We performed a comparison between Mule ESB, Oracle Service Bus, 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)."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 connectors help to connect with a variety of applications."
"It's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications."
"The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot."
"Everything runs in Java, which is a useful feature."
"This tool has exceptional API management and integration connectors in addition to multiple out of the box connectors."
"Most of our use cases are for Salesforce. So, the connectors for Salesforce have been really helpful. They've made development two times faster."
"Scalability and load balancing."
"The stability is consistently high, with only one notable issue encountered."
"It is stable."
"It is lightweight and one can easily integrate with different applications, databases, JMS, or web services through different protocols."
"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."
"Service Bus is good at routing the transformation."
"The routing and aggregation are the most valuable features. It's split and join."
"The interface is fine and the solution is quite robust."
"It was very good at supporting high transactions, up to 300 transactions per second."
"It integrates well with various servers."
"The synchronous and asynchronous messaging system the solution provides is very good."
"The MFT component of webMethods, for example, is easy to set up and convenient to use. It handles files very efficiently and it is easy to automate tasks with complex schedules. Monitoring is centralized to MWS which can be used to monitor other products as well (Trading Networks, BPM, MFT, etc.)"
"It's a visual tool, so our transformations can be quickly implemented without a lot of fuss. The fact that we have an easy way to expose REST services is also very interesting. It offers the possibility to connect over GMS to synchronize message brokers."
"The Software AG Designer has been great. It's very intuitive."
"I like the stability of the webMethods Integration Server."
"One [of the most valuable features] is the webMethods Designer. That helps our developers develop on their own. It's very intuitive for design. It helps our developers to speed the development of services for the integrations."
"Application integrations are offered out-of-the-box, and that is extremely important to us. This is one of the main use cases that we have for it. It is about 60 to 70 percent of the workload in our application today."
"I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."
"It needs more samples. Also, the dependency on Maven should be removed."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"Mule ESB isn't as secure as IBM. Financial companies go with IBM for that reason."
"The solution's setup needs to be a bit more straightforward and its support needs to respond faster."
"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."
"In order to meet the new trend of active metadata management, we need intelligent APIs that can retrieve new data designs and trigger actions over new findings without human intervention."
"There is significant room for improvement in the monitoring capabilities."
"We have faced a problem with the heap memory side, but that is stable now."
"The initial setup is likely complex for many organizations."
"Security features can be improved to better protect the server."
"Lacks sufficient cloud compatibility."
"There are issues, especially if you want to create some compensation in your service bin."
"The inconvenient part about working with this product is that it's very heavy, requiring a lot of people and a lot of resources."
"The connectivity with the solution is an area that needs to be improved. On occasion, requests are lost due to losing connectivity."
"One area that needs improvement is the version upgrade process. Many customers I've worked with encounter challenges when transitioning from their current version, such as x or 9, to a newer version. The process is not smooth, and they must shift their entire website."
"On the monitoring side of things, the UI for monitoring could be improved. It's a bit cumbersome to work with."
"Large file handling is pretty hard comparatively to other middleware tools."
"We need more dashboards and reporting engines that can provide detailed information for management. In short, we need better analytics."
"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."
"A while ago, they were hacked, and it took them a very long time to open their website again in order to download any service packs or any features. I don't know what they could do differently. I know that they were vulnerable, and there was some downtime, but because they were down, we were unable to download any potential service packs."
"Technical support is an area where they can improve."
"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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