IBM B2B Integrator vs MuleSoft Anypoint Platform comparison

IBM and Salesforce are both solutions in the Business-to-Business Middleware category. IBM is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.3, while Salesforce is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.2. IBM holds a 6.4% mindshare in BBM, compared to Salesforce’s 9.8% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Salesforce users who would recommend it.

IBM B2B Integrator

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

IBM B2B Integrator and MuleSoft Anypoint Platform compete in enterprise integration solutions, with each product excelled in certain areas. MuleSoft appears to have an upper hand in cloud integrations and rapid API development capabilities.

Features: IBM B2B Integrator provides extensive integration capabilities across enterprise systems, secure data transmission, and transformation features. It offers a flexible and scalable solution ideal for handling large data volumes, particularly beneficial for banking and logistics industries. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform offers a robust set of tools for API management and integration, with a comprehensive connector library for rapid API development. It emphasizes integration flexibility and cloud deployment, appealing for seamless cloud-native solutions.

Room for Improvement: IBM B2B Integrator could enhance out-of-the-box features, improve API integration, and refine scalability alongside documentation for new users. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform faces challenges with its complex licensing model and could enhance beginner-friendly tools and runtime management, with users reporting a need for simpler cost structures and integration features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM B2B Integrator is primarily on-premises with some hybrid capabilities, necessitating complex setup but supported by robust IBM support, albeit with occasional slow responses. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform allows varied deployment options including public, private, and hybrid clouds, providing ease for cloud-native solutions with generally well-rated technical support.

Pricing and ROI: IBM B2B Integrator targets medium to large enterprises with higher pricing, flexible licensing, and notable maintenance costs, yet offers good ROI from its strong integration features. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is considered expensive for smaller enterprises due to a complex pricing model based on API usage but provides strong ROI at enterprise-scale API management due to its comprehensive features driving operational efficiencies.

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IBM B2B Integrator vs. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

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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

5.6

IBM B2B Integrator offers good value and quick ROI despite maintenance overhead, as users appreciate its efficient data handling.

Sentiment score

5.5

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform provides ROI through cost efficiency, reduced maintenance expenses, and enabling reuse in enterprises and smaller businesses.

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.5

IBM B2B Integrator support is praised for critical issues but varies by region and personnel accessibility.

Sentiment score

6.7

MuleSoft Anypoint has highly-rated support with fast response times, though documentation and response times need improvement.

They are reachable and provide immediate answers.

Sathyan K

Founder, Director at perfTech Solutions Pvt Ltd

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I would probably rate the support for MuleSoft Anypoint Platform a nine on a scale from one to ten.

Greg O

Senior Validation Engineer at Weir Group PLC

The support team is responsive and helpful.

PietroDell'Erba

Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The Salesforce team offers different levels of support.

Satish Vardhani

Senior Consultant at Radiotechnologies

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.6

IBM B2B Integrator is praised for scalability, ease of implementation, and reliability in managing growing transaction volumes.

Sentiment score

7.3

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform offers scalable, flexible solutions for enterprises, though automated scalability and data demands can be limiting.

If it's properly configured and installed with the right infrastructure, it's the best product for scalability.

reviewer2742345

General Manager Neverhack Spain at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

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MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is quite scalable, and it meets our use cases with no issues preventing implementation.

PietroDell'Erba

Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

MuleSoft provides the ability to scale, yet it is costly to do so.

reviewer2591856

Integration Lead at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.2

IBM B2B Integrator is praised for stability and reliability, despite some database issues and calls for better scalability.

Sentiment score

7.7

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is stable, though users report occasional connector issues and variability in scalability and performance.

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Room For Improvement

IBM B2B Integrator users desire better API integration, modern interfaces, simplified processes, cloud automation, and improved multilingual support.

MuleSoft users seek faster updates, improved support, better pricing, enhanced UI, and expanded Anypoint MQ and integration capabilities.

Compared to other applications such as MuleSoft or Boomi, they have many cloud connectors and multiple connectors for integrating with Salesforce or other CRM or ERP applications, whereas here you may have to develop them, which is not native.

Sathyan K

Founder, Director at perfTech Solutions Pvt Ltd

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MuleSoft is considered expensive, so pricing is a major concern.

reviewer2591856

Integration Lead at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Currently, it uses other standards, but adopting OpenAPI, the standard in the market, would be beneficial.

PietroDell'Erba

Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

When dealing with multiple transactions or trading, the system can lose control, and tracking becomes hectic.

Satish Vardhani

Senior Consultant at Radiotechnologies

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Setup Cost

IBM B2B Integrator is costly but offers flexible pricing with options for licenses and subscriptions based on usage.

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is costly, best for larger organizations, offering workload reduction but requires careful cost planning.

It tends to be very expensive because the IBM license model is oriented toward paying for the power of the machine where you install the platform.

reviewer2742345

General Manager Neverhack Spain at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

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I do not know the specific costs, but given that it is part of MuleSoft, I suspect it is not cheap.

PietroDell'Erba

Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

MuleSoft is considered one of the more expensive products in the market.

reviewer2591856

Integration Lead at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The platform reduces manual workload in maintaining infrastructure, but it does come with some cost considerations.

Satish Vardhani

Senior Consultant at Radiotechnologies

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Valuable Features

IBM B2B Integrator provides secure, flexible integration with various protocols, supporting EDI standards and customization for seamless application integration.

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform excels in API management, seamless integration, user-friendly design, scalability, and connectivity for hybrid environments.

The security features of IBM B2B Integrator are secure enough as it updates and supports all compliances, whether it is HIPAA, financial institution standards, or retail and logistics industry standards.

