--- title: IBM App Connect Reviews meta_title: 'IBM App Connect Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 259 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how IBM App Connect works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 259 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Cloud Data Integration url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-data-integration --- # IBM App Connect Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [iPaaS Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/ipaas) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 259 ## About IBM App Connect IBM App Connect allows businesses to easily connect applications and build integration flows with no-code approach, a catalog of pre-built connectors and common templates. It provides rapid access to business-critical information, while also securing and protecting, enabling businesses to more easily create new and engaging user experiences for their customers. Built-in AI with suggestive data mapping and transformation also speed up development and testing of hybrid integrations. IBM App Connect is available on AWS Marketplace. ## IBM App Connect Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **automation capabilities** of IBM App Connect, enhancing efficiency through seamless integration and easy workflows. (3 reviews) - Users value the **flexibility in deploying integrations** across multiple environments, enhancing their application connectivity effortlessly. (3 reviews) - Users value the **customization options** of IBM App Connect, enabling tailored integrations and enhanced functionality. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of IBM App Connect, finding it flexible and efficient for application integration. (2 reviews) - Users value the **easy integrations** offered by IBM App Connect, enabling seamless connectivity across various environments and platforms. (2 reviews) - Users value the **affordability** of IBM App Connect, finding it cost-effective for their integration needs. (1 reviews) - Automation Features (1 reviews) - Cloud Services (1 reviews) - Cost-Effective (1 reviews) - Efficiency (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users struggle with the **steep learning curve** of IBM App Connect, finding it challenging for new developers to get started. (2 reviews) - Users find that a **high level of workflow configuration knowledge is required** , making it difficult for beginners to manage flows. (1 reviews) - Users feel that a strong **developer dependency** exists, necessitating advanced knowledge for effective flow management. (1 reviews) - Users find the **difficult learning** curve of IBM App Connect challenging, especially for onboarding new developers. (1 reviews) - Users find IBM App Connect to be **expensive** , which may limit accessibility for some potential users. (1 reviews) - Poor Documentation (1 reviews) - Workflow Issues (1 reviews) ## IBM App Connect Reviews ### 1. IBM App Connect a good tool to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** Developed Studio and its Web Management Console **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** The performance is at times not upto the mark. **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** This is a great tool to use. It has below features which stands it out among its competitors 1) Strong customer focus 2) Product functionality is great 3) Create integration flows quickly and scale to fit any project. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used IBM App Connect for a Real Search Account application in Salesforce instance, as a first orchestration. That made a huge impect on the business and was a big success. App connect Studio is just awesome, it enabled developers very much with its own features. ### 2. Great to connect & manage business data / APIs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** What I really like about the platform is that one can safely expose and integrate APIs to the internet. It is a complex process, however the platform makes it a more seamless experience, which makes using IBM App Connect favorable. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Some difficult concepts and some things not as intuitive. There are also other better platforms out there as well. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benefits that have been realized by IBM App Connect is to integrate business data safely and securely for our customers. This is a great tool that has great functionality for sharing important and secure data with customers. ### 3. IBM App Connect - Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Monica C. | Agile Projet Manager/Scrum Master, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** I can build my apps and utilize them in one place. I can utilize powerful analytics and logging tools. I can apply improved access management. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** It isn't free for all. It lacks user friendliness. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Synergies with other services. Benefit from PAYG pricing options. Flexible plan charges. ### 4. IBM App Connect is a fantastic API Management Solution **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ali A. | Assistant Manager - Group Human Resources Information Systems, Construction, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** I like how it connects various kind of APIs which is very useful for dealing with customers business APIs. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** The GUI needs to be improved in order to compete other competitors. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** It can easily connect cloud and on-premise systems efficiently. ### 5. Simply Amazing app for connecting your applications. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** The best part of the app connect is that its very fast and easy to maintain. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Sometimes it makes more complex while building api's and connecting them together. **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** Probably if they can make it more user-friendly and some default api's using AI technology, that will make it a better app than it is currently now. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** This actually helped in syncing both cloud data and also the on premise data, which was always a hectic work. ### 6. Very efficient **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** 1. Automation of manual tasks, notifications, events 2. Cloud support 3. Keep customer and other data in sync between multiple apps 4. App awareness connect is very fast **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** GUI needs to be improved. Authentication features are not so good as CA API Management m **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maintain customer data in cloud using ibm app connect from local. Intergration with salesforce and google sheet to capture data and pass it on to onther systems ### 7. Does as the name suggests nothing more nothing less just what is needed **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** You have all the options from old API models to new API designs which can be used with App connect. The usability becomes much more simple the more you use the platform. