OpenText Business Network vs. webMethods Trading Network

webMethods Trading Networks is an excellent choice for a business-to-business (B2B) gateway platform, for sending and receiving messages to/from external trading partner organizations. It excels at making it easy to define new interfaces and provides robust mechanisms for ensuring successful message delivery and processing through automatic retries. We also use it successfully for all our application-to-application (A2A) integration, which many would believe is beyond the scope of what webMethods Trading Network is good for; however, we have made it work and it has been very successful in our organization. I would not recommend using webMethods Trading Network for integration that requires low-latency or high-bandwidth data transfers. It is much better suited to shipping reasonable sized XML or JSON or flat file messages (less than 100 mb) around in situations that do not need sub-second latency. If you have low-latency or high-bandwidth needs, you should use a product more focussed on eventing, such as Kafka, for example.

Incentivized

• Document tracking
• Efficient partner management
• Set up trading partners with connectivity information

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• Vendor is slow to add new features
• Performance scales with underlying database performance
• Use of My webMethods to administrate trading networks is clunky and slow

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Ease of use and robustness of the product.

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• Improved time to market for new A2A and B2B interfaces
• Ability to support modern standards with B2B partners
• Improved supportability and robustness when compared to the previous bespoke custom solution it replaced

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