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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Mule ESB

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AMule ESB, from Mulesoft, is an open source middleware solution.N/A

    SAP Integration Suite

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ASAP Integration Suite is a modern, secure integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that connects applications, data, processes, and AI agents across SAP and non‑SAP environments.

    $11,199

    per year

    Pricing
    Mule ESBSAP Integration Suite
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Mule ESBSAP Integration Suite
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Access to free tier services does not expire while there is an active Pay-As-You-Go or CPEA account with SAP. Once a free tier service limit has been reached users have the option to update from a free to a paid service plan in the same account.
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    Community Pulse
    Mule ESBSAP Integration Suite
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    SAP
    Chose SAP Integration Suite
    It is weaker compared to competitors:
    1) Weaker design environment.
    2) Weaker monitoring functionalities.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Integration Suite
    SAP comes first because we are a SAP shop and it has good integration capabilities.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Integration Suite
    SAP Integration Suite is preferred for use with SAP solutions
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    98%
    Would buy again
    272 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    240 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    293 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    163 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    229 Answers
    Features
    Mule ESBSAP Integration Suite
    Cloud Data Integration
    Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of Mule ESB and SAP Integration Suite
    Feature
    Mule ESB
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Integration Suite
    7.9
    270 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Pre-built connectors00 Ratings8.4255 Ratings
    Connector modification00 Ratings7.7218 Ratings
    Support for real-time and batch integration00 Ratings8.0249 Ratings
    Data quality services00 Ratings7.9226 Ratings
    Data security features00 Ratings8.1238 Ratings
    Monitoring console00 Ratings7.0246 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Mule ESBSAP Integration Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    8.4
    (356 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.7
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.7
    (9 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Mule ESBSAP Integration Suite
    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.
    Incentivized
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    SAP
    Good at: 1. Integrations with in SAP applications, especially with event based triggers 2. Can be integrated very well with other BTP services to attain Batch processing and store credentials 3. Supports many authentication models Improvements: 1. No version history available compared to as it is available in S4HANA 2. Need a lot of improvement in git hub connections
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    SAP
    • The extensive catalog of pre package integrations that have in the discovery center. That allows developers to find solutions that can fit the needs.
    • Monitor of the integrations and api deployed.
    • API management has been for us a very usefull tool inside integration suite, to be able to have the API Hub with the documentation of our apis.
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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
    • Provide more pre-built integrations to use within SuccessFactors or other modules instead of everything having to be custom built
    • Support is unable to provide advice on custom builds so you often have to engage a 3rd party partner
    • Works best when you have the functional and technical teams working together. Otherwise, the system is too technical for a functional user to create integration and a technical user not always understand the functional perspective
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    It is in place, our system integrators are familiar with it, and it fits into the ecosystem. A better user interface, flow build and debugging experience would see it grow, many technical staff do not enjoy using it for this reason, however it is quite capable and powerful behind this one shortcoming.
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    The user interface is messy and not intuitive. It has a steep learning curve, and flows developed around are easy to make a mess with layout and can be difficult to follow. The debugging is also quite difficult, it takes some time to figure out how to follow the flow and examine data. Error handling is also difficult and not intuitive, it is better to let some errors leak and monitor through ALM.
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    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    The support for SAP Integration Suite is satisfactory. We leverage SAP support through our manage services partner. So far, we have not had many major issues. One concern, to make our rating a ten, would be turnaround time on high priority incidents. SAP Integration Suite drives our key business functions forward. Without a reasonable service level agreement on turnaround, we sometimes find us running into issues running pay, etc.
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    Implementation Rating
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Work with an SAP implementation partner, if possible.
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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
    Before deploying SAP Integration Suite, we assessed Oracle Financial Services Analytics and IBM Risk Analytics. While Oracle had proved its mettle in the exceptional database support and IBM in presenting risk model tools, SAP Integration Suite overwhelmed others by being effortlessly integrated with our existing banking framework.
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • Overall a great tool for complex integrations
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    SAP
    • Positive impact would be availability of pre-defined integration content via templates.
    • One can re-use a template as a starting point to modify and adopt to client-specific integration flow.
    • Availability of adaptors and connectors, making it easier to piece together the integration flow.
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