We performed a comparison between Mule ESB, Oracle Service Bus, and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus 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 connectivity the solution provides is excellent. There are often too many systems that we have to integrate and this helps with that."
"Scalability and load balancing."
"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."
"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."
"This tool has exceptional API management and integration connectors in addition to multiple out of the box connectors."
"The solution offers multiple deployment options."
"The architecture based on events has several connectors which allow integration from external and internal applications of the company."
"The most valuable feature of Mule ESB is data transformation, i.e. our interacting with different systems and orchestrating for our business needs."
"What I like most about Oracle Service Bus is that you can use it for many integrations. For example, you can use it for on-premises to on-premises integrations, on-premises to cloud integrations, and cloud to on-premises integrations."
"Service Bus is good at routing the transformation."
"The routing and aggregation are the most valuable features. It's split and join."
"I am a part of the software developing team and I mainly use this solution for the integrating applications."
"With Oracle Service Bus, we can connect with different types of systems. Another feature I like the most is the security feature."
"I like the ease of deployment and the ease of implementation."
"This product is not complicated and very easy to learn."
"The interface is fine and the solution is quite robust."
"It is easy to develop. It has a very wide range of features. The older versions are very stable, and there are no issues with the product."
"The GUI and IDE features of this solution are easy to work with and to develop. We find application management easy using this solution. It is a stable product"
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that the performance is robust."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a service-oriented architecture, SOA-based."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring, ease of use, and easy to understand development GUI."
"The stability of this solution is excellent."
"It's very stable and reliable."
"TIBCO has the platform in terms of speed and ease of use."
"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."
"It would be much more beneficial if the solution included AI and business process management."
"One area that could be improved is the way that policies are propagated when APIs are moved from one environment to another. It's an issue, but when you develop and test the rest APIs in a lower environment and need to move them, there's a propagation process. This process moves certain aspects of the APIs, like the basic features. But when we move them, the policies don't always move with them. The policies should be able to move so we don't have to redo them manually. There are some APIs we use, but it's a bit tedious."
"From an improvement perspective, there should be fewer coding challenges for users in Mule ESB."
"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."
"It would be great to see implementing security modules as a feature."
"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."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"We have faced a problem with the heap memory side, but that is stable now."
"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."
"Security features can be improved to better protect the server."
"There are some loopholes in service and support."
"If they can containerize this, that would be nice. If they can provide docker images and offer support for those containers, that would be great."
"The weak point of OSB is the single point of failure."
"This solution would benefit from having more cloud-based adapters."
"It's very complex and hard to learn. There's a steep learning curve."
"The intermediate version that we are using has stability issues. These stability issues should be resolved, but it seems like TIBCO is not focusing on resolving these issues. The resolution timelines are quite high even for high-priority incidents. Its price should be lower. Its licensing cost is considerably high as compared to other ESBs."
"In the next release, there should be improvements made to the API manager."
"The initial setup process could be easier."
"Issues with the support, the fees, and the termination of the professional services are reasons we are looking for other solutions."
"Our version does not have cloud capabilities."
"The solution is very expensive when you use multiple components, it would b better if this could be reduced."
"In the configuration, where we need to customize, it takes more time that we expect it to, ideally."
"We'd like to see improvements in product support."
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