Software AG webMethods Reviews

Software AG webMethods is mature integration product suite. Excellent documentations. Great support. And you can find a lot of skilled specialist. It has solutions for EAI, B2B, BPM, Big Data, API Management, Microservices, and Cloud. With FLEX license, we are able to implement unlimited number of cores and instances. Has support for DevOps and Continuous Integration. Can be integrated with various opensource platforms like Jenkins, SonarQube, and ElasticSearch It is cross platform. Easy to maintain and manage. It supports various database, high availability clustering, various security technologies like OAuth & JWT. It has adapters to various applications like JDBC, MQ, SAP, AS400, FileNet, JMS, and various cloud applications. It supports various integration patterns including messaging integration pattern.

Software AG webMethods is not born in the cloud era. It did catching up in terms on iPaaS adoption. Monitoring, Testing framework, and various utility frameworks is not available out of the box in the earlier versions. For some they maybe steep learning curve for those new to webMethods. Short product version lifecycle. Upgrading sometimes is a bit complex.

Checkout the trial versions. Check availability of skilled resources.

Through Software AG webMethods, we are able to integrate legacy systems, and various back end databases, easily perform orchestration, and consume and expose as API or services. Front end and cloud application are able to consume webMethods APIs and services to retrieve customer & policy information, and perform various policy transactions.

Integration Server are very powerful if well setup and implemented (we process millions of messages per day). Designer tool helps to develop fast, and it is easy to train developers from other technologies to develop webmethods flows.

I like the Innovation Spirit of Software AG and I am confident that the product will be supported and follow technological evolutions for years.

Licencing is too expensive. The need to develop monitoring system to have a more convenient monitoring of interfaces running on our platform.

webMethods is the good tool for EDI , ESB and EAI with any connectivity. Be careful to have a good sizing and follow implementations best practices to ensure it becomes a success.

WebMethods enabled us to cope with with rapid growth of our activity. We are able to develop dozens of new EDI per month and deliver on time.

The Desginer offers many facilities for multilayer development, its lapse of learning and understanding is shorter compared to other 2 BPM tools that I have used previously. In just minutes you can create and deploy a BPMN in the IS without so many complications and the best of all is the broad and easy integration of services through adapters that adapt to almost any back-end. As for the utilitarian libraries, the software includes a very complete public library that facilitates and complements the developments, besides allowing the facility to develop and expose services in java to preference. In my experience I have worked in 2 different banking entities with this tool with successful results. They only have to improve the support and without a doubt the Software AG Designer would become one of the top tools of the BPM market.

The direct support with the company is not so good and the community is very scarce.

Considering the market and its costs on top BPM technologies, I would recommend using the AG Designer Software since it has it all.

BPM integration solutions in a recognized bank for a credit system.

Overall its one of the top middleware tools which suits the Organisation's need to provide solution in all architectural patterns - like SOA, A2A, A2C, B2B, EDA etc. One of the strongest feature of the product is its Messaging Layer - Universal Messaging that helps you design a topology for all patterns coming under Asynchronous Flows and patterns. The ESB also provides you a wide variety of utility level services which eases your integration development to a great extent.

One of the drawbacks of this tool which Software AG is planning to address in its upcoming release is on its Cloud Offerings like providing a multi-tenant Cloud based IPaas which will be a definite advantage for organisations who are moving towards a Cloud based Architecture for their Enterprise needs.

Wait for release of IPaas version. The latest version getting launch has a lot to offer in terms of API Management, Containerisation in Docker etc.

WebMethods addresses most of your business problems and provides all the necessary components to help you decouple your Source and Target Systems. The biggest advantage being the ability to move through Transition Architectures to a Target Architecture state with minimal impact on the end systems.

Easy Development with Flowservices. But also the possibility to create complex Javaservices. Easy Way to Create Webservices and SQL Adapter. I also like the easy Deployment Solution with Jenkins. Easy Creating Web Graphical User Interface.

Sometimes if you work with Big Data from the Database and Hashtables/Lists you will face the maximum exceeded JVM Memory. The IS is slowing down. What i not so really like is the Design Quality of the CAF Framework for Web Graphical User Interfaces.

Please better the possibility für Upgrading and Installation and please Fix Universal Messaging...

