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We performed a comparison between Mule ESB, Oracle Service Bus, and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The product offers a community edition that is free of cost.""I like that Mule ESB provides fast and good technical support.""Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis.""Scalability and load balancing.""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 solution offers multiple deployment options.""The most valuable feature is that it's programmer-friendly, so it's very easy to develop APIs."

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"I like the ease of deployment and the ease of implementation.""Overall it is a pretty good solution.""The stability is consistently high, with only one notable issue encountered.""There are always continuous improvements that are happening.""Service Bus is good at routing the transformation.""Its ease of use is valuable. It's very easy to use. It's no code/low code. Oracle Middleware products are also rich in adapters.""It is lightweight and one can easily integrate with different applications, databases, JMS, or web services through different protocols.""The most valuable feature of this solution is that you can connect with different applications."

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"The solution is very stable.""It is easy to develop. It has a very wide range of features. The older versions are very stable, and there are no issues with the product.""The product’s most valuable feature is stability.""The most valuable feature of the solution is that the performance is robust.""The stability of this solution is excellent.""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 technology is really easy to learn.""The most attractive and beneficial feature is the ease of development."

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Cons
"From an improvement perspective, there should be fewer coding challenges for users in Mule ESB.""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.""It needs more samples. Also, the dependency on Maven should be removed.""It should have some amount of logging.""The current version will not be supported for much longer.""It would be much more beneficial if the solution included AI and business process management.""There are limitations with the subscription model that comes with the product.""I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."

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"The connectivity with the solution is an area that needs to be improved. On occasion, requests are lost due to losing connectivity.""It needs to support more adapters, because the integration points keep changing and new things keep coming up. It also needs to be more scalable.""There are some loopholes in service and support.""This solution should work better with RESTful services.""This solution would benefit from having more cloud-based adapters.""An area for improvement in Oracle Service Bus is the roadmap for its product launch. Currently, it's unclear, so Oracle should develop a roadmap for version 12c, so people can see what's coming out of that version of Oracle Service Bus. Cloud hosting is an additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of Oracle Service Bus.""The support for GraphQL needs to be improved, and the response time for global support could be faster.""It's very complex and hard to learn. There's a steep learning curve."

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"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.""The stability of their latest version is not on par with their classic version 5.X.""We'd like to see improvements in product support.""Our version does not have cloud capabilities.""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.""In the configuration, where we need to customize, it takes more time that we expect it to, ideally.""I don't like the product's API management platform, as it doesn't offer users enough functionality to help with API lifecycle management, making it a product that is way behind its competitors.""The initial setup process could be easier."

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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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  • "The price of this solution is better than the subscription-based Mule ESB."
  • "This is a very expensive product and the price varies depending on factors such as the number of processors and the number of users. Our licensing fees are approximately $300,000."
  • "We have an unlimited yearly license."
  • "I'm not aware of how much Oracle Service Bus costs."
  • "The pricing is on the higher side."
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  • "When it comes to cost, TIBCO is much more competitive than a product like Pega."
  • "The licensing cost is a challenge for quite a few customers."
  • "The price is on the higher side. For the same price, if I go to the previous version, I would have got a lot more capacity with similar kinds of features."
  • "Its licensing cost is considerably high as compared to other ESBs."
  • "The biggest issue disadvantage of TIBCO is that it is expensive."
  • "Price-wise, I would say that the product is expensive."
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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… 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… more »
    Top Answer:The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot.
    Top Answer:The stability is consistently high, with only one notable issue encountered.
    Top Answer:The pricing is on the higher side. I would rate it ten out of ten.
    Top Answer:There is significant room for improvement in the monitoring capabilities. Enhancing this aspect of our monitoring… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of the solution is that the performance is robust.
    Top Answer:I don't like the product's API management platform, as it doesn't offer users enough functionality to help with API… more »
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    Also Known As
    ActiveMatrix Service Bus
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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.

    Oracle Service Bus transforms complex and brittle architectures into agile integration networks by connecting, virtualizing, and managing interactions between services and applications. Oracle Service Bus delivers low-cost, standards-based integration for mission critical SOA environments where extreme performance, scalability and reliability are critical requirements.

    Oracle Service Bus enables companies to use the values of their enterprise applications portfolio. From on-premise, to the cloud to mobile devices, Service Bus allows companies to leverage their existing investments in new ways by extending the performance and scalability leadership of Oracle SOA and API Management.

    TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is a platform for developing, deploying, and managing applications that conform to a service-oriented architecture. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is a lightweight enterprise service bus that helps organizations bridge the mediation gap in their SOA infrastructure. It reduces complexity and increases flexibility and reuse by replacing hard-coded service dependencies with configuration, and can be used to onboard services from a third-party environment or a TIBCO-based infrastructure. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus provides service mediation capabilities to the TIBCO ActiveMatrix SOA platform. Service mediation allows you to adapt to changing requirements for developing mediation flows.
    Sample Customers
    Ube, PacificComp, University of Witwatersrand, Justice Systems, Camelot
    MakeMyTrip Ltd., Griffith University, Colab Consulting Pty. Ltd., Pacfico Seguros Generales, IGEPA IT-SERVICE GmbH, Guangzhou Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Pacfico Seguros Generales, Bank Audi S.A.L., Rydges Sydney Airport, Intelligent Pathways, Nacional Monte de Piedad IAP
    Colonial Life, CTBC Bank, New World Mobility, QUALCOMM, Swisscom Mobile, T-Mobile USA, Tata Teleservices, Telecom Italia
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    Computer Software Company46%
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Healthcare Company8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government6%
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    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Comms Service Provider14%
    Non Tech Company7%
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    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Financial Services Firm23%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Energy/Utilities Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business37%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise54%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise60%
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    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    Large Enterprise77%
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise72%
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