we worked on, we were able to reduce the processing time on a case from 2 days to 20 minutes by utilizing Pega
    • We were able to resolve the issue of the routing of cases to users based on a specific algorithm by use of Pega
    • Pega case management feature was extensively used in one of the application to establish a parent-child relationship which was very helpful for all the business users
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    Verint
    • We have been able to use the platform to handle non contact centre workflows.
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