We performed a comparison between Mule Anypoint Platform and Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of the Mule Anypoint Platform are the Flex Gateway, API management, easy-to-use, and connectors. Additionally, they are coming out with improvements to the solution when required."
"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."
"It is very easy to use for building connectors. It comes with a lot of connectors. For example, it has different adapters for NetSuite, which are very easy to use. It also has Salesforce connectors. The object store feature is also really easy to use. Mule Anypoint Platform is also good in terms of performance and how it is managed behind the scenes."
"We are very satisfied with the DevOps support."
"The solution's market place for different kinds of integration platforms is the most valuable feature."
"When we talk about the APIs, there are multiple policies one can apply on APIs, like rate limiting policies, OWASP policies, and OWASP security policies, that can be easily configured in Mule Anypoint Platform."
"The flexibility has been great overall."
"The most valuable feature of Mule Anypoint Platform is rapid development."
"It's very simple compared to other products out there."
"I can use Python, which is open-source, and I can run other scripts, including Linux scripts. It's user-friendly for running any object-based language. That's a very important feature because we live in a world of open-source."
"We're using the PDI and the repository function, and they give us the ability to easily generate reporting and output, and to access data. We also like the ability to schedule."
"Its drag-and-drop interface lets me and my team implement all the solutions that we need in our company very quickly. It's a very good tool for that."
"The abstraction is quite good."
"One of the valuable features is the ability to use PL/SQL statements inside the data transformations and jobs."
"Data transformation within Pentaho is a nice feature that they have and that I value."
"The fact that it's a low-code solution is valuable. It's good for more junior people who may not be as experienced with programming."
"It doesn't work well when you try using it for the processing layer."
"Mule Anypoint Platform could improve by having more up-to-date adapters to do work in a digital space."
"The runtime management and connectors could use some work and are vulnerable to breakage after upgrades."
"Its documentation needed a little bit of work to make it more usable. It is a platform that is used mainly by developers and other people for connecting systems. Its documentation was confusing in some areas and was not very helpful in other areas. I had to go to a consultant to get some work done, which ideally shouldn't be required."
"Code quality, Code Security, SaaS, and DaaS security, can all be improved."
"Mule Anypoint Platform is complex for beginners. Users without programming skills will find it complex. It should also improve its pricing."
"Adding connectors for new upcoming applications would add extra value to this product."
"Price-wise, it is a good product since it is reasonably priced...Mule Anypoint Platform can get too complex for non-technical people."
"I'm still in the very recent stage concerning Pentaho Data Integration, but it can't really handle what I describe as "extreme data processing" i.e. when there is a huge amount of data to process. That is one area where Pentaho is still lacking."
"Although it is a low-code solution with a graphical interface, often the error messages that you get are of the type that a developer would be happy with. You get a big stack of red text and Java errors displayed on the screen, and less technical people can get intimidated by that. It can be a bit intimidating to get a wall of red error messages displayed. Other graphical tools that are focused at the power user level provide a much more user-friendly experience in dealing with your exceptions and guiding the user into where they've made the mistake."
"The reporting definitely needs improvement. There are a lot of general, basic features that it doesn't have. A simple feature you would expect a reporting tool to have is the ability to search the repository for a report. It doesn't even have that capability. That's been a feature that we've been asking for since the beginning and it hasn't been implemented yet."
"Since Hitachi took over, I don't feel that the documentation is as good within the solution. It used to have very good help built right in."
"There is not a data quality or MDM solution in the Pentaho DI suite."
"Parallel execution could be better in Pentaho. It's very simple but I don't think it works well."
"I would like to see support for some additional cloud sources. It doesn't support Azure, for example. I was trying to do a PoC with Azure the other day but it seems they don't support it."
"I would like to see more improvements with AS400 DB2."
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Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 3rd in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews while Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is ranked 15th in Data Integration with 48 reviews. Mule Anypoint Platform is rated 8.2, while Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics 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 Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics writes "It's flexible and can do almost anything I want it to do". Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, Oracle Integration Cloud Service, SAP Process Orchestration and SAP Cloud Platform, whereas Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is most compared with SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and AWS Glue. See our Mule Anypoint Platform vs. Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics report.
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