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We have been using webMethods Integration Server for almost 20 years, and it has been enormously successful in our organization.
We've applied it in many varied application to application and business to business integration scenarios. We've used it to standardize how we integrate disparate technologies in our environment. We have always found it to be relatively cheap in terms of the hours of effort it takes a good webMethods developer to build a robust solution.
Developing in the webMethods Flow language is incredibly easy and intuitive, and the graphical presentation in the tooling of data structures and the logic to map or translate between them, the bread and butter of this kind of software, is second to none.
It has excellent performance characteristics given that it runs on the Java Virtual Machine, and the ability to drop from webMethods flow down to pure Java code is an extra escape hatch when you need the very best performance possible.
However, the thing I like the best about webMethods Integration Server is how extensible it is, which means we have used it to solve problems way beyond its usual remit.
IBM webMethods continues to be the best choice for an integration platform, with the latest 11.1 release being a solid, stable, and reliable workhorse in the safe hands of IBM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What I dislike most about webMethods Integration Server is the lack of name recognition and attendant reputation in the general tech community. Software AG and webMethods are not well known outside of the technology integration niche, and that means that some other big guys that are better known because they don't just play in the integration space are looked on by laypeople such as executive level managers as a better safer choice.
However, webMethods is the market leading technology in the integration space, and in my opinion has been the leader for 20 years. It's a shame it is still in the shadow of some other bigger names that have lesser competing products in the same space.
With IBM's acquisition of the webMethods suite of integration products hopefully we will see a surge in name recognition and webMethods will rightly become more revered and famous for its excellence even with executives and management and other laypeople. Also hopefully IBM will price webMethods aggressively to expand its market and compete against the mid-level players that currently undercut webMethods in price but are far outclassed in quality when compared with webMethods. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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