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What is Anypoint Platform?
The Anypoint Platform developed by MuleSoft and acquired by Salesforce in early 2018 is designed to connect apps, data, and devices anywhere, on-premises or in the cloud. This platform was built to offer out-of-the-box connectors as well as tools that architects and…
Best among all its competitors
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform - One of the Best Integration Software
Amazing System Integration Value for Businesses
Great alternative to Boomi, SAP Integration Suite / PI/PO
Awesome value for Company System Integration
MuleSoft Anypoint allows us to embrace the latest API technology and stay competitive in today's fast moving IT world
Great iPaaS solution
Anypoint Platform - The New-Age Tool
Great, but not very cheap of user-friendly
Best integration platform for connecting SaaS services
Mulesoft vs DellBoomi vs Apigee : Where do these stack up against one another
Mulesoft as a cloud innovator
A Potential Leader in API Space
Platform worth Evaluating for your integration needs
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Popular Features
- Pre-built connectors (11)8.989%
- Support for real-time and batch integration (11)8.888%
- Connector modification (11)8.282%
- Data quality services (11)6.868%
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What is Anypoint Platform?
The Anypoint Platform developed by MuleSoft and acquired by Salesforce in early 2018 is designed to connect apps, data, and devices anywhere, on-premises or in the cloud. This platform was built to offer out-of-the-box connectors as well as tools that architects and developers can adopt quickly…
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Cloud Data Integration
Cloud data integration software simplifies the task of integrating data from multiple different cloud applications
- 8.9Pre-built connectors(11) Ratings
Pre-built, tested connectors to a wide variety of applications such as ERP, CRM, HCM, Marketing Automation, etc.
- 8.2Connector modification(11) Ratings
Provision for modification of pre-built connectors to suit specific environments
- 8.8Support for real-time and batch integration(11) Ratings
Software supports both real-time and batch integrations
- 6.8Data quality services(11) Ratings
Software includes capability to perform data profiling, deduplication, cleansing etc.
- 8.2Data security features(11) Ratings
Data security features include rights management, LDAP integration, password encryption, etc.
- 8.3Monitoring console(11) Ratings
Central console for monitoring resource utilization, system health, ability to start and stop processes, etc.
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What is Anypoint Platform?
Anypoint Platform Features
- Supported: Anypoint Management Center
- Supported: Anypoint Design Center
- Supported: Hybrid Deployment
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Anypoint Platform Integrations
- Salesforce Sales Cloud
- Meta Business Suite
- Workday Business Process Framework
- Workday Financial Management
- Workday Human Capital Management
- Workday Talent Insights
- Oracle Access Management
- Slack
- Zendesk Suite
- MySQL
- Splunk Enterprise
- Zuora
- Drupal
- PayPal Payments Pro
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle Database (legacy)
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Google Marketing Platform
- SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
- legacy
Anypoint Platform Competitors
Anypoint Platform Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
Mobile Application | No |
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(1-21 of 21)- Integrates SAP with non-SAP systems to support our business.
- Performs well.
- Seamlessly integrates much like a native integration tool.
- Price of licensing is a little on the high side.
- Cost of customizing can be high due to specialized skills required.
Best among all its competitors
- First and foremost, it is capable of integration using a variety of connectors.
- Secondly, the transformation is just so simple, we can use XML, JSON, and Java for it.
- Thirdly, it's an all around good product. It has everything you need to start from scratch and deploy on CloudHub.
- The functions used in the transformation connector should be prompted automatically.
- RAML should be designed and compiled within the Anypoint studio.
- There should be connectors in exchange for DB which doesn't exist.
- Basically, it is used to solve business problems where integration needs to be done between a legacy system and Salesforce.
- Its capable of handling the integration between a variety of connectors.
- The transformation is just so simple. We can use XML, JSON, and Java for it.
Cons:
- The functions used in the transformation connector should be prompted automatically.
- RAML should be designed and compiled within the Anypoint studio.
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform - One of the Best Integration Software
- MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is best for API Development with easy to use platform
- Supports Cloud deployment as well
- Webservice integration to n number of technologies without any hassles
- The platform is unified and takes longer time to get familiarize with
- The MCD Certifications come with only 2 years of validity which makes it costly each time to go for paid certifications
- The various windows alignment (floating and docking) is bit cumbersome
Amazing System Integration Value for Businesses
- Compatible with any program with no hassle.
- Plug-and-play compatibility with prefabricated connections.
- Integrates seamlessly with the Salesforce environment.
- Having too many bells and whistles that we won't ever utilize drives up the price.
