We performed a comparison between Mule ESB, Oracle Service Bus, and SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"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 transformation and the data format are the features that I like the most."
"Most of our use cases are for Salesforce. So, the connectors for Salesforce have been really helpful. They've made development two times faster."
"We can use Java expressions anywhere in the flow."
"Mule ESB is a very easy-to-use and user-friendly solution."
"Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."
"The solution has a good graphical interface."
"The architecture based on events has several connectors which allow integration from external and internal applications of the company."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that you can connect with different applications."
"I am a part of the software developing team and I mainly use this solution for the integrating applications."
"I like the ease of deployment and the ease of implementation."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It's very easy to use. It's no code/low code. Oracle Middleware products are also rich in adapters."
"It is lightweight and one can easily integrate with different applications, databases, JMS, or web services through different protocols."
"The communication between applications is already defined, which means that you don't have to redefine your service infrastructure at the lower level."
"The solution is quite stable overall. We haven't witnessed any performance issues so far."
"Overall it is a pretty good solution."
"The solution is flexible when it comes to adding integrations. It is much easier to use than the other tools we have to move the files. Across the board, we can move files in a short amount of time compared to our other existing tools."
"We rarely get hanged processes."
"I like that the tool has all the adapters — all the possible protocols that are in the industry. You pay for those adapters but at least it's all in one package. You don't have to get another tool or application to support another partner."
"SEEBURGER BIS helps us automate processes. When something is manual and we have to fix the data, then it is really complicated. However, when it's automated, we trust it and the process in the system, so we don't have to go back and fix it. For example, we had a problem with a partner sending 17 files every week, but a few times a year, they wouldn't send files during a certain window. We would escalate this with them. Then, when they caught up and sent the files again, they weren't authenticated. We had to fix this situation before it became a nightmare because our financials were impacted. Also, it was really messy. So, I worked with SEEBURGER to have something automated to pick up the files within a certain window and validate them as accurate. If the files come outside of this window, then we have to approve the loading of them."
"SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite is a highly stable solution that offers rich features for our B2B integration."
"The product has the ability to handle high volumes of data efficiently."
"SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS) has been good at communicating between two applications, changing formats and using the required protocols... We can have one site communicating in an old FTP or SFTP style, or via file transfer. And with other applications, we could have API or a web service call or some other protocol used to send information."
"It is stable and reliable. We have not had any issues."
"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."
"Lacking some connectors that could be included."
"Mule ESB isn't as secure as IBM. Financial companies go with IBM for that reason."
"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."
"The stability could be improved."
"The payment system needs improvement."
"It needs more samples. Also, the dependency on Maven should be removed."
"Limitation on external subscribers to listen to the messages on the bus."
"Lacks sufficient cloud compatibility."
"The pricing of the product could be better. It's a bit high."
"The weak point of OSB is the single point of failure."
"What needs improvement in Oracle Service Bus is the connectivity between adapters such as the Salesforce adapter and database adapters. The limited number of adapters compatible with Oracle Service Bus makes you want to switch to a different solution."
"The initial setup is likely complex for many organizations."
"The inconvenient part about working with this product is that it's very heavy, requiring a lot of people and a lot of resources."
"It would be ideal if they could optimize it a bit."
"It's very complex and hard to learn. There's a steep learning curve."
"A true debugger that allows you to step through the process would be a good improvement. Right now, we are limited to reading the log file generated by the test screen in Mapping Designer."
"We are a little locked in with understanding the errors that we receive. We are working with their support to prevent these issues when they come into the database. We use a SQL database and believe they can do better when it comes working with large databases. We have had few instances where the system is hanging, which are most likely from the database. We are working with their support to find out the problem and fix their system. We have tried to use their notification system to prevent these issues, but they need to improve their monitoring system."
"Java is very old technology and they should move away from it, to anything that's better."
"I would like there to be a feature that could handle the limited server."
"The speed of development needs improvement. If you acquire any customization, it can be a slightly slow process. I would like to see more flexibility around customizations. The time frame right now depends on the sophistication and customization, but we have to go through a process of getting them to develop, implement, and test it. This might take a couple of weeks. If it was a simpler system to customize, the time could probably be cut by half or down by even 25 percent of what it would normally take."
"They made improvements to the email error alerts that go out, for the EDI technical. Those typically go straight out to the partners. Those messages are significantly clearer and easy to read. The same messages in the front end are not nearly as clear. It's supposed to be the same error, but the message that goes out for EDI is really easy for anybody to read and understand, but you have to be really solution-savvy to understand the message in the system itself."
"In some of the other tools out there in the market, you can create one service and use that service without creating a copy. That kind of capability currently doesn't exist in this solution."
"Some of the functionality for retriggering documents, where you have to step through a termination process and then retrigger it, versus just being able to restart or retrigger more easily, is a bit challenging, depending on the scenario."
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