We performed a comparison between IBM B2B Integrator, Mule Anypoint Platform, and Oracle BI Applications based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about SAP, MuleSoft, IBM and others in Business-to-Business Middleware."This solution allows for easy integration with heterogeneous applications."
"Out-of-box process orchestration yields quick implementations."
"The solution offers good integration capabilities."
"Everything from the order to fulfillment to the payment process, except for physical packing and shipping, is fully automated for some customer orders."
"B2B provides a secure communication channel."
"I find the codeless communications, SFTP or FTP, valuable."
"It can scale horizontally as well as vertically as a cluster."
"IBM B2B Integrator is a great tool, robust, reliable, low-maintenance, and ideal solution."
"Overall, it is a pretty good product. It is also very scalable."
"I have found several things most valuable, including its very quick implementation that you can use a lot of out of the box templates, and lastly that it is a very mature product, especially in hybrid integration."
"The most valuable feature of Mule Anypoint Platform is rapid development."
"MuleSoft Anypoint Platform's most valuable features are its observability and stability."
"The tool is very capable and offers a high performance. The tool supports batch processing and ETL processing."
"The product’s ability to seamlessly translate protocols is great."
"The most valuable feature is the variety of characters Anypoint Platform has. It is very scalable and customizable."
"The most valuable features for us are flexibility, all the features related to connectivity with multiple connectors to the business, and the flexibility of on-premises and cloud deployments."
"It has a very robust dashboard and ad-hoc reporting."
"It's web-based so that I can have multiple users accessing the same data. It provides ease of use and its formatting means we can use the data, export it to Excel, and we manipulate the data afterward if we need to."
"Calculations are a little bit faster. It can do the on-the-run calculations much better than other reporting platforms. You don't need any other specific tool. You can use Microsoft Office to start doing things with these reports."
"The most valuable features are the reporting and the graphics."
"When working on an elaborate rule, I end up creating it in notepad and then pasting it into the Extended Rule window, which is not convenient."
"The mapping, visibility, deployment, and the dashboard could be improved and updated. The communication logs are very poor. They are not easily understood, and we need to navigate to many places for many reasons. You can't just pull the information; it's very tough."
"The dashboard is not integrated and should be bundled by the product vendor."
"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."
"End-to-end visibility and monitoring application required. The control center is available and covers this area, but it still fails in many monitoring scenarios."
"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."
"The one thing that is lacking is easy visibility. It's hard to provide business users with a view into the statuses of their transactions."
"IBM B2B Integrator could improve the business process itself, there is no resignation of duties and in terms of the console should be changed in a way that is more user-friendly."
"The price could be improved."
"The terms of use and how it's priced has become very difficult to manage, which is forcing us to look for alternatives already - and we haven't even been using it for that long just yet."
"One area we'd like to see improvement in is the error logging and troubleshooting process."
"Pricing is one aspect of the solution that is troublesome. It's too expensive for smaller organizations."
"The platform's data integration tools need improvement on the processing side."
"Although the solution's proxy design and process are good, it faces connecting issues because it lacks data integration."
"Adding connectors for new upcoming applications would add extra value to this product."
"Lacks intelligent management data and intelligent mappings."
"The initial setup was complex and it took a lot of time to set up the infrastructure."
"The initial setup was difficult because not all the information was included in the implementation model."
"It is very cumbersome and slow for making any changes. It doesn't have that many visuals to show different graphs and charts. It should have more visuals. It also doesn't support HTML5, which is useful for interactive sessions and reporting with dashboard etc. We are phasing it out because we need a newer platform that provides us more flexibility and more designs. Our use case is just to get the utility type of monthly reports, and we need visuals, customizations, columns, and certain sections on the report to show performance and other things. They are not updating their BI Publisher product, which was known as XML Publisher before Oracle bought it. It could be because they don't have that many clients using it. We are using it because we have this solution for years."
