We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and Oracle SOA Suite 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's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications."
"We can use Java expressions anywhere in the flow."
"The solution improved my company by modernizing the way we offer services and improving the user experience."
"Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."
"The transformation and the data format are the features that I like the most."
"The most valuable feature is the Salesforce integration."
"This tool has exceptional API management and integration connectors in addition to multiple out of the box connectors."
"The solution offers multiple deployment options."
"What I like best about Oracle SOA Suite is Oracle support. I also like the tool features, especially the integration feature."
"The ability to stand up a highly available SOA Suite, which has full DR capabilities, in a remote center and synchronize the databases using Data Guard."
"In case there is something that doesn't work out of the box, you have the flexibility to customize it."
"It performs better in real-time transactions."
"The product allows you to visualize how a company is working currently by providing rich possibilities for analysis such as the audit trails and therefore shows where improvements might be valuable."
"This is one of the critical products for my company and we use it extensively. We currently use each and every feature of Oracle SOA."
"Conceptually, how it integrates a lot of essential enterprise process components. That's the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of the facility, as the partner link, is to try to use third-party services and logic in your own vehicle to orchestrate the information."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"There are limitations with the subscription model that comes with the product."
"Mule ESB could be more user-friendly. I think users must learn about the architecture before they start coding. The price could be better. In the next release, I would like to see an EDIFACT integration."
"From the product perspective, it was sometimes hard to manage the dependencies. When we had to add dependencies on a couple of different packages, it was sometimes confusing. It was hard to update them with Anypoint Studio, as well as with MuleSoft. There were challenges with that. So, that's one of the areas that could be improved."
"The payment system needs improvement."
"We would like to have a built-in logging framework in which we can do auditing."
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see more additional concept for exception handling, batch processing, and increased integration with other application."
"The solution's setup needs to be a bit more straightforward and its support needs to respond faster."
"I want to see easier integration connections with other cloud-based tools."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses."
"Other solutions might be better componets such as Salesforce."
"The technical support is good, we have premier support which costs extra."
"SOA, OSB, SOA Cloud Service."
"If the disk space expansion can be made more flexible, not requiring a database restart, it would be a major benefit."
"The web services need to be more robust."
Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews while Oracle SOA Suite is ranked 8th in Application Infrastructure with 65 reviews. Mule ESB is rated 8.0, while Oracle SOA Suite is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SOA Suite writes "Easy to setup, provides good support and scalable solution ". Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, webMethods Integration Server, Red Hat Fuse and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with WebLogic Suite, Apache Web Server, TIBCO ActiveMatrix, Microsoft .NET Framework and IBM BPM.
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