Comparison of business integration software
This article is a comparison of notable business integration and business process automation software.
General
Scope
Scope of this comparison:
- Service-oriented architecture implementations;
- Message-oriented middleware and message brokers;
- Enterprise service bus implementations;
- BPEL implementations;
- Enterprise application integration software.
General information
| Software | Creator | Edition | Release Date | Cost (USD) | Open source | Software license | Implementation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AdroitLogic UltraESB | AdroitLogic | 17.01 | January 2017 | Subscription based licensing and support or perpetual licensing | No | Proprietary | Enterprise Service Bus |
| Anypoint Platform | MuleSoft | Mule 3.7 | June 2015 | Sold as software as a subscription with various packaged options to serve different use cases. The pricing scales with usage as measured by number of cores on-premises and virtual cores in the cloud. | No | Dual (CPAL or proprietary | |
| Apache Camel | Apache Software Foundation | 2.23.3 | 29 November 2018 | Free/Commercial support available | Yes | Apache Software License | |
| Apache Kafka | Apache Software Foundation | 0.10.20 | February 2017 | Free / Commercial support available | Yes | Apache Software License | |
| Apache ServiceMix | Apache Software Foundation | 7.0 | January 2017 | Free / Commercial support available | Yes | Apache Software License | |
| Apache Synapse | Apache Software Foundation | 3.0 | December 2016 | Free / Commercial support available | Yes | Apache Software License | |
| Artix ESB | Progress Software | 5.x | 2003 | No | Proprietary | ||
| Automation Anywhere Integration Pack | Automation Anywhere | 6.1 | Feb 2011 | $5500 | No | Proprietary | |
| BizTalk Server | Microsoft | 2016 | December 2016 | Enterprise Edition: $10,835 per core; Standard Edition: $2,485 per core; Branch Edition: $620 per core (minimum 4 cores required); Developer Edition - per seat, available under Volume or MSDN licence.[1] | No | Proprietary | Enterprise Application Integration, Hub and Spoke architecture, Cloud ready |
| Flow Software | Flow Software Ltd | 2.3.0 | May, 2010 | Free Community Edition, and Enterprise licenses | No | Proprietary | |
| Fuse - Enterprise Camel | Red Hat | 7.0 | 2018 | Yes | based on Apache Software License | ||
| IBM Integration Bus (formerly WebSphere Message Broker ) | IBM | 10.0 | March 2015[2] | Varies between approximately 100 and 850 per Value Unit[3] | No | Proprietary | Enterprise Service Bus |
| Informatica Power Center | Informatica | 8.5 | October 2007 | Varies: 50,000 - 100,000 generally | No | Proprietary | |
| InterSystems IRIS (formerly InterSystems Caché + Ensemble + DeepSee) | InterSystems | All versions | January 2018 | Free [4] and commercial licenses (subscription, purchase) | No | Proprietary | InterSystems IRIS Interoperability |
| JBoss Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) | JBoss, a division of Red Hat, Inc. | 4.12 | March 2013 | Free / Commercial support available | Yes | GNU LGPL | Enterprise Service Bus, Replaced by JBoss Fuse |
| JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform | JBoss, a division of Red Hat, Inc. | 5.1 | February 2011 | Free / Commercial support available | Yes | GNU LGPL | Replaced by JBoss Fuse |
| Magic xpi Integration Platform | Magic Software Enterprises | 4.0 | May 2015 | No | Proprietary | ||
| Openadaptor | The Software Conservancy | 3.4.6 | February 2011 | Free | Yes | variant of MIT | |
| OpenESB | OpenESB Community | 3.2.2 | December 2019 | Free / Enterprise Edition with commercial support | Yes | CDDL | |
| OpenLink Virtuoso | OpenLink Software | 7.2.5.1 | 2018-08-15 | Varies[5] | Yes | Dual (GPL or proprietary) | |
| Oracle BPEL Process Manager[lower-alpha 1] | Oracle Corporation | 12.1.3.0.0 | June 2014 | Varies[6] | No | Proprietary | |
| Oracle Enterprise Service Bus[lower-alpha 1] | Oracle Corporation | 12.1.3.0.0 | June 2014 | Varies[7] | No | Proprietary | |
| PEtALS ESB | OW2 Consortium | 3.1.3 | July 2011 | Free / Commercial support available | Yes | GNU LGPL | |
| Sonic ESB | Progress Software | 8.x | 2011 | No | Proprietary | Enterprise Service Bus | |
| SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (short SAP PI) | SAP AG | 7.5 | 2011 | Varies[lower-alpha 2] | No | Proprietary | |
| ServiceMix | Apache Software Foundation | 5.1.1 | July 2014 | free/commercial support available | Yes | Apache Software License | |
| MiddlewareAdvisor | Middleware Advisor | 3.0 | May 2010 | free / Commercial support | Yes | GNU LGPL | |
| Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite | Sun Microsystems | 6 | June 2008 | $100 per employee per year subscription, perpetual per socket licensing available[8] | No[lower-alpha 3] | Proprietary | |
| TrackerSuite.Net | Automation Centre | 4.0 | June 2012 | Based on number of users and modules utilized. Available as SaaS, or as a licensed installation. | No | Proprietary | |
| Unify NXJ | Unify Corporation | 11 | No | Proprietary | |||
| webMethods Integration Server | Software AG | 9.0[9] | May 2013 | varies | No | Proprietary | Enterprise Service Bus[10] |
| WebSphere Message Broker[lower-alpha 4] | IBM | 8.0 | October 2011 | No longer marketed under this name - replacement name is IBM Integration Bus | No | Proprietary | Enterprise Service Bus |
| WSO2 Enterprise Integrator | WSO2 | 6.4 | 2018 | Free / Commercial support available | Yes | Apache License 2.0 | Enterprise Service Bus, Message Broker, Application Server, Business Process Server, Data Services Server |
| WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) | WSO2 | 5.0.0 | 2016 | Free / Commercial support available | Yes | Apache Software License |
Compatibility and interoperability
Operating system support
| Software | Microsoft Windows | Darwin/ OS X |
Linux | IBM | HP-UX | illumos/ Solaris | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | XP | Vista | 2003 Server | 2008 R2 Server | 2008 Server | 2012 Server | 7 – 64 bit | 8 – 64 bit | Red Hat | SUSE | Ubuntu | CentOS | AIX | OS/390 | IBM i | z/OS | ||||
