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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Cloud Private

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes-based container platform allowing users to build cloud-native applications on their own infrastructure. In addition, it offers common services for self-service deployment, monitoring, logging and security, as well as middleware, data and analytics.N/A

    Mule ESB

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AMule ESB, from Mulesoft, is an open source middleware solution.N/A
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    IBM Cloud PrivateMule ESB
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    IBM Cloud PrivateMule ESB
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    IBM Cloud PrivateMule ESB
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of IBM Cloud Private and Mule ESB
    Feature
    IBM Cloud Private
    9.7
    5 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Mule ESB
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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    IBM Cloud PrivateMule ESB
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    IBM DataPower Gateway
    Score9.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud PrivateMule ESB
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Cloud PrivateMule ESB
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    IBM Cloud Private is an ideal platform for companies to accelerate their business growth. It helps in reducing the cost of IT and operations while delivering a great customer experience. With IBM Cloud Private, you can gain agility and security with a flexible hybrid model that fits your needs. It's highly recommended to my colleagues from me.
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    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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    Pros
    IBM
    • Capacity On Demand to scale up and down environments
    • SaaS model allows our team to have less involvement in managing or controlling the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities.
    • SaaS model allows our team to worry less about upgrades, fix packs, environment support etc.
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    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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    Cons
    IBM
    • Bluemix/IBM Cloud UI can be better
    • Changing Brand name from Bluemix to IBM Cloud, as we are habituated to Bluemix more
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    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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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    With VMware cloud, each VMware Cloud customer must have an SDDC account(VMC) as well as a general AWS account. The two accounts must be linked for the service to work which is a tiresome thing to do for some clients but with IBM Cloud Private all these issues are solved.
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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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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • IBM Cloud has helped us start using the cloud and migrating old services to the cloud.
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    Salesforce
    • Overall a great tool for complex integrations
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