We performed a comparison between Azure Data Factory and Mule Anypoint Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Azure Data Factory is that it has a good combination of flexibility, fine-tuning, automation, and good monitoring."
"We use the solution to move data from on-premises to the cloud."
"The most valuable feature is the ease in which you can create an ETL pipeline."
"From my experience so far, the best feature is the ability to copy data to any environment. We have 100 connects and we can connect them to the system and copy the data from its respective system to any environment. That is the best feature."
"One of the most valuable features of Azure Data Factory is the drag-and-drop interface. This helps with workflow management because we can just drag any tables or data sources we need. Because of how easy it is to drag and drop, we can deliver things very quickly. It's more customizable through visual effect."
"The solution has a good interface and the integration with GitHub is very useful."
"The initial setup is very quick and easy."
"For me, it was that there are dedicated connectors for different targets or sources, different data sources. For example, there is direct connector to Salesforce, Oracle Service Cloud, etcetera, and that was really helpful."
"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 features of the Mule Anypoint Platform are the Flex Gateway, API management, easy-to-use, and connectors. Additionally, they are coming out with improvements to the solution when required."
"Mule Anypoint Platform is our preferred platform for integration."
"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 exchange and API management features are the best in the market."
"The tool is very capable and offers a high performance. The tool supports batch processing and ETL processing."
"MuleSoft Anypoint Platform's most valuable features are its observability and stability."
"It can scale."
"Currently, our company requires a monitoring tool, and that isn't available in Azure Data Factory."
"User-friendliness and user effectiveness are unquestionably important, and it may be a good option here to improve the user experience. However, I believe that more and more sophisticated monitoring would be beneficial."
"Data Factory's cost is too high."
"Lacks a decent UI that would give us a view of the kinds of requests that come in."
"The number of standard adaptors could be extended further."
"The pricing scheme is very complex and difficult to understand."
"Some known bugs and issues with Azure Data Factory could be rectified."
"I would like to see this time travel feature in Snowflake added to Azure Data Factory."
"This becomes an expensive solution over time."
"Mule Anypoint Platform is complex for beginners. Users without programming skills will find it complex. It should also improve its pricing."
"Mule Anypoint Platform could improve by having better integration with MDM. There are challenges when doing the interaction at this time."
"Pricing is one aspect of the solution that is troublesome. It's too expensive for smaller organizations."
"I would like to see some data integration and automation."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The stability could be better."
"The solution's licensing methodologies could be improved."
Azure Data Factory is ranked 1st in Data Integration with 81 reviews while Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 2nd in Business-to-Business Middleware with 40 reviews. Azure Data Factory is rated 8.0, while Mule Anypoint Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Data Factory writes "The data factory agent is quite good but pricing needs to be more transparent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule Anypoint Platform writes "Robust, reliable, and stable, ensuring high availability for critical integrations". Azure Data Factory is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Alteryx Designer, Snowflake and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, Oracle Integration Cloud Service, SAP Process Orchestration and TIBCO BusinessWorks. See our Azure Data Factory vs. Mule Anypoint Platform report.
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