We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can use Java expressions anywhere in the flow."
"The connectors help to connect with a variety of applications."
"The solution improved my company by modernizing the way we offer services and improving the user experience."
"The most valuable feature is that it's programmer-friendly, so it's very easy to develop APIs."
"The most valuable features of Mule ESB are its ease of use, documentation, ease to adapt to newer security and vulnerabilities, and a lot of help available. Additionally, there is a lot of flexibility, many patches available, and they provide APIs. They are a market standard."
"I like that it's user-friendly. Compared to other ESBs, I find it easier to use. I like it better than other ESBs. I like the connectors, which make calling the APIs through the routers easier."
"Most of our use cases are for Salesforce. So, the connectors for Salesforce have been really helpful. They've made development two times faster."
"The connectivity the solution provides is excellent. There are often too many systems that we have to integrate and this helps with that."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a service-oriented architecture, SOA-based."
"TIBCO has the platform in terms of speed and ease of use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that the performance is robust."
"The product’s most valuable feature is stability."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring, ease of use, and easy to understand development GUI."
"The most attractive and beneficial feature is the ease of development."
"It's very stable and reliable."
"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"
"Community editions need more attention."
"The payment system needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"It would be much more beneficial if the solution included AI and business process management."
"There are some features on the commercial version of the solution that would be great if they were on the community version. Additionally, if they added more authorization features it would be helpful."
"I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."
"Mule ESB isn't as secure as IBM. Financial companies go with IBM for that reason."
"In the next release, there should be improvements made to the API manager."
"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."
"Issues with the support, the fees, and the termination of the professional services are reasons we are looking for other solutions."
"The solution is very expensive when you use multiple components, it would b better if this could be reduced."
"We'd like to see improvements in product support."
"Migration to cloud solutions or products should be made convenient, transparent, and easily understandable."
"If TIBCO could be able to sort the size of their base image in the Container edition, it would be really marvelous. Right now it's around 299 MB. We'd really want it to reduce to a few MBs."
"Our version does not have cloud capabilities."
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Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews while TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is ranked 9th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 12 reviews. Mule ESB is rated 8.0, while TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus 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 TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus writes "A robust product that needs to improve the functionality it offers related to API lifecycle management". Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, webMethods Integration Server and IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, whereas TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Red Hat Fuse, IBM DataPower Gateway and Workday Business Process Framework. See our Mule ESB vs. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus report.
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