We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and Mule ESB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Support for PCA and non-PCA services is valuable."
"I like that it is very stable, and we never experience any downtime."
"What I like most is the stability."
"I like the tool's security. Also, all functionalities are integrated within on platform."
"The most valuable features for our business include the ability to monitor and log data transactions and handle multiple request at an enterprise level."
"Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot of security features."
"The solution is robust."
"The solution is scalable, our customers are mostly South African banks and they handle mostly transactions with this solution."
"The connectors help to connect with a variety of applications."
"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."
"The architecture based on events has several connectors which allow integration from external and internal applications of the company."
"Mule ESB is a very easy-to-use and user-friendly solution."
"Most of our use cases are for Salesforce. So, the connectors for Salesforce have been really helpful. They've made development two times faster."
"Easy connectivity and easy integration."
"It is easily deployable and manageable. It has microservices-based architecture, which means that you can deploy the solution based on your needs, and you can manage the solution very easily."
"The solution offers multiple deployment options."
"They should add features to manage API integrations."
"Making it more user-friendly would be an improvement."
"They should improve the solution's clustering features."
"For the workloads that are not too high, appliance is a little bit expensive."
"The initial setup isn't so easy, you need who has experience working with the solution to help."
"The user interface or the application development perspective and customization of the tool could be a little better."
"The components that they include in the product that are, in fact, a WTX, really need to be removed from the product because they tend to fail."
"IBM DataPower Gateway is quite big for smaller organizations, looking at different types of clients who are virtually assisted in this, I would say it's not really a good product for smaller firms."
"It would be great to see implementing security modules as a feature."
"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 initial setup is not easy."
"Lacking some connectors that could be included."
"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."
"I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."
"We would like to have a built-in logging framework in which we can do auditing."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 5th in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 12 reviews while Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 15 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while Mule ESB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "An out-of-the-box solution that's feature-rich, fast, and easy to integrate with other products". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Offers a free-of-cost edition, but it needs to pose fewer coding challenges". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM Integration Bus and Amazon API Gateway, whereas Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Red Hat Fuse, webMethods Integration Server and Mule Anypoint Platform. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. Mule ESB report.
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