We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and Oracle SOA Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, MuleSoft, Software AG and others in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)."Easy connectivity and easy integration."
"Most of our use cases are for Salesforce. So, the connectors for Salesforce have been really helpful. They've made development two times faster."
"It's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications."
"Scalability and load balancing."
"The transformation and the data format are the features that I like the most."
"The setup is straightforward."
"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."
"Mule ESB has a user-friendly design, and everything is in one place. The API and architecture are popular right now. Also, MuleSoft has a large and supportive online community."
"The integration with various products."
"The most valuable feature of the facility, as the partner link, is to try to use third-party services and logic in your own vehicle to orchestrate the information."
"This is one of the critical products for my company and we use it extensively. We currently use each and every feature of Oracle SOA."
"The ability to stand up a highly available SOA Suite, which has full DR capabilities, in a remote center and synchronize the databases using Data Guard."
"The Oracle SOA Suite has many useful features, and different organizations may place different emphases on the importance of each feature. Certain features are particularly important to the organization, such as the ability to access databases and transform messages, as well as the use of proxy services to secure web services with usernames and passwords. These features can be critical for enabling effective integration and data exchange between systems and applications."
"Valuable features include connectors and BAM."
"In case there is something that doesn't work out of the box, you have the flexibility to customize it."
"Enables our Product Manager to post products to different outside EC platforms with only one interface and one process."
"The current version will not be supported for much longer."
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see more additional concept for exception handling, batch processing, and increased integration with other application."
"It would be great to see implementing security modules as a feature."
"MuleSoft is not so strong in method-based integration, so they're not so functional in that regard."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"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."
"I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."
"It needs more samples. Also, the dependency on Maven should be removed."
"The Maven integration in JDeveloper is very basic and might be enhanced to allow the proper use of Maven."
"SOA"
"The technical support is good, we have premier support which costs extra."
"The interface is too complicated. Making modifications still requires too much technical knowledge."
"The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved."
"One area that could be better is the human task feature. It could be improved to provide more functionality and customization options because it has limited options available."
"The installation and adjustment process seems too complex."
"They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times."
Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews while Oracle SOA Suite is ranked 8th in Application Infrastructure with 65 reviews. Mule ESB is rated 8.0, while Oracle SOA Suite is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SOA Suite writes "Easy to setup, provides good support and scalable solution ". Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, webMethods Integration Server, Red Hat Fuse and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with WebLogic Suite, Apache Web Server, TIBCO ActiveMatrix, IBM BPM and Microsoft .NET Framework.
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