Messaging Layer with IBM MQ
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What is IBM MQ?
IBM MQ (formerly WebSphere MQ and MQSeries) is messaging middleware.
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What is IBM MQ?
| IBM MQ connects applications and microservices in private datacenters, across hybrid or multi-cloud environments, and at the edge of the enterprise. It allows businesses, from large enterprises to startups, to ensure every order, every payment, and every customer interaction counts. Messages between applications are delivered reliably once-and-only-once and applications are decoupled to enable rapid response to sudden traffic increases or system outages. Businesses can tap into the value of existing mission-critical data to gain real-time insights and ensure the safety of customer and business data with comprehensive security mechanisms. https://ibm.biz/IBM_MQ_product_page |
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IBM MQ (formerly WebSphere MQ and MQSeries) is messaging middleware.
IBM MQ starts at $5.
Alibaba Cloud Message Queue (AlibabaMQ), MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, and Apache Kafka are common alternatives for IBM MQ.
Reviewers rate Availability highest, with a score of 9.4.
The most common users of IBM MQ are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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IBM MQ is the best Cloud data management and easy on project operations reporting and creating analytics and real-time results which are more productive and useful to our company. The easy workflow management and the data mining features stability are effective and production easy management through IBM MQ is excellent.
- Easy to create reports.
- Excellent data management.
- Migration of data is excellent.
- IBM MQ can be slow on poor machine.
- When your new to the platform can be tricky.
- The big data modeling can slow the project deliverability.
- Data management is effective.
- Data collaboration functions.
- The reporting features.
- The IBM MQ has been helpful on big data migration and analytics generation.
- Excellent on changes reports building and the planning of resources through IBM MQ is fantastic.
- Cost-effective due to its speed of performance through the Cloud services and the insights collection is very quick.
The functionalities on IBM MQ are more responsive and functional unlike the above platforms and the training when you are new to IBM MQ is very effective and not much time wasted to become a Pro. The interface security setting and the adjustment of all the features capabilities were also easy which enables the production of profitable quality services and easy data handling.
IBM MQ enhances effective communication between applications from both on-premises and cloud bases models. It offers real-time insights that help in planning for marketing and sales programs. It taps valuable data analytics to the applications across the entire organization that helps in streamlining all workflow processes. We experienced data connection challenges before we deployed this product but after successful deployment, every business operation runs effectively.
- Connecting applications with secure data sources.
- Enhancing effective communication among colleagues.
- Controlling data security provisions across all the business models.
- I have no additional recommendation for further improvements.
- No missing functionalities.
- Enhancement of browsing ques.
- Record keeping for all messages exchanged.
- Data visualization across the company.
- The overall contribution have lead to positive ROI.
- It has promoted the company programs effectively.
I have not used similarly featured products in the company. The services that we have received from this platform have always been the best. The troubleshooting models ensure that data flow across the applications is not affected by any external effects, enhancing daily programs' continuity. The modern cloud-based services have improved the performance and attracted many potential clients. Storage of our workloads to the cloud-based servers has cut data management costs.
September 23, 2021
IBM MQ - The most reliable MQ solution which stood test of time
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As HSBC is a financial organization there are a lot of Applications that talk to each other. The messages which are transferred through different APIs are done through IBM MQ. And this solution is used throughout the Application due to its reliability. Also, IBM MQ is used to transfer all financial transactions.
- Transfer messages between different Applications (Frontend to Backend)
- Financial messages like MT101 between different Applications need to communicate asynchronously.
- Used as PubSub where applications need to communicate in Many-to-many, One-to-many or Many-to-one architecture.
- When a financial organization needs to communicate with another without sharing infrastructure
- They need to improve their Cloud migration as it lags behind.
- There are much better options being provided by Cloud providers. IBM Cloud is a solution but it doesn't integrate well with AWS or GCP.
- For now scalability in IBM MQ means you need multiple servers. It should have native support for containerizing
- Monitoring tools from IBM for MQ are very hard to use. Especially IBM Tivoli Monitoring. Needs a UI upgrade.
- There is no UI for MQ where you can centrally manage all the queues.
- Pub-Sub
- Transfer of Financial message
- Communication of different Applications or API interfaces with each other
- The maintenance cost is very low. And it rarely fails to deliver
- The LTS cost for support from IBM is quiet expensive so keeping the servers updated with latest version can be easier
- The time to market to set up new customers is relatively easy
August 05, 2021
IBM MQ is the way to go!
IBM MQ is being used by my organization across a multitude of projects. We rely on the software to provide reliable communication and connectivity across projects. Each project maintains a high number of transactions and IBM MQ helps to sort through all of them. This software is a seamless messaging and transfer protocol.
- Easy to use interface
- High level of security and reliable
- Readily available support
- An updated notification system to send alerts would be a great added feature to have.
- A more time efficient security setup
- There is a bit of a learning curve when first getting situated with the processes.
- JMS compliant
- Asynchronous messaging
- Scalable
- Well suited for data collection and external distribution
- Helps our organization solve our message integration problem
- No messages are lost in each transaction
IBM MQ is a leading competitor in this type of software. We are very happy at my organization to be using IBM MQ. It has a great, easy to use interface that works more seamlessly compared to the competitors out there. IBM MQ also seems to offer the best level of security which certainly provides peace of mind when dealing with so many transactions on projects.
May 19, 2021
Asynchronous and reliable messaging with IBM MQ
IBM MQ is used by many projects / products within the organisation. It solves the fundamental problem of interoperability between different applications within and outside the organisation. The Messaging platform provides the Asynchronous capabilities and also guarantees message integrity and persistent delivery and thereby provide reliable communication between different applications and product set.
- reliable messaging
- JMS compliant
- Different message types supported
- scalable
- Asynchronous messaging
- Stable product
- learning curve may be longer than other products
- Needs people with good experience to setup and maintain
- Third party tools & clients are not readily available
- No opensource
- Asynchronous messaging
- JMS complaint features
- Security and reliable messaging
- Different types of messaging formats
- Was able to seamlessly integrate customer facing applications with Supply side applications
- 100% uptime and reliable performance
- Transparent additions of additional clients / systems
IBM MQ is very stable and a proven product compared to other Messaging platforms available. Performance was better than WSO2 product and also the RabbitMQ. Though Kafka and IBM MQ is not directly comparable, Kafka is more suited for event based systems and also where there is some liberty to use custom APIs and libraries more freely.