We performed a comparison between IBM B2B Integrator, Mule Anypoint Platform, 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."B2B Integrator is multi-platform, so it can be integrated with Windows, Unix, or whatever, and it can work with almost all programming languages. It can also transfer a lot of data in a short time. For instance, a system I recently implemented exchanges about 20 million files a day."
"The technical support on offer through the portal is very helpful and responsive."
"The solution offers good integration capabilities."
"It can scale horizontally as well as vertically as a cluster."
"The solution is useful for transferring files from one format to another format. Also, the solution is useful in translation."
"It's highly stable, and the redundancy is amazing. B2B Integrator also has a high availability option to work in a cluster environment. You rarely have issues operating it because of the HA."
"IBM B2B Integrator is a great tool, robust, reliable, low-maintenance, and ideal solution."
"Everything from the order to fulfillment to the payment process, except for physical packing and shipping, is fully automated for some customer orders."
"Mule works very well with Salesforce and CRMs."
"The most valuable feature is their integrations and very good API management."
"When we talk about the APIs, there are multiple policies one can apply on APIs, like rate limiting policies, OWASP policies, and OWASP security policies, that can be easily configured in Mule Anypoint Platform."
"The integration potential is excellent."
"API management."
"It is a stable product...The initial setup was simple."
"Whenever we need some support in our local language, we get it easily. They also have an office in Germany and if a person is unable to contact them by phone, they can go to the office in person."
"The most valuable features of the Mule Anypoint Platform are the Flex Gateway, API management, easy-to-use, and connectors. Additionally, they are coming out with improvements to the solution when required."
"Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."
"The solution has a good graphical interface."
"The most valuable feature is the Salesforce integration."
"Mule Expression Language"
"Easy connectivity and easy integration."
"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."
"I like that Mule ESB provides fast and good technical support."
"It's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications."
"The mapping, visibility, deployment, and the dashboard could be improved and updated. The communication logs are very poor. They are not easily understood, and we need to navigate to many places for many reasons. You can't just pull the information; it's very tough."
"API integration could be improved. The legacy system could be on the cloud."
"There should be a single place to do things, rather than making it complicated, not moving away and truncating the old features but instead coming up with the new and still keeping the old stuff confuses people sometimes."
"The web interface of B2B is quite outdated and not particularly user-friendly."
"There are also some features in the solution that are not user-friendly, like code lists with no search options. So, we must navigate hundreds of pages to check for one entry."
"The reporting features could be better. right now, they are lacking a bit."
"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."
"Map translator needs more enhancements."
"The runtime management and connectors could use some work and are vulnerable to breakage after upgrades."
"In order to set up a storefront, we currently rely on a third-party solution. It would greatly enhance our operations if this feature was integrated into their existing solution."
"It should give better control over account management."
"Better documentation, in particular with respect to the initial setup, would be helpful."
"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."
"The compatibility with vendors can be improved. Microsoft Azure heavily uses single software."
"The pricing can be a little bit less."
"Mule Anypoint Platform could improve by having more up-to-date adapters to do work in a digital space."
"It would be great to see implementing security modules as a feature."
"The payment system needs improvement."
"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 would be much more beneficial if the solution included AI and business process management."
"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."
"There are some issues with both stability and scalability."
"Lacking some connectors that could be included."
"The stability could be improved."
