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Azure Data Factory vs MuleSoft Composer comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

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
7.3
Azure Data Factory enhances efficiency, centralizes data, reduces costs, and improves data analysis, offering significant financial and operational benefits.
Sentiment score
7.6
MuleSoft Composer enhances efficiency, reduces costs, improves time-to-market, and increases value with easy integration and better data accuracy.
Our stakeholders and clients have expressed satisfaction with Azure Data Factory's efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
Azure Data Factory support is responsive but varies in speed, with community resources and documentation aiding user satisfaction.
Sentiment score
7.3
Users commend MuleSoft Composer's responsive and professional customer service team for efficient problem-solving and quick resolution times.
The technical support from Microsoft is rated an eight out of ten.
The technical support is responsive and helpful
The technical support for Azure Data Factory is generally acceptable.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Azure Data Factory excels in scalability, efficiently managing workloads for any size, despite higher costs than alternatives.
Sentiment score
7.0
MuleSoft Composer is highly rated for scalability, efficiently managing varying data volumes and adaptable for organizations of all sizes.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Azure Data Factory is stable and reliable, but faces integration challenges and requires enhancements to compete with top competitors.
Sentiment score
7.0
Users find MuleSoft Composer stable and well-performing, despite occasional glitches quickly resolved by support.
The solution has a high level of stability, roughly a nine out of ten.
 

Room For Improvement

Azure Data Factory needs improved integration, better scheduling, enhanced UI, simplified pricing, more connectors, and responsive support.
MuleSoft Composer needs better platform integrations, interface, scalability, AI integration, and support for complex data and API sharing challenges.
Incorporating more dedicated API sources to specific services like HubSpot CRM or Salesforce would be beneficial.
There is a problem with the integration with third-party solutions, particularly with SAP.
When using Git services, there are challenges with linked services and triggers getting overridden when moving between different environments (Dev, UAT, Prod).
 

Setup Cost

Azure Data Factory pricing is usage-based and cost-effective, but large data volumes can lead to increased expenses.
MuleSoft Composer is considered costly, especially in Brazil and India, with users recommending a 20%-30% price reduction.
The pricing is cost-effective.
It is considered cost-effective.
 

Valuable Features

Azure Data Factory provides seamless data integration, robust transformations, scalability, and strong SAP support, praised for its ease of use.
MuleSoft Composer offers Salesforce integration, ease of use, API sharing, prebuilt connectors, and effective data handling, monitoring, and notifications.
It connects to different sources out-of-the-box, making integration much easier.
The platform excels in handling major datasets, particularly when working with Power BI for reporting purposes.
I find the most valuable feature in Azure Data Factory to be its ability to handle large datasets.
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Data Factory
Ranking in Data Integration
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
91
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (2nd)
MuleSoft Composer
Ranking in Data Integration
25th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (14th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Azure Data Factory is 8.4%, down from 12.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MuleSoft Composer is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

Joy Maitra - PeerSpot reviewer
Facilitates seamless data pipeline creation with good analytics and and thorough monitoring
Azure Data Factory is a low code, no code platform, which is helpful. It provides many prebuilt functionalities that assist in building data pipelines. Also, it facilitates easy transformation with all required functionalities for analytics. Furthermore, it connects to different sources out-of-the-box, making integration much easier. The monitoring is very thorough, though a more readable version would be appreciable.
Prince Barai - PeerSpot reviewer
The prebuilt connectors save a lot of time and money, but the customer support and price must be improved
Our customer’s system is very old. We are trying to upgrade it. We are extracting data from the system and sending it to Salesforce. The product is a good option if we want to build process automation for data. It can be done quickly through the tool. We need not do coding and waste our time and efforts. The ease of learning depends on the person who is learning the product. It depends on whether they come from a developer background. It would be easy to learn if they have some experience in coding and have worked on integrations. I haven’t faced many challenges while scaling our integration solutions with MuleSoft Composer. The drag-and-drop interface has not impacted our project deployment time much. The customer support and price can be improved. Overall, I rate the tool a seven out of ten.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
18%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

How do you select the right cloud ETL tool?
AWS Glue and Azure Data factory for ELT best performance cloud services.
How does Azure Data Factory compare with Informatica PowerCenter?
Azure Data Factory is flexible, modular, and works well. In terms of cost, it is not too pricey. It offers the stability and reliability I am looking for, good scalability, and is easy to set up an...
How does Azure Data Factory compare with Informatica Cloud Data Integration?
Azure Data Factory is a solid product offering many transformation functions; It has pre-load and post-load transformations, allowing users to apply transformations either in code by using Power Q...
What do you like most about MuleSoft Composer?
The way Composer organizes and manages integration processes is most beneficial. We can easily monitor what's running and what isn't and troubleshoot any data integration issues.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for MuleSoft Composer?
It's costly, especially for Indian clients. Reducing the price would help them penetrate the Indian market. A two-year license costs around seventy lakhs rupees. It's a considerable amount.
What needs improvement with MuleSoft Composer?
Configuration could be easier, but we were able to handle it. It seems that juniors find it challenging, but seniors like me know how to configure it properly. There are no issues. There is also on...
 

Also Known As

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MuleSoft Composer for Salesforce
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

1. Adobe 2. BMW 3. Coca-Cola 4. General Electric 5. Johnson & Johnson 6. LinkedIn 7. Mastercard 8. Nestle 9. Pfizer 10. Samsung 11. Siemens 12. Toyota 13. Unilever 14. Verizon 15. Walmart 16. Accenture 17. American Express 18. AT&T 19. Bank of America 20. Cisco 21. Deloitte 22. ExxonMobil 23. Ford 24. General Motors 25. IBM 26. JPMorgan Chase 27. Microsoft (Azure Data Factory is developed by Microsoft) 28. Oracle 29. Procter & Gamble 30. Salesforce 31. Shell 32. Visa
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