We performed a comparison between Mule Anypoint Platform 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."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."
"When we talk about the APIs, there are multiple policies one can apply on APIs, like rate limiting policies, OWASP policies, and OWASP security policies, that can be easily configured in Mule Anypoint Platform."
"The exchange and API management features are the best in the market."
"It can scale."
"This is a good platform for designing, flowing out APIs, and then doing API-based integrations."
"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 tool's visual features are attractive."
"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."
"I like that Mule ESB provides fast and good technical support."
"Easy connectivity and easy integration."
"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."
"Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."
"The most valuable feature of Mule ESB is data transformation, i.e. our interacting with different systems and orchestrating for our business needs."
"Mule ESB has a user-friendly design, and everything is in one place. The API and architecture are popular right now. Also, MuleSoft has a large and supportive online community."
"The connectivity the solution provides is excellent. There are often too many systems that we have to integrate and this helps with that."
"Price-wise, it is a good product since it is reasonably priced...Mule Anypoint Platform can get too complex for non-technical people."
"The pricing can be a little bit less."
"In order to set up a storefront, we currently rely on a third-party solution. It would greatly enhance our operations if this feature was integrated into their existing solution."
"Mule should have better B2B integration."
"The solution's licensing methodologies could be improved."
"It would be better if we had a clearer view of the solution's future releases."
"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."
"This becomes an expensive solution over time."
"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."
"The payment system needs improvement."
"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."
"We would like the ability to use our own code. This would allow us to develop customizations with ease. Additionally, it would be nice to have more analytics or insights on the exchanged information between databases."
"Mule ESB is more into the latest REST APIs, not much into the SOAP web services. Developing is all about web services and not easy with Mule."
"There are some features on the commercial version of the solution that would be great if they were on the community version. Additionally, if they added more authorization features it would be helpful."
"The solution's setup needs to be a bit more straightforward and its support needs to respond faster."
"Lacking some connectors that could be included."
Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 2nd in Business-to-Business Middleware with 39 reviews while Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 45 reviews. Mule Anypoint Platform is rated 8.2, while Mule ESB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Mule Anypoint Platform writes "Robust, reliable, and stable, ensuring high availability for critical integrations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, Oracle Integration Cloud Service, SAP Process Orchestration and TIBCO BusinessWorks, whereas Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Red Hat Fuse, Oracle SOA Suite and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus.
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