Layer7 API Security vs. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Layer7 API Security

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Layer7 API Security	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Layer7 API Management enables enterprises to test and monitor real-time in both development and production environments. Now under the brand Layer7 API Security from Broadcom, the service includes Layer7 API Gateway, and the Layer7 API Developer Portal.	N/A
Anypoint Platform	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	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 to design, build and manage the entire lifecycle of their APIs, applications, and products.	N/A

Pricing

Layer7 API Security

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Layer7 API Security	Anypoint Platform
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Layer7 API Security	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Considered Both Products	Layer7 API Security Leonardo Villa Director of Service Delivery Chose Layer7 API Security We evaluated 3 tools and decided on Layer7 API Management because it had the shortest implementation times and fastest learning curve, without losing power of customization and scalability. Incentivized Helpful?	Anypoint Platform Abhay Kondawar Senior Specialist Chose Anypoint Platform Low-Code platform, AI integrations, Billing logic compared to Boomi and other tools are few points. We have validated our few business scenarios and observed huge performance difference which in turn gave us confidence to go ahead with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. The … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform In this domain, this is the first one that I’ve been a part of. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform I’ve also used IBM ACE. MuleSoft is a very versatile integration platform, and it also comes with a variety of automation tools. As a package, it’s one of the best options because all those functionalities are included as part of the license. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform I’ve used a lot of other integration tools, and in comparison, Salesforce performs quite well. Since this platform is also integrated within Salesforce — and we use Salesforce heavily — it manages and functions very effectively. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform AWS is a very good tool but still evolving and offers a small set of API management features. The main reason why we chose MuleSoft Anypoint Platform API Manager is because it is well suited with the APIs developed in Mule ESB. Incentivized Helpful? Charles Ahn Director Chose Anypoint Platform Mulesoft is a more modern, flexible, and faster-performing integration suite than traditional providers. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform Once we have moved all of our system integration APIs to the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, we will need to communicate with a wide variety of external systems. All of our business and service logic is stored in the aforementioned core systems. Anypoint Platform (and all of our … Incentivized Helpful? Gaurav Pandey - PMP,ITIL,CSM SAP Technical Manager Chose Anypoint Platform Overall a better experience in pricing negotiation with the Sales team. The breadth of services offered by Mulesoft was really important and the expertise offered by our consulting partner influenced the decision. The overall deployment was completed well within the timelines. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform Once we use [MuleSoft] Anypoint Platform to host all our system integration APIS, we need to exchange data with a lot of different resources. Those listed systems are our main systems that hold all business and logic behind our service. The integration from Anypoint Platform … Incentivized Helpful? AS Alex Scutea Cloud Solutions Administrator Chose Anypoint Platform We selected Mulesoft for speed of implementation. We did not have the luxury of time and needed a solution that can be learned and implemented within weeks so we can take advantage of newly formed partnerships. The training that was provided to use during our pre-sales and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform We believe Anypoint Platform is best in breed and has features that match nearly any other iPaaS offering. It also allows for accomplishing much more challenging and complex integrations due to the ability to connect to nearly any system, use custom connectors, and embed … Incentivized Helpful? Nikhil Kohli Service Delivery Lead Chose Anypoint Platform The main problem with this software is the different connector type that is used for different protocols except for a different SAP connector. There is only one connector called SAP. It will be great if there will have a different connectors like idoc, RFC, proxy, etc. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform Anypoint has tons of capabilities baked in one platform, and other competitors like Built.io or Workato may not have all those like Anypoint Exchange. However where these products shine are in usability, as it's ridiculously easy to build integrations using Built.io. I was … Incentivized Helpful? Kamta Prasad Technical Lead Chose Anypoint Platform Anypoint Platform is really very easy to adopt for application integration. Simple UI and easy data weave language allows user to focus on business portion only. The API management and deployment of application are hassle free. We have selected Anypoint platform because it is … Incentivized Helpful? Vaibhav Khanna ☁⚡ Salesforce Consultant Chose Anypoint Platform Dell Boomi is kind of similar in drag and drop implementation. However, it doesn't have as many connectors (shapes in Dell Boomi). Moreover, it also doesn't have deployment stuff on its own. Informatica is way behind Dell Boomi and Anypoint Platform, but users are still using it … Incentivized Helpful? Rajarshee Mukhopadhyay Associate Consultant Chose Anypoint Platform Compared to Dell Boomi the API management suite of Mulesoft is much mature, however if its only about the integration , then i would always go for Dell Boomi, as there is no infrastructure setup that needs to be done from the developer's end. APIGEE api management is as good as … Incentivized Helpful? Deepak Kushwaha Tech Arch Sr. Analyst Chose Anypoint Platform The main reason why we chose Anypoint API Manager is because it is well suited with the APIs developed in Mule ESB. AWS, on the other hand, is a very good tool but still evolving and offers a small set of API management features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform API led architecture focus with a decent API ecosystem for developer collaboration, policy management and declarative implementation. Batch processing, visualization, Anypoint MQ and ObjectStore leave a lot to be explored. Multiple deployment models make it worth considering. Incentivized Helpful? Ankit Goyal Technical Consultant Chose Anypoint Platform Dell Boomi and Talend Data Integration Incentivized Helpful? Federica Bianco Integration architect Chose Anypoint Platform It enables customers to expose their APIs in a very simple and fast way. It can be used by non-expert developers. It is compliant with all major connection and data representation world standard. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform TIBCO BusinessWorks and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus Incentivized Helpful? VR Vijaya Reddy Founder Chose Anypoint Platform We provide options to customers to choose from the best tools. Customers are the decision makers. Personally, because of open-source and large community base, MuleSoft is the repo in the market. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform It is a powerful tool with smart intelligence. The drag and drop feature makes my work easy. The tool has great connecting support which is the best reason to use the tool on a daily basis. Powerful functionality with designing and implementing APIs. Hosted on public IP. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Layer7 API Security

