We performed a comparison between IBM B2B Integrator and Mule ESB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about SAP, MuleSoft, IBM and others in Business-to-Business Middleware."The technical support on offer through the portal is very helpful and responsive."
"The most valuable features assist with understanding data formats and transforming data."
"The solution is useful for transferring files from one format to another format. Also, the solution is useful in translation."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of IBM B2B Integrator is its security and flexibility."
"The best feature is that many companies use the solution so there is a lot of peer support."
"Very flexible product; it allows implementing different flows on the same infrastructure."
"The cloud and integration abilities are most useful allowing us to use applications such as Salesforce and DataWeave."
"The product offers a community edition that is free of cost."
"I like that Mule ESB provides fast and good technical support."
"The most valuable feature is the Salesforce integration."
"The solution improved my company by modernizing the way we offer services and improving the user experience."
"The transformation and the data format are the features that I like the most."
"It is easily deployable and manageable. It has microservices-based architecture, which means that you can deploy the solution based on your needs, and you can manage the solution very easily."
"I am impressed with the product's connectors and scalability."
"The web interface of B2B is quite outdated and not particularly user-friendly."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"The user interface is outdated. B2B Integrator was developed in the United States in the nineties, and the graphical user interface hasn't improved since. It's tough because you have to program the software in XML. Nowadays, other methods are easier to work with."
"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."
"The reporting features could be better. right now, they are lacking a bit."
"End-to-end visibility and monitoring application required. The control center is available and covers this area, but it still fails in many monitoring scenarios."
"There are also some features in the solution that are not user-friendly, like code lists with no search options. So, we must navigate hundreds of pages to check for one entry."
"There is no related transaction stored in the database because it's an OLTP application."
"Documentation is cryptic, product releases are far too frequent, and upgrades become troublesome."
"I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."
"The solution's setup needs to be a bit more straightforward and its support needs to respond faster."
"Lacking some connectors that could be included."
"MuleSoft is not so strong in method-based integration, so they're not so functional in that regard."
"It's not easy to troubleshoot and we still can't make it work."
"Limitation on external subscribers to listen to the messages on the bus."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
IBM B2B Integrator is ranked 4th in Business-to-Business Middleware with 42 reviews while Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews. IBM B2B Integrator is rated 8.0, while Mule ESB is rated 8.0. 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 ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". IBM B2B Integrator is most compared with IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, SAP Process Orchestration, SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite, SPS Commerce Fulfillment (EDI) and webMethods Trading Networks, whereas Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, webMethods Integration Server and IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services.
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