This article is a comparison of business integration and business process automation software.

General

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Scope

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Scope of this comparison:

In general, comparison includes products of vendors, included into the Gartner's Magic Quadrant for the Integrated Service Environment Market, 2006[1], published on 2 February 2006. Not included Rapid application development and modeling tools.

General information

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Software Product Page Creator Edition Release Date Cost (USD) Open source Software license
AMADEE Platform [2] AMADEE AG 2002 No proprietary
Artix ESB [3] IONA Technologies 4.0 ? No proprietary
BizTalk Server [4] Microsoft 2006 2006 29,999 per processor[2] No proprietary
ChainBuilder ESB [5] Bostech Corporation 1.0 January 2007
(Alpha Oct'06)
Yes Dual (GPL or proprietary)
Cordys Enterprise Service Bus [6] Cordys 4.2 No proprietary
Fiorano SOA 2006 Platform [7] Fiorano Software No proprietary
iBOLT Integration Suite [8] Magic Software Enterprises 2.5 April 2005 50,000 for full suite No proprietary
Ivory Service Architect [9] GT Software 3.1 No proprietary
JBossESB [10] Red Hat 4.0 beta 1 22 September 2006 Yes LGPL
OpenESB [11] Sun Microsystems 2.0 beta Feb 2007 Yes CDDL
OpenLink Virtuoso [12] OpenLink Software 4.5 2001 850 per value unit[3] Yes Dual (GPL or proprietary)
Oracle BPEL Process Manager[4] [13] Oracle Corporation 10.1.2.0.2 23 January 2006 50,000 per processor[5] No proprietary
Oracle Enterprise Service Bus[4] [14] Oracle Corporation 10.1.3.1 ? 10,550[6] No proprietary
OutSystems Platform [15] OutSystems 4.1 July 2007
(1st version on 2001)
Free up to 5 Users[7] No proprietary
PIE [16] CMA Small System 5.0 31 August 2006 No proprietary
SAP Exchange Infrastructure [17] SAP AG 3.0 No proprietary
Sonic ESB [18] Progress Software 7.0 SP1 35,000 per processor[8] No proprietary
Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite [19] Sun Microsystems 2005Q4 50[9] No ?
TIBCO BusinessWorks [20] Tibco Software No proprietary
Unify NXJ [21] Unify Corporation Release 11 No proprietary
VITRIA BusinessWare [22] VITRIA Tech, Inc. Release 4.3.2 No proprietary
webMethods Fabric [23] webMethods 6.5 No proprietary
WebLogic Integration [24] BEA Systems 8.5 SP5 70,000 per processor No proprietary
WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus [25] IBM 6.0.1.3 29 September 2006 250 per Value Unit[10] No proprietary
WebSphere Message Broker [26] IBM 6.0.0.2 July 2006 85,000 per processor No proprietary
WebSphere MQ [27] IBM 6.0.1.1 17 May 2006 64.10 per Value Unit[10][11] No proprietary
WebSphere Process Server [28] IBM 6.0.1.3 29 September 2006 850 per Value Unit[10] No proprietary

Compatibility and interoperability

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Operating system support

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Software Requirements
Document
Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Linux IBM HP-UX Solaris
2000 XP 2003 Server Red Hat SUSE AIX OS/390 i5/OS z/OS
AMADEE [29] with SP3, SP4 with SP1, SP2 Yes No No No No No No No
Artix ESB [30] with SP3, SP4 with SP1, SP2 Yes No AS 3.0 9 SP1 5.2 No 1.4-1.7 11/11i 8, 9, 10
BizTalk Server [31] with SP4 with SP2 R2 No No No No No No No No
ChainBuilder ESB [32] Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No No
Cordys Enterprise Service Bus [33] with SP4 with SP2 with SP1 AS 3.0, ES 3.0[12] No No No No No No No
Fiorano SOA 2006 Platform Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes
iBOLT Integration Suite [34] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Ivory Service Architect Yes Yes
JBossESB [35][13] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No Yes
OpenESB [36][14] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
OpenLink Virtuoso [37][15] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes
Oracle BPEL Process Manager [38] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 5L No No Yes Yes
Oracle Enterprise Service Bus - Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No
OutSystems Platform Yes Yes Yes Yes
PIE
SAP Exchange Infrastructure [39] Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes[16] Yes Yes Yes
Sonic ESB [40] with SP4 with SP2 with SP1 No Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes
Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite[17] [41] Yes Yes[18] Yes AS 2.1, 3[19] 9.1 Yes No No No 11i Yes
TIBCO BusinessWorks [42] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes
Unify NXJ [43] with SP4 with SP1 Yes No Yes Yes 5.3 No No Yes Yes
VITRIA BusinessWare [44] Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes
webMethods Fabric
WebLogic Integration [45] Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No No Yes Yes
WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and WebSphere Process Server [46][20] with SP4[21] with SP2[21] with SP1 Yes[22] Yes[22] Yes[23] Yes[24] Yes[25] Yes[26] Yes[27]
WebSphere Message Broker [47] No[28] with SP1 Yes YesCite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). YesCite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). Yes[29] Yes No Yes[30] Yes[31] Yes[32]
WebSphere MQ [48] with SP4[33][34] with SP1[33] Yes[33] Yes[35] Yes[35] Yes[36] Yes Yes[37] Yes[38] Yes[39] Yes[40]

Hardware support

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Supported hardware depends on supported operating systems.

