We performed a comparison between IBM B2B Integrator 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 solution offers good integration capabilities."
"This solution allows for easy integration with heterogeneous applications."
"I find the codeless communications, SFTP or FTP, valuable."
"The technical support on offer through the portal is very helpful and responsive."
"Out-of-box process orchestration yields quick implementations."
"The most valuable features assist with understanding data formats and transforming data."
"It can scale horizontally as well as vertically as a cluster."
"Everything from the order to fulfillment to the payment process, except for physical packing and shipping, is fully automated for some customer orders."
"It's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications."
"The connectivity the solution provides is excellent. There are often too many systems that we have to integrate and this helps with that."
"For complex cases, we employ the SSLi engine, whereas for simpler ones like healthcare or response data, such as EDI 270 or 271. We prefer to use an external XRT engine instead of handling it within the ESB for ease of management."
"The most valuable feature is that it's programmer-friendly, so it's very easy to develop APIs."
"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."
"Everything runs in Java, which is a useful feature."
"Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."
"The most valuable feature for Mule is the number of connectors that are available."
"The user interface is outdated. B2B Integrator was developed in the United States in the nineties, and the graphical user interface hasn't improved since. It's tough because you have to program the software in XML. Nowadays, other methods are easier to work with."
"API-Fication required, and there should be more clarity on their cloud migration strategy."
"They do not have a solid partner ecosystem, and they do not have a clear roadmap for down the line; they're missing that clear roadmap."
"There should be a single place to do things, rather than making it complicated, not moving away and truncating the old features but instead coming up with the new and still keeping the old stuff confuses people sometimes."
"The dashboard is not integrated and should be bundled by the product vendor."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The reporting features could be better. right now, they are lacking a bit."
"The web interface of B2B is quite outdated and not particularly user-friendly."
"Community editions need more attention."
"It's not easy to troubleshoot and we still can't make it work."
"I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."
"The solution's setup needs to be a bit more straightforward and its support needs to respond faster."
"Documentation is cryptic, product releases are far too frequent, and upgrades become troublesome."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"The current version will not be supported for much longer."
"Limitation on external subscribers to listen to the messages on the bus."
IBM B2B Integrator is ranked 4th in Business-to-Business Middleware with 42 reviews while Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 46 reviews. IBM B2B Integrator is rated 8.0, while Mule ESB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM B2B Integrator writes "A widely-used, on-premises solution with tons of peer support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". IBM B2B Integrator is most compared with IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite, SAP Process Orchestration, SPS Commerce Fulfillment (EDI) and webMethods Trading Networks, whereas Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, webMethods Integration Server and IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services.
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