Software AG Universal Messaging is the first choice for messaging and event handling if also using other Software AG webMethods integration products
Updated January 21, 2022

Software AG Universal Messaging is the first choice for messaging and event handling if also using other Software AG webMethods integration products

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Software AG Universal Messaging

We use Software AG Universal Messaging as the core asynchronous messaging layer within our Enterprise Service Bus solution used for all managed and automated software integration across the entire company. Software AG Universal Messaging enables near real-time asynchronous event handling and message-based software integration, between disparate custom in-house developed applications written in .NET and Java and node.js, and commercial off-the-shelf applications such as SAP and SharePoint, and also software as a service cloud solutions such as SalesForce.
  • Low latency high performance messaging and event handling
  • High availability
  • Horizontal scalability
  • Seamless integration with Software AG webMethods integration platform
  • Logging
  • Administration
  • Observability
  • High performance, low latency messaging
  • High availability
  • Vertically integrated with Software AG webMethods
  • Enables disparate software systems to be integrated, reducing manual data entry
  • Enables high performance event handling for data lakes and analytics
  • Has relatively high licensing costs
Software AG Universal Messaging has excellent performance characteristics, a good high availability story, and works great when you are using the other products in the Software AG webMethods integration platform, as our organization is. It has relatively high licensing costs, which is a large negative when compared with open-source solutions such as Apache Kafka. However, Software AG provides good support services, and is a market leader in the integration space, giving some surety for risk-averse organizations that if something goes wrong we have a vendor we can rely on to help fix it.

Do you think Software AG Universal Messaging delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Software AG Universal Messaging's feature set?

Yes

Did Software AG Universal Messaging live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Software AG Universal Messaging go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Software AG Universal Messaging again?

Yes

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Software AG Universal Messaging is best used in conjunction with Software AG webMethods integration platform, as it works seamlessly with other components of that platform such as webMethods Integration Server and webMethods Trading Networks. It can be used with any messaging client developed in Java or .NET and supports JMS clients, however, it is best suited to being used as one component in an organization that is going to implement the entire webMethods platform to implement their Enterprise Service Bus integration solution.