| AdroitLogic UltraESB | Yes[lower-alpha 5] | Yes[lower-alpha 5] | Yes[lower-alpha 5] | Yes[lower-alpha 5] | Yes[lower-alpha 5] | Yes[lower-alpha 5] | Yes[lower-alpha 5] | Yes[lower-alpha 5] | Yes[lower-alpha 5] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Anypoint Platform | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Artix ESB | with SP3, SP4 | with SP1, SP2 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Automation Anywhere Integration Pack | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||||
| BizTalk Server | Yes[lower-alpha 6] | Yes[lower-alpha 7] | Yes[lower-alpha 8] | Yes[lower-alpha 9] | Yes[lower-alpha 10] | Yes[lower-alpha 11] | Yes[lower-alpha 12] | Yes[lower-alpha 10] | Yes[lower-alpha 12] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||
| Flow Software | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||
| IBM Integration Bus[11] | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JBoss Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Informatica Power Center | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| InterSystems IRIS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Openadaptor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| OpenESB | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| OpenLink Virtuoso | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Oracle BPEL Process Manager | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 5L | No | No | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Oracle Enterprise Service Bus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| PEtALS ESB | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| SAP Exchange Infrastructure | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes[12] | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| ServiceMix | Yes | with SP2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Sonic ESB | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes[13] | ||||||||
| Spagic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite | Yes | Yes[lower-alpha 13] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| TrackerSuite.Net | No | with SP2 | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Unify NXJ | with SP4 | with SP1 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | 5.3 | No | No | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
Hardware support
Supported hardware depends on supported operating systems.
Database support
| Software | API | Sybase | Apache Derby | IBM | Firebird | Microsoft | MySQL | Oracle | PostgreSQL | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODBC | JDBC | ASA | ASE | IBM Db2 | Db2 for i | Cloudscape | Informix | SQL Server | Azure SQL | ||||||
| AdroitLogic UltraESB | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Anypoint Platform | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Apache Synapse | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Artix ESB | |||||||||||||||
| Automation Anywhere Integration Pack | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| BizTalk Server | Yes[14] | Yes[lower-alpha 14] | Yes[15] | Yes[15] | Yes[15] | Yes | Yes | Yes[15] | Yes[15] | Yes[lower-alpha 15] | Yes | Yes | Yes[lower-alpha 16] | Yes | Yes[lower-alpha 16] |
| Flow Software | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| IBM Integration Bus[11] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Informatica Power Center | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| InterSystems IRIS | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| JBoss Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Openadaptor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| OpenESB | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| OpenLink Virtuoso | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Oracle BPEL Process Manager | |||||||||||||||
| Oracle Enterprise Service Bus | |||||||||||||||
| PEtALS ESB | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| SAP Exchange Infrastructure | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Unify NXJ | |||||||||||||||
| WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
Web servers support
Notes
- Part of Oracle SOA Suite.
- CPU-based pricing.
- Components from the Open ESB open-source community are productized in Java CAPS.
- Now known as IBM Integration Bus.
- Development environment only.
- Versions prior to 2006 R2 only. SP4 required for 2004 and 2006.
- 32-bit: versions prior to 2010, not including 2000. SP 1 required for 2004. SP2 required for 2006/2006 R2. SP3 required for 2009. 64-bit: version between 2006 and 2009. SP2 required for 2006 R2. SP3 required for 2009.
- Versions from 2006 R2 to 2010. SP1 required for 2009. SP2 required for 2010.
- Versions from 2002 (x32) or 2006 R2 (x64) to 2009. SP1 required for 2006, 2006 R2 and 2009.
- 2010 and later. SP1 required for 2013.
- 2009 and 2010.
- 2013 and later.
- For development.
- Via native SQL adapter if JDBC drivers are installed.
- Via BizTalk Utilities Adapter.
- Via ODBC adapter or via BizTalk Utilities Adapter.
Footnotes
- See for complete information.
- IBM Integration Bus V10.0 Announcement Letter see here .
- For detail about IBM's Processor Value Units see here
- InterSystems IRIS Community Edition
- OpenLink Virtuoso Universal Server Pricing
- Licenses available per named user or per processor, as perpetual or as term-based.
- Licenses available per named user or per processor, as perpetual or as term-based.
- See for detailed pricing.
- Software AG's Integration Platform
- "WebMethods | Integration Platform". Archived from the original on 9 August 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
- Use IBM's Software Compatibility Reports for details of IBM software compatibility.
- See RedBook SAP NetWeaver Java on IBM i5/OS
- See Sonic 8.5.1 Supported Platforms
- "The ODBC Biztalk Adapter and the EDI Ehancements".
- "Qlik Data Integration".
References
- Daryl C. Plummer, David W. McCoy, Charles Abrams. Magic Quadrant for the Integrated Service Environment Market, 2006. Gartner, research G00137074.
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