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MuleSoft Composer vs TIBCO BusinessWorks comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.6
MuleSoft Composer enhances efficiency, reduces costs, improves time-to-market, and increases value with easy integration and better data accuracy.
Sentiment score
7.2
TIBCO BusinessWorks is valued for its flexibility and reliability, seen as a worthwhile investment despite ROI calculation challenges.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.3
Users commend MuleSoft Composer's responsive and professional customer service team for efficient problem-solving and quick resolution times.
Sentiment score
6.2
TIBCO BusinessWorks customer service is generally efficient but varies by region, with some users experiencing delays and expertise issues.
The technical support from TIBCO BusinessWorks is very good.
Customer service is very helpful.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.0
MuleSoft Composer is highly rated for scalability, efficiently managing varying data volumes and adaptable for organizations of all sizes.
Sentiment score
6.6
TIBCO BusinessWorks is seen as scalable, but cost, licensing, infrastructure, and specific limitations impact its effectiveness.
It is not like AWS where I can add memory or more servers.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.0
Users find MuleSoft Composer stable and well-performing, despite occasional glitches quickly resolved by support.
Sentiment score
7.4
TIBCO BusinessWorks is stable with minimal downtime, but newer versions face upgrade issues; version 5.14 is preferred.
It is stable, however, every now and then, it just ends.
 

Room For Improvement

MuleSoft Composer needs better platform integrations, interface, scalability, AI integration, and support for complex data and API sharing challenges.
TIBCO BusinessWorks needs cloud improvements, better integration, refined pricing, enhanced monitoring, and easier external tool integration for users.
Performance and latency could be enhanced.
They should ensure that what was working in the previous version must also work in the new version of BW six.
The learning curve takes time compared to webMethods.
 

Setup Cost

MuleSoft Composer is considered costly, especially in Brazil and India, with users recommending a 20%-30% price reduction.
TIBCO BusinessWorks is costly, favoring larger enterprises, but price adjustments make it more accessible starting at €2000.
Pricing is for an enterprise application, so the company pays for it with a company license.
The current licensing cost for the product involves our resource sourcing team for negotiations.
 

Valuable Features

MuleSoft Composer offers Salesforce integration, ease of use, API sharing, prebuilt connectors, and effective data handling, monitoring, and notifications.
TIBCO BusinessWorks is renowned for its user-friendly GUI, scalability, robust integration, and real-time processing capabilities.
It's a great software application for the middleware use cases to connect the front channels to the back ends in a secure and safer way.
When I have an architecture designed to plug in the service itself with BW, it makes things much easier.
 

Categories and Ranking

MuleSoft Composer
Ranking in Data Integration
25th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (15th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (11th)
TIBCO BusinessWorks
Ranking in Data Integration
15th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of MuleSoft Composer is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO BusinessWorks is 1.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Integration Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
TIBCO BusinessWorks1.0%
MuleSoft Composer0.4%
Other98.6%
Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

Prince Barai - PeerSpot reviewer
The prebuilt connectors save a lot of time and money, but the customer support and price must be improved
Our customer’s system is very old. We are trying to upgrade it. We are extracting data from the system and sending it to Salesforce. The product is a good option if we want to build process automation for data. It can be done quickly through the tool. We need not do coding and waste our time and efforts. The ease of learning depends on the person who is learning the product. It depends on whether they come from a developer background. It would be easy to learn if they have some experience in coding and have worked on integrations. I haven’t faced many challenges while scaling our integration solutions with MuleSoft Composer. The drag-and-drop interface has not impacted our project deployment time much. The customer support and price can be improved. Overall, I rate the tool a seven out of ten.
AftabAlam - PeerSpot reviewer
User benefits from reliable support and seamless orchestration capabilities
The best features of TIBCO BusinessWorks compared to other products are that it is a roadmap product. The company has proper support. We have similar products in the market, including open source options, but they don't have any support beyond community feedback. TIBCO BusinessWorks is a standard product widely used by many companies. It is more stable, has future releases, and is compliant with new technologies. The significant advantage is that it is a standardized product with a proper, well-planned roadmap, support, and R&D. The positive impact I have experienced from installing TIBCO BusinessWorks is that it is reliable and has better support. It is easy to use and saves overall support costs. The real-time data exchange capability of TIBCO BusinessWorks has helped mission-critical systems because the uptime is superb. We have implemented it in a Kubernetes cluster with auto-scaling. If any systems go down, we have pods that automatically restart and spawn new pods which start taking the load. Earlier deployments used to be on VMs where infrastructure was limited, making scaling difficult. With Kubernetes, you can provision in advance and scale up or down based on requirements. The graphical user interface of TIBCO BusinessWorks is very easy to use. You can configure all components efficiently. Previously, configuration required opening XML files, which wasn't easy to understand without complete specifications knowledge. The graphical interface makes it easy to understand what needs to be configured and is straightforward to use.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
9%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise23
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about MuleSoft Composer?
The way Composer organizes and manages integration processes is most beneficial. We can easily monitor what's running and what isn't and troubleshoot any data integration issues.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for MuleSoft Composer?
It's costly, especially for Indian clients. Reducing the price would help them penetrate the Indian market. A two-year license costs around seventy lakhs rupees. It's a considerable amount.
What needs improvement with MuleSoft Composer?
Configuration could be easier, but we were able to handle it. It seems that juniors find it challenging, but seniors like me know how to configure it properly. There are no issues. There is also on...
How does TIBCO BusinessWorks compare with Mule Anypoint Platform?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether TIBCO BusinessWorks or Mule Anypoint platform integration and connectivity software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Mule...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO BusinessWorks?
The current licensing cost for the product involves our resource sourcing team for negotiations. It depends on the type of licenses being used, whether perpetual or not. Sourcing manages these aspe...
What needs improvement with TIBCO BusinessWorks?
There could be improvement areas in TIBCO BusinessWorks because every area needs to improve as the industry is demanding and traffic is increasing. Performance and latency could be enhanced. Additi...
 

Also Known As

MuleSoft Composer for Salesforce
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Sample Customers

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Euler Hermes, QSuper, Scandinavian Airlines
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