We performed a comparison between IBM B2B Integrator, IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, and Mule ESB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about SAP, MuleSoft, IBM and others in Business-to-Business Middleware."IBM B2B Integrator is a great tool, robust, reliable, low-maintenance, and ideal solution."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and the range of EDI standards that IBM Sterling can handle."
"Out-of-box process orchestration yields quick implementations."
"B2B provides a secure communication channel."
"I find the codeless communications, SFTP or FTP, valuable."
"The technical support on offer through the portal is very helpful and responsive."
"It can scale horizontally as well as vertically as a cluster."
"This solution allows for easy integration with heterogeneous applications."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"They have multiple features for each kind of task and issue. The company has different channels to give information to the administration. Security and integration capabilities are also important. This product has helped to replace a lot of other solutions, saving time and cost."
"We are able to monitor all B2B messages, and we are able to see or track each message on it from an error perspective. That's a good side of it. It is working well, and we're able to do our current job."
"They have best-in-class, quality support."
"The product's most valuable feature is the real-time integration suite."
"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."
"I'm not using ESB directly. It is the integration layer, so it's running under the hood. However, the conversion and transformation performance is excellent. Anypoint Enterprise Security is also solid."
"Mule ESB has a user-friendly design, and everything is in one place. The API and architecture are popular right now. Also, MuleSoft has a large and supportive online community."
"The solution doesn't require much code writing and we can develop APIs very easily."
"The cloud and integration abilities are most useful allowing us to use applications such as Salesforce and DataWeave."
"It's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications."
"Easy connectivity and easy integration."
"Scalability and load balancing."
"End-to-end visibility and monitoring application required. The control center is available and covers this area, but it still fails in many monitoring scenarios."
"The reporting features could be better. right now, they are lacking a bit."
"IBM B2B Integrator could improve the business process itself, there is no resignation of duties and in terms of the console should be changed in a way that is more user-friendly."
"The user interface is outdated. B2B Integrator was developed in the United States in the nineties, and the graphical user interface hasn't improved since. It's tough because you have to program the software in XML. Nowadays, other methods are easier to work with."
"Map translator needs more enhancements."
"API-Fication required, and there should be more clarity on their cloud migration strategy."
"Patching or upgrading the product is a bit of a nightmare. It would be nice if they removed the installation manager port. We find it complicates upgrading and patching a great deal."
"They do not have a solid partner ecosystem, and they do not have a clear roadmap for down the line; they're missing that clear roadmap."
"It can be now classified as a legacy system because there are no more updates. From what I know, there will be no updates for the current version, which is an issue. Therefore, we are looking for a compatible new software that we can use. We're currently researching what is there in the market. We would consider something that would give us better speed on our current processor. There is also room for improvement in terms of its scalability and GUI. It is an old system, and its scalability can be improved. Its GUI can also be more appealing."
"Onboarding on the solution is complex. It's hard to onboard partners and customer suppliers. It's one aspect that is not that straightforward."
"They can improve APIs because they are still lagging behind in API connectivity. With non-API connectivity, they're market leaders, but API connectivity, they're still in the immature space."
"The only weaknesses they have different governance for each task and different channels for communication which are hard to maintain. The relation of the company with other companies can be improved. We have a lot of customers who this platform for the interchange of information which can also be improved. The compliance information about banks can also be updated."
"It's not easy to troubleshoot and we still can't make it work."
"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."
"I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."
"Community editions need more attention."
"The Anypoint platform consumes a lot of memory, and it would be great for developers if it were more lightweight."
"It should have some amount of logging."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"It needs more samples. Also, the dependency on Maven should be removed."
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