- Not a good buy, as it is often rather pricey.
- While developers can eventually master Mulesoft Anypoint, it takes some time.
- API management
- Monitoring
- Cloud integration
- Access management should be simplified.
- Should be fully available over the cloud, with no more software installation on a laptop, but again something is necessary to act as a bridge unless it's C2C.
- User Interface
Runtime manager: Manage applications
Platform monitoring - Custom Alerting
Awesome value for Company System Integration
Also, Anypoint Platform provides us a development environment to design our APIs on RAML language and also mock services to speed up the development and delivery. Our main business is system integration using RESTful APIs to exchange data between the systems.
- Design Center (RAML design definition)
- Runtime Manager (Cloud solution to host RESTful APIs)
- Monitoring (Environment Monitoring - Prod and Non-prod)
- Cloud Development (Design Center - Development of APIs)
- Access Management (An existent user cannot be "reused")
For small business, Mule doesn't have a low-cost subscription which can attend small companies. The subscription and license prices are too high for a startup with limited financial resources.
- Fast deployment and implementation.
- Seamless connection for any application.
- Pre-built connectors out of the box.
- Integrates easily with Salesforce platform.
- Has more features than what we really need so we're paying for more than we use. Sort of like paying for an Abrams tank when all we really need is a Toyota Corolla.
- Not a value product, tends to be expensive.
- Takes a while for developers to learn to use Mulesoft Anypoint.
Great iPaaS solution
- Reusability
- Discoverability
- Flexibility
- With the maturity of the platform, cost is increasing so it's starting to price out some small to medium size customers.
Anypoint Platform - The New-Age Tool
- Hybrid integration platform.
- Integrating data from both legacy and SaaS systems, such as SAS, Salesforce, JDE and more.
- High availability and scalability.
- Ability to develop custom functions and logic with minimal system modifications.
- Monitoring: There is huge way the organization can increase in monitoring, the Anypoint monitoring dashboard is just ok!
- Documentation is way behind, there are only minimal knowledge base articles.
- Support: The support system can be more pro-active.
- Cost.
Pros:
- Intuitive user interface. It's extremely easy to locate API information and consume analytic information. - Easy to do create new APIs via RAML. - Fast and easy deployments and updates. - Wide range of connectors.
Cons:
- Customer support can be a bit slow and hard to reach. - Developer Portals for APIs do not allow for much customization. - If you manage a lot of APIs, it is hard to keep track and administer APIs since tables do not let you sort using API request date and other variables.
Great, but not very cheap of user-friendly
- Support for the full API lifecycle.
- A single place to do everything from building API spec, integration, connecting integration with API spec in the form of API implementation.
- Monitoring and visualization.
- Mulesoft has tons of capabilities however where I see it's lacking is usability, it's tough to set-up Anypoint Studio on local machines. Though flow designer is an alternate to that, however, it has very limited capabilities and it's extremely tough to build integrations there for business users.
- Very expensive and no pay as you go model.
Best integration platform for connecting SaaS services
- Provides wide range of popular connectors like Salesforce, netsuite, sftp and many more. A user can easily integrate with those services using specific connector.
- Support API development using RAML and desing tool. The platform is very good in data type classification.
- Cloud deployment and post deployment monitoring is easy. A user can configure application worker as per need. Alert and notifications are real time.
- Anypoint Platform needs to improve the deployment strategy. Currently, it doesn't offer the deployment rollback to the previous version.
- Resolving metadata takes time.
- The license cost is a bit high for mid-scale companies.
- The Anypoint Exchange where there are huge number of connectors to connect to n number of external applications.
- The API management stuff, securing and deploying a API(webservice) via client id and client secret.
- The various policies that we can use to restrict access to our API like rate limiting, Quota etc.
- The UI can be a bit difficult to navigate for beginners, who are not used to Anypoint platform
- Support for node.js that a leading market competitor Google cloud's Apigee has
- The trial is only for 30 days, which should be extended to atleast 60 days which i feel personally is good for developers to learn the product
Mulesoft as a cloud innovator
- It enables developer to write complex orchestration flows through a drag & drop dashboard.
- It enables to interact with other platform via web and/or REST services.
- It enables you to deploy application on cloud in an easy and smart way.
- In dataweave mapping you have to be sure to map fields inserting right names. There is not provided a control mechanism for verifying it
- It is not easy to structure a process hierarchy because you have to develop flows and sub flows in the same xml configuration files.
- I would like to interact with Mulesoft support directly from the design environment.
