MuleSoft Anypoint Platform Reviews & Product Details - Page 22

I liked all the Connectors, Scopes, Components, Transformers, Filters, Flow Control, Error Handling used in the AnyPoint Studio. It really helped in the faster development of our project and achieved customer satifaction after the deployment. Also API designer, flow designer, Exchange, API console, mocking service, Access Management, Runtime Manager, API Manager in the AnyPoint studio is quite easy to learn and to work upon. Everything we need in a Java project comes bundled in MuleSoft's Anypoint platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing to dislike. It meets all the requirements that is needed to be used in a production ready applications. Some times we do come across some bugs while developing the MuleSoft applications, they must be resolved so that we can use that particular component and not write a Java code for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like out of box connectors which makes integrator's life easy to connect to various systems.Dataweave is one of the excellent features of ESB which provides both graphical as well as programmatic view of data transformation.I also like Watermarking concept of Batch Processing which makes real time data integration easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As I'm using Batch Processing extensively for many business processes to achieve real time data integration.Many a times,I faced an issue on Batch Processsing got stuck in load phase and there was no timely support from Mule Side.

One more point is, now Mule's latest release 4 changed drastically from Mule 3 so migration process from 3 to 4 is little complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how easy it is to use. You simply upload your csv file and map the fields. It's very fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The export options are confusing, and I have a difficult time building the proper report for my export. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I loved the way components are available to do configure and reuse it for multiple operation. As well as Anypoint platform which come hold all phase of API lifecycle in a better way. Exchange portal is so much useful and gives more advantages over API's,components,templates. Desgin centre is a such a beautiful tool to design api,component and try -n- use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Few features are in Enterprise only e.g. security related. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the idea of a unified platform for API management and API implementation: A Huge toolbox of connectors and an easy way of writing transformations.

For me it's important to choose the right tool for the problem: So quite often it is DataWeave, but I still want an easy "escape route" into Java code in cases where DataWeave is not enough.

I like the integration and adoption of standards: A standard Maven build, so I can smoothly integrate into build pipelines.

I like unit tests, let it be JUnit for Java or MUnit for Mule applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike the way customers and partners are treated:

* When you open a case, sometimes the solution is: "Put an idea to the portal." (See notes to the portal below.)

* Time between case opening and solution is quite long, often a year, sometimes more And my impression: It's getting worse. It's often frustrating: When you are developing and find a bug, you have no chance the bug is fixed before you release. Typical release times are six weeks to four months, but most of the time you will not get a fix in that time range. And opening a S1 is no option because it's development, where you find it when you do proper testting. Additionally: I often have the feeling not all of our input reaches development. In most cases, we provide a demo app to reproduces the case. So we try to make it as easy as possible for developers at MuleSoft.

* Idea portal: In our view the idea portal is a pure marketing joke. The idea that was downvoted most has been implemented (and after that deleted from the portal). A lot of ideas which would really improve the daily experience for developers and which would be easy to implement are ignored.

* Release notes: The release notes are often late and in most cases incomplete. We had several cases where a good note could have warned/informed us about changes to be made.

An idea for improvement: Why can't you open a channel for big customers and/or customers with long experience or for partners who really know the plattform to your internal product owners and/or engineering? We really *work* with the plattform, we often know the details by debugging into the code. I think we could help. And it would help MuleSoft (and other customers) to make the product better!

Our impession: Development it purely marketing driven. Make it shiny so you can sell it, but don't care about the customers using it. I know these are hard words, but it is the direction I observe and it's the direction one of the biggest customers in Germany observes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mulesoft is a tool, which has many features that allow us to develop a better working environment, especially one of its essential characteristics, which helps us to create a system of connections between several systems of our company, having more than 150 options of connectors, in addition to the connectors, which, so to speak, are already built in this system, you have the freedom, to create your own connectors, to develop all kinds of interconnected systems, in the company, so you have greater freedom, at the moment, to carry out different projects, that are kept in mind, to optimize the connection and communication with our company, another feature that I must highlight about this system, is the possibility of implementing different tests of integration and debugging of applications in the system Mule, something that allows us to obtain better results, when developing this type of integrations, in real connections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The structure where this system run must be updated, due to the updates, with which this tool carries out, from time to time, it is not very pleasant to have to do this, every certainty, since they are unforeseen expenses, which are not have in the budget of a company, and are updates that must be made in a few days, so that everything is working optimally, it must be strictly considered, that the application works under the established parameters, having the possibility of suspending or disabling said updates, of the systems that are integrated into Mulesoft. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how the web services, RAML, API management, and cloud functionalities are all seamlessly connected. It works together very nicely and doesn't feel disjointed or messy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning curve is a bit steep, especially for people new to this type of programming model. Some of the documentation is also outdated or poorly written and not very helpful, especially when comparing v3.9 versus v4.x. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1) Preview option in Dataweave transformer component is best to me. As I need not run the incomplete application to verify the logic built in Dataweave at the time of development. Just providing the mocked input I can verify the logic in Dataweave.

2) Build and unit test time of the interfaces are reduced by 50% in comparison to my previous too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Handling of various types of exceptions is tedious task. When my interface has various connectors like DB, jms and file connector or so on. I need to handle DB exceptions related to connection issues differently than SQL exception. As there is no where listed the possible exception types thrown by each connector it is difficult to handle the exceptions at the time of development. We have to simulate the exception and make note of exception object and build the logic to handle it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This platform is very powerful to execute de Digital Modernization using APIs. Applied to all the lifecycle of a API, very easy to use, very stable, very friendly to developers, API Designers, Administrators, Managers, etc. I had very good results using this platform, and always has new improvements. The training strategy is very good. Visualizer, API Management, API console, exchange, runtime manager, Anypoin MQ, Mule ESB, Datagateway, access management, all these tolls are very useful, very important and we can use some of this tools in muleSoft cloud, in company cloud, or an hybrid, or and also on-premise. Anypoint MQ is a ver powerful platformto ditribute message using queues and exchanges (topics) exactly like AMQP, queue encryptin and more. I like a lot this platform, I am using this in my day by day. Exchange is assets repository, is very easy and friendly, always works well, differente types of assets and custom assets. Design center is very nice to create APIs or integrarions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nothing. MuleSoft team is great, always talking directly with his community and taking the best ideas Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.