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

API Management

Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
	Layer7 API Security 8.6 Ratings 2% above category average	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform - Ratings
API access control	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
API usage data	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
API user onboarding	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
API versioning	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Cloud Data Integration

Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of Product A and Product B
	Layer7 API Security - Ratings	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform 9.5 Ratings 17% above category average
Pre-built connectors	00 Ratings	9.60 Ratings
Connector modification	00 Ratings	9.60 Ratings
Support for real-time and batch integration	00 Ratings	9.50 Ratings
Data quality services	00 Ratings	9.40 Ratings
Data security features	00 Ratings	9.40 Ratings
Monitoring console	00 Ratings	9.60 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Layer7 API Security	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.9 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)	8.7 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Layer7 API Security	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	Well suited for publishing internal services with very high security, protecting against attacks, and managing on-demand load. Also good for transform messages and SQL to Rest services. Not appropriate for business logic implementation. Incentivized Leonardo Villa Director of Service Delivery Read full review	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is best tool in the market for developing APIs with complex structures communicating with various different types of applications including web applications as well as legacy applications. Also applications including database connectivity for fetching and updating data in the DB tables. I cant think of any scenario which MuleSoft Anypoint Platform could not be used for developing the integrations. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	SOAP to Rest / Rest to SOAP web services transformation. Secure authorization and authetication (JWT, OpenIP Connect, OAuth, SAML and more). WASP Features as injection protection. Easy rule writing without coding. Incentivized Leonardo Villa Director of Service Delivery Read full review	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. Incentivized Kamta Prasad Technical Lead Read full review
Cons	It would be nice to have an integration with services like Github for managing projects and versions. Incentivized Leonardo Villa Director of Service Delivery Read full review	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. Incentivized A Verified User Cloud Solutions Administrator Read full review
Usability	The Layer7 API Management is a great solution, but, sometimes the documentation is not clear or has lack of examples. Incentivized Leonardo Villa Director of Service Delivery Read full review	There’s a lot of learning curve at the beginning when it comes to building the code and everything. In terms of usability, I’d say once you get used to it, it’s fine — but it’s not very easy during the initial stages. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	The support team is good and the response time is reasonable, but (there is always a but), when support inquiries are made by someone experienced, and the question is not trivial, it is boring and takes a long time to get the case escalated to the next level of support. Incentivized Leonardo Villa Director of Service Delivery Read full review	Anypoint Platform support is very responsive. There is also a huge knowledge base and an active online forum where answers to most questions can be found. When needed support engages the engineering group so adequate solutions or workarounds are always provided. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Online Training	No answers on this topic	I have started with MuleSoft Fundamentals course provided by MuleSoft training at start. This was sufficient to do initial learning and get onboarded. The online documentation with different Runtime versions/deprecated functions and keywords are well documented. The automated solution provided by MuleSoft Anypoint Platform to upgrade 3.0 to 4.0 gave a good head start while learning MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and working altogether with Online training and documentations Abhay Kondawar Senior Specialist Read full review
Alternatives Considered	We evaluated 3 tools and decided on Layer7 API Management because it had the shortest implementation times and fastest learning curve, without losing power of customization and scalability. Incentivized Leonardo Villa Director of Service Delivery Read full review	Once we have moved all of our system integration APIs to the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, we will need to communicate with a wide variety of external systems. All of our business and service logic is stored in the aforementioned core systems. Anypoint Platform (and all of our APIs) makes it easy to connect to various other platforms. In order to link to these many other systems, connectors and/or components are utilized, and they are simple to configure and integrate. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Very fast implementation and is easy to learn & use. Incentivized Leonardo Villa Director of Service Delivery Read full review	Mulesoft can be used to provide an integration platform to a large number of systems like Salesforce, ODBC, JDBC, SAP, Mongo DB, etc. An excellent option to develop microservices and real-time integrations. Not as robust in handling large data volumes, Informatica is better in that respect. Incentivized Nikhil Kohli Service Delivery Lead Read full review
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