Anypoint Platform Reviews

Best Product for designing, Building and managing API's and its integrations for enterprise busines

Pros:

The most loving part of this software is a unified platform for api getting connectivity.This software enables organizations to easily build and rapidly scale an application network of apps, data, and devices through APIs and its integrations. It includes features like Rapid development very fast with the component design structure made easy,Connectivity to all system,With very optimal runtime providing the real logs/outcomes.Visibility and control which monitors, secure and govern all aspects of anypoint platform - APIs, integrations, traffic, SLAs and more from a single interface.Tops world best brands business are running with Mule anypoint platform as their code design software cococola, buffalo wild wings, atom bank etc are the companies using Any point platform for their business to build services or interfaces

Possibly the best middleware platform currently

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.

it is great , with the help of anypoint platform we can do restful services and more.

Comments: we can create rest services . we can host the services on premises and cloud. these micro service will help the application to run fast .

Pros:

Anypoint Exchange consists of a MuleSoft provided public list of APIs, examples, connectors, and templates that you can use to create applications. API Manager is a component of Anypoint Platform for managing and publishing APIs. If you set up your own account on the internet, you are assigned the Organization Administrators role. If your organization uses Anypoint Platform on a private cloud, obtain permissions and roles from the Anypoint Platform administrator for your organization. In the Organization Administrator role, you see and can open API Manager when you log into Anypoint Platform. As Organization Administrator, you can see and manage client applications registered to access your API. Alternatively, you can use the Anypoint Platform command line interface (CLI) to interact with API Manager.

Cons:

API Manager,Anypoint Exchange You can deploy an API implementation to a Mule Runtime that runs on a server, such as CloudHub in the public cloud. You can also deploy to a private cloud or hybrid. A hybrid deployment is an API deployed on a private server but having metadata processed in the public cloud. Regardless of the server location, each server belongs to an environment, such as Design, Test, or Production. Servers are defined in business groups and each business group can have multiple environments.

It integrated very well into my work

Comments: I improved my work design, it is more organized and saves me time to be able to deliver tasks on time

Pros:

It provides security perfectly over the other APIs, improving my large workflows and with each function that MuleSoft Anypoint has, it saves me from long hours of work by automating processes that are long, I have managed to better manage my work and time

Cons:

At first, the learning process is not easy, you must have knowledge to learn to use the tools perfectly, I would not recommend it for people who are learning the subject.

Robust capabilities

Pros:

The Anypoint Platform has matured significantly since its inception. It now has API managment, analytics, dashboards, self-discovery, and multiple deployment options.

Cons:

As the feature set has gone up, so has the price. It's starting to price out small to mid-level customers.

Does the Job

Pros:

It does everything we need it to. There is a wealth of features.

Cons:

The UI can be very buggy at times and hard to use. I get warnings the dont' make sense half the time.

Mulesoft Anypoint platform edge of API integration

Pros:

We strongly like the possibility to easily manage APIs in a single point of access. For a company based on microservice softwares , Mulesoft provide a cockpit really useful to manage everything in a effective way.

Cons:

At the moment we didn't find any lack or point of failuer in this softeware solution for what are our business purposes.

Anypoint Platform: APIs Anywhere

Comments: My company uses this platform to maintain some integration services and to publish these to other companies.

Pros:

It's a fantastic tool to create APIs or microservices really quickly if you have the rest of your services in the cloud. For example, you have the possibility to create some microservices to connect your Salesforce platform with your Office platform or your ERP. It implements a fantastic and simple user interface to help you in the process. His knowledge base and his blog with the examples that you can find in these are really fantastic.

Cons:

At this time my only cons are to move the MuleSoft on-premises processes to the CloudHub because these requires some adaptations to run in Anypoint Platform.

Anypoint Platform is at the top.

Comments: From the cloud we perform the monitors of our ESB, the integration is of another level thanks to Anypoint Platform.

Pros:

We are delighted with the use of the integration platform, the connectors are ready to use. The dataweave is excellent with its ESB feature. The watermark concept for great batch processing.

