Anypoint Platform

Score8.1 out of 10

141 Reviews and Ratings

What is Anypoint Platform?

The 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.

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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.

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Screenshot of Connect any endpoints using out-of-the-box connectors, dynamic connectivity to API specifications, or by building reusable connectors with Anypoint DevKit™.

Pre-built connectors
Pre-built, tested connectors to a wide variety of applications such as ERP, CRM, HCM, Marketing Automation, etc.
Category average: 8.5
Connector modification
Provision for modification of pre-built connectors to suit specific environments
Category average: 7.9
Monitoring console
Central console for monitoring resource utilization, system health, ability to start and stop processes, etc.
Category average: 7.8

Support for real-time and batch integration
Software supports both real-time and batch integrations
Category average: 7.7
Data quality services
Software includes capability to perform data profiling, deduplication, cleansing etc.
Category average: 8.1
Data security features
Data security features include rights management, LDAP integration, password encryption, etc.
Category average: 8.1

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform.

Based on HG Insights installation data

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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

29.6%

544 installations of 1,837

#2 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

14.4%

265 installations of 1,837

#3 most frequent

Manufacturing

11.8%

216 installations of 1,837

Abhay Kondawar View profile

Senior Specialist in Information Technology at LTM (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform for our digital transformation project to move API development at par with our digital transformation/upgrade project. As MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is one of the Low Code platforms, this is helping us to build development team in no time. We have received over 40% improvement on getting API responses compared to our existing. The reason of choosing MuleSoft Anypoint Platform over other API technologies were ease of integration with legacy as well as new CRM platforms, auto-scaling, extensive logging capabilities and low-code development.

Pros

Integration with Web Methods, Mainframe platforms along with Salesforce Agent force was done flawlessly.
We have a use case where onboarding of new lead generation happens on daily bases where sometimes we gets leads over a million to few thousands; MuleSoft Auto scaling handles this scenario so well without overburdening other API's and saves huge amount of billing by consuming only what is needed.
We have implemented encryption of our PII data as per GDPR policies. We compared data load from small to large scale with encrypting and decrypting our PII data for CRUD operations and the overall performance was astonishing compared to other API tools
We onboarded other Data and API developers for MuleSoft Anypoint Platform development and resources were ready within a week with minimal observations. Even AI integration for code generation was performaing so well with AI agent guidelines that we saved huge development hours which benefitted us to look after business scenarios

Cons

Auto-generation of MUnit test case in Visual Studio Code Plug-in (Anypoint Code Builder) needs some improvement as its not at par with Anypoint Studio yet.
I have observed that few teams are still on Java runtime 8 due to business contigency which even my team faced and as support was over it became impossible for us to deploy change with Java 1.8 and MuleSoft Runtime 4.4. We should have some additional chargeable solution even after sunset/support ends
We are expecting some additional improvement in MUnit test flow generation and logging with complex sub-flows references.

Return on Investment

Licensing cost is still costly for small businesses
In case of additional vCore purchases, we feel that we are forced to get extra vCores due to the licensing plans
MuleSoft Vibe is fitting so well in our business use case and the automated code generation is working perfectly which is saving our billing cost for other AI tools.
Auto scaling and alerts are helping a lot and getting the right attention what needed in case of downtime.
We have a CloudHub 2.0, and on-prem API's and even with such hybrid combinations we do not see and lagging in our responses and large batch processing

Usability

Alternatives Considered

IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration, Boomi, Workato and TIBCO BusinessEvents

Other Software Used

Workato, Boomi, IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We’re a service provider, and we mainly focus on identifying customers’ problems and solving them. One use case involved a customer who handled a large number of handwritten documents from various vendors, which made it difficult to feed the data into the Salesforce system. So, we used MuleSoft’s automation tool called IDP. Using that product, we scanned the documents through the IDP solution, extracted the information, and inserted it into the database, helping the customer significantly reduce the time spent processing that data.

Pros

Yes, the solution we use is IDP. This product primarily works with documents — it helps read them, and with the support of natural language processing, it also allows us to extract information directly from those documents.

Cons

IDP is a good product, but when we use natural language and ask Einstein to extract certain information, it doesn’t always perform accurately. Sometimes the data it retrieves is irrelevant, so that’s a challenge — it can occasionally fail to fetch the correct details.

Return on Investment

This product is very good and comes with many AI-related features, though some of them are not yet fully stable. That’s a downside, but overall, it’s doing a great job in helping customers achieve their goals.

Usability

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for all our integration needs — integrations with Salesforce, as well as with other third-party systems and related processes.

Pros

Basically, on the integration side, it helps connect to different systems very seamlessly, which is a great help for all the integrations between Salesforce, Workday, and others.

Cons

It can improve on the AI side of things — that could probably drive more user adoption. I think that’s one area for improvement. So basically, once we have the use of Anypoint enabled with Agentforce or something like that, it would be really helpful for the developers and others, and it could increase productivity.

Return on Investment

It’s had a very positive impact on how quickly we can move from development to go-live, mainly because it has prebuilt fragments and similar components.
The only negative part, as I mentioned, is the AI — it has some inbuilt agent features, but if it were more like what other Salesforce platforms offer, it would be even better.

Usability

Other Software Used

Workday Human Capital Management

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The use cases we’re looking at mainly involve customers coming to us for insurance quotes. We’re trying to capture those opportunities — understanding what customers are reaching out for and whether we’re able to convert them or losing potential business in that area. So, we’re building a platform for that purpose and aligning our business processes around it.

Pros

I think data integration — that’s mainly what we’ve been using it for.
Batch jobs and similar processes. Those parts have been working well for us.

Cons

I think with MuleSoft, the APIs handle data quite well, but when it comes to different types of data or increased data volumes, that’s where we’re facing some challenges. Maybe we still need to explore more or there could be additional functionality needed, but I think we’ve identified the issue.

Return on Investment

Well, we just started — as I mentioned, it’s our first year — so we’ve gone through a lot of development phases. We’re still in the stage of evaluating and testing different scenarios, so I can’t confidently answer that question just yet.

Usability

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform to integrate our CRM software Salesforce with various other applications like SAP, AD, Workday etc. The integrations are invoked as APIs majority as REST webservices and for a small number of functions as SOAP Webservice. Many of these services are also opened for external use by proper authentications in place.

Pros

Cloud Deployments
Plug-and-play compatibility with prefabricated connections
We can use XML, JSON, and Java for it.

Cons

RAML should be designed and compiled within the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform studio
The MCD Certifications come with only 2 years of validity which makes it costly each time to go for paid certifications
While developers can eventually master MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, it takes some time

Return on Investment

Mulesoft can be used to provide an integration platform to a large number of systems like Salesforce, SAP, and others
An excellent option to develop microservices and real-time integrations
Time saver as it is very fast in data transformation and prototyping the services

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Amazon API Gateway

Other Software Used

Atlassian Crowd, Atlassian Confluence, Jira Product Discovery

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WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus

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