We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and Mule ESB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution is robust."
"It is easy to use, easy to install, and it's resilient for high availability."
"Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot of security features."
"I like all of the features in this product and it does what it's supposed to do."
"The product is stable...The product is scalable."
"The most valuable features for our business include the ability to monitor and log data transactions and handle multiple request at an enterprise level."
"The MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) is great because it allows you to easily expose services using various protocols – web services, REST (JSON), and others. This flexibility simplifies things."
"The solution offers multiple deployment options."
"The most powerful feature is DataWeave, which is a powerful language where data can be transformed from one form into another."
"The most valuable feature is that it's programmer-friendly, so it's very easy to develop APIs."
"Most of our use cases are for Salesforce. So, the connectors for Salesforce have been really helpful. They've made development two times faster."
"The cloud and integration abilities are most useful allowing us to use applications such as Salesforce and DataWeave."
"The transformation and the data format are the features that I like the most."
"It's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications."
"The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot."
"Some pre-packaged connectors for integration with various applications, such as SaaS offerings, would be a useful addition."
"DataPower isn't the most user-friendly tool. It is not an easy tool to use. Some things could use better wizards to guide you through processes."
"For the workloads that are not too high, appliance is a little bit expensive."
"The solution requires a lot of training manuals in order to get to know it better and to be able to use it effectively."
"We are always looking for more features wherein it could be easily integrated with cloud applications. We are looking for either a cloud solution or a cloud integration option."
"The two biggest issues of this solution are the complexity and the maintenance procedures."
"An area for improvement in IBM DataPower Gateway is its price point because it's a relatively expensive product. Sometimes, when the customer use case is just a very small subset of what's being offered in IBM DataPower Gateway, then the product can be expensive, making my company lose some of the opportunities because of the expensive pricing. A lower price point for IBM DataPower Gateway, even if that results in a less feature-rich version, would be appreciated. In terms of additional features that I'd like to see in the next release of IBM DataPower Gateway, nothing specific comes to mind because IBM constantly improves its standards and provides quarterly updates to the product, so it's quite fine."
"The IBM community does not have much engagement from the IT community in Saudi Arabia and developers for this solution are difficult to find."
"It would be much more beneficial if the solution included AI and business process management."
"It's not easy to troubleshoot and we still can't make it work."
"Mule ESB is more into the latest REST APIs, not much into the SOAP web services. Developing is all about web services and not easy with Mule."
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see more additional concept for exception handling, batch processing, and increased integration with other application."
"The stability could be improved."
"Documentation is cryptic, product releases are far too frequent, and upgrades become troublesome."
"It should have some amount of logging."
"Mule ESB isn't as secure as IBM. Financial companies go with IBM for that reason."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 5th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 27 reviews while Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 46 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while Mule ESB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Security features meets compliance needs and offers MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) that simplifies integration efforts ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM Integration Bus and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, webMethods Integration Server and Mule Anypoint Platform. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. Mule ESB report.
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