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Updated on Dec 4, 2022

We performed a comparison between Mule Anypoint Platform and SAP Process Orchestration based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.

  • Ease of Deployment: For the most part, users of both solutions feel setup is easy and straightforward.
  • Features: Mule Anypoint users feel it is a good platform to easily design, flow out APIs, and then complete API-based integrations. The solution provides good performance and is easy to manage. Some users noted that there were some breakage issues with connectors after upgrades were performed.

    SAP Process Orchestration users tell us the solution provides great central logging systems. It also provides some flexibility with robust vertical and horizontal extend capacity. Users feel the solution is mature and has very good documentation. Many users tell us it can be very difficult to easily find errors and that usability could be improved.
  • Pricing: Mule Anypoint Platform users consider the pricing to be expensive. SAP Process Orchestration users feel the pricing is reasonable.

  • Service and Support: Users of both solutions are happy with the service and support they receive.

Comparison Results: When choosing a Business-to-Business Middleware tool Mule Anypoint Platform slightly nudges ahead of SAP Process Orchestration. PeerSpot users feel Mule Anypoint Platform can help organizations simplify the development of products and increase productivity. The solution provides a valuable API toolkit and intuitive monitoring capabilities. Many users feel SAP Process Orchestration should be more scalable and user friendly.

To learn more, read our detailed Mule Anypoint Platform vs. SAP Process Orchestration Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"Overall, it is a pretty good product. It is also very scalable.""We are very satisfied with the DevOps support.""The integration potential is excellent.""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.""It's easy to develop APIs.""The tool's visual features are attractive.""The solution's market place for different kinds of integration platforms is the most valuable feature.""Mule Anypoint Platform's valuable features are its flexibility in terms of deployment and its SaaS capabilities."

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"The solution provides very good and central logging systems. It offers high flexibility with vertical and horizontal extend capacity.""The most valuable feature of SAP Process Orchestration is its flexibility in being able to build integrations with SAP systems and non-SAP systems.""The initial setup was straightforward.""The solution is stable.""SAP Process Orchestration has all the features that are necessary.""Process Orchestration fulfils the need for middleware to mediate types of connectivity.""Great monitoring tools and has its own alert framework.""The standard adapter with EBA abilities is the most valuable feature. It has good process integration."

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Cons
"The price could be improved.""It doesn't work well when you try using it for the processing layer.""An on-premise setup requires special skills and you need a lot of professional services.""Mule Anypoint Platform could improve by having more up-to-date adapters to do work in a digital space.""Mule should have better B2B integration.""This becomes an expensive solution over time.""MuleSoft's release calendar is rather conventional with two major, two minor releases and hotfixes in between. The competition sometimes offer more rapid release cycles and provides improved and new functionality with a faster time-to-market.""One area we'd like to see improvement in is the error logging and troubleshooting process."

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"It is not a scalable solution for the cloud. I would not recommend this for the cloud.""I think the main area that SAP PO should improve on is offering pre-delivered content like they do when you use SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI). SAP should not forget that they still have a lot of customers using Process Orchestration and they should focus more on providing pre-delivered content in SAP PO.""The cloud capability features need improvement.""It is scalable, but there can be performance issues with high data volume or traffic, especially during month ends.""This is an on-premise platform and one area they can improve on is having the ability to work with SaaS solutions.""The solution could be more scalable.""We encounter challenges while connecting to MQTT and MQDD adapters.""SAP Process Orchestration could improve from an API standpoint. This is not an API management tool, which is one of its drawbacks. However, SAP has released an SAP Cloud Platform Integration which has all of the features, such as API management along with process integration to replace what they had previously."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Licensing can be complex as is the case with most iPaaS/cloud offerings."
  • "Mule is not the cheapest integration platform out there, but it deserves the price we are paying."
  • "The product comes complete at one set price including support."
  • "The licensing is core-based. My customers tell me that it's very expensive compared to the cost of other integration suites."
  • "Mule Anypoint Platform pricing is slightly higher compared to Dell Boomi."
  • "The solution is the priciest in the market which is an issue for some clients."
  • "The pricing of our solution is highly competitive. While it may not be categorized as exceptionally low, it is certainly more affordable compared to IBM."
  • "The product is still very expensive."
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  • "The cost of SAP products is quite high but the quality is really good."
  • "The pricing for this solution is fine."
  • "There are fees in addition to the licensing."
  • "It's not an expensive solution."
  • "Looking at market conditions, vendors nowadays are giving products at very low price levels. However, SAP Process Orchestration have not yet reduced their prices. The prices could be reduced a lot to stay competitive."
  • "The license is a one-time payment, and additional costs are only incurred on the infrastructure side since it's an on-premise solution."
  • "The price of SAP Process Orchestration was reasonable."
  • "The fee for maintenance is costly."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:I architected solutions using Oracle SOA/OSB, Spring Boot, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform on cloud / on-premises and hybrid modes What I see is though if you are an enterprise and have enough money then… more »
    Top Answer:Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether TIBCO BusinessWorks or Mule Anypoint platform integration and connectivity software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Mule… more »
    Top Answer: This is a very flexible solution that comes with multiple uses. My organization mostly uses Mule Anypoint Platform for API management, as it lets us build new APIs easily and design new interfaces… more »
    Top Answer: It provides essential features such as continuous monitoring of all interfaces are crucial for our needs.
    Top Answer:We subscribe to annual licenses, and the competitive license cost is reasonable. We find that the cost is even more affordable compared to other options available in the market.
    Top Answer:Implementing changes and introducing new interfaces in Process Orchestration should have been more straightforward. The current system is burdened with a heavy load and has become overly complex… more »
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    Overview

    Mule Anypoint Platform is a high-ranking solution that creates a communication layer between disparate systems to eliminate integration problems. The product retrieves and stores data streams from any source type, device, or application, both in the cloud and locally. Mule Anypoint Platform solves the most challenging connectivity problems across Software as a Service (SaaS), service-oriented architecture (SOA), and application programming interfaces (APIs) through connectivity, control, and composability. The unified hybrid integration platform achieves this by creating an application network of data, apps, and devices with API-led connectivity.

