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 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is stable."
"It can look for the various security threats, productions, payload scanning, and perform routing based on the content type."
"It is a scalable solution."
"You don't have to have a separate DMC proxy because DataPower Gateway is an appliance and will take care of a lot of security features. These include data validations, encryption, as well as XML or any type of scripting or security threats that are present."
"The solution is very easy to work with."
"The solution is scalable, our customers are mostly South African banks and they handle mostly transactions with this solution."
"The solution is straightforward and for large organizations, it functions well."
"It's high-speed and it can be remotely administered via an API."
"The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot."
"The cloud and integration abilities are most useful allowing us to use applications such as Salesforce and DataWeave."
"We can use Java expressions anywhere in the flow."
"For complex cases, we employ the SSLi engine, whereas for simpler ones like healthcare or response data, such as EDI 270 or 271. We prefer to use an external XRT engine instead of handling it within the ESB for ease of management."
"I like that Mule ESB provides fast and good technical support."
"The solution improved my company by modernizing the way we offer services and improving the user experience."
"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."
"This tool has exceptional API management and integration connectors in addition to multiple out of the box connectors."
"We are always looking for more features wherein it could be easily integrated with cloud applications. We are looking for either a cloud solution or a cloud integration option."
"It is a costly product."
"Traceability could be improved, especially for business operations. The traceability of the transactions could be an improvement point for DataPower to work on. It would be better if they provided JSON support. JSON protocol data has changed format. It started performing internal transformation to JSONx. This might be an additional complexity."
"In the next release, I would like to see the product price reduced. It should be cheaper."
"They should improve the solution's clustering features."
"The product's cost for data appliances or hardware is quite high. It needs improvement."
"Making it more user-friendly would be an improvement."
"The product should be more adapted to the DevOps process."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."
"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."
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see more additional concept for exception handling, batch processing, and increased integration with other application."
"It would be much more beneficial if the solution included AI and business process management."
"There are limitations with the subscription model that comes with the product."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 6th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 27 reviews while Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 46 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while Mule ESB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Security features meets compliance needs and offers MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) that simplifies integration efforts ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM Integration Bus and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, webMethods Integration Server and Mule Anypoint Platform. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. Mule ESB report.
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