IBM Integration Bus vs. Mule ESB

IBM Integration Bus

IBM Integration Bus

22 Reviews and Ratings

Mule ESB

Mule ESB

31 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Integration Bus	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM Integration Bus, replacing the former WebSphere Message Broker, is used to connect applications together, regardless of the message formats or protocols that they support. This connectivity helps to ensure diverse applications can interact and exchange data with other applications in a flexible, dynamic, and extensible infrastructure.	N/A
Mule ESB	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Mule ESB, from Mulesoft, is an open source middleware solution.	N/A

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IBM Integration Bus

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Free Trial
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User Ratings
	IBM Integration Bus	Mule ESB
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (0 ratings)	9.8 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Integration Bus	Mule ESB
Likelihood to Recommend	Routing, protocol transformation, message transformation and service aggregation are very well performed by WebSphere Message Broker (WMB). It is not very suitable for integration with databases. Incentivized Srinivasa Manne Principal Software Engineer Developer Read full review	Well Suited for: REST APIs. Rapid API Development. Most suitable for integration with SFDC. Batch processing. Parallel processing. Less appropriate for: Integration with Database. Exposing SOAP services. Small organizations, because it is super costly. Incentivized Deepak Kushwaha Tech Arch Sr. Analyst Read full review
Pros	Graphical data mapper Support for different programming languages Integration with MQ Support for different parsers Incentivized Srinivasa Manne Principal Software Engineer Developer Read full review	As an ESB it provides great flexibility to add/remove systems in the integration easily. Highly scalable. Supports any kind of system to be integrated, Supports Java. Lightweight. Incentivized Ankit Goyal Technical Consultant Read full review
Cons	Logging Debugging Code quality tools Feature specific installation Incentivized Srinivasa Manne Principal Software Engineer Developer Read full review	Logging the Database query in production with out changing the log4j level Incentivized KamaL Vachiravel Mule ESB, API and CloudHub Integration Lead Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Websphere message broker supports a lot more protocols than any other similar tool. Incentivized Srinivasa Manne Principal Software Engineer Developer Read full review	Hands down, Mule is more cost-effective than Informatica, either on-prem or cloud, and the value only goes up form there. Reusability and ease of creation makes in-house training simple and the end result is we leverage Mule for much more than what we initially considered it for. Having used Oracle and TIBCO before as well, I find they are the tools of yesterday, not able to keep up in terms of functionality or price. Jitterbit would be a more relevant comparison, but Mule won out in the bake-off we did between them. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	It helped us in improving the speed to market for our services/APIs. Learning curve is quite long Incentivized Srinivasa Manne Principal Software Engineer Developer Read full review	Created a means to have a synergy with developers - quickly made us productive Ease of integration with Mule connectors - quicker releases Initial configuration was a challenge. Would have been more challenging without Mule Support Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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