We performed a comparison between IBM B2B Integrator and Mule Anypoint Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business-to-Business Middleware solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features assist with understanding data formats and transforming data."
"IBM B2B Integrator is a great tool, robust, reliable, low-maintenance, and ideal solution."
"Everything from the order to fulfillment to the payment process, except for physical packing and shipping, is fully automated for some customer orders."
"The technical support on offer through the portal is very helpful and responsive."
"It is easy of use and it's easy to maintain. It's also faster to on-board partners."
"I find the codeless communications, SFTP or FTP, valuable."
"B2B Integrator is multi-platform, so it can be integrated with Windows, Unix, or whatever, and it can work with almost all programming languages. It can also transfer a lot of data in a short time. For instance, a system I recently implemented exchanges about 20 million files a day."
"This solution allows for easy integration with heterogeneous applications."
"This is a good platform for designing, flowing out APIs, and then doing API-based integrations."
"MuleSoft offers with the Anypoint Platform a unified platform for API management and an integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) as well as an on-premise Enterprise Service Bus pattern."
"The product’s ability to seamlessly translate protocols is great."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the variety of characters Anypoint Platform has. It is very scalable and customizable."
"It's easy to develop APIs."
"The tool's visual features are attractive."
"The flexibility has been great overall."
"The web interface of B2B is quite outdated and not particularly user-friendly."
"When working on an elaborate rule, I end up creating it in notepad and then pasting it into the Extended Rule window, which is not convenient."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Patching or upgrading the product is a bit of a nightmare. It would be nice if they removed the installation manager port. We find it complicates upgrading and patching a great deal."
"The tool requires you to write a lot of code in Java and XSLT, which makes development tough."
"API-Fication required, and there should be more clarity on their cloud migration strategy."
"The mapping, visibility, deployment, and the dashboard could be improved and updated. The communication logs are very poor. They are not easily understood, and we need to navigate to many places for many reasons. You can't just pull the information; it's very tough."
"There should be a single place to do things, rather than making it complicated, not moving away and truncating the old features but instead coming up with the new and still keeping the old stuff confuses people sometimes."
"Adding connectors for new upcoming applications would add extra value to this product."
"Better documentation, in particular with respect to the initial setup, would be helpful."
"The cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required, especially when compared to other tools, like Dell Boomi or Oracle."
"There is not much information on the internet...The transforming message is an area in the solution that needs to be improved."
"The solution is very expensive. They need to work on the pricing."
"It has different types of subscriptions. For platinum or lower subscriptions, there are not too many things that can be done. We don't see many features. They should release a basic version that has logging and monitoring features. These features should come with Mule Anypoint Platform for free instead of making customers pay separately for these features. Its dashboard can be improved to have a lot of charts so that it is easy to visualize information. The utilization part can be improved. The dashboard is good currently, but it can be better. Other solutions like Elastic have a good dashboard, and they allow you to administer the product from the UI. Currently, for RTF, there is a different dashboard or utility. It would be good to include the same utility in the cloud solution. It would be good if there is a centralized repository that includes the links to the information about various troubleshooting issues. The documentation is there currently, and it is good, but the troubleshooting information is too scattered. We have to go to different links to find troubleshooting information. This kind of centralized repository would be helpful for new customers who are implementing this solution. It will be helpful to see different kinds of issues that can occur."
"We would like an entire DevOps in place in this particular solution."
"An on-premise setup requires special skills and you need a lot of professional services."
IBM B2B Integrator is ranked 4th in Business-to-Business Middleware with 42 reviews while Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 2nd in Business-to-Business Middleware with 40 reviews. IBM B2B Integrator is rated 8.0, while Mule Anypoint Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM B2B Integrator writes "A widely-used, on-premises solution with tons of peer support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule Anypoint Platform writes "Robust, reliable, and stable, ensuring high availability for critical integrations". IBM B2B Integrator is most compared with Mule ESB, IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, SAP Process Orchestration, SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite and SPS Commerce Fulfillment (EDI), whereas Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, Oracle Integration Cloud Service, SAP Process Orchestration and SAP Cloud Platform. See our IBM B2B Integrator vs. Mule Anypoint Platform report.
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