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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Salesforce Partner Management

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Partner Management is a partner relationship management (PRM) software solution offered by Salesforce.

    $25

    per month per user

    SPS Commerce

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASPS Commerce is a retail network, connecting trading partners around the globe to optimize supply chain operations for retail partners. SPS Commerce supports data-driven partnerships with cloud technology. Their retail cloud services platform features supplier onboarding, EDI compliance, ERP integration, product content management, and sales analytics.N/A
    Pricing
    Anypoint PlatformSalesforce Partner ManagementSPS Commerce
    Editions & Modules
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    Essentials
    $25
    per month per user
    Professional
    $75
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $150
    per month per user
    Unlimited
    $300
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Anypoint PlatformSalesforce Partner ManagementSPS Commerce
    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—All plans are billed annually.—
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    Features
    Anypoint PlatformSalesforce Partner ManagementSPS Commerce
    Cloud Data Integration
    Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and Salesforce Partner Management and SPS Commerce
    Feature
    MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
    9.7
    13 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Salesforce Partner Management
    -
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    SPS Commerce
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built connectors9.814 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connector modification9.714 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for real-time and batch integration9.714 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality services9.614 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data security features9.714 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring console9.714 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Anypoint PlatformSalesforce Partner ManagementSPS Commerce
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (26 ratings)
    8.5
    (13 ratings)
    1.0
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (6 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.2
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Anypoint PlatformSalesforce Partner ManagementSPS Commerce
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Salesforce
    Salesforce Partner Management is a great tool for scenarios where a partner portal needs to be created in a quick and cost-efficient manner by teams that do not necessarily have a broad technical knowledge and when the time to market is key. In the situations where the use case is more advanced and cannot be covered by the out-of-the-box functionalities of SPM, then the tool is less effective.
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    SPS Commerce
    When you find yourself growing and finding success faster than you can keep up with, SPS Commerce will save your life and your reputation. The services they offer are easy to understand, they are available with suggestions and ideas for better ways, personalization is available to best suit your needs or the needs of your customers so that you can really shine and relieve the worries that come with growing pains. SPS also helps to keep information accurate with less human touching to cause errors.
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    Pros
    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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    Salesforce
    • Clear, concise user interface.
    • Organizes calls & notes & client info into one uniform platform.
    • Allows knowledge to be shared across the organization & account teams.
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    SPS Commerce
    • We can easily create and send order confirmations.
    • We respond to the corresponding receiving departments with timely and accurate ASN's.
    • Once the order has shipped, customer service utilizes the invoicing function.
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    Cons
    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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    Salesforce
    • One thing is, you have to put the time you took on the case if you edited it. I would like to change the name or a note and not have to go back and put how long it took.
    • Reports can sometimes be hard to create.
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    SPS Commerce
    • We have quite a few people here who use this portal, and we have it set up to receive an email when an order is available to print. As of now, you can only add a few recipients to receive those emails; it limits you.
    • Invoicing is challenging at times as you have to remember to go in and invoice. If you forgot, it is hard to find the order to invoice, as it seems to disappear.
    • We still haven't figured out how to have some of the invoicing features auto-populate, so there isn't so much to fill out. I wish some of those features were easier to use, or find if you have them.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    We are definitely going to renew as we created and developed a very functional and complete solution that we won't want to lose. and the reason we achieved that is by continuously evolving and enhancing. That would not be possible without the qualified technical support we have at our disposal internally.
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    SPS Commerce
    If I can drop it, I will this year. We gave it a decent try for over 4 years and it has gotten worse with each added connection.
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    Usability
    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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    Salesforce
    Salesforce Partner Management is complete and has great usability. Just as a Salesforce full CRM does. However, when you have to deploy the initial implementation and/or create the infrastructure for your Salesforce Partner Management it might require, as expected, a very good support and development team and resources
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    SPS Commerce
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    Support Rating
    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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    Salesforce
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    SPS Commerce
    Phone support is generally very good and you can get a person on the phone within a few minutes. Their emailed customer support however is very poor and often goes several days or longer before receiving a response, if ever at all
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    Online Training
    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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    Salesforce
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    SPS Commerce
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Salesforce
    Tune provides great on-boarding experience for new users, but the functionality of the product itself is limited. For example if you multiple partners worldwide who sell your product, Salesforce CRM integration is a must to achieve business goals. Salesforce ecosystems helps to avoid having multiple tools and licenses. One big differentiator is that Salesforce Partner Managements allows for personalization that is user-friendly, while with Tune user is expected to do some coding
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    SPS Commerce
    In my opinion, SPS Commerce is the bottom out of all three provided here. I think, essentially, if you are looking to be hands off and only oboard on setup and don't plan on growing your business and want to not understand anything about EDI and how it affects your company, SPS Commerce is a fine choice. Just if you want to do anything beyond that, I believe you are going to have the worst time.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Salesforce
    • Single integrated lead management system- positive.
    • Partner information and communication - positive.
    • One system for all partner needs like assigning deal registration or MDF- positive.
    • Trainings required internally- negative.
    • Too expensive- negative.
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    SPS Commerce
    • I enrolled in a product I ended up not using because the vendor that required it ended our working relationship and SPS refused to offer a refund. After I canceled it, they continued to charge our account for three more months of service.
    • The interface is simple and easy to understand and use, so it saved time when preparing shipments.
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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.

    SPS Commerce Screenshots

    Screenshot of SPS Commerce Fulfillment provides real-time visibility to order and shipment statuses.