Providing Data with Webservices from Backend. Deploying Web Graphical User Interfaces for workers. Createing Data Interchange Services.

Allows exisitng legacy and modern applications to work together using IS adapters (Websphere MQ Adapter, JMS Adapter, Oracle Apps Adapter , JDBC Adapter), inbuild services like appendToDocumentList etc. with variety of protocols. Integrated platform that includes both service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM).BPM allows to develop business process in a graphical way.Business people jumps on-board and particiapte in the design phase. Sandbox Availability for trial and hands-on.

Do not have much video tutorials on Internet to understand things quickly. For every new functionality, have to read overall documentation to start implementing. Very few tutes are available convering high level basics.

Whole suite by single vendor , be it Integration server, API management , BPM etc. I will say its a wonderful job by Webmehtods by reducing efforts and overhead to maintain different tools from differnet vendors.

We are using BPM to develop our business processes. Heterogenous Application Integration is done using Designer Integration Sever. Easy to troubleshoot since it shows graphical flow of message end to end.

webMethods is a very powerful integration tool wich provides high flexibility when the interface design is complex and highly customised. The good variety of adapters has made integrations to other packaged application very easy. The great availaibity of product/support documentations make self-learning easy and effective.

The application patching/fixes experience is painful. SAG has changed the approach which now release product patches/fixes more often. Due to the short release cycle, some patches/fixes are not thoroughly tested. We had experienced twice that IS core fix has broken a core function in webMethods which gives system administrators very high pressure on regression testing and huge risks for implementtion.

With the implementation of webMethods in the company, we have modernised the interface design from old, inefficient file based transfer to robust eletronic data intechange. webMethods has empowered business with much better capacility. It provides much better flexibility to handle B2B requests from our customers and suppliers. It also largely reduced the development effort and complexity for our EPR and various different internal systems. It has definitely support the business digital footprint and transformation.

The number of adadpters available. The innovative approach of Software AG. The stability of the product. The ease of monitor your flows. The "flow" languages simplicity and strengths.

License model. You will never know what to pay.

Customer support needs approving in speed, product knowledge and language

Use an external queue manager. Do the training before using the product, learn the "flow" language. Evalutate the adapters you are going to need so they meet your requirements. Enjoy!

We use webMethods to realise integrations for about 7000 employees and 40 000 students. In areas ranging from class room access, grades and exams to our learning plattform

WebMethods is a great service that can allow you to share data between multiple software applications. It comes with a fully designed IDE that gives us access to everything we need to design and develop and complete the job on hand. But every IDE comes with a bit of learning effort. I worked with a team where we were trying to utilize webMethods and overall had a positive experience with webMethods.

Some of the product releases were done in a hurry which resulted in issues to upgrade our projects. This brought in a bit of confusion among the team but all in all everything was good in the end. Would suggest to patiently review the releases and release timelines

Ignoring the price the product, the benefits of the product are awesome. One has to sit and study the tool carefully and once mastered, there is nothing easier and smooth in the world.

I like breath of tools and applications for enterprise integrations, gateways, portal, data management, BPM, performance management and governance that SAG offers. Most products are integrated with each other OTB. BPM is event driven and supported by Universal Messaging, also integrated with Business process designer tool. Lots of pre-built functions to include in your own development. Integrated IDE for integrations, UI, BPM that also talks to central repository. Promising offerings on the cloud.

Suite is huge and require lots of learning particular for folks not familiar with BPM/ESB or event driven design approaches. Lots of documentation but not much of examples. Some help exists on developers blog and web site but not enough for such huge amount of information. Training is highly recommended.

Don't underestimate value of training and learning curve. Investigate and buy products you want to integrate from the same vendor (SAG in this case).

We use WebMethods/SAG product suite for BPM, Integrations (IS), monitoring, UI and Governance

Business uses process modeling (ARIS). Integrating of all products require only configurations.

Webmethods Flow language when done right produces more compact code faster then traditional languages for specific applications such as integrations and mapping.

Flow language which allows business guys understand data mapping between integrated systems and CDM on webMethods ESB.

Part of API Gateway I mean Enterprise Gateway which allows to meet requirements of Polish Insurance Market Regulator.

So far I did not recognize anything that I should say that I dislike.

