We performed a comparison between IBM B2B Integrator 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."
"I find the codeless communications, SFTP or FTP, valuable."
"Out-of-box process orchestration yields quick implementations."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and the range of EDI standards that IBM Sterling can handle."
"It is easy of use and it's easy to maintain. It's also faster to on-board partners."
"The most valuable feature of IBM B2B Integrator is its security and flexibility."
"Everything from the order to fulfillment to the payment process, except for physical packing and shipping, is fully automated for some customer orders."
"The technical support on offer through the portal is very helpful and responsive."
"I am impressed with the product's connectors and scalability."
"Mule ESB is a very easy-to-use and user-friendly solution."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that it's programmer-friendly, so it's very easy to develop APIs."
"The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot."
"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 transformation and the data format are the features that I like the most."
"The cloud and integration abilities are most useful allowing us to use applications such as Salesforce and DataWeave."
"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."
"When working on an elaborate rule, I end up creating it in notepad and then pasting it into the Extended Rule window, which is not convenient."
"The dashboard is not integrated and should be bundled by the product vendor."
"API integration could be improved. The legacy system could be on the cloud."
"API-Fication required, and there should be more clarity on their cloud migration strategy."
"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."
"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."
"The one thing that is lacking is easy visibility. It's hard to provide business users with a view into the statuses of their transactions."
"Lacking some connectors that could be included."
"There are some issues with both stability and scalability."
"There are limitations with the subscription model that comes with the product."
"Documentation is cryptic, product releases are far too frequent, and upgrades become troublesome."
"Mule ESB isn't as secure as IBM. Financial companies go with IBM for that reason."
"MuleSoft is not so strong in method-based integration, so they're not so functional in that regard."
"It's not easy to troubleshoot and we still can't make it work."
"The current version will not be supported for much longer."
IBM B2B Integrator is ranked 4th in Business-to-Business Middleware with 42 reviews while Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews. IBM B2B Integrator is rated 8.0, while Mule ESB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM B2B Integrator writes "A widely-used, on-premises solution with tons of peer support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". IBM B2B Integrator is most compared with IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, SAP Process Orchestration, SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite, SPS Commerce Fulfillment (EDI) and webMethods Trading Networks, whereas Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, Red Hat Fuse and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus.
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