IBM Cloud Pak for Data vs MuleSoft Composer comparison

IBM and Salesforce are both solutions in the Data Integration category. IBM is ranked #24 with an average rating of 8.0, while Salesforce is ranked #25 with an average rating of 8.0. IBM holds a 1.9% mindshare in DI, compared to Salesforce’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Salesforce users who would recommend it.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data

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IBM Cloud Pak for Data

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

IBM Cloud Pak for Data and MuleSoft Composer compete in data integration and management. MuleSoft Composer is more robust and flexible, justifying its higher cost.

Features: IBM Cloud Pak for Data offers unified data management and AI integration, enabling seamless data operations and governance solutions. It also supports data virtualization and advanced analytics. MuleSoft Composer features strong integration capabilities with various connectors for streamlined data flows and a flexible architecture suitable for complex integrations.

Room for Improvement: IBM Cloud Pak for Data could improve its deployment efficiency and user interface to reduce setup time. Additionally, enhancing integration with non-IBM services could be beneficial. MuleSoft Composer may require improvement in cost optimization for smaller enterprises, expand its offline capabilities, and streamline training and support resources to facilitate user onboarding.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: MuleSoft Composer provides cloud-based deployment with efficient support, making integration faster. IBM Cloud Pak for Data requires more technical involvement, leading to a steeper learning curve, and its customer service is not as proactive as MuleSoft's.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Cloud Pak for Data adopts a modular pricing strategy which can become expensive with scale. MuleSoft Composer has a higher pricing tier but offers broader capabilities and quicker ROI due to its advanced integration features, reducing time-to-value considerably.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Ranking in Data Integration

24th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Virtualization (3rd)

MuleSoft Composer

Ranking in Data Integration

25th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

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 IBM Cloud Pak for Data is 1.9%, up from 1.7% 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.

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Michelle Leslie

Data asset management engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Starts strong with data management capabilities but needs a demo database

What I would love to see is an end-to-end, almost a training demo database of some sort, where one of the biggest problems with data management is demonstrated. There are so many components to data management, and more often than not, people understand one thing really well. They may understand DataStage and how to move data around, but they do not see the impact of moving data incorrectly. They also do not see the impact of everyone understanding a piece of data in the same way. I would love Cloud Pak to come with a demo database that illustrates the different components of data management in a logical way, so I can see the whole picture instead of just the area I'm specializing in. It would be great if Cloud Pak, from a data modeling point of view, allowed us to import our PDMs, for example. It would be ideal to import and create business terms in Cloud Pak. The PEA would be great to create the technical data. The association between the business and the technical metadata could then be automated by pulling it through from your ACE models. The data modeling component is available in Cloud Pak. Additionally, when it comes to Cloud Pak, even though it has the NextGen DataStage built into it, there is Cloud Pak for data integration as well. Currently, I do not think we have a full enough understanding of how CP4D and CP4I can enhance each other.

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Prince Barai

Back End Developer at Agnos Inc.

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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Cloud Pak's most valuable features are IBM MQ, IBM App Connect, IBM API Connect, and ISPF."

"Cloud Pak is a very, very, very good system."

"I love the way that I can start at a very basic level with my data management journey by capturing my policies, justifying my data, and putting them into different categories to say this is data relating to individuals, for example, or data relating to geography."

"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine or ten out of ten."

"The most valuable features of IBM Cloud Pak for Data are the Watson Studio, where we can initiate more groups and write code. Additionally, Watson Machine Learning is available with many other services, such as APIs which you can plug the machine learning models."

"The most valuable feature of IBM Cloud Pak for Data is the Modeler flows. The ability to develop models using a graphical approach and the capability to connect to various sources, as well as the data virtualization capabilities, allow me to easily access and utilize data that is dispersed across different sources."

"IBM Watson Catalog and data pipelines are the most valuable features of the solution."

"The most valuable features are data virtualization and reporting."

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"The advantage of using MuleSoft as part as the Salesforce ecosystem is that anything new they build is guaranteed to work with the new features that are coming from the other side."

"The functionality of MuleSoft to connect with any database is the most important feature."

"The product is easy to use. You don't need programming skills to use it."

"The prebuilt connectors have saved our customers a lot of time and money."

"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."

"The solution invokes some RPS from Composer and then sends emails and flat notifications. It helps us integrate with any third-party SAPE or integration tools."

Cons

"The technical support could be a little better."

"The interface could improve because sometimes it becomes slow. Sometimes there is a delay between clicks when using the software, which can make the development process slow. It can take a few seconds to complete one action, and then a few more seconds to do the next one."

"There is a solution that is part of IBM Cloud Pak for Data called Watson OpenScale. It is used to monitor the deployed models for the quality and fairness of the results. This is one area that needs a lot of improvement."

"The setup cost is very expensive. The cost depends on the pieces of the solution I'm using, how much data I have, and whether it's on the cloud or on-prem."

"One challenge I'm facing with IBM Cloud Pak for Data is native features have been decommissioned, such as XML input and output. Too many changes have been made, and my company has around one hundred thousand mappings, so my team has been putting more effort into alternative ways to do things. Another area for improvement in IBM Cloud Pak for Data is that it's more complicated to shift from on-premise to the cloud. Other vendors provide secure agents that easily connect with your existing setup. Still, with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, you have to perform connection migration steps, upgrade to the latest version, etc., which makes it more complicated, especially as my company has XML-based mappings. Still, the XML input and output capabilities of IBM Cloud Pak for Data have been discontinued, so I'd like IBM to bring that back."

"The solution could have more connectors."

"The tool depends on the control plane, an OpenShift container platform utilized as an orchestration layer...So, we have communicated this issue to IBM and asked if it is feasible to adapt the solution to work on a Kubernetes platform that we support."

"Cloud Pak would be improved with integration with cloud service providers like Cloudera."

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"MuleSoft Composer needs to improve its interface and scalability."

"The technical support team's response time must be improved."

"There are some challenges with API sharing in Composer."

"One additional feature they could add might be something like regional prices. Since we're based in Brazil, we pay in dollars but earn in Brazilian Real."

"There is also one limitation. We cannot see logs, latencies, or request counts."

"This solution could be improved by offering more integrations with other platforms."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't have the exact licensing cost for IBM Cloud Pak for Data, as my company is still finalizing requirements, including monthly, yearly, and three-year licensing fees. Still, on a scale of one to five, I'd rate it a three because, compared to other vendors, it's more complicated."

"The solution is expensive."

"The solution's pricing is competitive with that of other vendors."

"It's quite expensive."

"Cloud Pak's cost is a little high."

"IBM Cloud Pak for Data is expensive. If we include the training time and the machine learning, it's expensive. The cost of the execution is more reasonable."

"I think that this product is too expensive for smaller companies."

"For the licensing of the solution, there is a yearly payment that needs to be made. Also, since it is expensive, cost-wise, I rate the solution an eight or nine out of ten."

"Salesforce is licensed by user and by products and so pricing depending on what your requirements are."

"MuleSoft Composer is affordable, and I rate its pricing a five to six out of ten."

"The tool is a bit expensive."

"It's costly, especially for Indian clients."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

30%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Computer Software Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Healthcare Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Cloud Pak for Data?

DataStage allows me to connect to different data sources.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Cloud Pak for Data?

The setup cost is very expensive. The cost depends on the pieces of the solution I'm using, how much data I have, and whether it's on the cloud or on-prem.

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What needs improvement with IBM Cloud Pak for Data?

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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.

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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.

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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...

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Overview

IBM Cloud Pak® for Data is a fully-integrated data and AI platform that modernizes how businesses collect, organize and analyze data to infuse AI throughout their organizations. Cloud-native by design, the platform unifies market-leading services spanning the entire analytics lifecycle. From data management, DataOps, governance, business analytics and automated AI, IBM Cloud Pak for Data helps eliminate the need for costly, and often competing, point solutions while providing the information architecture you need to implement AI successfully.

Building on the streamlined hybrid-cloud foundation of Red Hat® OpenShift®, IBM Cloud Pak for Data takes advantage of the underlying resource and infrastructure optimization and management. The solution fully supports multicloud environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud™ and private cloud deployments. Find out how IBM Cloud Pak for Data can lower your total cost of ownership and accelerate innovation.

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Connect apps and data to Salesforce quickly and easily with clicks, not code — all inside of the Salesforce UI.

Enrich your 360-degree customer view by empowering your Salesforce admins with a no-code solution for quickly unlocking data, connecting apps, and automating integrations to boost productivity.

- Build integrations easily with clicks, not code — all inside Salesforce
- Hit the ground running with a growing library of prebuilt connectors
- Preview as you build connections and design with real data
- Monitor any errors with automatic alerts

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Qatar Development Bank, GuideWell, Skanderborg Music Festival

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