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IBM Event Streams

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What is IBM Event Streams?

IBM Event Streams is a high-throughput, fault-tolerant, event streaming solution. Powered by Apache Kafka, it provides access to enterprise data through event streams, enabling businesses to unlock insights from historical data, and identify and take action on situations in real…

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What is IBM Event Streams?

IBM Event Streams is a high-throughput, fault-tolerant, event streaming solution. Powered by Apache Kafka, it provides access to enterprise data through event streams, enabling businesses to unlock insights from historical data, and identify and take action on situations in…

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What is IBM Event Streams?

IBM Event Streams is a high-throughput, fault-tolerant, event streaming solution. Powered by Apache Kafka, it provides access to enterprise data through event streams, enabling businesses to unlock insights from historical data, and identify and take action on situations in real time and at scale.

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IBM Event Streams Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesUnites States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portugese/Brazil, Spanish, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional

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Reviewers rate Ease of integration highest, with a score of 7.9.

The most common users of IBM Event Streams are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Integration Capabilities: Users have praised the platform's seamless integration with Apache applications, resulting in a cohesive and efficient user experience. They appreciate the open-source nature and exceptional client support that further elevate their overall satisfaction.

Handling Massive Traffic: User feedback consistently highlights the platform's remarkable ability to handle substantial traffic volumes daily, underscoring its reliability and high performance under demanding conditions. This feature significantly enhances users' trust in the platform.

Valuable Features for Analytics: Users find the platform invaluable for analytics tasks, reporting functions, and streamlining onboarding processes. By meeting these needs effectively, it enhances service quality and fulfills user expectations thoroughly.

Limited Descriptions and User-Friendliness: Users have criticized the product for lacking detailed descriptions, options, and user-friendliness, especially when working with downstream processes. This deficiency has led to challenges in understanding the full capabilities of the product and adapting it to specific needs.

Complexity and Need for Training: Reviewers have highlighted the complexity of the product, noting that even users experienced with similar software platforms may require additional training or courses from IBM to fully utilize its features effectively. The steep learning curve has hindered seamless adoption and utilization by users.

Monitoring Challenges: Some users expressed dissatisfaction with monitoring functionalities, citing issues such as insufficient visibility into traffic patterns and events, complexities in monitoring broker status and traffic flow, as well as experiencing downtime when attempting to scale topic partitions. These monitoring limitations have impacted operational efficiency and real-time decision-making within their workflows.

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Worth the spend

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 24, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Event Streams
2 years of experience
Critical within our sales process and tracking ROI for marketing advertisement campaigns. We use it to ensure our data is accurate and that the right employees can access the correct level of data to effectively do their job.
  • Analytics
  • Reporting
  • Onboarding
If you need to connect data across multiple sources say Google Analytics, sales force or trigger sales funnel events this is a great tool

Review IBM Event Streams

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 07, 2023
EA
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Event Streams
2 years of experience
My organization is based on ethics and integrity, with management guided by our values and a rigorous system of corporate governance in how we conduct business and manage risk.IBM Event Streams help our organization using Apache ecosystem products and being an open source we can customize the platform as per the need of the customer and as and when the requirement changes. payment processing, fraud detection, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and IoT analytics all rely on immediate action on data. All of these use cases deal with data points in a continuous stream, each associated with a specific point in time.
  • IBM Event Streams reduce costs
  • enhance service quality,
  • Reduce the time that it takes to deliver your services to your customers.
Reporting and Monitoring of traffic and events and better user experience.IBM Event Streams Event-driven architectures and event streams can work in conjunction to give your business a better ability to react to events in real time. need expertise resources to use this efficiently. In using downstream, the minimal features and the rate of releases were slow, which makes us feel that there are no upgrades, and other than that there's poor marketing of the product. I hope it reaches more customers.

IBM Event Streams Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 28, 2023
JR
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Event Streams
6 years of experience
It helps us pull reports across the finance and procurement organization. This way we are able to quickly access information without waiting on another person to provide.
  • Timely reporting
  • Accurate
  • Easy to use
I am very likely to recommend IBM. The program is very well suited for our line of work. We use it to help pull data in support of finance and procurement functionalities.

Smooth and easy onboarding

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 27, 2023
VS
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Event Streams
1 year of experience
IBM Event Stream solved our real-time data streaming issues. Previously, there was a lot of lag in both the website and mobile app while fetching from backend, now that lag is removed and we have happy customers.
  • It can be easily integrated also its based on kafka so everyone is on the same pace if we talk about using the programs
  • handling massive traffic on day to day basis seamlessly
Useful for: On-prem IIB to cloud solution integration in conjunction with Secure Gateway Based on Kafka, has a lot of positive sentiments among customers.
In using downstreams, the minimal features and the rate of releases were slow, which makes us feel that there's no upgrades and other than that there's poor marketing of the product

Why choose IBM Event Streams

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 22, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Event Streams
1 year of experience
We used IBM Event stream as a part of data analysis pipeline. We would ingest data into Event stream and then fan out to different processors. Our team really loved the product as some of us were already familiar with Kafka and it was very easy to setup. The interface is very intuitive.

  • Integrates well
  • Based on Opensource software
  • Client libraries and support is awesome
We felt that it's best for asynchronous processing of data. Managing a Kafka server is hard and time consuming, IBM cloud's Event stream is well suited for teams who don't want to manage their own server and use a fully managed solution instead. We didn't face any issue with our use case though.

