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MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

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Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Best one to develop and deploy API and manage API using a single platform

Reviewed on 12/04/2022

I have been using it for 1.7years it works efficiently and is easy to use and has lots of features...

I have been using it for 1.7years it works efficiently and is easy to use and has lots of features to explore

Pros

Raml design, exchange to publish the specs, runtime manager to manage deployed API

Cons

Design center acts weired sometimes, ask to use newer verify of raml while we self are are editing the the newer version

NOOR
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Anypoint Platform is very good platform which i come across , it is ease to use and user...

Reviewed on 08/09/2017

Few Advantages that Mule has over other products are :-

Mule has a large collection of different...

Few Advantages that Mule has over other products are :-

Mule has a large collection of different connectors to connect and integrate diverse systems. It is said like it can almost connect anything.

Mule is very lightweight and easy to use compared to other esb. Since it is mostly Java based, so, it becomes very easy to use and build custom components. Most important is that, Mule is a pure esb, where other products comes with other functionality and platforms and esb is one of the part of the product. (eg WSO2)

Mule is graphically based unlike most of other esb, where the flows are mostly configured in XML (Apache Camel or Spring integration)

Mule is less expensive compared to most of other products. Even community versions are available, which will not cost you anything.

Mule earlier had a problem of its small size of its community. But nowadays, Mule community is expanding like others.

Mule, as I mentioned is easy to use. for example, if you want to expose a web service and need to do various transformations with payload, you just need to concentrate on your java implementation classes or you Mule flow. Mule will take care of exposing the service to an endpoint and you don't need to write any code for that.
It also has wide range of transformer that will take care of transformation of your payload and also other functionality like orchestration, routing etc and will be easy for you to implement

There are more or less other advantages, you can explore more to get it .
More or less choosing an esb depends on your requirement and budget.

Pros

Data Mapping is the feature i like most in this software, there are many feature which are as follow are the best for my project.
Debugging suppor,APIkit
RAML Support

Cons

RAML Support,
we can import RAML files for your APIs that are managed in the Anypoint Platform by the API Manager and keep them in sync with the platform.While working with a RAML file, you can also view an embedded interactive API Console that's automatically built from the resources and methods described in your RAML.Handle complex data mappings and transformations through the Transform Message component, that leverages the powerful DataWeave language. This component allows you to create your transformations both through a simple drag and drop visual interface or by coding in DataWeave to unleash all of the language's potential.

Ramanjaneyulu
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

AnypointStudio is good for quick development of integrating other systems and RESTful services.

Reviewed on 07/06/2017

Quick integration of enterprise systems, legacy applications and thick client applications. Easy...

Quick integration of enterprise systems, legacy applications and thick client applications. Easy maintenance of APIs.

Pros

Quick development APIs using the API Manager and Anypoint studio, also quick configuration tools are provided by Mulesoft.

Cons

API Manager should be able to provide automatic customization of alerts. Undeployment of APIs and Mule ESB services are taking more time in MMC.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

the most advanced integration platform

Reviewed on 27/08/2019

Pros

the possibility to use/search and use connector implements by other

Cons

it is quite expensive, for small company is not the right tools

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best tool ever

Reviewed on 21/07/2019

Pros

One platform that does it all. What more can you wish for!

Cons

There aren't any, I mean it's a little pricey, but totally worth it.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Can't beat Mule.

Reviewed on 07/02/2022

Very good. Computer programming fundamental are no needed to start working in Mule. It is a...

Very good. Computer programming fundamental are no needed to start working in Mule. It is a graphical flow designer and rest is UI based.

Pros

n number of possibility in integration space considering its direct competitors.
Design Center is a mater stroke for creating API specification & API Manager(act as Gateway) which competitors doesn't have.
Graphical flow design which is easy to build and debug.

Cons

I don't see any because Mule fulfills much need integration needs

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

It's extraordinary

Reviewed on 24/08/2018

Pros

The user interface is very friendly, very complete this integration tool with all the options for setting up the raml, creation, exhibition  and configuration of the API in addition to the part of statistics analysis incredibly useful for making business decisions.

Cons

Not all options are intuitive and it is a little uncomfortable to expose the API on the one hand and configure it on the other, it would be better if everything were available in a single section.

Enrico
Enrico
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  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Very good, it has a lof funciotnatility, and it simplifies connection to many systems

Reviewed on 10/09/2017

Pros

it's easy to use and very simple. Anypoint studio have a very powerful tool for deploy new flow.
The cloud ediction is very powerfull
The support is aways available and very skilled

Cons

The licece is quite expencive,
The cloud version lack of third party monitoring tool.
The version of the conector have some problem when you work in different environment

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Insurance
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Good product but way too expensive

Reviewed on 19/09/2018

Pros

If you don’t have an engineering team, this is the way to go on doing ETL. It’s a little bit of the learning curve in the beginning but I think it’s worthwhile.