    The solution consists of a set of out-of-the-box connectors that work on any type of system and offers a configuration with low coding effort while minimizing the cost and constraints of hard point-to-point connections. The use cases of Mule Anypoint Platform include:

    • Utilizing APIs for application delivery: Specialists can use Mule Anypoint Platform to jumpstart application development and take advantage of pre-built assets or utilize APIs built anywhere using their CI/CD pipelines. Companies can build APIs from scratch in diverse protocols and test them with built-in support for Maven and Jenkins.

    • Flexible deployment: Mule Anypoint Platform can be used in any architecture or environment. The product offers its users flexibility and freedom to select between using MuleSoft's fully managed infrastructure or deployment in popular cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

    • Data protection: The product offers high levels of security and compliance with various standards and policies. It can be utilized by companies for protecting data, microservices, APIs, and integrations without development overheads.

    • API and service management and monitoring: The product offers an all-in-one platform for users to manage, secure, and scale their APIs as well as troubleshoot and diagnose in real time to detect underlying issues.

    • Custom marketplace building: Mule Anypoint Platform can be used to facilitate the creation of custom marketplaces for customers, partners, and employees. The product offers pre-built APIs, templates, connectors, accelerators, and other integrations for this purpose.

    Mule Anypoint Platform Features

    Mule Anypoint Platform consists of features for APIs and integrations that are separated into three categories: API management, integration, and deployment and monitoring. These features include:

    • Anypoint Flex Gateway: This feature is designed to manage and secure APIs running across any environment.

    • Anypoint API Governance: This feature ensures consistent API security and quality with self-service tools.

    • Anypoint API Designer: API Designer offers a visual or code-based guided process for designing, documenting, and testing APIs in any language.

    • Anypoint Studio: Through this feature, users can accelerate implementation with prebuilt modules for common integration requirements.

    • Anypoint Connectors: This capacity of the solution allows system integration using a web interface or a desktop-integrated development environment (IDE).

    • Anypoint Code Builder: This is a new feature of the product that is made for developers to design, develop, and deploy APIs, integrations, and automations from a single environment, utilizing an innovative IDE.

    • Anypoint Monitoring: Through this feature, users can monitor in real time their integrations, APIs, and microservices all in one place.

    • Anypoint Runtime Fabric: This is a container service that brings cloud benefits to on-premises deployments both in data centers and on a private cloud.

    • CloudHub: This is the Platform as a Service (PaaS) component of Mule Anypoint Platform.

    • Anypoint Security: This feature offers advanced defense for users' APIs and integrations.

    Mule Anypoint Platform Benefits

    Mule Anypoint Platform offers multiple benefits for companies that utilize its services. Some of the biggest advantages of the product include:

    • Mule Anypoint Platform reduces development time to deliver efficient resource management from a single platform.

    • The product improves agility with innovative architecture that adheres to customers' specific needs.

    • The solution utilizes open technologies that provide customers with reusability, modularity, and collaboration opportunities.

    • Mule Anypoint Platform comes with automated security and governance that ensures customers' data is protected at enterprise levels.

    • The product has built-in reliability, visibility, and scalability, which make operations more resilient for users.

    • The solution is constantly updated and ensures a competitive environment for users through flexible services.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Michael S., a senior enterprise architect at a tech services company, gives Mule Anypoint Platform a high rating and states that the product is constantly improving to help connect applications, data, and devices.

    A senior technical architect at a tech services company likes Mule Anypoint Platform for the good stability with an easy setup and good technical support that the product provides.

    SAP NetWeaver Process Integration facilitates the integration of business processes that span different departments, organizations, or companies. SAP PI is based on general standards so as to enable 3rd-party systems to be integrated. At the center of SAP PI is an XML-based communication that uses HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). Irrespective of the scenario used, the application-specific contents are transferred in messages in user-defined XML eXtensible Markup Language) from the sender to the receiver either via the Integration Server, or directly between the systems involved. SAP PI can be installed in different ways: Dual usage type installation: Based on both AS ABAP and AS Java. and Advanced Adapter Engine Extended (AEX): Based on AS Java only.
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    Computer Software Company33%
    Healthcare Company11%
    Recruiting/Hr Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider6%
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    Educational Organization21%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Manufacturing Company30%
    Wholesaler/Distributor17%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Retailer9%
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Energy/Utilities Company7%
    Financial Services Firm7%
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    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise49%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise28%
    Large Enterprise57%
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    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise3%
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    Large Enterprise69%
    Buyer's Guide
    Mule Anypoint Platform vs. SAP Process Orchestration
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Mule Anypoint Platform vs. SAP Process Orchestration and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 2nd in Business-to-Business Middleware with 40 reviews while SAP Process Orchestration is ranked 1st in Business-to-Business Middleware with 28 reviews. Mule Anypoint Platform is rated 8.2, while SAP Process Orchestration is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Mule Anypoint Platform writes "Robust, reliable, and stable, ensuring high availability for critical integrations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Process Orchestration writes "A tool that can be useful for small integrations and large integrations". Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, Oracle Integration Cloud Service, SAP Cloud Platform and Azure Data Factory, whereas SAP Process Orchestration is most compared with SAP Data Services, webMethods Integration Server, IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, IBM B2B Integrator and TIBCO BusinessWorks. See our Mule Anypoint Platform vs. SAP Process Orchestration report.

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