IBM MQ

In the context of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, IBM MQ plays a pivotal role in managing the substantial data streams emanating from interconnected devices. Its primary function is to guarantee the dependable transmission and processing of data, catering to a diverse range of IoT use cases, including but not limited to smart city initiatives, healthcare monitoring systems, and industrial automation solutions. In the telecommunications sector, IBM MQ is employed for message routing, call detail record (CDR) processing, and network management to ensure real-time data exchange and fault tolerance. When managing the supply chain and logistics, IBM MQ is used to ensure timely and accurate communication between different entities, including suppliers, warehouses, and transportation providers. IBM MQ can be cost-prohibitive for smaller organizations due to licensing and maintenance costs. In such cases, open-source or lightweight messaging solutions may be more appropriate. For scenarios requiring extremely low-latency, real-time data exchange, and high throughput, other messaging technologies, like Apache Kafka, may be more suitable due to their specialized design for such use cases.

Message delivery guaranteed, IBM MQ supports the communication of exchange of information between the system and service via the queue. Also, they don't need to modify the existing application. Security risk while delivering the message, Performance problems sometimes it increased response rate, sometimes expected heavy use of resources.

I rate it 10 because the messaging formatting is good. it has reduced our issues on swift, as duplicates have been reduced as result of proper message formatting

If you have high volumes of messages to handle with performance contraint this tool is partculiary recommended. Furthermore it's easy to setup and to use. Good monitoring tooling and reply capability in case of error

IBM MQ is perfect for transferring critical swift data with our connected banks, it delivers consistently and reliably. In my opinion, it is not suited for small scale or less frequent data delivery

Its superb in sending messages from application. A to B, where the single (persistent) message will only be send once, and with all kinds of scenarios/ (machines poweroff / datacentre down) etc etc, this single one message will arrive on destination.

It has worked for our organisation from the first moment, we had a somewhat broken or distant internal communication as we did not have a tool for these things, when IBM MQ arrived everything started to flow correctly, we are always in contact and we could send all the necessary information at any time of the day. I also like the fact that it can be compatible with other platforms and brockers.

In today's event and the data-driven world, it is a common question when to use messaging system like IBM MQ and when something like Kafka.
IBM MQ is very well suited for point-to-point communications.
Having ACID properties IBM is well-suited for transaction processing.
In other cases such as Big Data, Analytics, and Event streaming IBM MQ is not the ideal choice. For those use cases, you are better with something like Kafka.

IBM MQ is a highly reliable and efficient software with guaranteed data delivery. It is an amazing way for centralizing your internal messaging and communications. IBM WebSphere was an invaluable part of our business operations. It allows you to sort through millions of messages and transactions in of the least amount of time possible.

Before using IBM MQ on Cloud we facing different types of issues like we were Facing some related deployment and configurations issues. Now, we can easily and simply connect an application to a queue manager. We can run our application in a number of ways, deployed in the cloud for instance for validation purposes And convenient for configurations

The program is ideal for newly formed work teams that need extra monitoring and a basic connection between all their programs. By doing calculations, we believe that our productivity and teamwork order has increased thanks to IBM. Latencies are minimal, along with lags. It is a good investment for your team.

The tracking of the program, compared to other programs such as Amazon versions, is superior, and the quality of the communication between each program is noted when linking them. It is a program that I consider to be of medium to high cost but cheaper than other options in terms of functionalities. I do not recommend it for small companies; it is rather for medium to large companies since it is expensive to renew or extend licenses. Even so, it has worked effectively for us; I give it a 9.

The software is very reliable, and we never have to worry about messages being delivered or not being delivered because it's a very dependable system. I would recommend this to anyone who is looking to centralize their messaging and communication. I have observed that IBM MQ helps to sort through thousands of messages and transactions in a short amount of time. This software is an invaluable part of our operations. We have contributed to the "Digital Egypt" campaign to turn the traditional time-consuming governmental services into digitalization, and IBM MQ was one of the most useful tools that achieved outstanding results, along with the Business Automation Cloud Pak from IBM too. We helped them by connecting applications and microservices, delivering messages reliably, and ensuring their data is safe with comprehensive security mechanisms.

IBM MQ makes applications interconnections swift. As long as your applications support HL7 and above, implementing a secure three-tier application is a task demanding little effort. This is really handy because now your application layers can exchange interfaces with no interruption. IBM MQ has made it easy to securely implement new app systems upon integration with App connect.

When you need a reliable solution for Message queueing i.e. asynchronous transfer of messages, IBM MQ is the best solution out there. But it lacks a lot of modern features. Most of the solutions provided by Cloud providers have at least once approach to send messages. But the messages from IBM MQ are never lost. Also the Dead-Letter-Queueing helps to find issues why messages are not reaching their intended destination.

Best suited for
- To send high business sensitive information from one system to another
- When systems are built using different technology frameworks or languages
- When architecture demands different messaging styles like pub/sub, one to one, etc.,
Not very good for
- small teams / products
- automatic scaling requirements

IBM MQ is best suited if you are having a large project dealing with sensitive data and message security and integrity are of the top priority in addition to having huge volumes of the data. You should always try to create less number of queue managers and rather create more queues on the queue managers and make the nomenclature in such a way that each team has its different set of queues.

If you manage a high number of transactions for a medium or large project, IBM MQ is the way to go. On the contrary, if the project does not merit it due to the number or frequency of transactions, or if there is not enough budget available for it, the implementation of some MOM open source such as activeMQ will be more than enough. IBM MQ is advisable to use only if the project deserves it.

Advisable: Integration with other systems not alike, example of mainframe, establish SSL secured channels with providers/clients/etc.

Not advisable: To perform intensive Data transformation (MQ Workflow was that tool though) , or to try to substitute SOAP/RMI for MQ

Well suited for data collection/distribution externally. Not great for dev-ops internally. Too restrictive and not flexible enough.