We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and Oracle SOA Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, MuleSoft, Software AG and others in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)."The most valuable feature is the Salesforce integration."
"The most valuable feature is that it's programmer-friendly, so it's very easy to develop APIs."
"Mule Expression Language"
"The solution has a good graphical interface."
"The architecture based on events has several connectors which allow integration from external and internal applications of the company."
"Easy connectivity and easy integration."
"Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."
"I like that it's user-friendly. Compared to other ESBs, I find it easier to use. I like it better than other ESBs. I like the connectors, which make calling the APIs through the routers easier."
"Valuable features include connectors and BAM."
"It performs better in real-time transactions."
"Provides connectivity between discrete systems and has availability."
"Middleware jobs developing for EC, ERP, and shipping systems become easier."
"This is one of the critical products for my company and we use it extensively. We currently use each and every feature of Oracle SOA."
"The new product has come out with SOA Cloud Service and Integration Analytics as well, which gives more options for clients to pick their point of requirements."
"The most valuable feature of the facility, as the partner link, is to try to use third-party services and logic in your own vehicle to orchestrate the information."
"The integration with various products."
"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."
"There are some features on the commercial version of the solution that would be great if they were on the community version. Additionally, if they added more authorization features it would be helpful."
"Mule ESB could be more user-friendly. I think users must learn about the architecture before they start coding. The price could be better. In the next release, I would like to see an EDIFACT integration."
"Mule ESB isn't as secure as IBM. Financial companies go with IBM for that reason."
"We would like the ability to use our own code. This would allow us to develop customizations with ease. Additionally, it would be nice to have more analytics or insights on the exchanged information between databases."
"In order to meet the new trend of active metadata management, we need intelligent APIs that can retrieve new data designs and trigger actions over new findings without human intervention."
"We would like to have a built-in logging framework in which we can do auditing."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvement in the generator for the DataWeave language so that it's a little more graphic."
"SOA"
"Its function options can be improved."
"If the disk space expansion can be made more flexible, not requiring a database restart, it would be a major benefit."
"The installation and adjustment process seems too complex."
"The technical support is good, we have premier support which costs extra."
"Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses."
"I want to see easier integration connections with other cloud-based tools."
"Various parts of SOA, BPEL, and so on, each have their own consoles which need to be accessed individually with different logins. It would be better from an admin perspective if all the consoles were accessible via a single login."
Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews while Oracle SOA Suite is ranked 8th in Application Infrastructure with 65 reviews. Mule ESB is rated 8.0, while Oracle SOA Suite 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 Oracle SOA Suite writes "Easy to setup, provides good support and scalable solution ". Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, webMethods Integration Server, Red Hat Fuse and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with WebLogic Suite, Apache Web Server, TIBCO ActiveMatrix, IBM BPM and Microsoft .NET Framework.
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