We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product offers a community edition that is free of cost."
"The connectors help to connect with a variety of applications."
"The cloud and integration abilities are most useful allowing us to use applications such as Salesforce and DataWeave."
"Mule Expression Language"
"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."
"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."
"Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."
"The transformation and the data format are the features that I like the most."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that the performance is robust."
"It's very stable and reliable."
"The technology is really easy to learn."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a service-oriented architecture, SOA-based."
"The GUI and IDE features of this solution are easy to work with and to develop. We find application management easy using this solution. It is a stable product"
"The most attractive and beneficial feature is the ease of development."
"The stability of this solution is excellent."
"The stability could be improved."
"Documentation is cryptic, product releases are far too frequent, and upgrades become troublesome."
"The solution's setup needs to be a bit more straightforward and its support needs to respond faster."
"There are limitations with the subscription model that comes with the product."
"The solution isn't as stable as we'd like it to be. There are some ongoing issues and therefore Mule has to provide frequent patches. Mule's core IP should be more stable overall."
"Limitation on external subscribers to listen to the messages on the bus."
"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."
"The current version will not be supported for much longer."
"The intermediate version that we are using has stability issues. These stability issues should be resolved, but it seems like TIBCO is not focusing on resolving these issues. The resolution timelines are quite high even for high-priority incidents. Its price should be lower. Its licensing cost is considerably high as compared to other ESBs."
"We'd like to see improvements in product support."
"Migration to cloud solutions or products should be made convenient, transparent, and easily understandable."
"In the next release, there should be improvements made to the API manager."
"Our version does not have cloud capabilities."
"The solution is very expensive when you use multiple components, it would b better if this could be reduced."
"If TIBCO could be able to sort the size of their base image in the Container edition, it would be really marvelous. Right now it's around 299 MB. We'd really want it to reduce to a few MBs."
"Issues with the support, the fees, and the termination of the professional services are reasons we are looking for other solutions."
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Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 46 reviews while TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is ranked 9th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 12 reviews. Mule ESB is rated 8.0, while TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus 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 TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus writes "A robust product that needs to improve the functionality it offers related to API lifecycle management". Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, Red Hat Fuse and SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite, whereas TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Red Hat Fuse, IBM DataPower Gateway and Workday Business Process Framework. See our Mule ESB vs. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus report.
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