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Census vs MuleSoft Anypoint Platform comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Census
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (37th)
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
60
Ranking in other categories
Message Queue (MQ) Software (4th), Business-to-Business Middleware (1st), Workload Automation (4th), Cloud Data Integration (4th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Data Integration and Access solutions, they serve different purposes. Census is designed for Data Integration and holds a mindshare of 0.5%, up 0.0% compared to last year.
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Business-to-Business Middleware, holds 8.8% mindshare, down 12.5% since last year.
Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Census0.5%
SSIS3.6%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)3.6%
Other92.3%
Data Integration
Business-to-Business Middleware Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform8.8%
IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services13.2%
SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite10.9%
Other67.1%
Business-to-Business Middleware
 

Featured Reviews

JeanFrancois - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Accountant at Wells Fargo
Automation has transformed our data workflows and creates one trusted source across teams
Census offers excellent integration with popular tools including Salesforce. It can be set up easily and comes with great customer support. The easy setup stands out for me compared to other tools I have used because the support has been very helpful. I love their response time, as they are quick to resolve any issues that we have. Easy setup makes this tool much more user-friendly as it simplifies the process of synchronizing data between different systems. I also love the user interface, which is very easy to navigate and intuitive. This allows us to get up and running easily in minutes with little to no training. I appreciate that it is highly scalable and can integrate with various data warehouses like Redshift and S3, making it accessible to users without technical knowledge or engineers. Census has positively impacted my organization by being a great tool. We are able to respond to customers' account health more rapidly by synchronizing our data into the various customer account management tools. As mentioned, it is able to automate various tasks, enabling us to save a lot of time. It has also helped us minimize data silos while enabling the warehouse to be a single source of truth for data. Through automation, we have been able to save between forty and sixty percent in time and cost, thanks to the automation platform and automation capabilities.
GO
Senior Validation Engineer at Weir Group PLC
Integration workflows have become transparent and secure while error tracking is streamlined
The best features in MuleSoft Anypoint Platform for me are transparency between logging in or deploying and using different environments. Managing different environments for the transparency of error logins or how to trace traceability is very important. It's very easy to use and sort, so you can see where everything has gone right and everything has gone wrong. I'm aware of the drag-and-drop interface in MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, and it's very, very quick. It's very time-saving and very efficient. The security features on MuleSoft Anypoint Platform help maintain data integrity in my organization; I would say it's second to none. It's one of the best out there that I have worked with because of the encryption and decryption, and there are a lot of security aspects. I would assess the platform's data mapping and transformation capabilities as amazing. Automation has been straightforward; the transformation and mapping have been easy to use, easy to source, and from the source to the target. I would say it has been very good.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Based on delivery metrics and team feedback, the benefit is that the time to activate new use cases was reduced from weeks to days, engineering effort dedicated to reverse ETL pipelines decreased by sixty to seventy percent, maintenance overhead for custom integration was almost completely eliminated, and marketing and growth teams accelerated experimentation cycles significantly."
"Through automation, we have been able to save between forty and sixty percent in time and cost, thanks to the automation platform and automation capabilities."
"Mule Anypoint Platform's valuable features are its flexibility in terms of deployment and its SaaS capabilities."
"The API-led approach of MuleSoft offers a very cost-efficient model and re-use for implementation and support of microservices, APIs and generic services when followed correctly, and is fully supported and enabled by the web engagement tools of the platform (Anypoint Exchange, Anypoint Portals, and Anypoint Design Center)."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"We use simple queues and exchanges to route messages to multiple queues. The publish/subscribe model is also helpful."
"The platform's cloud integration capabilities are good."
"The most valuable feature of Mule Anypoint Platform is rapid development."
"The tool's visual features are attractive."
"The tool’s API management capabilities are excellent."
 

Cons

"The areas for improvement are complex transformation logic because it must still be handled upstream in the warehouse, and cost predictability requires attention at high data volumes."
"One area that may need improvement is that sometimes a custom setup is very difficult to configure."
"Anypoint MQ could improve the user interface."
"Information on monitoring could be improved."
"Over the years, Mule Anypoint Platform has undergone significant improvements. When I first started using it, the API gateway capabilities were fairly basic."
"Adding connectors for new upcoming applications would add extra value to this product."
"The solution's pricing model is very strange, and it will be really expensive if you use APIs a lot."
"Mule Anypoint Platform could improve by having better integration with MDM. There are challenges when doing the interaction at this time."
"The price could be improved."
"The terms of use and how it's priced has become very difficult to manage, which is forcing us to look for alternatives already - and we haven't even been using it for that long just yet."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"Mule Anypoint Platform is affordable."
"MuleSoft Anypoint Platform really needs to work on its pricing model because it's very complicated."
"The tool's pricing is cheaper than other RPAs' since it is execution-based. Other RPAs charge based on subscriptions."
"The product comes complete at one set price including support."
"The solution is the priciest in the market which is an issue for some clients."
"Making changes in Anypoint MQ is expensive."
"The licensing is core-based. My customers tell me that it's very expensive compared to the cost of other integration suites."
"Mule Anypoint Platform pricing is slightly higher compared to Dell Boomi."
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Top Industries

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

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise30
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Census?
Census has been performing very well overall. One area that may need improvement is that sometimes a custom setup is very difficult to configure. This was the case with our Intercom segment setup. ...
What is your primary use case for Census?
Census is a versatile data synchronizing solution that solves a wide range of data management problems for our business. With Census, we were able to reduce the sync time taken to transfer data fro...
What advice do you have for others considering Census?
I would rate Census an eight out of ten according to my experience. I feel it is not quite a ten because sometimes a custom setup is very difficult to configure. This was the case with our Intercom...
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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