Sathyan K

Founder, Director at perfTech Solutions Pvt Ltd

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The most valuable feature is the full lifecycle management, including Anypoint Designer and Exchange, as well as Discofolio API.

reviewer2591856

Integration Lead at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform helps to standardize data integration approaches, making it easier to implement integration projects.

PietroDell'Erba

Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The platform is integrated with Salesforce, making it preferable when using Salesforce products.

Satish Vardhani

Senior Consultant at Radiotechnologies

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Categories and Ranking

IBM B2B Integrator

Ranking in Business-to-Business Middleware

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Ranking in Business-to-Business Middleware

1st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Message Queue (MQ) Software (4th), Workload Automation (4th), Cloud Data Integration (4th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Business-to-Business Middleware category, the mindshare of IBM B2B Integrator is 6.4%, up from 6.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is 9.8%, down from 12.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business-to-Business Middleware Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform	9.8%
IBM B2B Integrator	6.4%
Other	83.8%

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Featured Reviews

reviewer2742345

General Manager Neverhack Spain at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Experience with robust integrator reveals strong performance and potential for interface updates

Based on my experience and my clients' feedback, there are a few points IBM can improve for IBM B2B Integrator. One of these is the graphical user interface. For several years, IBM has been promising to renew this interface, which has an ancient, old aesthetic, though it contains many functionalities. Creating a new interface would incur a very high internal cost with no new profitability for IBM. This is one of the points where customers say it feels like working in the 1990s with this interface. Another significant issue is that the platform is not multi-tenant. It's not possible to have different tenants in the cloud. This creates problems when trying to create SaaS offers based on IBM B2B Integrator, as there is the possibility that some workflow for a customer can be visible to another one. Since it's not multi-tenant, it's running on the same tenant of the platform. This is the main issue that the platform has.

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Greg O

Senior Validation Engineer at Weir Group PLC

Integration workflows have become transparent and secure while error tracking is streamlined

The best features in MuleSoft Anypoint Platform for me are transparency between logging in or deploying and using different environments. Managing different environments for the transparency of error logins or how to trace traceability is very important. It's very easy to use and sort, so you can see where everything has gone right and everything has gone wrong. I'm aware of the drag-and-drop interface in MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, and it's very, very quick. It's very time-saving and very efficient. The security features on MuleSoft Anypoint Platform help maintain data integrity in my organization; I would say it's second to none. It's one of the best out there that I have worked with because of the encryption and decryption, and there are a lot of security aspects. I would assess the platform's data mapping and transformation capabilities as amazing. Automation has been straightforward; the transformation and mapping have been easy to use, easy to source, and from the source to the target. I would say it has been very good.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Wholesaler/Distributor

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	32

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	30

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM B2B Integrator?

Regarding pricing, IBM B2B Integrator rates in the middle range. This integrator has embedded all the functionality needed to handle files and messages. It tends to be very expensive because the IB...

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What needs improvement with IBM B2B Integrator?

From the automation perspective, IBM B2B Integrator has its own powerful workflow, but compared to other applications such as MuleSoft or Boomi, they have many cloud connectors and multiple connect...

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What is your primary use case for IBM B2B Integrator?

IBM B2B Integrator is majorly used in banks for managed file transfer, integrating with their external and internal applications for large files, especially huge files which need to be transferred,...

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What advice do you have for others considering Mule Anypoint Platform?

I architected solutions using Oracle SOA/OSB, Spring Boot, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform on cloud / on-premises and hybrid modes; What I see is though if you are an enterprise and have enough money th...

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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...

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What can Mule Anypoint Platform be used for and what do you use it for most often?

This is a very flexible solution that comes with multiple uses. My organization mostly uses Mule Anypoint Platform for API management, as it lets us build new APIs easily and design new interfaces...

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Also Known As

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, Sterling Gentran Integration Suite

Data Integrator, Anypoint MQ

Overview

IBM B2B Integrator helps you securely integrate complex B2B processes with your partner communities. It provides a single, flexible B2B gateway that enables your organization to meet a wide range of B2B integration needs. The solution can improve business processes beyond enterprise boundaries and increase visibility into and across supply and demand chains.

IBM

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform provides API management and integration capabilities with scalability, ensuring seamless connectivity across systems.

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform offers API management and integration capabilities within a user-friendly interface. With a range of connectors and the ability to handle integration patterns, it enables data integration across environments with support for API-led connectivity. High scalability, observability, batch processing, and tooling are key features, enhancing performance while simplifying deployment.

What are the standout features of MuleSoft Anypoint Platform?

API Management: Comprehensive tools for managing APIs effectively.
Integration Capabilities: Facilitates diverse integration patterns.
Connectors: Extensive library for connecting various systems.
Observability: Enhances monitoring and performance tracking.
Batch Processing: Manages large volumes of data efficiently.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Scalability: Adaptable to growing data demands across platforms.
Performance: Simplifies complex deployments and improves processing.
Flexibility: Supports multiple environments, from cloud to on-premises.
User-Friendly: Streamlines integration processes with robust tools.

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is employed by organizations for API management and seamless integration across systems in industries like retail and e-commerce. It connects enterprise applications in environments such as SAP and Salesforce. Users leverage it for data transformation and synchronization, achieving efficient real-time processing and a middleware layer across systems.

Salesforce

Sample Customers

Bonnie Plants, Toshiba Europe, Florida Hospital

VMware, Gucci, MasterCard, Target, Time Inc, Hershey's, Tesla, Spotify, Office Depot, Intuit, CBS, Amtrak, Salesforce, Gap, Ralph Lauren

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