Mule ESB vs. SAP for Banking

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Mule ESB
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Mule ESB, from Mulesoft, is an open source middleware solution.N/A
SAP for Banking
Score 8.3 out of 10
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SAP offers banking software, with a wide range of features for customers of retail and commercial banks, featuring mobile and online self-service support, and on the institution side revenue, performance and risk management, along with payment processing and loan management.N/A
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Mule ESBSAP for Banking
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Mule ESBSAP for Banking
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Mule ESBSAP for Banking
Likelihood to Recommend
9.8
(5 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Mule ESBSAP for Banking
Likelihood to Recommend
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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SAP
I think when we have a big company [than] managing the finance is not possible by manual or old data entry. Hence these are the solutions that make the task easier. Small scale requirements can be Managed by other means as banks might be charging the Premium from companies which may be costly for smaller companies.
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Pros
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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SAP
  • It helps with retrieving and updating information on the server.
  • I can easily retrieve information regarding credit for a customer and process information to provide [the] best solution.
  • SAP also assists in compliance management.
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Cons
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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SAP
  • migration is very tough and not easy to use tools, more [improvement] required in data migration tools.
  • Mobile applications are not user friendly in terms if UI design.
  • House banking configurations are complex for any changes and require intense knowledge for implementation.
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Alternatives Considered
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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SAP
I ll recommend SAP for Banking or other accordingly to the size of the company, if you are part of a global company and you need to have access to the big picture & All your assets then this is the right tool, if you have a small company or Fintech then you can work on an open source App
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Return on Investment
Salesforce
  • Overall a great tool for complex integrations
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SAP
  • Harmonization in the data is reducing the reconciliation efforts
  • SAP provides a better innovation visibility in the banking solutions space
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