IBM Integration Bus vs. UltraESB

IBM Integration Bus

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Integration Bus	Score 8.3 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
UltraESB	Score 9.0 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	A high-performance, lean and robust integration framework + runtime (ESB) Intuitive drag-n-drop graphical integration workflows Simple, annotation- and markup-driven configuration…	N/A

Pricing

IBM Integration Bus

UltraESB

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM Integration Bus	UltraESB
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Additional Details

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Flexible licensing and additional support options, with generous discounts for bulk deployments and reference customers.

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Community Pulse
	IBM Integration Bus	UltraESB
Top Pros	Pro Support for different Pro Easy to implement Pro Centralized data	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus Code quality	No answers on this topic

Best Alternatives
	IBM Integration Bus	UltraESB
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	Skyvia Score 9.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Anypoint Platform Score 8.1 out of 10	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.1 out of 10
Enterprises	Anypoint Platform Score 8.1 out of 10	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.1 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	IBM Integration Bus	UltraESB
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Integration Bus	UltraESB
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	AdroitLogic No answers on this topic
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	AdroitLogic No answers on this topic
Cons	IBM Logging Debugging Code quality tools Feature specific installation Incentivized Srinivasa Manne Principal Software Engineer Developer Read full review	AdroitLogic No answers on this topic
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	AdroitLogic No answers on this topic
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	AdroitLogic No answers on this topic
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