We performed a comparison between IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services 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."They have best-in-class, quality support."
"They have multiple features for each kind of task and issue. The company has different channels to give information to the administration. Security and integration capabilities are also important. This product has helped to replace a lot of other solutions, saving time and cost."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"The product's most valuable feature is the real-time integration suite."
"We are able to monitor all B2B messages, and we are able to see or track each message on it from an error perspective. That's a good side of it. It is working well, and we're able to do our current job."
"Mule Expression Language"
"The setup is straightforward."
"The connectivity the solution provides is excellent. There are often too many systems that we have to integrate and this helps with that."
"The product offers a community edition that is free of cost."
"The most powerful feature is DataWeave, which is a powerful language where data can be transformed from one form into another."
"The cloud and integration abilities are most useful allowing us to use applications such as Salesforce and DataWeave."
"It is easily deployable and manageable. It has microservices-based architecture, which means that you can deploy the solution based on your needs, and you can manage the solution very easily."
"I am impressed with the product's connectors and scalability."
"The only weaknesses they have different governance for each task and different channels for communication which are hard to maintain. The relation of the company with other companies can be improved. We have a lot of customers who this platform for the interchange of information which can also be improved. The compliance information about banks can also be updated."
"Onboarding on the solution is complex. It's hard to onboard partners and customer suppliers. It's one aspect that is not that straightforward."
"They can improve APIs because they are still lagging behind in API connectivity. With non-API connectivity, they're market leaders, but API connectivity, they're still in the immature space."
"It can be now classified as a legacy system because there are no more updates. From what I know, there will be no updates for the current version, which is an issue. Therefore, we are looking for a compatible new software that we can use. We're currently researching what is there in the market. We would consider something that would give us better speed on our current processor. There is also room for improvement in terms of its scalability and GUI. It is an old system, and its scalability can be improved. Its GUI can also be more appealing."
"The current version will not be supported for much longer."
"Documentation is cryptic, product releases are far too frequent, and upgrades become troublesome."
"The solution's setup needs to be a bit more straightforward and its support needs to respond faster."
"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."
"Community editions need more attention."
"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."
"MuleSoft isn't as mature as some other integration technologies out there like IBM WebSphere. There's room for growth, and MuleSoft is working toward that."
"From an improvement perspective, there should be fewer coding challenges for users in Mule ESB."
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IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services is ranked 3rd in Business-to-Business Middleware with 8 reviews while Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews. IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services is rated 8.2, while Mule ESB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services writes "Comes with real-time integration suite and best security ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services is most compared with SPS Commerce Fulfillment (EDI), SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite, SAP Process Orchestration, IBM B2B Integrator and Mule Anypoint Platform, whereas Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, webMethods Integration Server and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus.
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