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    Mule ESB

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AMule ESB, from Mulesoft, is an open source middleware solution.N/A

    TIBCO B2B Integration Solution

    Score8 out of 10
    N/APalo Alto-based TIBCO offers a B2B integration, automation platform.N/A
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    Mule ESBTIBCO B2B Integration Solution
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    Mule ESBTIBCO B2B Integration Solution
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
    Chose Mule ESB
    It is a great product, just very expensive and did not have the connectors. For larger companies it works well and is very reliable, but it requires special skills and support staff to manage the performance and scaling attributes. Both tools can do the job, it just depends …
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    TIBCO Software Inc.
    Chose TIBCO B2B Integration Solution
    Customer Selection - we are and implementation partner.
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    Mule ESBTIBCO B2B Integration Solution
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    User Testimonials
    Mule ESBTIBCO B2B Integration Solution
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    If you’re bringing anything into Salesforce you should just invest now into Mule, you will get your money’s worth and find a myriad of uses to build APIs between many other systems. Once you build a component you can easily reuse it as a building block to attach to another source/destination. This makes it easy to ramp up quickly and spread usage of Mule throughout your enterprise. A good value for medium to large companies, but probably cheaper to outsource your job to a consulting firm if you are smaller.
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    TIBCO Software Inc.
    If the environment has many different protocols for data exchange between partners and most of the protocols follow some standards like EDI X12, TIBCO BusinessConnect should be a good tool to take care this business use case. If the environment has a few simple protocols for data exchange, e.g. SFTP, FTPS or emails, some lighter weight tools will be enough and TIBCO BusinessConnect may be an overkill tool.
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • It is best suited for Rest API development. Mule ESB uses RAML as an API descriptor which is less complex and easy to understand. RAML is an open standard majorly supported by Mulesoft. Once RAML is developed, it is very easy (a few clicks)to create flows corresponding to the resources defined in the RAML. One can also include JSON schema validation in RAML, and with the use of APIkit router, Mule ESB makes the request validation very easy (it's automatic basically.)
    • Mule ESB comes with a large spectrum of community and enterprise connectors. We have connectors for all the major platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce, SAP, etc. This enables Mule ESB to integrate with the other systems in a faster and more robust way. Mule ESB has many components to fulfill the requirements of each integration (for example batch processing, parallel processing, choice, etc.)
    • Mule API gateway is one of the best tools (modules) of Mulesoft's offering. It supports API governance and management very well. One can easily enforce policies on their APIs with API gateway. It enables some of the must-have features in an API solution (i.e. throttling, oAuth, access levels, etc.)
    • Implementing a CI/CD (DevOps) environment for Mule ESB is a very easy task. Mule majorly uses MAVEN as its build tool, which in turn makes it best suitable for CI/CD approach. Mule also provides MAVEN plugins for auto deployments to the servers. Mule also has a best Unit testing module which is MUnit. MUnit can be used for both Unit and Functional testing, and it is easy to write and generates coverage reports in various formats.
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    TIBCO Software Inc.
    • TIBCO EDISIM supports customizing X12 messages as per client requirment.
    • TIBCO EDISIM supports exporting customized messages to EDItoXML and XML to EDI transformation artifacts.
    • BusinessConnect engine architecture processes customized messages (an organization can customize message as per their need).
    • TIBCO BusinessConnect supports multiple hosts to exchange messages. One can build B2B hub/platform using this feature.
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • Make sure to not over-engineer shared components. It can complicate development
    • Create a roadmap for where you are going - if not, you may miss components
    • I suggest getting support, otherwise it could be a difficult learning curve
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    TIBCO Software Inc.
    • When a new version is released, its better to test it thoroughly before letting customers apply the release in their real time environment. There were missing functionalities from the previous versions which were not identified ahead of time.
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    Salesforce
    It doesn't have API . We have to go for another API manager. But in Mule, it has both API manager and ESB
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    TIBCO Software Inc.
    The main reason TIBCO BusinessConnect was selected is because of the overall solution it provides with the different TIBCO products. Since TIBCO BusinessWorks and TIBCO Enterprise Message Service are already in place and the canonical model is already built and integrated into the Information Bus, TIBCO BusinessConnect is the best tool to work with them.
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • Overall a great tool for complex integrations
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    TIBCO Software Inc.
    • Single place to manage BW and BC components
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