We performed a comparison between Mule Anypoint Platform 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 exchange and API management features are the best in the market."
"It can scale."
"Mule works very well with Salesforce and CRMs."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"MuleSoft Anypoint Platform's most valuable features are its observability and stability."
"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."
"We are very satisfied with the DevOps support."
"Easy connectivity and easy integration."
"The architecture based on events has several connectors which allow integration from external and internal applications of the company."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Mule ESB is data transformation, i.e. our interacting with different systems and orchestrating for our business needs."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The solution doesn't require much code writing and we can develop APIs very easily."
"The solution has a good graphical interface."
"Mule ESB has a user-friendly design, and everything is in one place. The API and architecture are popular right now. Also, MuleSoft has a large and supportive online community."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There is not much information on the internet...The transforming message is an area in the solution that needs to be improved."
"In order to set up a storefront, we currently rely on a third-party solution. It would greatly enhance our operations if this feature was integrated into their existing solution."
"Price-wise, it is a good product since it is reasonably priced...Mule Anypoint Platform can get too complex for non-technical people."
"It doesn't work well when you try using it for the processing layer."
"It would be better if we had a clearer view of the solution's future releases."
"Pricing is one aspect of the solution that is troublesome. It's too expensive for smaller organizations."
"We would like an entire DevOps in place in this particular solution."
"Lacking some connectors that could be included."
"We would like to have a built-in logging framework in which we can do auditing."
"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."
"Community editions need more attention."
"MuleSoft isn't as mature as some other integration technologies out there like IBM WebSphere. There's room for growth, and MuleSoft is working toward that."
"From the product perspective, it was sometimes hard to manage the dependencies. When we had to add dependencies on a couple of different packages, it was sometimes confusing. It was hard to update them with Anypoint Studio, as well as with MuleSoft. There were challenges with that. So, that's one of the areas that could be improved."
"The solution's setup needs to be a bit more straightforward and its support needs to respond faster."
"The initial setup is not easy."
Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 2nd in Business-to-Business Middleware with 40 reviews while Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews. Mule Anypoint Platform is rated 8.2, while Mule ESB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Mule Anypoint Platform writes "Robust, reliable, and stable, ensuring high availability for critical integrations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, Oracle Integration Cloud Service, SAP Process Orchestration and IBM App Connect, whereas Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, webMethods Integration Server and IBM B2B Integrator.
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