Cons

It’s so expensive but I guess you’re paying for the ease of use from the product.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Complex piece of software

Reviewed on 13/05/2019

Pros

Does great job on simplifying integration with lots of software products like Google, Slack etc.

Cons

You need some good technical knowledge, and recently is a bit buggy.

Sumit
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Possibly the best middleware platform currently

Reviewed on 08/11/2023

Pros

I like how Anypoint platform introduces new features as it evolves to meet growing client needs. Anypoint Exchange makes it easy to discover APIs. API manager is efficient in applying custom policies and managing APIs deployed even outside the platform.

Cons

Anypoint Studio needs to be optimized, as debugging applications is slow and clunky. Deployment to Cloudhub 2.0 could also be improved.

Amber
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Feature rich API management and deployment tool

Reviewed on 21/11/2016

While the Anypoint Platform is a newcomer to API management tools, it still manages to be feature...

While the Anypoint Platform is a newcomer to API management tools, it still manages to be feature rich and offers a great deal of resources for both API development and deployment needs. As an ESB, it offers a plethora of connectors for making our various enteprise systems work with each other while exerting minimal effort to do so. The interface is extremely user friendly as both a developer, administrator and consumer of APIs.

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.

Akil
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Exceptional and Powerful transformation

Reviewed on 21/04/2017

Faster development speeds. Unprecedented productivity. API-led connectivity to gain a competitive...

Faster development speeds. Unprecedented productivity. API-led connectivity to gain a competitive advantage. Enables developers to bridge applications together fast and hassle-free, allowing them to exchange data easily. The Mule run-time engine of Anypoint Platform brings together the power of data and application integration across legacy systems and SaaS applications, with a quick path to the other capabilities of Anypoint Platform and the full power of API-led connectivity.

Pros

Light-weight.
Scaling down - quick point-to-point integrations.
To the Cloud - CloudHub.

Cons

Circular reference is wrongly interpreted during deployment, even though it will not result in loop.

Venkata Karthik
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  • Industry: Banking
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Anypoint platform is centralized manager for everything. I loved the way it simply organized...

Reviewed on 08/08/2017

I was able to create RESTful services easily/fast-paced.
Able to convert existing xml/json...

I was able to create RESTful services easily/fast-paced.
Able to convert existing xml/json formatted data to desired formats quickly without any issues. Fast, proactive, easy interface. But lacks in scalability. Could not implement robust service. Process archestration is difficult when requirement becomes difficult.

Pros

Simple, centralized, end to end web platform. Runtime manager, insights, logs, alerts, policies at single place. Only Flow designer is missing. Although it is included in latest version 4.0, should have come before.

Cons

Anypoint designer had some issues with IE, Mozilla. Runtime manager hangs. Reporting of flow analytics should be more in depth. API designer doesn't provide all the features of comparitive tools like swagger. Public portal design should have been more options oriented.

Rahul
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  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

The best Platform for API management

Reviewed on 27/08/2016

Anypoint Platform has a Wide range of enterprise connectors are key to its integration success.

H...

Anypoint Platform has a Wide range of enterprise connectors are key to its integration success.

Having a rookie on the job for integrating an application? Well it does not matter. It is a very easy tool to get started with and with wide range of documentations and example it is very easy for someone to start integrating applications in no time.

Are you from Java background or Dot Net? It does not matter. You can easily learn and integrate applications using Anypoint Plateform.

One tool for complete integration solutions having GUI based interface and focusing on configuration over coding making developers life easy and delightful.

Pros

Anypoint Platform has a Wide range of enterprise connectors are key to its integration success.

Cons

Frequent upgrades and releases though I think it's required to make the product more powerful but sometimes its difficult for customers to plan upgrades.

Lakshmana Chari
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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Glass of ice water in hell

Reviewed on 05/11/2016

Server startup is really quicker than all other integration tools i have experienced. VM queue is...

Server startup is really quicker than all other integration tools i have experienced. VM queue is awesome feature enabling messaging without a server in between. Object store and Cache is also an excellent concept. I would like to avoid cluttering the code with all the logs we had to add in the code in order to trace a message flow.

