We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and OpenESB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, MuleSoft, Software AG and others in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)."The cloud and integration abilities are most useful allowing us to use applications such as Salesforce and DataWeave."
"The connectivity the solution provides is excellent. There are often too many systems that we have to integrate and this helps with that."
"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."
"Everything runs in Java, which is a useful feature."
"The solution improved my company by modernizing the way we offer services and improving the user experience."
"I like that Mule ESB provides fast and good technical support."
"It's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications."
"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 process-oriented solution allows you to define choreography and orchestration."
"The core is very stable."
"One of the most valuable features is being able to implement business processes while keeping track of the design from BPMN to a BPEL Implementation."
"OpenESB pushes the organization to clearly define service boundaries and interfaces. So it motives the business and the development teams to clearly define their business services and processes they want to implement. OpenESB supports fine and coarse-grain granularity for the services and supports top-down and bottom-up approaches for the services, processes definition, and composition."
"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 initial setup could be more straightforward."
"In order to meet the new trend of active metadata management, we need intelligent APIs that can retrieve new data designs and trigger actions over new findings without human intervention."
"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."
"It's not easy to troubleshoot and we still can't make it work."
"The current version will not be supported for much longer."
"It would be much more beneficial if the solution included AI and business process management."
"Mule ESB isn't as secure as IBM. Financial companies go with IBM for that reason."
"Cloud deployment is weak and needs to be improved."
"Regarding its management, a web console being able to synchronize distributed instances would be great."
"The documentation needs to be better."
"The documentation of the product must be improved. It could be tricky to find the right documentation on a topic since the documentation is spread in many places. I advise the new joiner to contact the community to get entry points and additional documentation. Tutorial and Video must be present to take up the product."
Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews while OpenESB is ranked 13th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 4 reviews. Mule ESB is rated 8.0, while OpenESB is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenESB writes "Enables us to define the business process and integrate it with other software". Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, Red Hat Fuse and webMethods Integration Server, whereas OpenESB is most compared with WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, Oracle Service Bus and Red Hat Fuse.
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