We performed a comparison between IBM B2B Integrator, Mule Anypoint Platform, 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."B2B Integrator is multi-platform, so it can be integrated with Windows, Unix, or whatever, and it can work with almost all programming languages. It can also transfer a lot of data in a short time. For instance, a system I recently implemented exchanges about 20 million files a day."
"B2B provides a secure communication channel."
"The solution offers good integration capabilities."
"The best feature is that many companies use the solution so there is a lot of peer support."
"It can scale horizontally as well as vertically as a cluster."
"Very flexible product; it allows implementing different flows on the same infrastructure."
"Out-of-box process orchestration yields quick implementations."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and the range of EDI standards that IBM Sterling can handle."
"The product’s ability to seamlessly translate protocols is great."
"The tool's visual features are attractive."
"The solution's market place for different kinds of integration platforms is the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup is quite easy because the solution has a good interface through which the configuration, mapping, and so on can be done."
"The most valuable feature of Mule Anypoint Platform is rapid development."
"The integration potential is excellent."
"Mule Anypoint Platform's valuable features are its flexibility in terms of deployment and its SaaS capabilities."
"It can scale."
"The most valuable feature for Mule is the number of connectors that are available."
"The solution has a good graphical interface."
"Scalability and load balancing."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The connectors help to connect with a variety of applications."
"What Mule provides out-of-box is a sufficient product."
"The most valuable feature is that it's programmer-friendly, so it's very easy to develop APIs."
"Mule Expression Language"
"Patching or upgrading the product is a bit of a nightmare. It would be nice if they removed the installation manager port. We find it complicates upgrading and patching a great deal."
"Map translator needs more enhancements."
"The user interface is outdated.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."
"There is no related transaction stored in the database because it's an OLTP application."
"There are also some features in the solution that are not user-friendly, like code lists with no search options. So, we must navigate hundreds of pages to check for one entry."
"API-Fication required, and there should be more clarity on their cloud migration strategy."
"The web interface of B2B is quite outdated and not particularly user-friendly."
"API integration could be improved. The legacy system could be on the cloud."
"Better documentation, in particular with respect to the initial setup, would be helpful."
"The solution's pricing model is very strange, and it will be really expensive if you use APIs a lot."
"Mule Anypoint Platform could improve by having more up-to-date adapters to do work in a digital space."
"It doesn't work well when you try using it for the processing layer."
"MuleSoft's release calendar is rather conventional with two major, two minor releases and hotfixes in between. The competition sometimes offer more rapid release cycles and provides improved and new functionality with a faster time-to-market."
"In order to set up a storefront, we currently rely on a third-party solution. It would greatly enhance our operations if this feature was integrated into their existing solution."
"This becomes an expensive solution over time."
"Code quality, Code Security, SaaS, and DaaS security, can all be improved."
"One area that could be improved is the way that policies are propagated when APIs are moved from one environment to another. It's an issue, but when you develop and test the rest APIs in a lower environment and need to move them, there's a propagation process. This process moves certain aspects of the APIs, like the basic features. But when we move them, the policies don't always move with them. The policies should be able to move so we don't have to redo them manually. There are some APIs we use, but it's a bit tedious."
"Limitation on external subscribers to listen to the messages on the bus."
"There are limitations with the subscription model that comes with the product."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"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 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."
"From an improvement perspective, there should be fewer coding challenges for users in Mule ESB."
"It's not easy to troubleshoot and we still can't make it work."
