We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and webMethods Trading Networks 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)."I like that Mule ESB provides fast and good technical support."
"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."
"It was pretty fast to develop APIs on this platform, which is something I liked about it. So, the time to value was pretty good."
"The most valuable feature for Mule is the number of connectors that are available."
"The solution improved my company by modernizing the way we offer services and improving the user experience."
"The architecture based on events has several connectors which allow integration from external and internal applications of the company."
"The product offers a community edition that is free of cost."
"Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."
"With webMethods, the creation of servers and the utilization of Trading Networks facilitate B2B integration. It resolves any related issues effectively."
"webMethods Trading Networks is a good solution for interacting with outside of the organization. We can integrate the solutions with multiple outside the organization."
"webMethods Trading Networks is a stable solution."
"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."
"The current version will not be supported for much longer."
"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."
"Documentation is cryptic, product releases are far too frequent, and upgrades become troublesome."
"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."
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see more additional concept for exception handling, batch processing, and increased integration with other application."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"The stability could be improved."
"Perhaps in the area of Microservices, where I think Trading Networks could benefit from some improvements."
"The solution should include REST API calls."
Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews while webMethods Trading Networks is ranked 15th in Business-to-Business Middleware with 4 reviews. Mule ESB is rated 8.0, while webMethods Trading Networks is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of webMethods Trading Networks writes "Beneficial for external interactions, integrates well, and great support". Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, Red Hat Fuse and webMethods Integration Server, whereas webMethods Trading Networks is most compared with IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services and IBM B2B Integrator.
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