Mule ESB vs OpenText Trading Grid comparison

The compared Salesforce and OpenText solutions aren't in the same category. Salesforce is ranked #2 in E , with an average rating of 7.9, and holds a 25.2% mindshare in the category. OpenText is ranked #12 in BBM , and holds a 4.7% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of Salesforce users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 50% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

Mule ESB

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86% willing to recommend

OpenText Trading Grid

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50% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Mule ESB

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (2nd)

OpenText Trading Grid

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business-to-Business Middleware (12th), Cloud Data Integration (32nd), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (19th)

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 25.2%, up 24.9% compared to last year.
OpenText Trading Grid, on the other hand, focuses on Business-to-Business Middleware, holds 4.7% mindshare, up 4.4% since last year.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

Business-to-Business Middleware

Featured Reviews

PurbayanSaha

Technology Consultant at Ernst & Young

Sep 9, 2024

Has API-led architecture and provides a unique, user-friendly, and scalable architecture for hosting APIs

We're using our Mule ESB mostly for integration projects for multinational companies that do business on a B2C or B2B basis. We also work with companies with multiple third-party vendors employed under their payroll. The Mule ESB helps integrate data from third-party systems or vendors with the…

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VARUNKUMAR

Mgr Value Chain Integration/EDI at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

Jun 19, 2022

Industry-leading, easy to implement, and has good mapping specification guidelines

The good thing about OpenText is that we have the mapping specification guideline available, which is not there in a solution like SEEBURGER. Whenever you want to take a decision to move away from OpenText, you have already documented your mapping and what your mapping looks like. So you go to the next provider, provide them with that mapping specification, and it'll be very easy for them to develop a new map instead of just taking the data - input data, output data - and then looking for how the data is getting transformed. So you have the mapping spec level which is a very good feature of OpenText, which we do not have in SEEBURGER. It's very hard to move from SEEBURGER. The solution is easy to implement. It's stable and reliable. They are the industry leaders in the integration space.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution offers multiple deployment options."

"I like that it's user-friendly. Compared to other ESBs, I find it easier to use. I like it better than other ESBs. I like the connectors, which make calling the APIs through the routers easier."

"The connectors help to connect with a variety of applications."

"The solution doesn't require much code writing and we can develop APIs very easily."

"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."

"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."

"It's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications."

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"The solution is easy to implement."

Cons

"Limitation on external subscribers to listen to the messages on the bus."

"The Anypoint platform consumes a lot of memory, and it would be great for developers if it were more lightweight."

"From the product perspective, it was sometimes hard to manage the dependencies. When we had to add dependencies on a couple of different packages, it was sometimes confusing. It was hard to update them with Anypoint Studio, as well as with MuleSoft. There were challenges with that. So, that's one of the areas that could be improved."

"The solution isn't as stable as we'd like it to be. There are some ongoing issues and therefore Mule has to provide frequent patches. Mule's core IP should be more stable overall."

"From an improvement perspective, there should be fewer coding challenges for users in Mule ESB."

"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."

"The initial setup could be more straightforward."

"It should have some amount of logging."

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"Technical support needs to be better."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Regarding licensing and pricing, I find it somewhat flexible. They are more flexible with larger customers compared to small and medium ones, as their licensing model depends on ports and other factors. Large customers benefit from more flexibility in implementation and renewal compared to smaller ones."

"This product is expensive, but it does offer value for money."

"The solution is expensive."

"This is expensive. In my next project, we had to go to other vendor."

"Mule ESB is an expensive solution."

"I think the price is very high. If you use TIBCO BW, the license is for the CPU usage, then the IPS, and support. I also think the license for the product is a one-time expense."

"The pricing must be improved."

"Plan your licensing model (cloud or on-premises or hybrid) that will allow seamless integration with new partners."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Retailer

10%

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

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Small Business

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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 ...

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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...

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What do you like most about Mule ESB?

The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot.

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Also Known As

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Trading Grid, GXS Trading Grid

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Salesforce

OpenText

Overview

For companies looking to modernize and unlock the value of existing on-premises systems and applications, an enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture serves as a critical foundation layer for SOA. When deployed as an ESB, the Mule runtime engine of Anypoint Platform combines the power of data and application integration across legacy systems and SaaS applications, with a seamless path to the other capabilities of Anypoint Platform and the full power of API-led connectivity.

OpenText Trading Grid (formerly GXS) is a unique global integration platform that enables and streamlines cross enterprise business processes. With extreme flexibility and a service-oriented, business-to-business e-commerce platform, the Grid helps companies automate global trading communities by shielding complexity from rapidly changing standards, eliminating manual and duplicative efforts and enabling a new level of process integration and business intelligence.

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Ube, PacificComp, University of Witwatersrand, Justice Systems, Camelot

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