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** The learning curve is bit hard I feel. This needs a lot of playing around before deciding on any design decision. **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** Learn the platform before you decide to onboard on it. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrating different platforms to make it more flexible and usable. ### 8. Definitely something to consider in API management space. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** what i love about this is that it securely exposes APIs to Intranet/Internet and and api development is relatively easy. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** the GUI can be improved alittle to make it more user friendly. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Have implemented more than 5 flows using this project. I use it in my day to day tasks as a software dev analyst, it is very easy to use and gives the end product relatively hassle free. ### 9. IBM App Connect **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam B. | Senior Manager Digital Analytics, Management Consulting, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** ease of use for integrating mobile with our cloud environment. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Customization required during deployment **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Needed a single integration tool for multiple technologies, no longer have to deploy into separate environments. ### 10. An always new experience **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** I like the ease of use and interaction with other applications and ease of use of the service **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** I do not really like the difficulty of finding information on technical assistance even remotely **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple to use connectivity to SAP connected across all of my organization moving data between CRM systems or a developer to support an access the data I need. ### 11. Amaizing app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Executive Office | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** WebSphere Cast Iron is not the best for reporting solutions, but excels in data transformation and system integrations. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** If an integration is highly complex, it requires extreme throughput or high levels of transformation in the middle tier, and WebSphere Cast Iron is a better candidate than other ETL. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** WebSphere Cast Iron is a better candidate than other ETL. ### 12. Good start towards containerization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** pankaj g. | Senior Delivery Advisor, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** User interface and ease of starting a server **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Performance / delay in UI and devops integration **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enterprise wide intgration solution ### 13. Best Integration solution in market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** Ease of building integration with support for different types like SOA, microservices, Rest, SOAP, etc **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Lack of Adapter/plugins for other 3rd party tools **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** If you are looking for building integrations among your IT tools, you cannot go wrong with Appconnect **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connecting CRM systems with other systems in the organization to build a full blown analytics solution ### 14. An innovative solution with a few issues **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** The way that it connect and being data from various sources together is amazing **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** There aren’t some issues while connecting to Hadoop data . Many a times the app times out **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have a lot or data that are stored in various different sources. THE APp connect help bring this together ### 15. Not that great IBM connect **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** It’s good with its use ability but has limited features so they should focus on looking at their competitions and adding new features. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** The fact that the cloud connectivity isn’t as smooth as amazon internal tools **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me connect to the cloud and keep all my data from different tools at one place ### 16. Enterprise Application Integration Manager **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wine and Spirits | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** Fast develop of integration solutions using the Design Studio. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Limitation is the Java hep size and the limitation of files sizes. Including all the features in the Cloud Version of App Conn, and additional connectors to AWS, like S3. **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** Very good product for integrating with SF, assuming you are already using IBM IIB. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration with Salesforce, rapid development of integrations using Studio, ### 17. Simple and secure **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacob J. | IT Manager, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** It is intuitive and simple to use. It also provides reliable security that gives me peace of mind. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** there is nothing about IBM App connect that I dislike. **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** I highly recommend IBM App Connect to anyone who is looking for a safe, easy, and reliable cloud solution. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped me get organized and save a ton of time. ### 18. Ibm app connect review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** Securely expose APIs to internet Easier to setup and enables rapid development **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Nothing much. IBM app connect is a great application to use. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helped our company in integrating with onpremise services ### 19. Excellent tool to manage APIs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** It is very comprehensive and dynamic for managing, protecting, and executing APIs. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** The speed could improve. But it's something they are surely working on. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to create APIs and facilitate management for their implementation within the company's services. ### 20. IBM App Connect Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** User interface, user experience, and ease of use. Also really like how dynamic it is. