Mule ESB vs TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus comparison

Salesforce and TIBCO are both solutions in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category. Salesforce is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.9, while TIBCO is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.0. Salesforce holds a 25.2% mindshare in E, compared to TIBCO’s 4.2% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of Salesforce users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

Mule ESB

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86% willing to recommend

TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus

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965 Views
755 Comparison Views

92% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus 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.

To learn more, read our detailed Mule ESB vs. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus Report (Updated: October 2024).

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Mule ESB vs. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus

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Categories and Ranking

Mule ESB

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

9th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the mindshare of Mule ESB is 25.2%, up from 24.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is 4.2%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

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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Mustofa Yonus

Cheif Specialist- Licensing Systems at Roads & Transport Authority

Nov 30, 2023

A robust product that needs to improve the functionality it offers related to API lifecycle management

I use the solution in my company not as an engineer but as someone who currently operates at a managerial level. The product adds to and serves as a corporate-level product that offers standard integration and helps transport data during one-to-one integration and multi-layer integration while…

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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 cloud and integration abilities are most useful allowing us to use applications such as Salesforce and DataWeave."

"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."

"We can use Java expressions anywhere in the flow."

"The most valuable feature is that it's programmer-friendly, so it's very easy to develop APIs."

"Scalability and load balancing."

"The product offers a community edition that is free of cost."

"Mule ESB is a very easy-to-use and user-friendly solution."

"The setup is straightforward."

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"The most valuable features are the monitoring, ease of use, and easy to understand development GUI."

"It is easy to develop. It has a very wide range of features. The older versions are very stable, and there are no issues with the product."

"The product’s most valuable feature is stability."

"The most attractive and beneficial feature is the ease of development."

"The technology is really easy to learn."

"The most valuable feature is that it is a service-oriented architecture, SOA-based."

"TIBCO has the platform in terms of speed and ease of use."

"It's very stable and reliable."

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Cons

"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."

"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."

"It's not easy to troubleshoot and we still can't make it work."

"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."

"It should have some amount of logging."

"The payment system needs improvement."

"Mule ESB could be more user-friendly. I think users must learn about the architecture before they start coding. The price could be better. In the next release, I would like to see an EDIFACT integration."

"Mule ESB isn't as secure as IBM. Financial companies go with IBM for that reason."

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"I don't like the product's API management platform, as it doesn't offer users enough functionality to help with API lifecycle management, making it a product that is way behind its competitors."

"The stability of their latest version is not on par with their classic version 5.X."

"Our version does not have cloud capabilities."

"We'd like to see improvements in product support."

"In the configuration, where we need to customize, it takes more time that we expect it to, ideally."

"Issues with the support, the fees, and the termination of the professional services are reasons we are looking for other solutions."

"The solution is very expensive when you use multiple components, it would b better if this could be reduced."

"Migration to cloud solutions or products should be made convenient, transparent, and easily understandable."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Mule ESB is a costly solution. We pay approximately $80,000 annually for the system. The cost of the number of instances, annual subscription, and cloud hosting services are expensive."

"The licensing is yearly, and there are additional fees for services."

"The price of the Mule ESB commercial version is expensive. However, they have a free community version."

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

"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."

"You will not get any support from Mule ESB's team for the tool's community edition...You can get support with the licensed version of Mule ESB."

"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."

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"The price is on the higher side. For the same price, if I go to the previous version, I would have got a lot more capacity with similar kinds of features."

"When it comes to cost, TIBCO is much more competitive than a product like Pega."

"The licensing cost is a challenge for quite a few customers."

"The biggest issue disadvantage of TIBCO is that it is expensive."

"Price-wise, I would say that the product is expensive."

"Its licensing cost is considerably high as compared to other ESBs."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

26%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

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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 ...

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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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What do you like most about TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus?

The most valuable feature of the solution is that the performance is robust.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus?

Price-wise, I would say that the product is expensive.

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What needs improvement with TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus?

I don't like the product's API management platform, as it doesn't offer users enough functionality to help with API lifecycle management, making it a product that is way behind its competitors. The...

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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.

TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is a platform for developing, deploying, and managing applications that conform to a service-oriented architecture. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is a lightweight enterprise service bus that helps organizations bridge the mediation gap in their SOA infrastructure. It reduces complexity and increases flexibility and reuse by replacing hard-coded service dependencies with configuration, and can be used to onboard services from a third-party environment or a TIBCO-based infrastructure. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus provides service mediation capabilities to the TIBCO ActiveMatrix SOA platform. Service mediation allows you to adapt to changing requirements for developing mediation flows.

Sample Customers

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

Colonial Life, CTBC Bank, New World Mobility, QUALCOMM, Swisscom Mobile, T-Mobile USA, Tata Teleservices, Telecom Italia

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Mule ESB vs. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus

October 2024

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