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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…

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Great iPaaS solution

10 out of 10
October 23, 2019
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We have multiple clients who use Anypoint Platform with various levels of entitlements; from simple Runtime Manager to API Manager and …
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  • Pre-built connectors (10)
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  • Support for real-time and batch integration (10)
    8.5
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  • Connector modification (10)
    8.5
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  • Data quality services (10)
    8.3
    83%

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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…

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Product Details

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 tools that architects and developers can adopt quickly to design, build and manage the entire lifecycle of their APIs, applications, and products.

Anypoint Platform Features

  • Supported: Anypoint Management Center
  • Supported: Anypoint Design Center
  • Supported: Hybrid Deployment

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.

Anypoint Platform Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

WSO2 API Manager, WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus, and SnapLogic are common alternatives for Anypoint Platform.

Reviewers rate Monitoring console highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Anypoint Platform are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform's primary function is to offer our business a turnkey Cloud hosting solution for all RESTful APIs. There, we have complete command and visibility over all of our infrastructure and application infrastructure. In addition, the Anypoint Platform gives us a place to work on designing our APIs in the RAML language and creating mock services to use in testing, which helps us get things out the door faster. As a company, we specialize in integrating disparate systems by exchanging data using RESTful APIs.
  • Compatible with any program with no hassle.
  • Plug-and-play compatibility with prefabricated connections.
  • Integrates seamlessly with the Salesforce environment.
  • Having too many bells and whistles that we won't ever utilize drives up the price.
  • Not a good buy, as it is often rather pricey.
  • While developers can eventually master Mulesoft Anypoint, it takes some time.
Anypoint Platform is ideal for a large corporation that values efficiency in setting up new environments. Once you log in to Anypoint Platform, you'll have immediate access to the production and staging environments. You can tailor your environment's parameters to your specific needs and requirements, but if you don't you can simply deploy and execute your APIs. Mule does not provide a plan with a price tag that is reasonable for small businesses to pay. Subscription and licensing costs are too costly for a young company.
Gaurav Pandey - PMP,ITIL,CSM | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
A great alternative to Dell Boomi or other middleware products. I still think the user interface is evolving but it can be of significant use towards becoming an API-first company. Mulesoft Anypoint is a competitive solution for developing and deploying API for the organization. It is well documented, and easy to deploy and run.
  • API management
  • Monitoring
  • Cloud integration
  • Access management should be simplified.
  • Should be fully available over the cloud, with no more software installation on a laptop, but again something is necessary to act as a bridge unless it's C2C.
  • User Interface
API Manager: Manage API
Runtime manager: Manage applications
Platform monitoring - Custom Alerting
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The main use of MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is to provide to our company the entire Cloud solution to host all RESTful APIs. There we can manage and monitor all our systems, having control and support for our applications.
Also, Anypoint Platform provides us a development environment to design our APIs on RAML language and also mock services to speed up the development and delivery. Our main business is system integration using RESTful APIs to exchange data between the systems.
  • Design Center (RAML design definition)
  • Runtime Manager (Cloud solution to host RESTful APIs)
  • Monitoring (Environment Monitoring - Prod and Non-prod)
  • Cloud Development (Design Center - Development of APIs)
  • Access Management (An existent user cannot be "reused")
[MuleSoft] Anypoint Platform fits for an enterprise company that wants to gain time with environment configuration. The deployment environment - pre-prod and prod - is ready to use once you access Anypoint Platform. It's true you can customize all configurations for your environment based on your requirements and needs, but if you don't, just deploy and run your APIs.
For small business, Mule doesn't have a low-cost subscription which can attend small companies. The subscription and license prices are too high for a startup with limited financial resources.
Nikhil Kohli | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Anypoint Platform is the next-gen tool that markets micro-service framework and is our go-to platform. It's being used across the Integration Team to move the existing integrations to Mule. The idea of micro-service which doesn't hamper the other services running is the major win for Anypoint.
  • Hybrid integration platform.
  • Integrating data from both legacy and SaaS systems, such as SAS, Salesforce, JDE and more.
  • High availability and scalability.
  • Ability to develop custom functions and logic with minimal system modifications.
  • Monitoring: There is huge way the organization can increase in monitoring, the Anypoint monitoring dashboard is just ok!
  • Documentation is way behind, there are only minimal knowledge base articles.
  • Support: The support system can be more pro-active.
  • Cost.
While the Anypoint Platform is a newcomer to API management tools, it still manages to be feature-rich and offers many resources for both API development and deployment needs.

Pros:
  • Intuitive user interface. It's extremely easy to locate API information and consume analytic information. - Easy to do create new APIs via RAML. - Fast and easy deployments and updates. - Wide range of connectors.