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Nothing that I dislike about IBM App Connect at this point **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** One central platform to connect data across different teams. Like how dynamic it is. ### 21. Good Software for Enterprise **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** It is relatively easy for developers to develop applications through IBM softwares, and it can be easily integrated into our main application **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Deployment can sometimes be frustrating because it is like a third part application inserted into our main application, and sometimes backups will not work as expected **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** It is relatively straight forward app and I would recommend it to any support; it is offering some really cool features **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We generate reports that is otherwise not that easy to do using our application; it saves a lot of development time ### 22. Great service **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** How it gives a great overview over all info you need to know **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** There is not really a feature I dislike, everything about it is great. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Losing control, everything is very well connected with IBM connect. ### 23. the best Hybrid cloud platform for me **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason G. | Network Engineer, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** What I like the best with IBM Integration Bus on cloud is the support they are offering. This is the first time I have hands-on experience with cloud and IBM integration bus made it easy for me to learn it. They explain everything to me in details those things I don't know **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** The support SLA, for every service down ticket, I wish that the SLA response would be just 30 minutes instead of an hour **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** The price is cheap compared to others, plus you will get discounts too. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are integrating all our software/platforms with cloud as we all know cloud would be the future. ### 24. IBM App connect review -- Easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** Setup is fairly easy Development and exposing of API proxy is much easier Batch processing **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Documentation Lacks Need more Authentication features **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** integrating the cloud data with on premise data ### 25. Maicrosoft office **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** Easy to use, flixible on swerving between apps **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Some virose get in, would like an updated version **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Didn’t connect ### 26. Easy and secure **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** Simple UI. easy to find everything you need. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** nothing in particular. **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** it makes remore access easy **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** remote access ### 27. App Connect is a great program **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Outsourcing/Offshoring | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** I like being able to log in to Connect then it will automatically sign me into App connect websites. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Sometimes, it will hang up and cause problems with websites. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is one of the main tools that we use in my job. It helps us be able to do what we do. ### 28. Installation process **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** it is precise and robust. If you are a programmer, you can customize it. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** I really want it to make the process simple. I don't think all processes are necessary. **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** Please make it user-friendly not a developer-friendly **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm trying to connect with real business with this program. Not yet! ### 29. Best Hybrid cloud! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian S. | Network Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** The support people are very knowledgeable! If you don't know anything, they will surely explain everything for you! **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** user support, I guess the promised 1 hour response time for service down issue can be lessen to 30 minutes? only a suggestion though :( **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** This is cheap! Plus you will get discounts too! **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** With IBM Integrations we have move your existing integrations to the cloud as we all know cloud is the future so this is the best. ### 30. Hybrid cloud integration: Connect your applications **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** I like the potential for business users and non-traditional developers with some technical skills to create interfaces between disparate applications. Also like the ability tfor event driven processing. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Many steps in the lab were either out of order or not explained fully. A few more screenshots would have also helped. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Event driven processing, change data, ease of Salesforce integration ### 31. You get the benefits of the cloud - other than that it's an Integration Bus **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** Having it on the cloud means that there is really no overhead to set up the servers and install the product. Same goes for upgrading the hardware. Unfortunately due to prior experience This overhead with most IBM products is quite big and we are very happy to avoid it. On other points I would mention of course, the security and reliability of the cloud. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Development has to be done traditionally on normal developer machines. Unfortunately the development environment is not what you would call sleek and developers complain about losing time. **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** If you have the on-site integration bus then it's definitely worth it to at least try the cloud version. If not then make sure that this is the right solution for you. