MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Pros

I found Mulesoft Anypoint Platform a very useful tool that has a powerful focus on integrations management. UI is really intuitive. It can be used and understood easily by admins and developers. We really liked the connectors we found there, we used them on some integrations and reduced research time.

Cons

During the years we realized that the platform is becoming quite expensive, making every renewal difficult to manage with Finance Area. There are other options in the market that are getting in to the game and we are being forced to review them because of this price increase.

Pros

It provides security perfectly over the other APIs, improving my large workflows and with each function that MuleSoft Anypoint has, it saves me from long hours of work by automating processes that are long, I have managed to better manage my work and time

Cons

At first, the learning process is not easy, you must have knowledge to learn to use the tools perfectly, I would not recommend it for people who are learning the subject.

Pros

It does everything we need it to. There is a wealth of features.

Cons

The UI can be very buggy at times and hard to use. I get warnings the dont' make sense half the time.

Alternatives Considered

Pros

The exceptional features of MuleSoft Anypoint Platform makes it a reliable application development solution.
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is easy to use and accurate.

Cons

I do no have dislikes about MuleSoft Anypoint Platform.

Pros

I like how Anypoint platform introduces new features as it evolves to meet growing client needs. Anypoint Exchange makes it easy to discover APIs. API manager is efficient in applying custom policies and managing APIs deployed even outside the platform.

Cons

Anypoint Studio needs to be optimized, as debugging applications is slow and clunky. Deployment to Cloudhub 2.0 could also be improved.

Pros

We strongly like the possibility to easily manage APIs in a single point of access.
For a company based on microservice softwares , Mulesoft provide a cockpit really useful to manage everything in a effective way.

Cons

At the moment we didn't find any lack or point of failuer in this softeware solution for what are our business purposes.

Pros

Anypoint Platform is an essential platform for building strong APIs, integrations across the Saas environment. Easy to debug and provide permissions

Cons

Some updates with connections aren’t made real-time which is a downside

Pros

We have made quite a bunch of strides forward in our daily customer needs via the ETL features provided by MuleSoft and we believe we can continue to do so with its great integrations.

Cons

There's not much to say as the solutions provided by MuleSoft caters to our customers needs, helping our company's overall goals grow.

Pros

The most loving part of this software is a unified platform for api getting connectivity.This software enables organizations to easily build and rapidly scale an application network of apps, data, and devices through APIs and its integrations. It includes features like Rapid development very fast with the component design structure made easy,Connectivity to all system,With very optimal runtime providing the real logs/outcomes.Visibility and control which monitors, secure and govern all aspects of anypoint platform - APIs, integrations, traffic, SLAs and more from a single interface.Tops world best brands business are running with Mule anypoint platform as their code design software cococola, buffalo wild wings, atom bank etc are the companies using Any point platform for their business to build services or interfaces

Pros

The Anypoint Platform has matured significantly since its inception. It now has API managment, analytics, dashboards, self-discovery, and multiple deployment options.

Cons

As the feature set has gone up, so has the price. It's starting to price out small to mid-level customers.

Pros

Cloud technology takes care of the API security and work as an secured gateway.

Cons

Administrative skills are needed to manage the solution.

Pros

Best for both ESB and API management
Ease of development with drag and drop approach. Development time will be reduced
Has plenty of inbuilt connectors for cloud and on-premise systems and we can develop our own connector
Supports 4 scripting languages Groovy,Ruby,Java,Python.
Easily integrates with java in various ways
Dataweave support for transformation
Easy designing of API with RAML and Swagger
Supporting of API gateway,policies, SLA tiers
Easy deployment seup in coud and on-premise

Cons

When some error occurs while developing, logging is not clear for them.Logging needs to be improved
Unable to debug Dataweave script
Lack of lookup tables support in current Dataweave. Has good support with DataMapper
Need to be improved features in API management
Documentation is good but can be improved
Faced some issues with API kit router while handling with large data.
Synchronising the data from on-premise systems to cloud systems and vice-versa

Pros

Error-handle processing, deep code programming (directly on the XML), Python, Java and other code separated into the transformations, complete IU for developing, connection with versioning solutions

Cons

Prcesses monitoring, task schedule

Pros

USP is Connectors and how rapidly the flows can be built. I am an admirer of Mule Runtime and the time it takes to start, deploy applications and the number of transactions it can handle with minimum hardware configurations.

