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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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Recent Reviews

Worth the spend

8 out of 10
October 24, 2023
Incentivized
Critical within our sales process and tracking ROI for marketing advertisement campaigns. We use it to ensure our data is accurate and …
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Why choose IBM Event Streams

9 out of 10
May 22, 2023
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 …
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Reliable Event Streamer

8 out of 10
December 20, 2022
Incentivized
We have started using IBM Event Streams to solve multiple problems in our organizations, in which most important is fraud analytics, so …
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Smoothest Apache Kafka

8 out of 10
December 18, 2022
Incentivized
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 …
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Not a Kafkaesque UI

6 out of 10
September 09, 2021
Incentivized
IBM Event Streams allows my cloud-focused team within my hosting-focused web development company to move an Apache Kafka-based pub/sub …
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Awesome IBM products

7 out of 10
February 14, 2019
Incentivized
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 …
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Product Details

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Confluent, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) are common alternatives for IBM Event Streams.

Reviewers rate Ease of integration highest, with a score of 7.8.

The most common users of IBM Event Streams are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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October 24, 2023

Worth the spend

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our primary implementations covered two user cases: 1. Analytics implementation to keep eye on the traffic flow & logs coming from users to help identify the problems in shorter time and make decisions for improvements. 2. Use of event transmission between different types of technologies and stacks that are usually not easily embeddable with each other.
October 07, 2023

Review IBM Event Streams

Engr Aijaz Ali Khushk | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.

December 20, 2022

Reliable Event Streamer

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
December 18, 2022

Smoothest Apache Kafka

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
September 09, 2021

Not a Kafkaesque UI

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Hanz van Aardt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
February 14, 2019

Awesome IBM products

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
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