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7,174 views|5,880 comparisons
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595 views|424 comparisons
50% willing to recommend
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We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and OpenText Trading Grid based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Mule Expression Language""The most valuable feature is that it's programmer-friendly, so it's very easy to develop APIs.""Mule ESB is a very easy-to-use and user-friendly solution.""The most valuable feature for Mule is the number of connectors that are available.""It was pretty fast to develop APIs on this platform, which is something I liked about it. So, the time to value was pretty good.""The most valuable feature of Mule ESB is data transformation, i.e. our interacting with different systems and orchestrating for our business needs.""What Mule provides out-of-box is a sufficient product.""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."

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"The solution is easy to implement."

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Cons
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see more additional concept for exception handling, batch processing, and increased integration with other application.""We would like to have a built-in logging framework in which we can do auditing.""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.""The price of Mule ESB could improve.""The solution's setup needs to be a bit more straightforward and its support needs to respond faster.""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 initial setup could be more straightforward.""I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."

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"Technical support needs to be better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This is expensive. In my next project, we had to go to other vendor."
  • "Plan your licensing model (cloud or on-premises or hybrid) that will allow seamless integration with new partners."
  • "The various features and components for this solution are no longer free."
  • "The licensing is yearly, and there are additional fees for services."
  • "This product is cheaper than some offered by other vendors, although there is a problem because you have to pay for some third-party adapters."
  • "Most of the challenges that I had with this solution were for smaller customers. There is not a good licensing model or pricing model. It is more expensive than other solutions, and that's the downside of MuleSoft. I had to be creative to be able to sell it to the business, but we did. This is something they have to work on because for large companies, it's affordable, but for small and medium businesses, it's very hard to sell."
  • "This product is expensive, but it does offer value for money."
  • "I think the price is very high. If you use TIBCO BW, the license is for the CPU usage, then the IPS, and support. I also think the license for the product is a one-time expense."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:I was previously part of the Oracle SOA/OSB development team. In my current capacity I architected solutions using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform on cloud / on-premises and hybrid modes and on PCE/RTF on… more »
    Top Answer:Our team ran a comparison of IBM’s Integration Bus vs. Mule ESB in order to determine what sort of ESB software was the best fit for our organization. Ultimately we decided to choose IBM Integration… more »
    Top Answer:The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot.
    Top Answer:The solution is easy to implement.
    Top Answer:The pricing is moderate. I'd rate the solution three out of five in terms of affordability.
    Top Answer:If you are on Trading Grid and you're trying to fetch the data, for example, the IDoc from SAP or the transfer data, sometimes there are system glitches wherein you will not be able to download the… more »
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    Also Known As
    Trading Grid, GXS Trading Grid
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    Overview
    For companies looking to modernize and unlock the value of existing on-premises systems and applications, an enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture serves as a critical foundation layer for SOA. When deployed as an ESB, the Mule runtime engine of Anypoint Platform combines the power of data and application integration across legacy systems and SaaS applications, with a seamless path to the other capabilities of Anypoint Platform and the full power of API-led connectivity.

    OpenText Trading Grid (formerly GXS) is a unique global integration platform that enables and streamlines cross enterprise business processes. With extreme flexibility and a service-oriented, business-to-business e-commerce platform, the Grid helps companies automate global trading communities by shielding complexity from rapidly changing standards, eliminating manual and duplicative efforts and enabling a new level of process integration and business intelligence.

    Sample Customers
    Ube, PacificComp, University of Witwatersrand, Justice Systems, Camelot
    Autoliv, Hella, Hutchinson, Michelin
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company46%
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Healthcare Company8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Insurance Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company12%
    Retailer10%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise53%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise70%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise62%
    Buyer's Guide
    Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
    May 2024
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    Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews while OpenText Trading Grid is ranked 10th in Business-to-Business Middleware with 1 review. Mule ESB is rated 8.0, while OpenText Trading Grid is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Trading Grid writes "Industry-leading, easy to implement, and has good mapping specification guidelines". Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, webMethods Integration Server and Red Hat Fuse, whereas OpenText Trading Grid is most compared with IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, TrueCommerce EDI, SPS Commerce Fulfillment (EDI), SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite and SAP Cloud Platform.

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