Neuron ESB is an extremely robust ESB engine. It supports all of the most important core ESB vernacular and concepts - publish-subscribe, scatter-gather, and a wide variety of transports, including any major queue transport, and every variety of synchronous transport you might need.

But the benefits rise to new levels. The development environment is really a very close facsimile of the Microsoft Visual Studio environment. This means that if you're a .NET shop, your developers are going to be productive and everything will be familiar.

Unlike the other-integration-engine-on-Win32-which-shall-go-unnamed, Neuron is intuitive to setup and configure. I was up and running later the same day I installed the trial. And I don't mean with a trivial implementation - I was up and running forwarding calls into an external service.

Extending Neuron is a wide open playground - the options are vast. You've got Processes, which are literally dynamically compiled C# program-lets which allow you to inject classes, or you can even write your own glue code in regular old .NET assemblies. For the heavy-weight situation where you need to write a full fledged actor in the ESB backplane, you've got Adapters - arguably one of the most powerful features of Neuron, and probably one of the least used.

Overall, Neuron isn't a Cadillac Usually when we say that we mean that there might be some bloat and certainly some "poor gas mileage". Neuron is more like a top end Porsche. It's not a Maserati, but it's definitely better than almost all other high performance vehicles and yet the price is within reach. It's a great balance of features for the price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel like Neuron could do a little more in terms of real-time monitoring. Realizing that this is ultimately not a core feature, still this would be the one feature I would like to see, and I think if Neuron had real-time monitoring, it would essentially but a perfect product.

Shadow copying would also be a great feature. When you deploy a build of an external assembly, you're going to have to shutdown the Neuron Explorer and any local development instance of the ESB Service itself. That becomes slightly annoying during development and unit testing. This then causes you to want to factor you solution as in-process black box code which you test in an external test harness, thereby reducing the number of restart cycles with the ESB and its compliment of tools.

Finally, the ability to save test contexts within the process test feature. Due to the restart issue, you'll end up having to keep flat files of input messages lying about (not a bad idea anyway) and you'll end up hand keying input arguments to simulate a request many times over. AutoSaving the context would be even better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to user, great interface for users that may not have as much experience with this area Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very expensive and limited range of capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Neuron's flexibility allows us to choose whether to create web services, messaging middleware or direct integrations depending upon the business need. It can be used for REST services, SOAP services, Request/Reply, Pub-Sub, Composite Services, Orchestrations and Workflow, file-based integrations, SFTP integrations, and the list goes on.

The second thing I like best is the openness of the development team to suggestions for improvement. We have asked for changes many times and had the product team be very quick to incorporate those requested changes into the product upgrade schedule. They have also been quick to resolve any defects we have found in our testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some areas for improvement in the areas of CI/CD. Having multiple teams work on the code and configuration at once can present some challenges. We are considering resolving this by partitioning the solution appropriately for various teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Neuron is very easy to use compared to other big players on the market. Integration can be developed easily and do net require extensive training.

The support is great, the Neuron team was always able to provide a quick and effective answer to our doubts; any fix or feature we requested has been released within few days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation is certainly something that can be improved; not every new feature has been documented or sometimes new features have been documented separately and that make it a bit difficould to find the information needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Neuron Explorer has a nice GUI. Any problems we've encountered are responded to immediately by the Neuron Support team. For the most part it does what we need it to without the need to monitor it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be awkward to gain access to reports or use Neuron Explorer remotely (i.e. not from the server it's installed on), but this depends on your configuration. We encountered a few reliability issues, most of which were promptly fixed by the Neuron development team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the ease of use, business and workflow editors, operation speed / resource use, and robustness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the development documentation is very weak, and as such a lot of questions / experimentation must be done when new techniques / patterns are required. It seems like a more cohesive documentation package, focus on solving real problems would go a long way towards solving this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Performance: Neuron ESB is very lightweight and has great performance. Additionaly you have very granular control over Quality Of Service. This has often been a struggle in the past with other integration products.

Extensive adapter framework: We have yet to face an API or system where we could not integrate using Neuron

Easy onboarding: Existing .Net developers can quickly start developing on the platform

Easy of development: Deployment is quick (hit save) and there is good support for debugging pipelines or testing using the built-in test clients

Excellent customer support: Neudesic have added several of our requested features to the product and support is quick to answer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Documentation: It could be more elaborate. When you get in to the tiny details you often you have to find relevant info in blog posts or as part of the samples library. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.