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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Integration Bus

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIBM Integration Bus, replacing the former WebSphere Message Broker, is used to connect applications together, regardless of the message formats or protocols that they support. This connectivity helps to ensure diverse applications can interact and exchange data with other applications in a flexible, dynamic, and extensible infrastructure.N/A

    Anypoint Platform

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AThe 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

    Oracle WebLogic Server

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AOracle WebLogic Server is a unified and extensible platform for developing, deploying and running enterprise applications, such as Java, for on-premises and in the cloud. WebLogic Server offers a scalable implementation of Java Enterprise Edition (EE) and Jakarta EE.N/A
    Pricing
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    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Key User Insights
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    93%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    83%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM Integration BusAnypoint PlatformOracle WebLogic Server
    Cloud Data Integration
    Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of IBM Integration Bus and MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and Oracle WebLogic Server
    Feature
    IBM Integration Bus
    -
    Ratings
    MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
    9.7
    13 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Oracle WebLogic Server
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    Ratings
    Pre-built connectors00 Ratings9.814 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connector modification00 Ratings9.714 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for real-time and batch integration00 Ratings9.714 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality services00 Ratings9.614 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data security features00 Ratings9.714 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring console00 Ratings9.714 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of IBM Integration Bus and MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and Oracle WebLogic Server
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    IBM Integration Bus
    -
    Ratings
    MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    7.1
    37 Ratings
    11% below category average
    IDE support00 Ratings00 Ratings9.133 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.435 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings00 Ratings5.837 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings00 Ratings8.836 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings00 Ratings5.537 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings00 Ratings5.425 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
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    Small Businesses
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    Make
    Score9.3 out of 10
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Mule ESB
    Score8.3 out of 10
    IBM App Connect
    Score9 out of 10
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM DataPower Gateway
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Workato
    Score9.3 out of 10
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Integration BusAnypoint PlatformOracle WebLogic Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
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    7.2
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    9.0
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    9.0
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    Usability
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    8.7
    (6 ratings)
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
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    9.0
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    Support Rating
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    10.0
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    6.0
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    Online Training
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    10.0
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    -
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    Routing, protocol transformation, message transformation and service aggregation are very well performed by WebSphere Message Broker (WMB). It is not very suitable for integration with databases.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    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.
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    Oracle
    If you need to have complex options in place you can count on Weblogic to be a robust Applicational Server you can rely on. But you would need to keep an eye on maintaining the framework updated quite frequently to avoid security breaches and subsequent severe situations. If you don't have other infrastructure for test purposes, I wouldn't advise you on having devs and QA installing this heavy application in their local machines, there are other lightweight solutions that would be a better fit for that.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Graphical data mapper
    • Support for different programming languages
    • Integration with MQ
    • Support for different parsers
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    Salesforce
    • 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.
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    Oracle
    • The brand relation between Java and WebLogic Application Server usually provides a quicker access to programming features and their availability for the applications deployed.
    • The access to centralized configuration both from console and command line WLST eases the implementation of changes major or not in an organized and expedite way.
    • The maturity of the product is also visible in the available tools provided by the product itself, for both monitoring of resources and alerting for availability and thresholds
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Logging
    • Debugging
    • Code quality tools
    • Feature specific installation
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    Salesforce
    • 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.
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    Oracle
    • Debugging issues has been difficult sometimes, the documentation is too dense and finding the the root cause for an specific issue takes time.
    • The Oracle WebLogic Server console UI feels old and gives a sense of lack of innovation even though it provides so much functionality.
    • I'm not sure if Oracle WebLogic Server supports more modern frameworks, but it feels more like a Java EE specific, maybe there's an opportunity there to appeal to newer application platforms
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    Usability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    We have migrated our existing over 100+ APIs from legacy to MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and the processing has seen over 40% improvement and saved huge amount in overall annual billing. From development perspective, MuleSoft Vibe has made developers life so easy and reduced development time. Extensive logging, and build-in connectors for other integration tools, logging and repo is providing kind of one place solutions. Any point Platform is providing various options like runtime, API manager, Access management, segregation of Business groups and so many other option which is helping us to monitor, configure and manage all our APIs in one place
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    Oracle
    Oracle WebLogic Server has so many features that sometimes it's hard to find the right place to setup things, I think the dated user interface does not help with that either. This has a direct impact when deciding to use it as your application server, you'd need to have the right people and invest the time needed to master it. If you're application justifies it then it will definitely be a great choice in the long run.
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    Performance
    IBM
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    Salesforce
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    Oracle
    Oracle WebLogic Application Server is great at security, performance and features.
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    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.
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    Oracle
    The Oracle support is not great sometimes. They take a long time and need a lot of data over and over to resolve issues.
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    Online Training
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    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
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    Oracle
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    Websphere message broker supports a lot more protocols than any other similar tool.
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    Salesforce
    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.
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    Oracle
    I believe the Oracle WebLogic Suite is probably a better all encompassing suite of development tools for the IT department. [It] is probably a bit more expensive than other competitors like Apache Tomcat or NGINX, but is worth the investment if you consider the savings from time to get code into production.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • It helped us in improving the speed to market for our services/APIs.
    • Learning curve is quite long
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    Salesforce
    • 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.
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    Oracle
    • WebLogic Application Server definitely had a positive ROI since all the applications are deployed on a single platform and making maintenance extremely cost effective.
    • Since all major cloud vendors support and maintain WebLogic, it gives us an opportunity to explore possibilities to move the organizational infrastructure on to the cloud without too much effort.
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    ScreenShots

    Anypoint Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of Connect any endpoints using out-of-the-box connectors, dynamic connectivity to API specifications, or by building reusable connectors with Anypoint DevKit™.Screenshot of A reporting suite that provides a real-time view of API consumption trends and operational performance. Analytics provides insight into how your API is being used and informs forward-looking design decisions.Screenshot of A platform to engage with API developers and drive adoption. Share documentation, examples and manage developer access from a single platform.