Reliable Event Streamer

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 20, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Event Streams
1 year of experience
We have started using IBM Event Streams to solve multiple problems in our organizations, in which most important is fraud analytics, so whenever a customer files instant claims too many times or have unusual activity we instantly send it for scrutiny, before approving the claims and procedures. We are also analyzing traffic and events on app and web to pitch the most suitable product to customer. Apart from this for APIs, we use it as messaging bus to handle peak demands during the day and ensure all payments are timely and successful.
  • UI is great
  • Apache Kafka
  • handles large traffic very well
  • Reliable and has less downtime
It is well suited for event architecture, when things and decisions are real time and those decisions have some serious impact, so to provide better customer experience, we can use this as we found using it more reliable and less downtime than our previous self developed architecture. It is able to handle load well and queue requests when system is not working.

Smoothest Apache Kafka

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 18, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Event Streams
3 years of experience
We use IBM Event Streams at Call Copy to build smart apps for events. We also engage event streams to act as a buffer for connecting our data sources to their data pools. We have also integrated Event streams with IBM Cloud Pak to improve how we scale in the cloud.
  • It is adaptive and helps us create more engaging experiences on our platforms.
  • The Key metrics dashboard is rich with insights.
We have used IBM Event Streams to connect to critical systems in our company. We have also utilized it to provide wider event streams connectivity for our clients. IBM Event Streams is very suitable for sending events from native environments to appliances and critical workloads seamlessly. Events streams is impressive because deployment is not only limited to IBM cloud but can also work on Red Hat.

Best software for events streaming.

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 23, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Event Streams
1 year of experience
IBM event streams help us to give an in-depth analysis of our traffic in real time. With the help of the IBM event stream, we can directly track the clicks on elements, text, and containers as well as on DOM. It helps us to manage huge amount of traffic on a daily basis and give us the option to create segments.
  • Ability to manage large traffic.
  • Real-time event logs.
  • Integration is smooth and easy.
IBM event streams are so powerful software that manages our huge amount of traffic, not only with the help of IBM event streams we can create useful insight with the data and create our campaign strategy.

Not a Kafkaesque UI

Rating: 6 out of 10
September 09, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Event Streams
1 year of experience
IBM Event Streams allows my cloud-focused team within my hosting-focused web development company to move an Apache Kafka-based pub/sub pattern from one of our pre-existing applications into the IBM cloud. It is being used within a single application at this time as a proof of concept and that application is consumed mostly by our team. The business problem that it addresses is hosting for our pub sub-app in the IBM Cloud. We had business reasons for using the IBM cloud in this case.
  • UI is intuitive and easy to use.
  • Apache Kafka has a great community.
  • Being in the cloud is great.
If you are running an application that requires pub/sub capabilities like Apache Kafka and you want to run the pub /sub in the IBM cloud, then I think that this may be an appropriate technology choice for you. As there are comparable products in other cloud providers, it is worthwhile to consider the business externalities of your choice of cloud providers and choose the one that makes the most sense from that perspective.

Reliable Kafka service provided by IBM

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 18, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Event Streams
3 years of experience
IBM Event Streams is being used by a department. It serves as the main messaging bus for the communication of our backend microservices. It provides high reliability and scaling when the traffic peaks. It also reduces the coupling of the microservices, so we can make changes much easier and more frequently without breaking stuff.
  • It scales very well.
  • It can handle a lot of traffic.
  • It can retain the events when our services have issues.
IBM Event Streams is good for use cases like live streaming or event processing. It can process events with very high throughput. Partitioning gives the user the power to scale up or down when necessary. It can also be used as the communication interface for different clouds.

Make your organization more agile by using IBM Event Streams !

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 05, 2020
Hv
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Event Streams
1 year of experience
Our company is currently in the process of implementing a messaging system - we develop event driven Microservices and needed an event streaming system based on Kafka which can address our needs. I reviewed IBM Event Streams and it is a great option. Event streams allows us to permanently store changes to domain objects in the form of events - the changes are then made available to various other services where they are materialized into certain solutions like Analytics, AI etc.
  • IBM Event Streams offers a Lite tier which makes it incredible easy to get started.
  • IBM Event Streams allows you to permanents persist / log events.
  • Other back-end services can subscribe to events the want to consume.
IBM Event Streams is well suited for companies developing event driven Microservices. One of the biggest challenger with microservices is that your data gets distributed into little silos - event streaming (or better known as event sourcing) allows you to get a central source of truth in your event store. We are taking this approach with IBM Event Streams and it is well suited for building an event streaming / sourcing architecture.

Awesome IBM products

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 14, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Message Hub is used to persist and transfer the operations domain data. It's being used to replay the data from a certain point in the past. The pub/sub model allows us to empower clients to choose when to start reading the data. It's been reliable and scalable.
  • Replay capability
  • Message persistence
  • High throughput
Excellent for messaging with tons of data. It's highly reliable, scalable and resilient. It's an excellent option for clients that look to get away from point-point messaging and the overhead that comes with it. It enables clients to have power to choose as little or as much data as they wish to.

IBM Event Streams - Emerging Candidate in Streaming Space

Rating: 5 out of 10
February 13, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
We have performed an evaluation of IBM Event Streams for Event Streaming & Analytics. The idea is to use the Event Streams across the enterprise as an event streaming platform. We are still in the evaluation phase and trying to solve the problems of event-based streaming from different kinds of applications across the enterprise for real-time analytics of data.
  • Seamless integration with existing MQ infrastructure.
  • Basically uses the Core Kafka Framework.
  • Geo-Replication.
  • Dashboard for Topics management and analytics.
It is well suited for: Event streaming backed with all the enterprise applications with basic data formats. Connectivity with existing MQ infrastructure. Adopting the legacy skills of resources, native clients using Java can connect seamlessly. Multi-data Center streaming use cases.
Not Suited for: Handling different data formats, Kafka Connect sink & source connectors to connect with HDFS, Databases etc, Schema registry, Non-Java Client Connectivity.

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