Item: MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is being used as an ESB (integration bus). It allows us to transport data from one application to other. It also allows us to transform data to canonical format and to perform synchronous and asynchronous data exchanges.

Pros and Cons

Open Source (even if there is no datamapper is not free).
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is a Java product
We can use Maven to build projects and its dependencies
In MuleSoft Anypoint Platform Studio, we can build an API Management solution also.

The license is very expensive (for a big organization, it is very recommended to have an Enterprise License)
In a data flow, only one object contains all activities data (input/output)
Sometimes we have to write xml because the graphical designer of flows is not responsive.

Return on Investment

Very expensive Enterprise Licence cost.
MuleSoft Anypoint Platformon cloud is very quick to set up (it is not intended for internal use).
DataWeave is very powerful to do transformations.
Many native connectors are available (Salesforce...).

Alternatives Considered

TIBCO BusinessWorks and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus

Other Software Used

SQL Developer, IBM API Management, SoapUI NG Pro, Oracle Java SE

Likelihood to Recommend

Mulesoft Anypoint Platform is well suited if we want to have a complete solution which contains both an ESB and API Management and API led connectivity

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform : A Powerful ESB & API Management Solution

Overall Satisfaction with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform