We performed a comparison between IBM Integration Bus, Mule ESB, and webMethods Integration Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, MuleSoft, Software AG and others in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
"The most valuable feature is the security."
"The most valuable feature is that it is clear and easy to learn."
"It is a stable solution."
"We can have multiple endpoints, and we can integrate different applications from different platforms. In a large-scale enterprise setup, it becomes so easy to establish communication between applications. You can connect an application to other applications, other legacy applications, and databases. You can also connect with those applications that are in the cloud. You can connect with other well-known applications, such as Salesforce, SAP, and Workday, by using IBM Integration Bus."
"The solution is stable and can scale relatively easily."
"The cost is pretty cheap, compared to what else is available in the market."
"The Cloud Pak for Integration is a useful feature."
"Web interface, REST API for viewing services, admin, stats, and deployment are premium features, which makes IIB stand among its competition."
"The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot."
"The connectivity the solution provides is excellent. There are often too many systems that we have to integrate and this helps with that."
"It is easily deployable and manageable. It has microservices-based architecture, which means that you can deploy the solution based on your needs, and you can manage the solution very easily."
"The most valuable feature is the Salesforce integration."
"Scalability and load balancing."
"This tool has exceptional API management and integration connectors in addition to multiple out of the box connectors."
"The most valuable feature of Mule ESB is data transformation, i.e. our interacting with different systems and orchestrating for our business needs."
"The most valuable features of Mule ESB are its ease of use, documentation, ease to adapt to newer security and vulnerabilities, and a lot of help available. Additionally, there is a lot of flexibility, many patches available, and they provide APIs. They are a market standard."
"It integrates well with various servers."
"I would say the core Web-based integrations work the best. They are the most efficient and robust implementations one can do with webMethods."
"The most valuable feature of webMethods Integration Server is all the capabilities it provides. We leverage most of the features, that they have offered to us. Our vendor has made some additional features on top of the webMethods Integration Server and we use all the features together."
"It has a good integration server, designer, and a very good API portal."
"It is a very stable product."
"The most valuable feature is stability."
"We have a reusable code that we can replicate for any new interfaces."
"What I like best about webMethods Integration Server is its portfolio of connectors."
"I would like for them to make the training much easier."
"I would rate the support from IBM Integration Bus a seven out of ten. They are very helpful but sometimes it takes too long for them to respond."
"Storage capacity of the product should be addressed."
"The solution could improve by having built-in implementation and secure monitoring without the need for API Connect."
"This solution would benefit from improvements to the configuration interface."
"The product could be improved by including more resources on SQL."
"It needs improvement in terms of technical support as well as in terms of integration of data mining. I am not convinced about many things in this solution, such as the conversion of the DFDL or copybook file, which is the conversion from a text file to XML. It is very complex. They should also provide more information about this solution in the IBM Knowledge Center. I can get a lot of information from the IBM Knowledge Center about DataStage, but I don't get that much information about IBM Integration Bus. There is hardly any information even on the internet and various channels such as YouTube. They can provide good step-by-step documentation based on a company's requirements. It would be really helpful. My company is mainly looking for data mining and communicating with multiple servers. IBM Integration Bus is good for communicating with multiple servers, but it needs improvement for XML conversion and data mining. We have a lot of old systems that use XML."
"We have come across many customer complaints about the excessive time it takes for IBM to provide customer and technical support."
"I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvement in the generator for the DataWeave language so that it's a little more graphic."
"The solution isn't as stable as we'd like it to be. There are some ongoing issues and therefore Mule has to provide frequent patches. Mule's core IP should be more stable overall."
"MuleSoft isn't as mature as some other integration technologies out there like IBM WebSphere. There's room for growth, and MuleSoft is working toward that."
"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."
"MuleSoft is not so strong in method-based integration, so they're not so functional in that regard."
"The current version will not be supported for much longer."
"There are limitations with the subscription model that comes with the product."
"The stability of the various modules of the product suite have been a bit of a concern lately. Though their support team is always easy to reach out to, I would prefer it not come to that."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"In terms of improvement, it would be better if it adapted quicker to open standards. It took a while for API specification before the last version was available. The spec of version two was rather quick."
"Other products have been using AI and cloud enhancements, but webMethods Integration Server is still lagging in that key area."
"The product must add more compatible connectors."
"Version control is not very easy. The packages and the integration server are on Eclipse IDE, but you can't compare the code from the IDE. For example, if you are working on Java code, doing version control and deployment for a quick comparison between the code isn't easy. Some tools or plug-ins are there, such as CrossVista, and you can also play with an SVN server where you have to place your package, and from there, you can check, but you have to do that as a separate exercise. You can't do it from the IDE or webMethods server. You can't just right-click and upload your service."
"The orchestration is not as good as it should be."
"We'd like for them to open up to a more cloud-based solution that could offer more flexibility and maybe a better rules engine or more integration with rules engines."
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