We performed a comparison between Mule ESB, Oracle Service Bus, and webMethods Integration Server 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)."I am impressed with the product's connectors and scalability."
"The most powerful feature is DataWeave, which is a powerful language where data can be transformed from one form into another."
"Scalability and load balancing."
"The solution has a good graphical interface."
"It's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications."
"We can use Java expressions anywhere in the flow."
"Everything runs in Java, which is a useful feature."
"The architecture based on events has several connectors which allow integration from external and internal applications of the company."
"With Oracle Service Bus, we can connect with different types of systems. Another feature I like the most is the security feature."
"It was very good at supporting high transactions, up to 300 transactions per second."
"I like the ease of deployment and the ease of implementation."
"This product is not complicated and very easy to learn."
"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."
"I am a part of the software developing team and I mainly use this solution for the integrating applications."
"The solution is quite stable overall. We haven't witnessed any performance issues so far."
"We've been pleased with the level of technical support."
"It integrates well with various servers."
"Segregation of deployment for the environments is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"The product supports various types of digital documents, including XMLs and EDI."
"The development is very fast. If you know what you're doing, you can develop something very easily and very fast."
"The Software AG Designer has been great. It's very intuitive."
"The solution has a very comprehensive and versatile set of connectors. I've been able to utilize it for multiple, different mechanisms. We do a lot of SaaS and we do have IoT devices and the solution is comprehensive in those areas."
"Broker and UM are the best features."
"One [of the most valuable features] is the webMethods Designer. That helps our developers develop on their own. It's very intuitive for design. It helps our developers to speed the development of services for the integrations."
"It would be much more beneficial if the solution included AI and business process management."
"Mule ESB isn't as secure as IBM. Financial companies go with IBM for that reason."
"Documentation is cryptic, product releases are far too frequent, and upgrades become troublesome."
"Lacking some connectors that could be included."
"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."
"The payment system needs improvement."
"Community editions need more attention."
"MuleSoft isn't as mature as some other integration technologies out there like IBM WebSphere. There's room for growth, and MuleSoft is working toward that."
"The initial setup is likely complex for many organizations."
"The interface console is very slow. Even in production, we need to increase the RAM or CPU. And even after that, the performance is still not good in production."
"The support for GraphQL needs to be improved, and the response time for global support could be faster."
"It would be ideal if they could optimize it a bit."
"There are times when I select components in composite and they do not appear, and I cannot figure out why."
"There are some loopholes in service and support."
"The inconvenient part about working with this product is that it's very heavy, requiring a lot of people and a lot of resources."
"It's very complex and hard to learn. There's a steep learning curve."
"This product has too many gaps. You find them after update installations. This should be covered by automatic testing."
"Large file handling is pretty hard comparatively to other middleware tools."
"I'd like to see the admin portal for managing the integration server go up a level, to have more capabilities and to be given a more modern web interface."
"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."
"It would be nice if they had a change management system offering. We built our own deployer application because the one built into webMethods couldn't enforce change management rules. Integration into a change management system, along with the version control system, would be a good offering; it's something that they're lacking."
"The logging capability has room for improvement. That way, we could keep a history of all the transactions. It would be helpful to be able to get to that without having to build a standalone solution to do so."
"Need to see more API portal features like monetizing APIs and private cloud readiness."
"t doesn't represent OOP very well, just a method and proprietary interface called IData."
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