MuleSoft Continues Its Push into the Cloud

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MuleSoft is threatening within the application platforms market following a number of next-generation technology announcements around its popular lightweight Mule ESB and integration framework for Java. In September, the company’s 3.0 release first brought the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) product into the cloud through cloud connectors to allow developers to integrate enterprise data and applications with popular cloud providers. Most recently, MuleSoft added new orchestration capabilities, an improved management console, and new collaborative features through Mule ESB 3.1.

Strengths and Weaknesses Highlights

• Strength: MuleSoft has made major advances into next-generation technology following the last two product releases of its open source ESB product. Most recently, Mule ESB 3.1 features a management console with collaborative deployment and monitoring capabilities emphasizing development and operations unity through common processes and methodologies that address both software development and technology operations.


• Weakness: MuleSoft does not have the marketing muscle and distribution channels in place to match those of its leading competitors. To combat this obvious disadvantage, however, MuleSoft’s messaging is around a “cap-and-expand” approach; rather than attempting to rip-and-replace enterprises’ current ESB products, Mule is looking to be the product of choice when customers cap investments with rivals and look for new options due to dissatisfaction.

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