Item: IBM Event Streams
Rating: 8
Author: Vinicius Silva

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

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

In using downstreams
Very limited capabilities out of the box
The adoption around the service is low, requires focused marketing

Return on Investment

there's more reachability among the people who uses it and the better built interface is a very positive side among other competitors
it's very easy to manage and plan different events
open source

Ease of Integration

A good one for the folks using Apache ecosystem products and being an opensource we can customize the platform as per the need to the customer and as and when the requirement changes. Someone needs to have a lot of knowledge in this domain to know about this product, there is no such product knowledge articles in place that we can refer to in case of issues.

Key Insights

Do you think IBM Event Streams delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Event Streams's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Event Streams live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM Event Streams go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Event Streams again?

Likelihood to Recommend

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

Smooth and easy onboarding

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Event Streams