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InterSystems Ensemble vs MuleSoft Anypoint Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

InterSystems Ensemble
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Application Infrastructure (21st)
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
62
Ranking in other categories
Message Queue (MQ) Software (6th), Business-to-Business Middleware (4th), Workload Automation (10th), Cloud Data Integration (10th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Integration solutions, they serve different purposes. InterSystems Ensemble is designed for Application Infrastructure and holds a mindshare of 1.7%, up 0.8% compared to last year.
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Business-to-Business Middleware, holds 8.7% mindshare, down 11.2% since last year.
Application Infrastructure Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
InterSystems Ensemble1.7%
NGINX Plus8.0%
Apache Web Server7.3%
Other83.0%
Application Infrastructure
Business-to-Business Middleware Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform8.7%
SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite10.2%
IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services9.0%
Other72.1%
Business-to-Business Middleware
 

Featured Reviews

it_user463221 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech vendor
We use the solution for web services.
It would be good to enhance the schedule interface. There is no indication that lets us know if a module has stopped. Shortly speaking, each business host has color in the Production page. Meanings of colors are described in a "Legend" link on the Production page. Also, each business host either has or has no private pool (processes that work with its queues). When we stop a business host by scheduling, its private processes are killed (if they exist). Such a situation is not expressed in changing business host color. The only way to check if a business host is stopped by scheduling is to check its processes presence.
GO
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The InterSystems technical support (WRC) is perfect and highly qualified."
"MuleSoft Anypoint Platform's most valuable features are its observability and stability."
"Customers can make use of Runtime Fabric, an RTF environment."
"It has improved our organization a lot because of the increase in productivity, and it has simplified the development of products. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is a highly effective tool where you can build integrations so effectively. If you establish the integration platform, it increases productivity. It helps us to do effective re-authentication, and it speeds the integration."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"The tool’s API management capabilities are excellent."
"The customer service and technical support are unique compared to other providers, as they are very involved, very responsive, and very eager to help and to provide what we need."
"MuleSoft's integration with Salesforce products makes it a preferred choice for those setups."
"The API-led approach of MuleSoft offers a very cost-efficient model and re-use for implementation and support of microservices, APIs and generic services when followed correctly, and is fully supported and enabled by the web engagement tools of the platform (Anypoint Exchange, Anypoint Portals, and Anypoint Design Center)."
 

Cons

"It would be good to enhance the schedule interface."
"The stability is another thing on MuleSoft that can be improved. They introduced connectors for other platforms and sometimes the connectors are not great quality and they are not very robust, so that affects the stability and is an area where stability and the product overall could be improved as well."
"Its documentation needed a little bit of work to make it more usable. It is a platform that is used mainly by developers and other people for connecting systems. Its documentation was confusing in some areas and was not very helpful in other areas. I had to go to a consultant to get some work done, which ideally shouldn't be required."
"Anypoint MQ's capabilities are mainly used for messaging purposes, but it doesn't have typical use cases that extend as far as other Message Queue software."
"Pricing is one aspect of the solution that is troublesome. It's too expensive for smaller organizations."
"The solution's pricing model is very strange, and it will be really expensive if you use APIs a lot."
"The platform's data integration tools need improvement on the processing side."
"MuleSoft's release calendar is rather conventional with two major, two minor releases and hotfixes in between. The competition sometimes offer more rapid release cycles and provides improved and new functionality with a faster time-to-market."
"The customer service is not good enough"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The licensing is core-based. My customers tell me that it's very expensive compared to the cost of other integration suites."
"I rate the product price a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."
"The pricing of our solution is highly competitive. While it may not be categorized as exceptionally low, it is certainly more affordable compared to IBM."
"Mule Anypoint Platform is affordable."
"The tool's pricing is cheaper than other RPAs' since it is execution-based. Other RPAs charge based on subscriptions."
"The product is still very expensive."
"Regarding pricing, I believe there could be room for improvement to align with user expectations."
"Mule Anypoint Platform pricing is slightly higher compared to Dell Boomi."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
7%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise31
 

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Also Known As

Ensemble
Data Integrator, Anypoint MQ
 

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