Database support

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Software API Sybase Apache Derby IBM Firebird Microsoft SQL Server MySQL Oracle
ODBC JDBC ASA ASE DB2 DB2 for iSeries Cloudscape Informix
AMADEE
Artix ESB
BizTalk Server
ChainBuilder ESB
Cordys Enterprise Service Bus
Fiorano SOA 2006 Platform
iBOLT Integration Suite Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Ivory Service Architect
JBossESB
OpenESB
OpenLink Virtuoso
Oracle BPEL Process Manager
Oracle Enterprise Service Bus
OutSystems Platform Yes Yes Yes Yes
PIE
SAP Exchange Infrastructure
Sonic ESB
Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite
TIBCO BusinessWorks
Unify NXJ
VITRIA BusinessWare
webMethods Fabric
WebLogic Integration[41] No Yes 12.5.03 8.1 2000 SP3 4.0.18 Yes
WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and WebSphere Process Server
WebSphere Message Broker
WebSphere MQ

Web servers support

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Features

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Messaging and transport support

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Standards support

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See also

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=137074
  2. ^ for Enterprise Edition; Standard Edition: $8,499 per processor; Developer Edition: $499 per developer or as part of MSDN Universal. See BizTalk Server 2006 Pricing and Licensing for complete information.
  3. ^ http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/sales/vpricing2.htm
  4. ^ a b Part of Oracle SOA Suite
  5. ^ Perpetual licenses. Also term licenses available
  6. ^ Processor perpetual
  7. ^ OutSystems Express Edition
  8. ^ Sonic SOA Suite info at InfoWorld
  9. ^ Per employee per year, see [1] for detailed pricing.
  10. ^ a b c Pricing for Business Integration see here. Now for middleware IBM, uses Processor Value Unit Licensing. Each processor core assigned a specific number of processor value units — Single-core (all platforms), RISC Dual-core = 100 Units; x86 Dual-core, PowerPC 970, PowerPC 5 QCM = 50 Units; RISC Sun T1 Octi-core = 30 Units
  11. ^ 55.74 per Value Unit for HP OpenVMS, 128.20 for HP NonStop
  12. ^ Server side only
  13. ^ Requires either a Java 1.4 or Java 5 JVM
  14. ^ Requires a Java 5 JVM
  15. ^ Only requires installation of Virtuoso on any supported platform.
  16. ^ See RedBook SAP NetWeaver Java on IBM i5/OS
  17. ^ See document Sun Seebeyond Java Composite Application Platform Suite Installation Guide Release 5.1.1
  18. ^ For developers
  19. ^ Sun Cluster software does not support Linux.
  20. ^ Both products can be installed on the same machine as any version of WebSphere Application Server.
  21. ^ a b Supported for application design, development and testing; no support for production use.
  22. ^ a b See documents "Linux on x86", "Linux on x86-64", "Linux on System z9 and zSeries®" and "Linux on POWER" for details
  23. ^ See document "System requirements for WebSphere Application Server V6.1 on IBM AIX" for details
  24. ^ See document "System requirements for WebSphere Application Server V6.1 on i5/OS" for details
  25. ^ See document "System requirements for WebSphere Application Server V6.1 on z/OS"
  26. ^ See documents "HP-UX on PA-RISC" and "HP-UX on Itanium" for details
  27. ^ See documents "Solaris SPARC" and "Solaris x64" for details
  28. ^ >See document "System Requirements for WebSphere Message Broker V6.0 for Windows, WebSphere Message Broker with Rules and Formatter Extension V6.0 for Windows, and WebSphere Event Broker V6.0 for Windows" for details
  29. ^ See document "System Requirements for WebSphere Message Broker V6.0 for AIX, WebSphere Message Broker with Rules and Formatter Extension V6.0 for AIX, and WebSphere Event Broker V6.0 for AIX" for details
  30. ^ See document "System Requirements for WebSphere Message Broker V6.0 for z/OS, WebSphere Message Broker with Rules and Formatter Extension V6.0 for z/OS, and WebSphere Event Broker V6.0 for z/OS" for details
  31. ^ See document "System Requirements for WebSphere Message Broker V6.0 for HP-UX, WebSphere Message Broker with Rules and Formatter Extension V6.0 for HP-UX, and WebSphere Event Broker V6.0 for HP-UX" for details
  32. ^ See documents "Solaris SPARC", "Solaris x86-64" for details
  33. ^ a b c Only 32-bit (NOT 64-bit) operating systems are supported.
  34. ^ See document "System Requirements for WebSphere MQ V6.0 Windows" for details
  35. ^ a b See documents "Linux on x86", "Linux x86-64", "Linux on zSeries®", "Linux on zSeries s390x", "Linux on zSeries s390x" for details
  36. ^ See document "System Requirements for WebSphere MQ V6.0 AIX" for details
  37. ^ See document "System Requirements for WebSphere MQ v6 iSeries" for details
  38. ^ See document "System Requirements for WebSphere MQ v6 for z/OS" for details
  39. ^ See documents "HP-UX PA-RISC", "HP-UX Itanium" for details
  40. ^ See documents "Solaris SPARC", "Solaris x86-64" for details
  41. ^ http://edocs.bea.com/platform/suppconfigs/configs81/81_over/supported_db.html

References

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  • Daryl C. Plummer, David W. McCoy, Charles Abrams. Magic Quadrant for the Integrated Service Environment Market, 2006. Gartner, research G00137074.