IBM B2B Integrator vs Mule ESB comparison

"It is easy of use and it's easy to maintain. It's also faster to on-board partners."

"Out-of-box process orchestration yields quick implementations."

"The most valuable feature of IBM B2B Integrator is its security and flexibility."

"The solution is fast and easy to use."

"The solution is useful for transferring files from one format to another format. Also, the solution is useful in translation."

"It uses VMs, allowing us to enable horizontal scaling."

"The most valuable features assist with understanding data formats and transforming data."

"This solution allows for easy integration with heterogeneous applications."

"The most powerful feature is DataWeave, which is a powerful language where data can be transformed from one form into another."

"Easy connectivity and easy integration."

"The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot."

"We can use Java expressions anywhere in the flow."

"Scalability and load balancing."

"The most valuable feature for Mule is the number of connectors that are available."

"The most valuable feature of Mule ESB is data transformation, i.e. our interacting with different systems and orchestrating for our business needs."

"What Mule provides out-of-box is a sufficient product."

"The one thing that is lacking is easy visibility. It's hard to provide business users with a view into the statuses of their transactions."

"There are also some features in the solution that are not user-friendly, like code lists with no search options. So, we must navigate hundreds of pages to check for one entry."

"They do not have a solid partner ecosystem, and they do not have a clear roadmap for down the line; they're missing that clear roadmap."

"Patching or upgrading the product is a bit of a nightmare. It would be nice if they removed the installation manager port. We find it complicates upgrading and patching a great deal."

"End-to-end visibility and monitoring application required. The control center is available and covers this area, but it still fails in many monitoring scenarios."

"The user interface is outdated. B2B Integrator was developed in the United States in the nineties, and the graphical user interface hasn't improved since. It's tough because you have to program the software in XML. Nowadays, other methods are easier to work with."

"There should be a single place to do things, rather than making it complicated, not moving away and truncating the old features but instead coming up with the new and still keeping the old stuff confuses people sometimes."

"The mapping, visibility, deployment, and the dashboard could be improved and updated. The communication logs are very poor. They are not easily understood, and we need to navigate to many places for many reasons. You can't just pull the information; it's very tough."

"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."

"Documentation is cryptic, product releases are far too frequent, and upgrades become troublesome."

"One area that could be improved is the way that policies are propagated when APIs are moved from one environment to another. It's an issue, but when you develop and test the rest APIs in a lower environment and need to move them, there's a propagation process. This process moves certain aspects of the APIs, like the basic features. But when we move them, the policies don't always move with them. The policies should be able to move so we don't have to redo them manually. There are some APIs we use, but it's a bit tedious."

"We would like to have a built-in logging framework in which we can do auditing."

"In the next release, I would like to see improvement in the generator for the DataWeave language so that it's a little more graphic."

"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."

"The current version will not be supported for much longer."

"From my perspective, Mule ESB is lightweight, but it can be improved when it comes to the agility of the system."

"The pricing is based on how many cores are used and the type of cores."

"The price of IBM B2B Integrator is too high. However, IBM may be willing to give a discount if there are negotiations. If they see that there is a good opportunity for them they can provide a discount."

"The product costs more than 40K."

"Licensing depends upon the package you opt for within the solution. The solution is a bit costly compared to the other integration tools in the market."

"We pay an annual fee based on the number of VPUs. It's fairly reasonable. We're in the middle of analyzing other products, and they're all pretty much in the same range."

"The solution is priced at $20,000 to $30,000 per year with no extra costs."

"I think the price is very high. If you use TIBCO BW, the license is for the CPU usage, then the IPS, and support. I also think the license for the product is a one-time expense."

"Most of the challenges that I had with this solution were for smaller customers. There is not a good licensing model or pricing model. It is more expensive than other solutions, and that's the downside of MuleSoft. I had to be creative to be able to sell it to the business, but we did. This is something they have to work on because for large companies, it's affordable, but for small and medium businesses, it's very hard to sell."

"The pricing must be improved."

"The solution is expensive."

"The price of the Mule ESB commercial version is expensive. However, they have a free community version."

"The various features and components for this solution are no longer free."

"You will not get any support from Mule ESB's team for the tool's community edition...You can get support with the licensed version of Mule ESB."

"This product is cheaper than some offered by other vendors, although there is a problem because you have to pay for some third-party adapters."