Pros

- Starts up quick.
- Vm queue
- Eclipse based IDE
- Easily extendable
- Simplest SDK every seen
- Ability to use Hybrid environment

Cons

- Minor data mapping change required a development cycle.
- Log cluttering
- To many release, and non backward compatible changes

Kirti
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

its good to work with this software

Reviewed on 20/08/2017

ease of of use ,anyone can use it, even u dont have much technical knowledge

ease of of use ,anyone can use it, even u dont have much technical knowledge

Pros

easy to use ,easily i can deploy my application ,can check logs ,easily can change the worker size as per application requirement , good customer support for any issue

Cons

logs are rolled off after some limit ,observed worker crashed issue many times with many of my applications

Edric
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Anypoint Studio Does the Job

Reviewed on 05/10/2016

Using Anypoint Studio in my day-to-day work for integrations, I've found that Anypoint studio makes...

Using Anypoint Studio in my day-to-day work for integrations, I've found that Anypoint studio makes creating simple integrations very easy to do. However, once we get into more complicated integrations, Anypoint starts to get a little less usable with just the out-of-the-box features. At least they make it fairly simple to add custom processes.

Pros

A lot of out-of-the-box content

Cons

Support is not that great.

imran
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great platform.

Reviewed on 25/05/2017

This is great upgrade to SOA approach, implemented as it is envisioned i.e. API led conectivity is...

This is great upgrade to SOA approach, implemented as it is envisioned i.e. API led conectivity is the wave of future.

Pros

Paradigm shift. API led connectivity vs. monolithic solution. Network of APIs is the way to go, and with right design approach you can have APIs which you never have to change.

Cons

documentation some time is harder to find, compare to MicroSoft technologies where there are tons of examples and sample code, it is sometime hard to get your specific question answered.

Rai Janos
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Awesomesauce! A platform that really delivers on ease of API management and Flexibility.

Reviewed on 31/03/2016

I have used the Anypoint Platform to create a Multi Protocol Messaging Platform (using SMPP and...

I have used the Anypoint Platform to create a Multi Protocol Messaging Platform (using SMPP and SMTP). Harnessing the capability to design, run and deploy all in one platform, I have shortened my development timeline (and probably my headache) from an estimated two years to almost 6 months.

The pros:
* Flexible - In terms of what solutions you can do, from Automating event-driven services to
orchestrating various exposed APIs.
* Well Adapted by the Community - There are lots and lots of tutorials that will let you in on the "How-to's", ranging from videos, blog posts, forums and knowledge sharing sites (im looking at you, stackoverflow)
*Very Powerful - Even using the base building blocks/components of the Anypoint Platform you can certainly do a lot, Simple Automatation, Complex chaining of API calls (and gather them back as one neat result) Capture and Filtering reports, Gather and Analysing data from logs..most especially given the rise of the IoT or Internet of Things. You can even build your own custom components to leverage the capability of the platform.

The cons:
* Steep Learning Curve - Coming from a web development background, it has a lot of settings that may or may not break your application. It will take practice before you can successfully say that you have an optimum working application. But this gripe comes from a 7 year PHP based developer with little to none experience in developing applications using Java. :)

Wesley
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  • Industry: Information Services
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Technical Architect - API Creation

Reviewed on 11/08/2019

Easy to install and use and work very good with the dot net SOAP based services.

Easy to install and use and work very good with the dot net SOAP based services.

Pros

It very easy to create new APIs for our existing WCF Services.

Cons

The help is great; however, you must have a background in services to get the most from the information presented.

Srinivasan
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  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great Product

Reviewed on 06/06/2017

Pros

Any point studio is awesome with a lot of components. It also has a lot of out of the box connectors.

Cons

RAML editor can be plugged in Anypoint Studio as currently developing RAML is challenging and using online or trial version of the other softwares

Pravin
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Very good. Have been using since 2014

Reviewed on 23/07/2017

Learning and good platform.

Learning and good platform.

Pros

Easy way to create API. Easy way to do any bulk data operation. Easily we can connect with any thing

Cons

heavy software takes too much cpu so our system should have good configuration otherwise it would be very hard to use it.

Antony Nirmal
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  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Mule is an easy yet very powerful integration tool. I have been using Mule for over 10 years.

Reviewed on 16/07/2017

Pros

Simple components.
Flow and Sub Flow.
Integration with Languages like Java, Groovy etc.
New Connectors like SAP, Salesforce, etc.

Cons

The only thing that I know that requires improvement is on the Support side.
Backward compatibility.

srija
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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its good

Reviewed on 28/07/2017

Easy to drag and drop

Easy to drag and drop

Pros

it is user-friendly.every one can understand easily this is one of the user-friendly studio.here just we drag and drop no need of write code and all.thanks for giving such type of IDE