We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and Mule Anypoint Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies."
"It can handle API conversions with mapping and transformation rules, simplifying the development process."
"It's stable to use, connect with the cloud, and to deploy."
"Technical support is good."
"It's a powerful application for collaboration. It has many features for customization and integration."
"I would say that the most valuable feature is the array of connectors and integration tools."
"When using IBM stacks, IBM App Connect is suitable and integrates well with other IBM products like WebSphere."
"Provides good security features."
"MuleSoft Anypoint Platform's most valuable features are its observability and stability."
"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 tool is very capable and offers a high performance. The tool supports batch processing and ETL processing."
"Whenever we need some support in our local language, we get it easily. They also have an office in Germany and if a person is unable to contact them by phone, they can go to the office in person."
"This is the easiest and best tool available."
"Customers can make use of Runtime Fabric, an RTF environment."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"The monitoring capabilities of this product are very good because of the feedback it supplies in statistics."
"They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better."
"The user interface of IBM App Connect can be a little bit more user-friendly, I would say because the first-time developer is onboarded while using IBM App Connect, he or she may get a little intimidated or daunted looking at all the options available or the pipelines, et cetera."
"IBM needs to enhance and have a stronger offering for the event streaming part because this is the future needed for the containerization and the new integration requirement."
"In the next release, I would like to get some quality connectors."
"IBM App Connect is scalable. From the administration side, they need to improve the RBAC model, as well as the clustering of this product. It will be good if we can start up the cluster, via IBM Connect Console. Some other products like MuleSoft, are providing this type of administration. MuleSoft is easy to use and user friendly."
"Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find."
"The setup time for App Connect could be improved."
"Updates are constantly delayed."
"What I hear from my customers is that it's very expensive compared to the cost of other integration suites. The cost keeps increasing. MuleSoft should come up with customization factors by using a different way of getting the cost-related stuff to attract customers. That is, they should come up with some cost optimizations."
"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."
"It should give better control over account management."
"One area we'd like to see improvement in is the error logging and troubleshooting process."
"The cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required, especially when compared to other tools, like Dell Boomi or Oracle."
"The stability could be better."
"An on-premise setup requires special skills and you need a lot of professional services."
"It doesn't work well when you try using it for the processing layer."
IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 21 reviews while Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 3rd in Cloud Data Integration with 41 reviews. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while Mule Anypoint Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Offers flexible adapters, good scalability but logging can be difficult at times". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule Anypoint Platform writes "Robust, reliable, and stable, ensuring high availability for critical integrations". IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, webMethods Integration Server, TIBCO BusinessWorks, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SAP Process Orchestration, whereas Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, SAP Process Orchestration, Oracle Integration Cloud Service and Informatica Cloud Data Integration. See our IBM App Connect vs. Mule Anypoint Platform report.
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