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Software AG Universal Messaging

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What is Software AG Universal Messaging?

Software AG Universal Messaging is presented as a single solution for high-performance, low-latency messaging across a wide array of delivery channels, including all mainstream enterprise, web and mobile platforms. The venodr states that for the enterprise, Software AG Universal Messaging delivers high throughput messaging for resilient, secure and highly scalable applications. For web and mobile, Software AG Universal Messaging was designed to provide real-time streaming to the edge of corporate networks and beyond.

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Software AG Universal Messaging is the first choice for messaging and event handling if also using other Software AG webMethods integration products

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Professional in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Software AG Universal Messaging as the core asynchronous messaging layer within our Enterprise Service Bus solution used for all managed and automated software integration across the entire company. Software AG Universal Messaging enables near real-time asynchronous event handling and message-based software integration, between disparate custom in-house developed applications written in .NET and Java and node.js, and commercial off-the-shelf applications such as SAP and SharePoint, and also software as a service cloud solutions such as SalesForce.

Pros

  • Low latency high performance messaging and event handling
  • High availability
  • Horizontal scalability
  • Seamless integration with Software AG webMethods integration platform

Cons

  • Logging
  • Administration
  • Observability

Most Important Features

  • High performance, low latency messaging
  • High availability
  • Vertically integrated with Software AG webMethods

Return on Investment

  • Enables disparate software systems to be integrated, reducing manual data entry
  • Enables high performance event handling for data lakes and analytics
  • Has relatively high licensing costs

Alternatives Considered

Apache Kafka, Apache RocketMQ, IBM MQ, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, Microsoft Azure and Pivotal RabbitMQ

Other Software Used

Sublime Text, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, webMethods Trading Network, webMethods.io Integration (webMethods Integration Cloud), webMethods AgileApps Cloud, webMethods Business Process Management Suite (BPMS), webMethods Mediator, webMethods OneData, webMethods Optimize, VMware Horizon (formerly VMware View), Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware Workstation Player (formerly VMware Player), Microsoft Teams, Jira Software, Atlassian Confluence