We performed a comparison between Mule Anypoint Platform and webMethods Integration Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is very easy to use for building connectors. It comes with a lot of connectors. For example, it has different adapters for NetSuite, which are very easy to use. It also has Salesforce connectors. The object store feature is also really easy to use. Mule Anypoint Platform is also good in terms of performance and how it is managed behind the scenes."
"The ability to define multi-tiered APIs and reuse them is a fantastic platform feature."
"The most valuable feature is the variety of characters Anypoint Platform has. It is very scalable and customizable."
"It can scale."
"It has improved our organization a lot because of the increase in productivity, and it has simplified the development of products. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is a highly effective tool where you can build integrations so effectively. If you establish the integration platform, it increases productivity. It helps us to do effective re-authentication, and it speeds the integration."
"Customers can make use of Runtime Fabric, an RTF environment."
"The product’s ability to seamlessly translate protocols is great."
"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 tool supports gRPC."
"The product supports various types of digital documents, including XMLs and EDI."
"The most valuable feature of the webMethods Integration Server is the built-in monitoring, auditing, RETS, and SOAP services."
"The development is very fast. If you know what you're doing, you can develop something very easily and very fast."
"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."
"The solution's ease-of-use is its most valuable feature, in which complex issues may be resolved."
"High throughput and excellent scalability."
"It is a bundled product stack for A2A and B2B usage. It is one of the best products which I have used during my integration career."
"Better documentation, in particular with respect to the initial setup, would be helpful."
"The pricing can be a little bit less."
"What I hear from my customers is that it's very expensive compared to the cost of other integration suites. The cost keeps increasing. MuleSoft should come up with customization factors by using a different way of getting the cost-related stuff to attract customers. That is, they should come up with some cost optimizations."
"The solution's licensing methodologies could be improved."
"Although the solution's proxy design and process are good, it faces connecting issues because it lacks data integration."
"The compatibility with vendors can be improved. Microsoft Azure heavily uses single software."
"The stability could be better."
"This becomes an expensive solution over time."
"The product must add more compatible connectors."
"It would be nice if they had a change management system offering. We built our own deployer application because the one built into webMethods couldn't enforce change management rules. Integration into a change management system, along with the version control system, would be a good offering; it's something that they're lacking."
"We got the product via a reseller, and the support from the reseller has been less than desirable."
"The initial setup of the webMethods Integration Server is not easy but it gets easier once you know it. It is tiresome but not difficult."
"Version control is not very easy. The packages and the integration server are on Eclipse IDE, but you can't compare the code from the IDE. For example, if you are working on Java code, doing version control and deployment for a quick comparison between the code isn't easy. Some tools or plug-ins are there, such as CrossVista, and you can also play with an SVN server where you have to place your package, and from there, you can check, but you have to do that as a separate exercise. You can't do it from the IDE or webMethods server. You can't just right-click and upload your service."
"It is quite expensive."
"Forced migration from MessageBroker to Universal Messaging requires large scale reimplementation for JMS."
"The UI for the admin console is very old. It hasn't been updated for years and is pretty much the same one that we started with. This is something that could be refreshed and made more modern."
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Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 3rd in Cloud Data Integration with 39 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 60 reviews. Mule Anypoint Platform is rated 8.2, while webMethods Integration Server 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 webMethods Integration Server writes "Event-driven with lots of helpful formats, but minimal learning resources available". Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, Oracle Integration Cloud Service, SAP Process Orchestration and SAP Cloud Platform, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods.io Integration, Mule ESB, TIBCO BusinessWorks and Boomi AtomSphere Integration. See our Mule Anypoint Platform vs. webMethods Integration Server report.
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