On-line integration between Portal for Intermediaries (Agents, Brokers) and Back End system

(current integration was based on xml files stored on FTP daily but not on-line)

More secured integration. Portal is in DMZ, Back End in LAN that's why we decided to use Enterprise Gateway to meet requirements of Polish Insurance Market Regulator.

(The connection must be initiated from LAN to DMZ).

Web Methods services are mostly Java based service model and it is very easy to understand all predefined objects. Also, it is easy for Java based front-end developers can easily understand and learn the web method middleware products & become expertise in middleware.

The unique webMethod designer tool is a bit hard to adaptable by other middleware users who are using IBM Integration Bus, TIBCO Active Metric and etc., The competitor's products are easy to develop designer based workflow, but webMethod has it sequential node based workflow.

Easy of Use and All products are tied up in one place for your middleware requirement.

Service Oriented Architecture Middleware platform architecture can be easily build with webMethods. It has good compatibility to integrate with other third party product like DataPower, API Management and etc.,

It is easy to learn and the code adapts to any data processing necessar

The support team doesnt reply fast. There is not a lot of exercises into the documentation

Webmethods Integration Platform offers a flexible coding and the possibility of integrate different systems easily. Software Ag should improve their support and the documentation coud be easier to access

Having worked on various integration products for a long time, webMethods remains my favorite. The ease of use coupled with reliability and scalability are core to it's functionality. It also helps that, no matter what kind of integration you're looking for, you're likely to find a match in it's product offerings e.g. SOA, BPM, CEP, B2B etc.

Certain product release (specially for new one's) seems to be rushed and result in major issues for an upgrade project.

webMethods is an expensive product, however, it serves very well if implemented for suitable functional needs. Please do due diligence and spend time during requirements, sizing and architecture of webMethods implementation.

In past few years, I've implemented eCommerce, webMethods platform-as-as-service solutions, payment processing etc. The benefits in terms of saving cost on transaction processing via VANs or other paid data centers have been significant.

* Thanks to its easy to learn Flow language, it’s quite easy to build even complex integration processes

* As build on asynchronous messages exchanges, BPM are more robust against components outages compared to monolithic solution.

* Efficient clustered solution

* Lot of adapters

* Supervision tool (optimize for Infra) is only a joke at least up to 8.2 : It’s missing lot of important figures to really follow ISes’ health (I built in house monitoring based on Flow/Java probes + PHP GUI which is far far more informative than O4I is providing).

* Every patch campaigns needs long regression testings … due to bug and regression introduced by fixes.

* Starting 9.x, administration tools were totally jeopardized among several interfaces : IS Admin, MWS, Terracotta, UM, …

* not always OpenSources friendly. Especially, web services are quite limited (a shame for such product) and I had to fight against wM to make them usable by PHP WS clients : wM's WS stack doesn't support all variants of WS.

You need good Architects and good admin otherwise it is easy to misuse or jeopardize the platform.

As long as the architecture is mastered and strict development guide lines enforced, the ROI is very good and fast … despite the price of the product.

Very flexible for integration, EDI. Very helpful for B2B or B2C integrations

Designer favors the mouse, so if you like to use keyboard for certain things, it might be difficult.

Receiving/Sending EDI, working with our ordering platform, standardizing processes for easier onboarding of new clients

1.webMethods providing own cloud platform. mostly no one is providing own cloud platform nowadays.

2. providing a lot of adapters.

3. Providing good cluster solutions by using Terracotta.

4..Bettering message broker for IOT and other(Replacement of webMethods Native broker).

5.UM is good when comparing with other products.It is supporting MQTT, AMQT protocols.

6.webMethods Bpm provides better solutions when comparing with other BPM products.

7.work flow design is very good.easy to learn, user-friendly.

Complexity in components.

Basically, It is not under OSS.

Community support is less comparing with IBM support.

It is not comfortable when compared with MuleESB.

Now a days every dealing with the cloud, as well as API.

webMethods providing better micro level services.

By using webMethods Trading networks I resolved B2B reconciliation problems, webMethods supports for both EAI, B2B.Terracotta.

Currently, we are providing solutions by using Terracotta for IS clustering.

As of now, we are Excellent in B2B side.like as dealing EDIs, Edifacts.

