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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 (19th)
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
62
Ranking in other categories
Message Queue (MQ) Software (4th), Business-to-Business Middleware (1st), Workload Automation (5th), Cloud Data Integration (6th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Integration solutions, they serve different purposes. InterSystems Ensemble is designed for Application Infrastructure and holds a mindshare of 1.8%, up 0.3% compared to last year.
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Business-to-Business Middleware, holds 8.7% mindshare, down 11.9% since last year.
Application Infrastructure Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
InterSystems Ensemble1.8%
Apache Web Server8.0%
NGINX Plus7.9%
Other82.3%
Application Infrastructure
Business-to-Business Middleware Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform8.7%
SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite10.4%
IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services9.7%
Other71.2%
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."
"The tool helps with order management and automates the enterprise's orchestration, invoice creation, product maintenance, and product life cycle. The API manager feature helps us configure, secure, and call APIs."
"The most valuable feature of Anypoint MQ is it comes with MuleSoft so we don't have to maintain separate components."
"The API management capability of Mule Anypoint Platform has improved my customer's workflows by providing an automated system for processes they were previously doing manually, resulting in an improvement in their performance."
"The API management portion of the solution is great and the most valuable for us."
"The community manager is the standout feature of the Mule Anypoint Platform, as it provides a platform to showcase your API to external parties. It is exceptionally user-friendly and enables external parties to easily utilize and consume the APIs."
"The product’s ability to seamlessly translate protocols is great."
"Mule Anypoint Platform is our preferred platform for integration."
"Mule Anypoint Platform is also good in terms of performance and how it is managed behind the scenes."
 

Cons

"It would be good to enhance the schedule interface."
"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."
"Mule Anypoint Platform should improve its pricing. In my experience, a customer using the sandbox version couldn't upgrade to the final version because it exceeded their budget. Another area for improvement is the login mechanism. We need to integrate with third-party products for strong authentication, but it would be better if MuleSoft had its own robust login mechanism."
"The solution's licensing methodologies could be improved."
"It's extremely expensive to change things in Anypoint MQ. There's also this issue of slow output of messages, and that needs to be improved."
"I think in the next release if they could work with the low-code platform that developers are struggling with that would be helpful."
"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."
"It would be better if we had a clearer view of the solution's future releases."
"In order to set up a storefront, we currently rely on a third-party solution. It would greatly enhance our operations if this feature was integrated into their existing solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Mule Anypoint Platform pricing is slightly higher compared to Dell Boomi."
"The solution's pricing, as per the old approach, is expensive."
"The solution has a high price."
"MuleSoft Anypoint Platform really needs to work on its pricing model because it's very complicated."
"I rate the product price a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."
"Mule Anypoint Platform is an expensive solution."
"Licensing can be complex as is the case with most iPaaS/cloud offerings."
"The tool's pricing is cheaper than other RPAs' since it is execution-based. Other RPAs charge based on subscriptions."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
8%
Government
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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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...
 

Also Known As

Ensemble
Data Integrator, Anypoint MQ
 

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