We performed a comparison between IBM B2B Integrator and Mule ESB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about SAP, MuleSoft, IBM and others in Business-to-Business Middleware."Everything from the order to fulfillment to the payment process, except for physical packing and shipping, is fully automated for some customer orders."
"The technical support on offer through the portal is very helpful and responsive."
"It's highly stable, and the redundancy is amazing. B2B Integrator also has a high availability option to work in a cluster environment. You rarely have issues operating it because of the HA."
"The solution is useful for transferring files from one format to another format. Also, the solution is useful in translation."
"It is easy of use and it's easy to maintain. It's also faster to on-board partners."
"The best feature is that many companies use the solution so there is a lot of peer support."
"It can scale horizontally as well as vertically as a cluster."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and the range of EDI standards that IBM Sterling can handle."
"The connectivity the solution provides is excellent. There are often too many systems that we have to integrate and this helps with that."
"The solution has a good graphical interface."
"The most valuable feature for Mule is the number of connectors that are available."
"It was pretty fast to develop APIs on this platform, which is something I liked about it. So, the time to value was pretty good."
"This tool has exceptional API management and integration connectors in addition to multiple out of the box connectors."
"The most valuable feature is that it's programmer-friendly, so it's very easy to develop APIs."
"What Mule provides out-of-box is a sufficient product."
"The solution doesn't require much code writing and we can develop APIs very easily."
"The reporting features could be better. right now, they are lacking a bit."
"The initial setup is complex."
"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."
"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."
"The web interface of B2B is quite outdated and not particularly user-friendly."
"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."
"API integration could be improved. The legacy system could be on the cloud."
"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."
"MuleSoft is not so strong in method-based integration, so they're not so functional in that regard."
"The price of Mule ESB could improve."
"The solution isn't as stable as we'd like it to be. There are some ongoing issues and therefore Mule has to provide frequent patches. Mule's core IP should be more stable overall."
"In order to meet the new trend of active metadata management, we need intelligent APIs that can retrieve new data designs and trigger actions over new findings without human intervention."
"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."
"I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see more additional concept for exception handling, batch processing, and increased integration with other application."
"It's not easy to troubleshoot and we still can't make it work."
IBM B2B Integrator is ranked 4th in Business-to-Business Middleware with 42 reviews while Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews. IBM B2B Integrator is rated 8.0, while Mule ESB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM B2B Integrator writes "A widely-used, on-premises solution with tons of peer support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". IBM B2B Integrator is most compared with IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite, SAP Process Orchestration, SPS Commerce Fulfillment (EDI) and webMethods Trading Networks, whereas Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, Red Hat Fuse and IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services.
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