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)."The transformation and the data format are the features that I like the most."
"The setup is straightforward."
"What Mule provides out-of-box is a sufficient product."
"Mule ESB is a very easy-to-use and user-friendly solution."
"Scalability and load balancing."
"The solution improved my company by modernizing the way we offer services and improving the user experience."
"Most of our use cases are for Salesforce. So, the connectors for Salesforce have been really helpful. They've made development two times faster."
"Everything runs in Java, which is a useful feature."
"With Oracle Service Bus, we can connect with different types of systems. Another feature I like the most is the security feature."
"The communication between applications is already defined, which means that you don't have to redefine your service infrastructure at the lower level."
"Service Bus is good at routing the transformation."
"It is lightweight and one can easily integrate with different applications, databases, JMS, or web services through different protocols."
"What I like most about Oracle Service Bus is that you can use it for many integrations. For example, you can use it for on-premises to on-premises integrations, on-premises to cloud integrations, and cloud to on-premises integrations."
"The interface is fine and the solution is quite robust."
"Overall it is a pretty good solution."
"It is stable."
"Application integration, business process integration, and B2B partner integration are valuable. But among these, I feel B2B partner integration is the most valuable. This module integrates two business partners and exchanges data through electronic data interchange messages in the form of specific standards, without any manual process needed."
"One of the most important features is that it gives you the possibility to do low-level integration. It provides a lot of features out of the box, and over the years, it has matured so much that any problem that is there in the market can be solved with this product. We can meet any requirements through customizations, transformations, or the logic that needs to be put in. Some of the other products struggle in this aspect. They cannot do things in a certain way, or they have a product limitation, whereas, with webMethods, I have never faced this kind of problem."
"When it comes to the user interface, I'm already really used to it. I cannot say anything against it. For me, it's easy to use."
"We can arrange data caching and look at the solid state. Also, the API gateway is a very good component that can handle relevant cachings and integrations, as well as and also load permitting."
"Some of the key features are the integration platform, query mechanism, message handling within the bus, and the rules engine. We've had a really good experience with webMethods Integration Server."
"The MFT component of webMethods, for example, is easy to set up and convenient to use. It handles files very efficiently and it is easy to automate tasks with complex schedules. Monitoring is centralized to MWS which can be used to monitor other products as well (Trading Networks, BPM, MFT, etc.)"
"It's very flexible and a good platform to use."
"The tool supports gRPC."
"It's not easy to troubleshoot and we still can't make it work."
"MuleSoft is not so strong in method-based integration, so they're not so functional in that regard."
"There are some issues with both stability and scalability."
"From an improvement perspective, there should be fewer coding challenges for users in Mule ESB."
"We would like to have a built-in logging framework in which we can do auditing."
"From the product perspective, it was sometimes hard to manage the dependencies. When we had to add dependencies on a couple of different packages, it was sometimes confusing. It was hard to update them with Anypoint Studio, as well as with MuleSoft. There were challenges with that. So, that's one of the areas that could be improved."
"It should have some amount of logging."
"Community editions need more attention."
"There are times when I select components in composite and they do not appear, and I cannot figure out why."
"Security features can be improved to better protect the server."
"What needs improvement in Oracle Service Bus is the connectivity between adapters such as the Salesforce adapter and database adapters. The limited number of adapters compatible with Oracle Service Bus makes you want to switch to a different solution."
"It's very complex and hard to learn. There's a steep learning curve."
"There are some loopholes in service and support."
"This solution would benefit from having more cloud-based adapters."
"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."
"It would be ideal if they could optimize it a bit."
"Business monitoring (BAM) needs improvement because the analytics and prediction module very often has performance problems."
"The product needs to be improved in a few ways. First, they need to stabilize the components of the whole platform across versions. Also, they should stop replacing old components with brand new ones and, rather, improve by evolution."
"I would like to see the price improve."
"The price should be reduced to make it more affordable."
"The Software AG Designer could be more memory-efficient or CPU-efficient so that we can use it with middle-spec hardware."
"For code version control, you need to use some external software."
"This solution could be improved by offering subscription based licensing."
"webMethods Integration Server could improve on the version control. I'm not sure if Web Method has some kind of inbuilt integration with Bitbucket or GitHub or some kind of version control system. However, that's one area where they can improve."
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