We performed a comparison between IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services 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."They have best-in-class, quality support."
"The product's most valuable feature is the real-time integration suite."
"We are able to monitor all B2B messages, and we are able to see or track each message on it from an error perspective. That's a good side of it. It is working well, and we're able to do our current job."
"They have multiple features for each kind of task and issue. The company has different channels to give information to the administration. Security and integration capabilities are also important. This product has helped to replace a lot of other solutions, saving time and cost."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"Mule ESB is a very easy-to-use and user-friendly solution."
"We can use Java expressions anywhere in the flow."
"The solution has a good graphical interface."
"Scalability and load balancing."
"The transformation and the data format are the features that I like the most."
"The solution improved my company by modernizing the way we offer services and improving the user experience."
"It's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications."
"Easy connectivity and easy integration."
"The only weaknesses they have different governance for each task and different channels for communication which are hard to maintain. The relation of the company with other companies can be improved. We have a lot of customers who this platform for the interchange of information which can also be improved. The compliance information about banks can also be updated."
"Onboarding on the solution is complex. It's hard to onboard partners and customer suppliers. It's one aspect that is not that straightforward."
"They can improve APIs because they are still lagging behind in API connectivity. With non-API connectivity, they're market leaders, but API connectivity, they're still in the immature space."
"It can be now classified as a legacy system because there are no more updates. From what I know, there will be no updates for the current version, which is an issue. Therefore, we are looking for a compatible new software that we can use. We're currently researching what is there in the market. We would consider something that would give us better speed on our current processor. There is also room for improvement in terms of its scalability and GUI. It is an old system, and its scalability can be improved. Its GUI can also be more appealing."
"The stability could be improved."
"The solution isn't as stable as we'd like it to be. There are some ongoing issues and therefore Mule has to provide frequent patches. Mule's core IP should be more stable overall."
"The solution's setup needs to be a bit more straightforward and its support needs to respond faster."
"From an improvement perspective, there should be fewer coding challenges for users in Mule ESB."
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see more additional concept for exception handling, batch processing, and increased integration with other application."
"Limitation on external subscribers to listen to the messages on the bus."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"Community editions need more attention."
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IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services is ranked 3rd in Business-to-Business Middleware with 8 reviews while Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews. IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services is rated 8.2, while Mule ESB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services writes "Comes with real-time integration suite and best security ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services is most compared with SPS Commerce Fulfillment (EDI), SAP Process Orchestration, SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite, IBM B2B Integrator and Mule Anypoint Platform, whereas Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, webMethods Integration Server and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus.
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