We performed a comparison between Azure Data Factory and Mule Anypoint Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like its integration with SQL pools, its ability to work with Databricks, its pipelines, and the serverless architecture are the most effective features."
"The flexibility that Azure Data Factory offers is great."
"What I like best about Azure Data Factory is that it allows you to create pipelines, specifically ETL pipelines. I also like that Azure Data Factory has connectors and solves most of my company's problems."
"We haven't had any issues connecting it to other products."
"The scalability of the product is impressive."
"It's extremely consistent."
"I can do everything I want with SSIS and Azure Data Factory."
"An excellent tool for pipeline orchestration."
"It is very easy to use for building connectors. It comes with a lot of connectors. For example, it has different adapters for NetSuite, which are very easy to use. It also has Salesforce connectors. The object store feature is also really easy to use. Mule Anypoint Platform is also good in terms of performance and how it is managed behind the scenes."
"The ability to define multi-tiered APIs and reuse them is a fantastic platform feature."
"The platform's cloud integration capabilities are good."
"It has improved our organization a lot because of the increase in productivity, and it has simplified the development of products. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is a highly effective tool where you can build integrations so effectively. If you establish the integration platform, it increases productivity. It helps us to do effective re-authentication, and it speeds the integration."
"This is the easiest and best tool available."
"I have found several things most valuable, including its very quick implementation that you can use a lot of out of the box templates, and lastly that it is a very mature product, especially in hybrid integration."
"The community manager is the standout feature of the Mule Anypoint Platform, as it provides a platform to showcase your API to external parties. It is exceptionally user-friendly and enables external parties to easily utilize and consume the APIs."
"The exchange and API management features are the best in the market."
"Some of the optimization techniques are not scalable."
"The support and the documentation can be improved."
"Data Factory's cost is too high."
"Azure Data Factory should be cheaper to move data to a data center abroad for calamities in case of disasters."
"Currently, smaller businesses face a disadvantage in terms of pricing, and reducing costs could address this issue."
"Sometimes I need to do some coding, and I'd like to avoid that. I'd like no-code integrations."
"A room for improvement in Azure Data Factory is its speed. Parallelization also needs improvement."
"There should be a way that it can do switches, so if at any point in time I want to do some hybrid mode of making any data collections or ingestions, I can just click on a button."
"The solution's pricing model is very strange, and it will be really expensive if you use APIs a lot."
"We would like an entire DevOps in place in this particular solution."
"The runtime management and connectors could use some work and are vulnerable to breakage after upgrades."
"This becomes an expensive solution over time."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution's licensing methodologies could be improved."
"Mule Anypoint Platform is complex for beginners. Users without programming skills will find it complex. It should also improve its pricing."
"One area we'd like to see improvement in is the error logging and troubleshooting process."
Azure Data Factory is ranked 1st in Data Integration with 81 reviews while Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 2nd in Business-to-Business Middleware with 41 reviews. Azure Data Factory is rated 8.0, while Mule Anypoint Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Data Factory writes "The data factory agent is quite good but pricing needs to be more transparent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule Anypoint Platform writes "Robust, reliable, and stable, ensuring high availability for critical integrations". Azure Data Factory is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Alteryx Designer, Snowflake and IBM InfoSphere DataStage, whereas Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, SAP Process Orchestration, Oracle Integration Cloud Service and TIBCO BusinessWorks. See our Azure Data Factory vs. Mule Anypoint Platform report.
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