We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and webMethods Integration Server 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."This tool has exceptional API management and integration connectors in addition to multiple out of the box connectors."
"Easy connectivity and easy integration."
"The solution improved my company by modernizing the way we offer services and improving the user experience."
"What Mule provides out-of-box is a sufficient product."
"The setup is straightforward."
"I like that Mule ESB provides fast and good technical support."
"The solution offers multiple deployment options."
"The product offers a community edition that is free of cost."
"Application integrations are offered out-of-the-box, and that is extremely important to us. This is one of the main use cases that we have for it. It is about 60 to 70 percent of the workload in our application today."
"The stability is good."
"The most valuable feature of the webMethods Integration Server is its reliability. It has a lot of great documentation from the service providers. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"The product is very stable."
"It’s fairly easy to view, move, and mange access across different components. Different component types are categorized and can be viewed in a web based administration console."
"Ease of implementation and flexibility to hold the business logic are the most valuable features."
"What I like best about webMethods Integration Server is its portfolio of connectors."
"Best feature is Insight for monitoring, and as a debugging tool. It has saved us a lot of time during crisis situations."
"It's not easy to troubleshoot and we still can't make it work."
"The price of Mule ESB could improve."
"There are limitations with the subscription model that comes with the product."
"Lacking some connectors that could be included."
"I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."
"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."
"It needs more samples. Also, the dependency on Maven should be removed."
"The certifications and learning resources are not exposed openly enough. For instance, they have a trial version which comes with only a few basic features, and I think that community-wise they need to offer more free or open spaces where developers can feel encouraged to experiment."
"This is a great solution and the vendor could improve the marketing of the solution to be able to reach more clients."
"The market webMethods Integration Server falls under is a very crowded market, so for the product to stand out, Software AG would need to get traction in the open source community by releasing a new version or a base version and open source it, so people can create new custom components and add it to the portfolio."
"We got the product via a reseller, and the support from the reseller has been less than desirable."
"In terms of scale, I would give it a four out of 10."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"The stability of the various modules of the product suite have been a bit of a concern lately. Though their support team is always easy to reach out to, I would prefer it not come to that."
"Business monitoring (BAM) needs improvement because the analytics and prediction module very often has performance problems."
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Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 46 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 60 reviews. Mule ESB is rated 8.0, while webMethods Integration Server 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 webMethods Integration Server writes "Event-driven with lots of helpful formats, but minimal learning resources available". Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, Red Hat Fuse and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods.io Integration, TIBCO BusinessWorks, Boomi iPaaS and Oracle Service Bus. See our Mule ESB vs. webMethods Integration Server report.
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