Many things, but to list few :

API, B2B, integration, ESB, gateway

I am not sure I've encountered any issues or dislikes. The technical team , support and account team is very helpful and always receptive to feedbacks and quick to respond.

Performing B2B translations

Building APIs

Using as a Gateway and ESB

API gateway, Apama, Universal Messaging, Trading Networks, Integration server & Digital Event Servers

They way product support works!! SAG need to reconsider the customer support model

Good Product to be considered for review to fit with your business model

Real time Analytics, Main Frame Integrations, External vendor API integrations

webMethods is an incredible administration that can permit you to share information between various programming applications and trade messages a great deal simpler. It has a full fledged IDE that gives you access to all that you have to fulfill this. There is obviously somewhat of an expectation to absorb information. I took a shot at a group of understudies who were attempting to use webMethods and we had a little inconvenience toward the starting however by and large had a positive involvement with webMethods

As a gathering we felt a general loathing for the way the IDE was setup. A portion of the elements that we would go searching for would be covered up and clouded in a convoluted interface. Others were more straightforward so it was somewhat of a give and take. Lamentably the backing for a venture of this greatness is somewhat missing and when we ran into issues and issues we thought that it was difficult to get help (We are understudies all things considered). On the other side of that since we were dealing with a school venture the application was somewhat thought up.

Easy to learn and use it for new user as well as for experienced users.

oriented service (all is service), focus on data transformation - not on technical interface

use of standard for REST and SOAP - free adapter standard like jms

packaging of the solution facilitate development and allow to use db , scheduler, cache if needed

packaging of solution is imposed, we do not know how to deploy just a part of the solution (without db, scheduler, ...admin..)

Digital project , IT transformation with legacy

webMethods solution helps loosed coupling , and manage oriented service and API development

We process several thousand transactions/day through it, 365 days a year, and it is very solid. The ability to handle exceptions is very good, and the SOAP interface was very easy to use.

The learning curve is a bit steep; it would be nice if the debugger was a bit more robust; the documentation could still be better, though it is improving.

We spent some money on a services agreement to do training and "coaching" during our first application, it was money well spent.

We needed a near realtime (2 seconds) interface between a PC-based application and a mainframe application. This worked great.

webMethods provides out of the box adapters for majority of COTS products and makes integration easy and simple. Their support team is amazing and diligent in resolving issues.

Improve client engagement involve clients in product features, deliver the features requested by clients in a timely manner

We've built many financial products using webMethods that enabled wide-range of integration from legacy mainframe systems to mobile applications. Designed a solution that processes 10M events per hour that sends real-time alerts to consumers

Nothing. There is nothing about this product that I would recommend to anyone.

In an attempt to make it possible for business users to create processes normally requiring software professionals, Software AG has created a system that neither professionals nor business users can use. In the end, only those specializing in WebMethods are actually comfortable working with it, and they often do not have the more general development skills needed to work outside of it. Additionally, it's integration (or lack thereof) with our version control system makes it difficult to do best practices processes such as code reviews, change management, CI/CD, or automated testing.

We are working to move all of our processes off of WebMethods and in to more supportable flows.

- Connect any system or application silo with plug-and-play ease

- Share data across systems

- Link mobile and SaaS apps securely with enterprise systems

- Use a single B2B gateway for connecting all trading partners

- Re-use services and systems to accelerate time to market

- Re-use existing assets to lower TCO

Expensive to get full education and training

- Connect application silos

- Leverage big data

- Reduce maintenance costs

- Improve time to market for applications

- Enable enterprise mobile apps

- Improve partner relations

- Ensure superior enterprise data quality

Information about big data - the Zmentis overview of the steps taken by a data scientist was enlightening

Hearing thinks we probably won't buy - those decisions will be made way above my paygrade

NaturalONE and web services

The newest versions of the webMethods suite by Software AG make for a pretty robust integration platform. webMethods Integration Server has built in adapters and document templates for integrating for a myriad of different data solutions (XML, SQL, Oracle, mainframe, and plenty of other industry-specific data standard architectures). These built in solutions allow for quick and easy integration engineering.

The cost of Software AG webMethods is considerable. Take that with the caveat that you get what you pay for (you get a lot with Software AG webMethods). Also, they have updated their software version pace where you really need to have a plan worked out for patching and upgrades that coincides with their warranty support sunsetting of older versions.

