We performed a comparison between IBM B2B Integrator 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 provides a secure communication channel."
"The solution offers good integration capabilities."
"The technical support on offer through the portal is very helpful and responsive."
"It is easy of use and it's easy to maintain. It's also faster to on-board partners."
"The most valuable feature of IBM B2B Integrator is its security and flexibility."
"This solution allows for easy integration with heterogeneous applications."
"The most valuable features assist with understanding data formats and transforming data."
"Everything from the order to fulfillment to the payment process, except for physical packing and shipping, is fully automated for some customer orders."
"The most valuable features of Mule ESB are its ease of use, documentation, ease to adapt to newer security and vulnerabilities, and a lot of help available. Additionally, there is a lot of flexibility, many patches available, and they provide APIs. They are a market standard."
"The transformation and the data format are the features that I like the most."
"The product offers a community edition that is free of cost."
"Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."
"I am impressed with the product's connectors and scalability."
"I'm not using ESB directly. It is the integration layer, so it's running under the hood. However, the conversion and transformation performance is excellent. Anypoint Enterprise Security is also solid."
"I like that Mule ESB provides fast and good technical support."
"The connectors help to connect with a variety of applications."
"The tool requires you to write a lot of code in Java and XSLT, which makes development tough."
"The user interface is outdated.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."
"The reporting features could be better. right now, they are lacking a bit."
"The web interface of B2B is quite outdated and not particularly user-friendly."
"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."
"There should be a single place to do things, rather than making it complicated, not moving away and truncating the old features but instead coming up with the new and still keeping the old stuff confuses people sometimes."
"They do not have a solid partner ecosystem, and they do not have a clear roadmap for down the line; they're missing that clear roadmap."
"The dashboard is not integrated and should be bundled by the product vendor."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvement in the generator for the DataWeave language so that it's a little more graphic."
"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."
"Lacking some connectors that could be included."
"The payment system needs improvement."
"The price of Mule ESB could improve."
"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."
"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."
"Community editions need more attention."
IBM B2B Integrator is ranked 4th in Business-to-Business Middleware with 42 reviews while Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews. IBM B2B Integrator is rated 8.0, while Mule ESB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM B2B Integrator writes "A widely-used, on-premises solution with tons of peer support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". IBM B2B Integrator is most compared with IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, SAP Process Orchestration, SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite, SPS Commerce Fulfillment (EDI) and webMethods Trading Networks, whereas Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, Red Hat Fuse and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus.
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