Cons:
  • Customer support can be a bit slow and hard to reach. - Developer Portals for APIs do not allow for much customization. - If you manage a lot of APIs, it is hard to keep track and administer APIs since tables do not let you sort using API request date and other variables.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Anypoint Platform to design Mulesoft based integration which works like backend for API implementation. This integration varies from Salesforce based integrations, Workday based integrations, and applications that need large scale data transformation capabilities. Anypoint platform has various tools like Anypoint flow designer which our business users use to build integrations.
  • Support for the full API lifecycle.
  • A single place to do everything from building API spec, integration, connecting integration with API spec in the form of API implementation.
  • Monitoring and visualization.
  • Mulesoft has tons of capabilities however where I see it's lacking is usability, it's tough to set-up Anypoint Studio on local machines. Though flow designer is an alternate to that, however, it has very limited capabilities and it's extremely tough to build integrations there for business users.
  • Very expensive and no pay as you go model.
Anypoint enables building API's backed up by integrations. It's ideal for SaaS-based integrations, for example, Salesforce and Workday. There are multiple orchestrations in the industry like integration orchestration, cloud orchestration, business process orchestration. Anypoint shines when it comes to integration. It's not ideal to use Mulesoft for cloud & business process orchestration. API led connectivity is a big sell for Mulesoft, however comparing the cost to that of non-SaaS-based integration is a costly affair.
Kamta Prasad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I'm using Anypoint Platform for one of our US-based clients. The client was looking for a solution to integrate different systems of stock market business. They wanted the solution in microservice or API fashion and Anypoint Platform is a leader in API led connectivity. The Anypoint platform provide rich set of functionality like API manager, deployment strategies, and API policies. A user can create API using RAML specification in the design center and implement those APIs in the flow designer. The deployment of applications is fast and multi worker based. As per the client requirements, we have created multiple microservice/APIs using RAML and published those in Anypoint exchange.
  • Provides wide range of popular connectors like Salesforce, netsuite, sftp and many more. A user can easily integrate with those services using specific connector.
  • Support API development using RAML and desing tool. The platform is very good in data type classification.
  • Cloud deployment and post deployment monitoring is easy. A user can configure application worker as per need. Alert and notifications are real time.
  • Anypoint Platform needs to improve the deployment strategy. Currently, it doesn't offer the deployment rollback to the previous version.
  • Resolving metadata takes time.
  • The license cost is a bit high for mid-scale companies.
The Anypoint Platform is well suited for the integration of multiple subsystems. It is a great system or tool to create microservice-based integration architecture. The user can also use this tool to connect multiple SAAS based applications or data synchronization. Anypoint Platform provides a single entry point for applications where users can apply API policies like rate limit, authentication and many more.
Ankit Goyal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We helped several customers implement Mulesoft for integrating their various systems. We have used it mainly to integrate Salesforce with various other systems including homegrown systems using SOAP and Rest web services.
  • Supports wide range of systems for the integrations
  • Support API development and web service implementations to integrate homegrown systems too.
  • Cloud deployment and monitoring make it easy to handle post production
  • Pricing is a plus point while comparing it to others in market
  • Development is a little complex in comparison to others in the market. A high learning curve is required for developers.
More suitable for complex integration scenarios as it supports Java code too. Need to have an experienced Mulesoft developer available with some Java background.
Thomas Green III | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mulesoft Anypoint Platform is used by our data management team to facilitate integrations with customer data structures and transformations of that data.
  • Expose APIs for seamless use internally and by customer developers.
  • Improve rapid development processes.
  • Provide end to end monitoring that helps improve overall quality and aid in troubleshooting.
  • Redefining API design is cumbersome and painful.
  • Batch transacting is not as intuitive as would be expected.
MuleSsoft needs a mature SDLC to show success rapidly. In a robust environment, MuleSoft turns capability into efficiency.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
EAIESB is Middleware Services/Solutions provider. We provide migration approaches and options from older technologies to the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. It is lightweight and supports on-premises and cloud deployment (cloud-hub). We recommend it to customers that have on-premises or cloud connectivity. We have also implemented custom connectors to support BPM capabilities, error handling capability and other synchronous read capabilities on top of Mule.
  • On-Premises Connectors
  • Cloud SaaS Connectors
  • Cloud Social Network Connectors
  • Cloud Storage
  • API
  • EDI
  • Mule has improved and provided new features in Mule 4 (List Operations, Sync Read, where we have built our own connectors).
  • When extending Mule to support human workflow or approval, currently, it recommends using other providers. We have built a BPM solution connector using Mule. We will open source it.
  • Mule has implemented Flow Log/Monitoring Facility in Mule 4 Design Center implementation.
  • Extensive documentation to build custom connectors.
All connectors (On-Premises, Cloud Saas Apps, Cloud Storage, Big Data, API)
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