Make sure that if you are considering a move or a new project with Software AG webMethods that you also invest in some training. There is a large degree of ease of use. However, having a basic product suite overview will be very valuable for your implementation.

webMethods solves integration challenges. Deployed in your back-end, you can leverage it to access multiple different exposed web services. It is very useful if you are working with a number of different federated platforms, and have a need to combine a payload into a single UI.

1) Individual tool for each set of operations.

2) Constant upgrade in versions to improve and add features to meet the business requirements.

3) Awesome product that I have worked so far.

1) Lack of complete guidelines to use new features.

2) Client who use webMethods are not high in number.

Even though being an expensive product in the market, It helps design everyone problem looks quite simple to solve. Ofcourse they proved !!!

1) A2A and B2B integrations.

2) EDI integrations.

3) Centrasite for SOA governance.

Highly reliable when designing integration solutions.

Variety in Integrating different systems, No Matter what the complexity is-

Variety of In-built services which eases the development work -

Variety of Solutions furnished to Integrate all Modern systems-

Improvement in Software AG Global Support, In terms of reaching out to Partners for the solutions & Help desk Incidents-

With Cloud solutions in place- webMethods is the Best Way to Integrate Endless Applications-

Secure EDI Transfer & Banking Transactions- Seamless connectivity to thousands of partners over different protocols -

All kind of integration's including ESB, Cloud, SOA, Apps, IOT & Robotics

Cost of the product is more. This is complaint received from most of the clients

Please compete with healthcare products like Orion

ESB only,

Webmethods is ease to use. It's really helpful in sharing screen shots as proof of what is the retun value etc. Especially in AS2 connections.

Nothing specific. Don't have specific things to be changed. However if a small video is included to navigate through the functionality that would be great.

Time saver

Performance and Stability when in production.

Migration process for new release and hard to get proper help form support at the beginig of the troubleshoothing

We currently use many webMethods products. All of them are giving us the performance and stability, so it reach our standards

Required support is, sometimes, hard to get. Lately, we have been migrating BPMS and is was really ifficult to have someone to help us.

the performance, the efficency, the stability

the support with whom you have to fight a bit to have a another answer than "apply the last patch to test"

Use SAG consultant to help you. I used 20 days the first year, 10 the second and this year, about 5 are budgeted

Interconnect multiple applications with a single bus avoiding network port open issues, streamline the interfaces between applications

How easy is to integrate different systems, we modernize a legacy application integrating the mainframe, a C# application, and EMC Captica/Documentum.

We area piloting the modernization of several smaller systems with this first one and so far is a very good experience

The limited availability of the classes given by SAG. We have to learn a lot by doing which ended up being an advantage.

You need a strong support from the vendor and and expert to guide through the many many step for the set up

Hire an expert to guide you

The modernization of legacy applications. Staying with Software AG as a partner.

The smaller systems that were left out from the large modernization needed an easy way to go away from the mainframe.

It centerlize and connect all the systems togather with quickness and accuracy. It's having the front end technology, Flexible configuration, very good cache management and more.

Fix installation can be sometimes complicated.

The best integration suite in the market.

We needed a reliable central bus that can handle millions of transactions per day and it's doing the work perfectly.

Using tools like SAG Designer/Integration Server Adapters and Universal Messaging, makes integrating disparate systems straight forward. webMethods removes a lot of the boiler plate code required for integration efforts thus resulting in more rich, well designed projects

Command Central can be difficult to use because of bugs.

The adapters offered simplify development by abstraction and are easy to use.,

1. Using webMethods to connect to cloud based applications i.e Service now etc

2. Integrating systems with legacy code and exposing underlying services as API's

It's very good for the intended purpose of being able to run integrations on a server. They have good customer support.

The software can be finnicky at times and run into issues that will require you to restart the server, or perform larger fixes with help of customer support, which can slow progress significantly at times.

We develop software integrations, which is the intended use of this product, and it is good for that.

If you have EDI integrations in your B2B and supply chain management, Software AG webMethods platform is the best fit. It has built-in database (Trading Network) and rules setup and the only thing left to do is mapping (between EDI data and data of other source / target systems like SAP / Siebel CRM) .

webMethods JDBC adapter release has not been updated for years and it doesn't support structure and array. We have to write Java code to deal with this kind of store procedure calls.