Cons:

When batch processing is done extensively causes delays, it represents a big problem at the time of integration.

Perfect for application management

Comments: Anypoint Platform is an incredible platform for API management and setting up integrations

Pros:

Anypoint Platform is an essential platform for building strong APIs, integrations across the Saas environment. Easy to debug and provide permissions

Cons:

Some updates with connections aren’t made real-time which is a downside

Best in ESB and API management

Comments: I am happy in using this tool for my integration tasks. Every tool has pros and cons. But i found more pros than cons. I am discussing below pros and cons
pros:
Best for both ESB and API management
Ease of development with drag and drop approach. Development time will be reduced
Has plenty of inbuilt connectors for cloud and on-premise systems and we can develop our own connector
Supports 4 scripting languages Groovy,Ruby,Java,Python.
Easily integrates with java in various ways
Dataweave support for transformation
Easy designing of API with RAML and Swagger
Supporting of API gateway,policies, SLA tiers
Easy deployment seup in coud and on-premise
cons: When some error occurs while developing, logging is not clear for them.Logging needs to be improved
Unable to debug Dataweave script
Lack of lookup tables support in current Dataweave. Has good support with DataMapper
Need to be improved features in API management
Documentation is good but can be improved
Faced some issues with API kit router while handling with large data.
Synchronising the data from on-premise systems to cloud systems and vice-versa

Pros:

Best for both ESB and API management Ease of development with drag and drop approach. Development time will be reduced Has plenty of inbuilt connectors for cloud and on-premise systems and we can develop our own connector Supports 4 scripting languages Groovy,Ruby,Java,Python. Easily integrates with java in various ways Dataweave support for transformation Easy designing of API with RAML and Swagger Supporting of API gateway,policies, SLA tiers Easy deployment seup in coud and on-premise

Cons:

When some error occurs while developing, logging is not clear for them.Logging needs to be improved Unable to debug Dataweave script Lack of lookup tables support in current Dataweave. Has good support with DataMapper Need to be improved features in API management Documentation is good but can be improved Faced some issues with API kit router while handling with large data. Synchronising the data from on-premise systems to cloud systems and vice-versa

MuleSoft Mapping with other Middleware Tools

Comments: EAIESB is middleware Expertise Company. We have started with SeeBeyond, SRE, ICAN, Java CAPS 5, Oracle Fusion 10G, 11G and 12C, TIBCO 5.X and TIBCO 6.X.
We have considered Mulesoft as an open Source tool (after diminishing of OPEN ESB / Glassfish ESB).
In 2014 /15 we have chosen Mulesoft as our middleware tool in building Smart Cities project (Integration, IOT & Big Data). Considering the cost and features. We could deliver the POC and could not win the project.
Later in 2016, again we started looking into as various customers are looking for migrating existing environment to new product (simple migration (export and import) vs Re-Write) customers started asking for migration path for Mulesoft also.
Mulesoft latest features (API, Microservices, IOT) tools supported in building components helped us to add Mulesoft into our portfolio.
Having experience in migrating code from various technologies we have built best practices in migrating to Mule.
Best benefit we have seen in mule is the ease of building the custom connector for the use cases while migration.
When mapping with other technologies, we see more connectors in mule, but connectors have less features, but it does not limit /stopping migration.
We are happy to talk to the team and provide specific connectors we have built and use cases which demanded us to build them and contribute to the community.
Feel free reaching us [email protected]

Pros:

-Connector Development Kit

Cons:

-Fewer features in connectors but not source stopper

I have been using MuleSoft Anypoint platform at customer places and the experience is getting better

Comments: Ease of Integration API Portals and API Gateway

Pros:

USP is Connectors and how rapidly the flows can be built. I am an admirer of Mule Runtime and the time it takes to start, deploy applications and the number of transactions it can handle with minimum hardware configurations.