Cons

Anypoint Studio - There are so many bugs when TransformMessage is used with big XMLs and JSON schemas.
Anypoint Runtime Manager: It is very inconsistent in managing the run time without any issues.
RAML Editor: It has to improve while showing errors.
Flow Analyzer: It is needed in ARM which is available in MMC.
Autodiscovering APIs: It is very inconsistent and has to improve

MuleSoft need to support Swagger along with RAML to have more options to the developers.

Pros

n number of possibility in integration space considering its direct competitors.
Design Center is a mater stroke for creating API specification & API Manager(act as Gateway) which competitors doesn't have.
Graphical flow design which is easy to build and debug.

Cons

I don't see any because Mule fulfills much need integration needs

Pros

Light-weight.
Scaling down - quick point-to-point integrations.
To the Cloud - CloudHub.

Cons

Circular reference is wrongly interpreted during deployment, even though it will not result in loop.

Pros

easily develop business flow and reuse with many system. it does not force any design constraints on the architect to deliver any message. its work on highly distributed environment.

Cons

created more thread over the application.
As per my experience, the performance of the application is not as much good.

Pros

Simple, centralized, end to end web platform. Runtime manager, insights, logs, alerts, policies at single place. Only Flow designer is missing. Although it is included in latest version 4.0, should have come before.

Cons

Anypoint designer had some issues with IE, Mozilla. Runtime manager hangs. Reporting of flow analytics should be more in depth. API designer doesn't provide all the features of comparitive tools like swagger. Public portal design should have been more options oriented.

Pros

The user interface is very friendly, very complete this integration tool with all the options for setting up the raml, creation, exhibition  and configuration of the API in addition to the part of statistics analysis incredibly useful for making business decisions.

Cons

Not all options are intuitive and it is a little uncomfortable to expose the API on the one hand and configure it on the other, it would be better if everything were available in a single section.

Pros

The freedom and options to connect any system / component using the Anypoint Platform. Can connect flat files and expose them as a Web Service! The system doing a "GET" using web service will never know what kind of language / platform they're dealing with. It's a consistent look and feel of REST and SOAP.

Cons

Design tools are in Eclipse and require a slight learning curve if you are new to the environment. Because portions of the product are open sourced, updates require careful regression testing.

Pros

So many Connectors available already in the tool and also there is a scope for new connectors as it is a open source. This gives freedom to the developer to use them conveniently.

Pros

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is a great projectwhen working with API's.

Cons

There is nothing bad to say about MuleSoft Anypoint Platform.

Pros

Paradigm shift. API led connectivity vs. monolithic solution. Network of APIs is the way to go, and with right design approach you can have APIs which you never have to change.

Cons

documentation some time is harder to find, compare to MicroSoft technologies where there are tons of examples and sample code, it is sometime hard to get your specific question answered.

Pros

1. Application Program Interface concept.
2. Playing as very good role in Integration platform compare to other Integration tools like TIBCO ,Web methods and Oracle Fusion ... etc

Cons

1. customer support
2. product patch versions
3. Need to introduce some of connectors or adapters for establishing connection between mule to destination applications or systems like SAP......etc

Pros

DataWeave component makes complex transformation into simpler which reduces lot of effots on comples business logic and business orchestration.

RAML provides good contract definition which can be used for developing the REST web services .

It is very light weight compare to other leading ESB provider(Oracle ESB,Talend ESB..)

It gives lot of adapter/Connector which we can make use for integration (Eg, Salesforce)

We can also use Java expression which is known to many developers for few things.

Cons

We have to use explicit audit/logging, unlike oracle SOA which gives out of box auditing.

Most of the cloud adapters/Connectors are licensed.