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sovling: Enterprise integration problems Benefits: Reusability, Scalability ### 32. Application Developer & Integrator **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miroslav R. | Software consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** Ease of starting developing. Visual development **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Toolkit crashing. Low testing capabilites (code test) **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrations SOAP REST ### 33. Integration Developer in Healthcare **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** IBM integration bus is market leading tool which helps communications of multiple applications enterprise wide with simplicity and lot of options. In Healthcare, this tool has simplified the way the end applications are connected to front EMR with ease **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** It is costly tool as compared to other integration service bus. Although not every function available in this tool is used for small companies. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration within applications and EMR ### 34. Saved me! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shawn M. | Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** Saved me when my computer crashed. thought I lost everything **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Set up took a little bit and I couldn’t figure out out to auto sync at first **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Back up content ### 35. Good product with great unit and regression testing capabilities **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** It’s easy to install which can be difficult with these products. I’m also impressed by the data warehousing features and analytics capabilities of the product. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** I didn’t use previous versions so definitely a learning curve getting used to the product. It’s complex as a product. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Business analysis, data analysis, data warehousing, sales optimization results. ### 36. A great tool for building quick integration. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** No coding approach, light weight and easy to configure **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Not concept of subroutines. Version management **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** It’s great to integrate cloud with on premise applications. ### 37. Intuitive tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Meredith M. | Manager, Data Integration, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** -Cast Iron is easy to learn, intuitive layout of the product and creating a feed is simple -Handles large amounts of data easily (at least with on-premise) **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** -Wish there were more user level to help with SOX concerns -wish that with our physical appliances, we could load balance across several appliances so that we can mange from one WMC **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** I believe they are reducing support and/or eliminating the ability to have on-premise appliances in favor of using cloud based versions. We have benefited from on-premise, especially in that it handles large amounts of data better. IBM also doesn't seem to be investing in additional features, endpoints, etc especially when compared to competitors **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Cast Iron to do the following: -Integrate our product databases with Salesforce -Send and receive files with external stakeholders via FTP -Generate reports for internal stakeholders -Connect with various other cloud based vendors ### 38. Excellent cloud software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** It's very user friendly after the learning curve. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** The cost and time to integrate the software. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connect integrations securely to on premise applications ### 39. Great analytics and analysis tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Danielle P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** Great data warehousing features, good business analytics and decision engine **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Complicated to use if you don't understand key principles **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** Don't get frustrated! Use frequently and do trial and error. Also, take online webinar or training to get you familiar with the navigation. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Catering, sales optimization ### 40. Great tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** The variety of platforms you can connect too. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Some of the work I felt was unnecessary. Complex to maintain. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sales optimization. Business analysis ### 41. IBM Integration Bus **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajai L. | Sr. Middleware Engineer, Semiconductors, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2015 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** Very stable Enterprise Data Integration product from IBM, its been in market for more than a decade with different names and currently its being called IBM Integration Bus. Have used it from v8, easy to install and administer, lot of adapters to connect with different third party software. With the latest versions, MQ dependency has been removed and makes it a much more feasible for SOA implementation in an organization. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Adapters for cloud application can be added in toolkit e.g, salesforce.com. Heard newer versions might be an hardware appliance which might be costlier than the earlier software installations. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration of different internal and external software applications. ### 42. Have been a savior!! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tom P. | Systems Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2015 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** Ease of integrating with various databases and salesforce. has most of the text and numeric functions. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Date functions could be better. The UI needs to improve as it become a difficult to navigate. **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** Please build a better UI. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrating Peoplesoft with Salesforce. ### 43. Very useful even in complicated designs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitin J. | Application Lead, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2014 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** I am doing Cast Iron implementation more than three years now and I can tell you, its a great product from IBM. One can easily integrate the system as per their requirement. Most importantly it has a lot of standard functions and logic activities, which help to build a complicated logic very quickly. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Cast Iron studio can not take much load, it gives a java heap size error. For that you need to enhance the heap size. But ideally the product should take care of that. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** From my experience I can say it can solve any problem regarding the data transformation from a source to a target. You just need to know, how the logic can be write. If you can build a logic with the help of activities, you can avail a great benefit. ### 44. Easy to use integration software that does integration right **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jorge B. | Distinguished Technical Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2014 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** Development environment is very easy to install use. Learning curve is relatively small compare to other competitor software. The connectors do a very good job of hiding repetitive tasks and hideous details. It is very intuitive to use. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Runtime environment requires using a virtual image, some customers initially dislike this, but it is much easier than installing similar software from scratch. **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** It is a very good entry point for an integration product in terms of price, complexity and capabilities. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration with Salesforce.com. I have done integration to Salesforce directly via Web Service API, and the Salesforce connector abstracts a lot of the hideous implementation details that you should not need to worry about. It is definitely a time saver. ### 45. Cast Iron gets it done **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2014 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** Flexibility in form factor deployment - choose SaaS, Virtual SW, or a Physical Appliance and easily move data between them all with little to no hiccups. It is also great to have an Unlimited Endpoint configuration option. In addition it is easy to generate documentation of the orchestrations - better if you really leverage comments. the TIPS are helpful to get started also. The up-time is 99.8% i believe which is huge! **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** They could have more diverse connectors - of course all the major ERP connectors available, CRM and major Cloud applications; however, they are not quick enough to respond with adding new connectors especially to some of the new cloud apps in the market **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** streamlining quote-to-cash processes, revenue recognition, orders, invoices, RMA's, inventory management, contract management - all these business problems can be solved when Cast Iron is the tool leverage between your CRM and ERP systems. The tool is equipped to manage complex business rules and also for robust error handling ### 46. A decent product that could be so much better **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2014 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** For simple orchestrations and point to point connections, this app works great. It is very easy to use and the learning curve is very small. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** For large data volumes, the cast iron application generally has performance issues. While they have fixed these in the newer releases, the upgrades have been a bit painful. **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** Do consider data volumes before going cast iron **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Point to point integration of master data and transactional data in to Salesforce ### 47. Cast Iron delivers results, but not always reliably **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David W. | IT Solution Architect, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2014 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** The one thing that cannot be denied about Cast Iron is how easy it can be to drag and drop together a fully functional system integration in only a few hours. Anyone with basic knowledge of programming and control flow can easily put together a simple integration. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** On large scale deployments with dozens of separate integrations running concurrently, troubleshooting issues is nearly impossible. Unless you work directly with IBM support, certain troubleshooting is actually not even possible (looking at/understanding logs and accessing the system shell in particular.) Our deployment had memory issues that ended up being the result of a bug in one of the connectors. After working for weeks with IBM on the issue, they released a patch to fix it. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have been very successful with integrations between our ERP and CRM systems. ### 48. The Quickest and most Economical Integration Product so far **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2014 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** I like the Web Management Console feature. It helps us maintain the Integrations, view logs, set up user accounts. Also, the Studio is very user friendlly, it helps build comples logic with just drag and drop of activities **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Sometimes the orchestration status get "stuck" while starting/stopping orchestrations. The status button gets greyed out and the only way out is to restart the WMC or choose the "Stop All Jobs in Progress" command. **Recommendations to others considering IBM App Connect:** Cast Iron works very well with real time and small data volume integrations. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are Integrating People Soft with Oracle On Demand by pulling in Accounts information. We also have a very robust Data Wareshouse into which the data from Oracle On Demand is pulled and stored. We use this data warehouse to further build important reports. ### 49. IBM WebSphere Cast Iron works really well. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2014 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** It greatly reduced the developing time, compared to Java. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Some display bugs in studio are annoying, I had to close and re-open the orchestration to restore the view. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work for a transportation and logistics company. Our software are built in CRM salesforce.com. We use IBM WebSphere Cast Iron to perform integration between our EDI server and force.com platform. Cast Iron works really great, the implementation is much quicker than using Java. It also provides friendly UI, which is also very help. ### 50. CastIron review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2014 **What do you like best about IBM App Connect?** Castiton is a very good tool to develop interfaces with very little programming experience. East to use drag and drop developing interface. **What do you dislike about IBM App Connect?** Castiron does not provide ability to provide global variables. Configuration properties at each interface level is not sufficient for all requirements. Not having single log file for entire interface activity, sometimes its tedious to go thorough each and every step to get complete picture of the log. **What problems is IBM App Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used castiron for developing various interfaces between salesforce and various heterogeneous applications. 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