Cons:

Anypoint Studio - There are so many bugs when TransformMessage is used with big XMLs and JSON schemas. Anypoint Runtime Manager: It is very inconsistent in managing the run time without any issues. RAML Editor: It has to improve while showing errors. Flow Analyzer: It is needed in ARM which is available in MMC. Autodiscovering APIs: It is very inconsistent and has to improve MuleSoft need to support Swagger along with RAML to have more options to the developers.

Exceptional and Powerful transformation

Comments: 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.

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

Comments: 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.

It is a very good tool to build, test and deploy flows to cloud hub

Pros:

Drag and drop feature makes it very easy to build flows. very short learning curve for anyone with java background. Open source technology makes it easier to customize something which is not provided out of the box.

Cons:

Adding additional cloud connectors, which are not shipped with along with it are very difficult to install. The documentation provided for any of the component and or connector is not updated.

Anypoint Platform Review!

Pros:

The freedom and options to connect any system / component using the Anypoint Platform. Can connect flat files and expose them as a Web Service! The system doing a "GET" using web service will never know what kind of language / platform they're dealing with. It's a consistent look and feel of REST and SOAP.

Cons:

Design tools are in Eclipse and require a slight learning curve if you are new to the environment. Because portions of the product are open sourced, updates require careful regression testing.

This is one the best studio o have ever seen very best in quality and customer support was awesome

Comments: Make my code very easy and this design made me fell in love

Pros:

its graphical UI design which made me love a lot and its options and categorization is very good and the best part of it its free every where available

Cons:

There is nothing least in it we are expecting some more changes like additional of the maven dependencies being used at best of the times

MuleSoft - An Integrator

Comments: I have been using mulesoft for the past 3.5 Years and was absolutely delighted with the features it possess. It is an easy to develop tool. It offers a wide range of connectors which makes our job of connecting to external applications easier.It supports coding in Java which is a pro for many developers.I have integrated with different applications in different formats and deploying the application is also easier.

I have been using Mulesoft for last couple of years. It has solved my integration needs.

Pros:

Rich feature set and easy to use. Hybrid deployment model is very attractive feature.Anypoint platform is very powerful tool to manage your APIs.

Cons:

May be they need to improve on little bit on customer support. Any point studio needs some improvement, when designing large flows.

It is an excellent platform for development,deployment, monitoring integration application in fastes

Comments: Free for developement.
Can concentrate on business logic.
Lot of connectors are available to choose from.

Pros:

Ease of development, deployment and monitoring of integration applications. API security. Abundant Connectors.

Cons:

Anypoint Platform cloudhub UI needs drastic improvement.Anypoint MQ can not be open in IE browser.Pls make it compatiable with IE browser also. Cloudhub logs need to enhance with some new functionalities like archieving.

Easy to use. Documentation for all the connectors are available.

Comments: Can easily call web services, database. Can use java/ Groovy or SQL to validate data we are processing.

Pros:

The Anypoint custom connector feature is good. Wothout writing any code , we can implement Oauth or other authentication. For rest web services RAML feature is gud.

Cons:

Data Sense won't work for Java transformers or Groovy transformations. Database Metadata won't form if we pass connection values using configuration files.

Great product

Comments: Integration of legacy systems and APIs.

Pros:

Ease of use and number of features. There is also a huge number of connectors to leverage for many industries.

Cons:

Cost is pretty high for the full version. However, it is worth the price and I still recommend purchasing.

review against other ESB like fuse ESB and WESB

Comments: i have delivered 6 project till now in Mule ESB, it is really good to see in every release of the ESB mule soft is giving new and enhance features

Pros:

easy to use, faster development and easy learning

Cons:

Studio is still need some work. some times it is slow when you work with flow properties and diagram

Administrator for my team (my job includes adding api, applying policies, managing users etc.)

Pros:

Love to create custom policies. It's a elegant way to do some AOP. For instance, I designed security policy to authenticate the client. I also design a custom policy to apply a capcha when required.

Cons:

I can't manage to list my api in a pretty way. All my api are listed in the order of creation :-( I would like to be able to create some folders in order to manage them easily.