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Mule ESB vs MuleSoft Anypoint Platform comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.2
Mule ESB ROI is challenging to calculate but favorable with effective design, despite high licensing costs affecting returns.
Sentiment score
7.2
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform reduces costs, modernizes legacy systems, and ensures ROI for enterprises, with variable outcomes for smaller companies.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.6
Mule ESB support is praised for expertise, but response times vary with some users needing more comprehensive solutions.
Sentiment score
6.8
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform offers responsive customer service, excelling for premium users, though mixed opinions exist on availability and documentation.
The Salesforce team offers different levels of support.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Mule ESB ensures high scalability, suitable for enterprises, enabling seamless cloud deployment and accommodating extensive user growth effectively.
Sentiment score
7.6
MuleSoft Anypoint is scalable for medium to large enterprises, handling workloads efficiently but with noted costs and limitations.
MuleSoft provides the ability to scale, yet it is costly to do so.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Mule ESB is generally stable, especially in newer versions, but issues exist with large files and resource demands.
Sentiment score
7.8
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is stable and reliable, with some limitations in scalability and issues with connectors and Java troubleshooting.
 

Room For Improvement

Mule ESB requires better documentation, stable releases, improved connectors, coding features, and performance enhancements, despite high memory and licensing costs.
Users seek enhanced support, simpler setup, better integration, improved documentation, AI capabilities, and cost reduction for MuleSoft Anypoint Platform.
MuleSoft is considered expensive, so pricing is a major concern.
When dealing with multiple transactions or trading, the system can lose control, and tracking becomes hectic.
 

Setup Cost

Mule ESB is costly for SMEs despite a free version, due to licenses and additional fees for certain features.
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is complex and costly, with high prices but potential savings for large-scale usage and pay-as-you-go options.
MuleSoft is considered one of the more expensive products in the market.
The platform reduces manual workload in maintaining infrastructure, but it does come with some cost considerations.
 

Valuable Features

Mule ESB excels in flexibility, integration, user-friendly design, and scalability, featuring diverse deployment and robust support.
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform excels in API management, integration, scalability, and user-friendly deployment with strong support and security features.
The platform is integrated with Salesforce, making it preferable when using Salesforce products.
The most valuable feature is the full lifecycle management, including Anypoint Designer and Exchange, as well as Discofolio API.
 

Categories and Ranking

Mule ESB
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (2nd)
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
57
Ranking in other categories
Message Queue (MQ) Software (4th), Business-to-Business Middleware (1st), Workload Automation (8th), Cloud Data Integration (4th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Integration solutions, they serve different purposes. Mule ESB is designed for Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and holds a mindshare of 21.0%, down 22.6% compared to last year.
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Business-to-Business Middleware, holds 12.3% mindshare, down 15.8% since last year.
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Business-to-Business Middleware
 

Featured Reviews

PurbayanSaha - PeerSpot reviewer
Has API-led architecture and provides a unique, user-friendly, and scalable architecture for hosting APIs
There's room for improvement in multi-file transfer functionality. It's not convenient when using MuleSoft, and it should have better capability for handling large amounts of data. For example, applications like GoAnywhere can handle huge chunks of data, so the tool should also have something to facilitate that aspect of integration.
Vijay Subramanyam - PeerSpot reviewer
Robust, reliable, and stable, ensuring high availability for critical integrations
I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten; it is a highly scalable solution. We have around 200 end users using this solution in our company. We use it to its maximum capacity. However, it's not for P1 applications, but definitely for severity two cases (P2 level). It integrates critical applications, but it's not a platform that, if it stops, the entire system would come down. So, it's more like a severity two level. However, it has the potential to eventually become a P1 platform. Not exactly P1 applications, but a P1 platform. Because now we are still in the transition to migrate everything, all the integrations to Mule Anypoint Platform. But once it's done, then this platform becomes critical. Because even now, we have point-to-point connections.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
7%
Educational Organization
24%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Migration from IBM Integration Bus to Mulesoft ESB for a large enterprise tech services company
I was previously part of the Oracle SOA/OSB development team. In my current capacity I architected solutions using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform on cloud / on-premises and hybrid modes and on PCE/RTF ...
IBM Integration Bus vs Mule ESB - which to choose?
Our team ran a comparison of IBM’s Integration Bus vs. Mule ESB in order to determine what sort of ESB software was the best fit for our organization. Ultimately we decided to choose IBM Integratio...
What do you like most about Mule ESB?
The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot.
What advice do you have for others considering Mule Anypoint Platform?
I architected solutions using Oracle SOA/OSB, Spring Boot, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform on cloud / on-premises and hybrid modes; What I see is though if you are an enterprise and have enough money th...
How does TIBCO BusinessWorks compare with Mule Anypoint Platform?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether TIBCO BusinessWorks or Mule Anypoint platform integration and connectivity software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Mule...
What can Mule Anypoint Platform be used for and what do you use it for most often?
This is a very flexible solution that comes with multiple uses. My organization mostly uses Mule Anypoint Platform for API management, as it lets us build new APIs easily and design new interfaces...
 

Also Known As

No data available
Data Integrator, Anypoint MQ
 

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Sample Customers

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