IBM MQ - ping me
September 13, 2017

IBM MQ - ping me

Gregory Hanson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM MQ

IBM MQ is used to facilitate data transfer between business partners. We utilize the high availability, persistent features to guarantee data delivery.
  • Fantastic quality of product services and features.
  • Security is of great importance and MQ satisfies our needs.
  • Interoperability with customers for data collection and sharing is made easy through IBM MQ.
  • Support is always one PMR away.
  • Monitoring is generally a feature left to third party apps. Providing better monitoring tool would be a great market differentiator.
  • Built in alarms and notifications (see above improvement) would be helpful.
  • GUI modeling of queue managers, channels and queues would be a good improvement.
  • Positive gains in data sharing. The time to market to set up new customers is relatively easy. Not touchless but easy.
  • Few maintenance costs. It just works.
  • Upgrades are painless so little money is spent on them, yielding positive ROIs.
  • Activemq, HornetQ and Kafka
IBM MQ is the product for inter-business communication for security, flexibility and scalability.
Well suited for data collection/distribution externally.
Not great for dev-ops internally. Too restrictive and not flexible enough.