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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Confluent

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AIBM Confluent helps enterprises stream, connect, process, govern and serve real-time data across hybrid environments.

    $385

    per month

    meshIQ

    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    meshIQ provides observability and management capabilities for middleware platforms, from modern Kafka-based streaming to legacy messaging technologies such as IBM MQ, across cloud and on-premises environments.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM ConfluentmeshIQ
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $0
    Standard
    Starting at ~$385
    per month
    Enterprise
    Starting at ~$1,150
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM ConfluentmeshIQ
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsConfluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/hour), networking ($/GB), and storage ($/GB-hour). Connect: Use of connectors is billed based on throughput ($/GB) and a task base price ($/task/hour). Process: Use of stream processing with Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink is calculated based on CFUs ($/minute). Govern: Use of Stream Governance is billed based on environment ($/hour). Confluent storage and throughput is calculated in binary gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 2^30 bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as a gibibyte (GiB). Please also note that all prices are stated in United States Dollars unless specifically stated otherwise. All billing computations are conducted in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).—
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    IBM ConfluentmeshIQ
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
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    Implementation went as expected
    88%
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    User Ratings
    IBM ConfluentmeshIQ
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (18 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.4
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM ConfluentmeshIQ
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    Very reliable product and help with streaming messages without fail which is a significant confidence booster as an SRE leader. Would recommend the product considering the fact that now it is backed by IBM in addition to all IBM Confluent was doing well before the acquisition. Has been a game changer for our organization
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    meshIQ
    If you're involved in any business that is related to banking, insurance and lending industry, take the short way and save yourself from thousands of wasted dollars on fraud detection and application management issues, Nastel is my savior and it's the most powerful killer solution to beat the fraud and have a winning application performance management, It's like hiring a mathematics magician with super powers to help businesses get over the delayed amount of time spent on a problem, and the average time to process a claim, reduce errors and most importantly to decrease the number of tickets at the help center for a better and higher customer satisfaction score.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • It works really well in providing data context for our customers.
    • It is helpful in real time data streaming.
    • It is really wonderful tool for doing data validations and massaging the data.
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    meshIQ
    • Its ability to detect and correct IBM MQ issues before they effect the production.
    • performance trends and statistics in real-time.
    • Rapid and accurate monitoring of Command Servers, Dead Letter Queues, Queue Managers, Qdepth and Listeners.
    • Built-in complex event processing to gain valuable visibility into order fulfillment processes
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Iit needs to improve in AI agents usage.
    • It needs to be more user friendly.
    • It is too complicated for beginners.
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    meshIQ
    • The UI needs a lot of improvements to meet today's standards while keeping the functional part highly performing as it used to be
    • Being unable to run reports through the workgroup security manager is a serious con, I think they need to consider giving it more attention
    • the auto-monitoring feature performance goes low when it's enabled during a heavy workloads, it leads to a lower/heavier performance, but during the latest update I feel it got lighter somehow.
    • They also need to give more attention to the encryption and enhance it with the latest encryption technologies
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    Usability
    IBM
    Kafka and Schema Registry are the rock solid fully managed offerings from IBM Confluent Cloud. Other than that the rest of the offerings do not work as expected.
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    meshIQ
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    The support from the Confluent platform is great and satisfying. We have been working with Confluent for more than a year now. They sent out resident architects to help us set up Confluent cluster on our cloud and help us troubleshoot problems we have encountered. Overall, it has been a great experience working with the Confluent Platform.
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    meshIQ
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    For our use case it was very important that the technology we were working with fit into our Azure architecture, and met our data processing size requirements to stream data within certain SLAs. Confluent more than met our performance requirements and compared to the others scale options and cost to run it was more than financially viable as a platform solution to our global operations.
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    meshIQ
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • IBM Confluent helps us get data moving from system to system at near real time.
    • IBM Confluent makes pushing data into a data lake easy - analytics, targeted deals, etc
    • The RBAC and ACL setup helps us govern and secure our data, even between teams/applications.
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    meshIQ
    • A reduction in point of sale abandonment by 70% reflects the change in mindset of customers who are no longer irritated by price anomalies.
    • The company was able to merge many unnecessary servers due to thousands of useless queues it had, resulting in yearly savings of more than $250,000
    • improved efficiency and cost-savings by 80% within the first 2 months
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