EDI Integrations / BPM / Batch Processes are the areas where webMethods technologies applied. Easy to use, rapid development, robust and stable.

B2B Integration, APAMA and powerful inbuilt services to integrate with multiple platforms

My webMethods Server. Though SAG want to incorporate everything into one component MWS, it has became clumsy and performance wise the TN component we had earlier in 7.1.2 was better wrt performance and usability

Trading partner onboarding, Integration with multiple platforms like Oracle, MF, SAP. ease of use and build an integration solution

The adaptability and architecture of the product. It's design is so noble that becomes as flexible as the company needs. It's stable and has great scalability..

When it comes to a small business case or a small company, the costs could affect the company decision of using this product.

ESB, ETL, Transactionals layers. The benefits: fast implementation, stable and reliable.

You can integrate any technology from any vendor: Databases, SaaS platforms, Web services, JMS messaging systems .once you know what you are doing...it makes integrating services together easy. Ease of Coding and Ease of use. Tracking the transactions is easy with MWS. Constant upgrade in versions to improve and add features to meet the business requirements.

Due to some product releases,faced issues during upgradation.

Effective product with all features

B2B Integrations

I like how the service created only by using flow or xml and when needed we can code using java also, but mostly flow service are enough

cannot think one thing that I do not like about this products

good ESB platform with nearly perfect documentation, you will easily learn to use webaMethods

we are creating a standard business services to be use by others system. It is easy to integrate with other system and to be integrated by others system since webmethods already using industry standard such as HTTP, REST, XML, etc.

Features of webmethods product such as API Management, Big memory, IS, MWS, Messaging layer(UM).

Also HA setup using terracotta is one best cache mechanisms

Management talks about licensing cost is to high and they always look for new products with better cost

Wonderful product with all features

With upgrades, we are adopting new security features like TLS 1.2, OAuth. JSON helped with mobile integrations

Ease of Coding and Ease of use. Available components like MWS makes it easy to track the transactions

Designer (debugging in designer). Designer needs to have better options that would make debugging the code a bit easier.

Flow of the transactions end to end. Using BPM, it is easy to showcase the flow of a transaction and where it is stuck.

The support is always ready to help. They will give ample time for customers to do the provided troubleshoot without any time pressure

Very few reps are unresponsive and don't like going on a call if the issue is quite complex.

data transfer from different trading partners

The BPMN implementation is ok, but BPMN in general is more complicated than it needs to be.

The flow language is horrible. It's half graphical, half Cobol. It's not even procedural and does not contain a stack when calling subroutines. In order to find where a variable is set, you have to search every line of code. Don't use it, go with the Java interface.

Joins often fail.

Check other system integration tools.

Processing sales contracts

Other processes were tried. The project either failed, proved too complicated to implement, or have been moved to other systems.

With webmethods we are able to quickly and easily integrate different types of systems and digitize and monitor business processes.

The installation and update process might be easier. Especially the update to a higher version takes a lot of time.

Easy Integration with other tools

Very Useful tool to intgerate various business systems of an Enterprise.I personally recommend the Webservices,Trading Networks and BPM components of webMethods.

I haven't found anything as such till date through out my complete experience with the product.

If someone wants to implement a Scheduler or a Batch sevice i would urge and as well recommend them to thorugh go through a rigorous Capacity analysis and performance testing phase.

It is the best and very efficient tool that fulfills your Business requirements.

You can easily communicate with various business systems of the Enterprise by writing simple services and using the different set of adapters provided by the product.

MWS is the most useful and powerful tool of webMethods.

With its extended capabilities to connect between many contrasting systems & applications it has the extensive capabilities along with B2B integration and is able to securely share data across the system.

webMethods is great but using Designer might be some hassle sometimes. To understand the tools and configuration is a good amount of learning curve.

webMethods is used mostly within EAI and also B2B FTP and SFTP. The capability to integrate with various systems is the biggest benefit and use of web services standards complements the capability providing secure and reliable transaction and delivery.

The product is very good and works for all our business needs

Webmethods is a very good product and so far we do not have any complaints and it works fine.

you should buy the product for its functionality, ease of use and the support you get from the team.

Automation, Simplicity and secure.