We are a IBM Consulting firm that uses webmethods for our clients. The problem that webMethods solves is that helps organizations tie critical business applications and data together. This is very important as companies are trying break down data & application silos.
Pros
Seamlessly integrate data & applications
Universal connectors to major applications
ability to run in hybrid & multicloud environments.
Cons
Maybe better API management
More Connectors
Likelihood to Recommend
We have used webMethods. for clients that are moving to a "lift & Shift" direction. webMethods provided them with: 1) One platform 2) Complete visibility of application integration 3) Visibility to all runtimes 4) Visibility to all transactions
My organisation is a service oriented company which use IBM webMethods
every day to answer my customers’ needs. My customers are from a lot of business
domains like retail, bank or public administration. Our main business problems
are to help systems to communicate correctly between each other. IBM webMethods
is a useful software for data governance.
Pros
It helps the applications to communicate each other.
It helps to manage big data loads with asynchronous mechanism
It is user-friendly with his low code user interface
Cons
IA investment like chat bot
To make API building easier and faster
Improving Git oriented features (comparing and merging .xml files are difficult)
Likelihood to Recommend
No doubt IBM is cooking something great for v11, but in v10 IBM webMethods has weaknesses : - There is no offer for smallest companies (the licences are expensive) - WebMethods.io is not that easy to take in hand, so it's not for "beginners". You need to develop Flow Services for most of the cases.
IBM webMethods is in use to support and fasten the integrations leveraging on APIs. The product enables to decouple applications, abstracting the connection pattern (avoiding the 1:1, spaghetti architecture) and to link also heterogenoeus environments (e.g. on-pre- and cloud). All of these, supporting scalability and change in volumes
Pros
complex integrations in heterogeneous enviroments
Scalability: handling of high volume of data
Cons
learning curve can be long due to the number of features and the administration features
Likelihood to Recommend
Pro: B2B and complex integrations scenarios. Especially in corporate, well regulated markets
Less appropriate simple architecturale landscapes with light needs of monitoring and limited number of data to be exchanged. The overhead coming from the learning curve and powerfullness of the solution (and the connected sourcing) negatively impact the advantages of using the platform
IBM webMethods (IWMI) is used as our go-to product and platform to solve enterprise integration related business requirements where data needs to be exposed in a reliable, efficient and secure manner - regardless if it is messaging based, using API based integration patterns or if an event driven architecture approach is the appropriate solution. IBM webMethods solves all of these requirements, regardless if it is on premise, in the cloud, or a hybrid infrastructure situation.
Pros
Build once - deploy everywhere -driven design and architecture
Single web/cloud based control plane to manage on prem, hybrid and in cloud
Manage API gateways and patterns on any ecosystem or cloud provider
Cons
Clarifying the ongoing and near future roadmap developments in terms of capabilities and architecture
Merging features, patterns and platform tooling with the rest of the Cloud Pak for integration toolkit
Adding additional support for AI-driven development, low-/no-code features, and code assistant features
Likelihood to Recommend
In any scenario where a distributed enterprise IT landscape needs a unified approach to solve the challenges of enabling a common information supply chain where different stakeholders as well as citizen developers can be empowered to contribute, participate and own their own parts of the integration landscape - IBM webMethods offers a capable, architecturally sound and cost efficient way of supporting a wide range of enterprise system integration needs.
VU
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
We are using IBM webMethods for translating the data in required format for systems and send it. We work for supply chain product is warehouse management and we use IBM webMethods primarily to translate the data which is required for host systems for example xml,txml,json so it converts the data into required format and transfers it to other systems. also, we integrated it with IBM MQ as well to pull messages from other systems.
Pros
Translate the data into required format based on system
Handles good amount of load and tranefer data into chunks and very much accurate
Administration is very easy and easily understable and it has goos secuity features
Schedulers works well for pub/sub message pulling and pushing
Cons
Majorly schedulers go to hung many times due to load issues
Datasource connectivity also problematic for small glitch also we see huge impact so auto healing is needed
User management is not that secure
Likelihood to Recommend
webMethods perfectly works for data translation and make systems to talk each other in required format and its very much easy to manage also we using it for supply chain almost 200 clients happily using it and no major issues with it and easy to integrate with multiple systems.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
Integration products. We are using it for all kinds of integration challanges. We use the API management as well. Through API Management we make our communication with partners much more secure and more fluent. The time to market is excellent, this means from the time of development to the time of going life we save a ton of time investment compared to the previous solution we had.
Pros
API management
B2B
MFT - Managed File Transfer
App Integration
Cons
This question is tricky to be answered, actually I'm thinking about user management and governmance
Likelihood to Recommend
Put it simple: those already existing connectors make your live a lot easier!
IBM webMethods is used for the integrations of quote to cash process where in we integrate with more than 5 ERPs. We also have integrations with the banks for our Account Payables process. We also do a lot of EDI integrations with Wholesalers which helps in seamless Purchase Orders, Invoices, Shipments and Order Responses.
Pros
B2B Integrations
Creating REST APIs
Transaction Monitoring
Cons
IBM webMethods Upgrade process
Licensing
Logging
Likelihood to Recommend
This is best product for the EDI Integrations. The Managing of Partner Profiles and their details is very user friendly. The creation of RESP and SOAP based API are very easy to develop. The Universal messaging component handles the load very well and is very apt for the pub-sub model. It cannot handle large file transfer via the integration servers and this is one are which can be improved
VU
Verified User
Paraprofessional in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