A Potential Leader in API Space
1. Rate Limiting
2. Basic Authentication with LDAP
3. SLA Based Rate limiting
4. IP whitelist/blacklisting etc.
There are many other cool features provided by Mulesoft API manager but above ones are commonly used. OAuth 2.0 Token authorization is also very easy to implement with API Manager.
- API Manager provides easy API Policy Governance. You do not have to manage multiple platforms for managing the policies.
- Supports hybrid Mule EBS environments. You can configure both CouldHub-based and on-premise-based API using Mulesoft API manager in a similar manner.
- It's very easy to implement API proxy.
- User friendly UI.
- Single platform to manage all.
- Mulesoft does not provide independent API Manager solution. Unlike some well-known API Management platforms, for example, AWS API Gateway, you cannot manage or configure APIs which are hosted on some other platforms (i.e. WSO2, Fusion middleware etc.). So, you always have to purchase the integration solution with API Manager.
- If you compare the Anypoint API manager costs with its peers like AWS, it is very costly and that's why it does not attract small organizations.
For organizations where the cost is a major decision-driving factor, they can opt for some other cheaper options like AWS API manager, Layer 7, etc. So basically, the features which you're getting ready-made in Anypoint API manager you can manually configure in AWS and save some money.
Platform worth Evaluating for your integration needs
- API Spec (RAML) Driven Development and Collaboration Ecosystem (Echange & Portal)
- API Policy Management
- Anypoint MQ and Object Store
- Exchange Vault
- Analytics and visualization
- Native Open API Specification and not via RAML.
- Flow Designer appears primitive and can be built to be more intuitive and user-friendly. Dependency on Anypoint studio can be reduced for low code oriented tasks.
- Lack of flexiblity to package multiple projects in the same app saving on vcores.
- Mule 4 is out and is a breaking changes for 3.x apps. In view this, mesaging around what to avoid to have minimum migration impact is not clear.
MuleSoft for Microservices
As we bring MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, we are able to create a loosely-coupled architecture which is able to remove dependencies in other applications and it helps our applications to deliver on time. Unlike other conventional developments of Application Programming Interface (API) via JaxRS and JaxWS which requires you more experienced resources and programming language dependent, development of API using Mule is much better in terms of flexibility and scalability. One thing I like with Mule is you can develop an API even you are not fluent in any programming languages.
- If you are working with 3 or more services to integrate with a different data source, you'll be able to see the benefits of using Mule.
- In terms of usability, you can develop an API even not fluent in any programming languages.
- Mule also provides a lightweight Java-based enterprise service bus.
- Responsive IDE. More likely they need to improve the IDE as it lags whenever you are working with 20-30 APIs in a package.
Mulesoft: Good tool for Data integration
- Supports wide range of systems for the integrations
- Support API development and web service implementations to integrate homegrown systems too.
- Cloud deployment and monitoring make it easy to handle post production
- Pricing is a plus point while comparing it to others in market
- Development is a little complex in comparison to others in the market. A high learning curve is required for developers.
MuleSoft makes good environments great
- Expose APIs for seamless use internally and by customer developers.
- Improve rapid development processes.
- Provide end to end monitoring that helps improve overall quality and aid in troubleshooting.
- Redefining API design is cumbersome and painful.
- Batch transacting is not as intuitive as would be expected.
- Open Source (even if there is no datamapper is not free).
- MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is a Java product
- We can use Maven to build projects and its dependencies
- In MuleSoft Anypoint Platform Studio, we can build an API Management solution also.
- The license is very expensive (for a big organization, it is very recommended to have an Enterprise License)
- In a data flow, only one object contains all activities data (input/output)
- Sometimes we have to write xml because the graphical designer of flows is not responsive.
MuleSoft Implementation Expert's Review
- On-Premises Connectors
- Cloud SaaS Connectors
- Cloud Social Network Connectors
- Cloud Storage
- API
- EDI
- Mule has improved and provided new features in Mule 4 (List Operations, Sync Read, where we have built our own connectors).
- When extending Mule to support human workflow or approval, currently, it recommends using other providers. We have built a BPM solution connector using Mule. We will open source it.
- Mule has implemented Flow Log/Monitoring Facility in Mule 4 Design Center implementation.
- Extensive documentation to build custom connectors.
Powerful tool with smart intelligence
- Good documentation to follow.
- Easy drag and drop UI feature.
- Excellent tool for development and deployment process.
- Connected with many other supporting tools, so it easy to use our choice of platform for hosting application.
- Would like to see more online tutorials on how to use the tool.
- Mostly java based application.