Automation Anywhere vs. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Automation Anywhere

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Automation Anywhere	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	Automation Anywhere, headquartered in San Jose, California, offers their robotic process automation (RPA) software.	$750 per month
Anypoint Platform	Score 7.8 out of 10	N/A	The Anypoint Platform developed by MuleSoft and acquired by Salesforce in early 2018 is designed to connect apps, data, and devices anywhere, on-premises or in the cloud. This platform was built to offer out-of-the-box connectors as well as tools that architects and developers can adopt quickly to design, build and manage the entire lifecycle of their APIs, applications, and products.	N/A

Pricing

Automation Anywhere

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Editions & Modules

Cloud-Only Starter Pack: $750
per month
Advanced Pack (Cloud or On-Premises): Contact for quote

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Automation Anywhere	Anypoint Platform
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Automation Anywhere	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Considered Both Products	Automation Anywhere Verified User Anonymous Chose Automation Anywhere Automation Anywhere is the most comprehensive, end-to-end automation platform out of the three. It offers a wider range of functionality than Blue Prism and UiPath. Its powerful features allow automation of complex tasks, creating smarter bots to streamline business processes. … Incentivized Helpful? Arunvinodh C Founder Chose Automation Anywhere Investment cost on number of robots is very less when compared to other tools especially UiPath. For machine learning projects python integration works well when compared to other RPA tools. For our business purpose we expect Client-Server Architecture and it is on Automation … Incentivized Helpful? K.V.R. Sailaesh Transformation Program Manager Chose Automation Anywhere Automation anywhere scores well with respect to other solutions when we look at bot implementation, bot management, and basic automation. From a security perspective as well, AA fares well as compared to other solutions. UIpath is better suited when we operate using VPN systems … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Automation Anywhere If we talk about data extraction and compare BluePrism Dechiper IDP, UiPath Document Understanding, and Automation Anywhere IQ BOT, IQ BOT has made its impact. We do not have market credibility for the other two, which could be used and referenced in front of such customers who … Incentivized Helpful? Charis Douka Key Account Manager Chose Automation Anywhere I have been using Automation Anywhere just because of its quality services. Its mobile application is a cherry on cake's topping that helps my team to work on a remote basis. Further, we are at ease generating the receipts, and processing them is very convenient for us. Incentivized Helpful? Alec frank Software Engineering Manager Chose Automation Anywhere None Incentivized Helpful? Bianca Oviedo Associate Software Engineer Chose Automation Anywhere Automation anywhere is fulfilling our all needs and giving the services we have not expected from it. The most interesting thing anyone can automate from anywhere and it has smart features for the creation of Bot. I have used Uipath but that has lesser features than Automation … Incentivized Helpful? Brandon young Senior Software Engineering Consultant Chose Automation Anywhere Automation Anywhere keeps more efficient and well-organized features and functions than Appian that is why we decided to switch on automation anywhere. Incentivized Helpful? Ejaz Hussain Senior Analyst Chose Automation Anywhere Although both the RPA tools are considered among the best in the market, there seem to be some dissimilarities when it comes to the overall architecture and functionalities of these two. Automation Anywhere is more likely to be used in a process where there is a need of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Automation Anywhere Middle of the group. Incentivized Helpful? Ashish Saxena Associate Consultant Chose Automation Anywhere Because of its intelligent bot automation Automation Anywhere insight helps a lot in processing of wet signed document Incentivized Helpful? Sol Fagot Senior RPA Developer Chose Automation Anywhere Automation Anywhere is my first love. It has awesome courses to keep track of the changes and new releases. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Automation Anywhere The user interface of Automation Anywhere is very easy to understand compared to UiPath and others. It is very easy to develop a bot in Automation Anywhere. Less coding required. It also provides different bots such as Task bot, Meta bot, and IQ bot as well. And also, in terms … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Automation Anywhere Automation Anywhere is way ahead compared to other RPA technologies just because of IQBot. IQBot will work with AI and Machine Learning to extract data from PDF and Images much faster and accurate. Automation Anywhere's control room also provides lot of options to the users like … Incentivized Helpful? Mudit Gaur Consultant Chose Automation Anywhere I have used UI Path tools. Ui Path is complex as compared to Automation Anywhere. Automation Anywhere provides more usable commands as compared to Ui Path. Automation Anywhere support is excellent. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Automation Anywhere We considered Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere when initializing our Robotics Process Automation system. While both are industry leaders and providers of solid automation software, Automation Anywhere provided a more low-cost option that allowed us to "get our feet wet," so … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Automation Anywhere We evaluated this based on the end-user experience of communicating with bots, which is very flexible with Automation anywhere where it is difficult with UiPath, and the development time taken for bots is far less and very feasible with Automation Anywhere. Where as with UiPath … Incentivized Helpful? Anupam Singh Consultant Chose Automation Anywhere UiPath is not very stable in production because we noticed frequent random errors while using it. Also, it is incapable to handle unstructured data like invoices in the form of images or PDF files. It does not involve IQBots, which is the flagship feature of Automation … Incentivized Helpful? Denis Pereira Programmer Analyst Chose Automation Anywhere Automation Anywhere is still starting in the company. We did training with a person who came from France and he explained and detailed everything correctly. I believe that in the future there will be a greater saving of hours worked and more automated processes of other … Incentivized Helpful? AR Adriano Rosa Programmer Chose Automation Anywhere We selected Automation Anywhere based on a number of reviews from different sites. As one of the market leaders, Automation Anywhere seemed the best option. Incentivized Helpful? CHRIS SESETTY Practice Manager - RPA, Chatbots, IoT, AI & Blockchain Chose Automation Anywhere Automation Anywhere has many software adaptors which are supportive enough for quick and easy integration. Complex automation tasks can be performed in a better way when compared with UiPath ROA software. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Automation Anywhere In terms of costing, Uipath is more cost effective. Uipath doesn't support Unicode based websites but Automation Anywhere can help on this front. The user interface of Uipath is more user-friendly and attractive over Automation Anywhere. AA has a stronger network of resellers … Incentivized Helpful? Premnath R Senior Executive Chose Automation Anywhere Automation Anywhere has more flexibility when compared to other RPA tools. We can scale-up the digital workforce . Easy integration with all the existing systems Incentivized Helpful? Birla VM Assistant Manager - Client Engagements Chose Automation Anywhere Comparing other vendors, we recommend Automation Anywhere for its seamless support and enhancement options. The BOT university's simple training interface helps in self-learning for the end users. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Automation Anywhere Automation Anywhere has better control room features. It's easy to develop & deploy, and is cloud compatible. Support is 24x7 and the product is very up to date with cognitive capabilities. Management of Bots is easy and intuitive. Incentivized Helpful?	Anypoint Platform Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform AWS is a very good tool but still evolving and offers a small set of API management features. The main reason why we chose MuleSoft Anypoint Platform API Manager is because it is well suited with the APIs developed in Mule ESB. Incentivized Helpful? Charles Ahn Director Chose Anypoint Platform Mulesoft is a more modern, flexible, and faster-performing integration suite than traditional providers. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform Once we have moved all of our system integration APIs to the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, we will need to communicate with a wide variety of external systems. All of our business and service logic is stored in the aforementioned core systems. Anypoint Platform (and all of our … Incentivized Helpful? Gaurav Pandey - PMP,ITIL,CSM SAP Technical Manager Chose Anypoint Platform Overall a better experience in pricing negotiation with the Sales team. The breadth of services offered by Mulesoft was really important and the expertise offered by our consulting partner influenced the decision. The overall deployment was completed well within the timelines. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform Once we use [MuleSoft] Anypoint Platform to host all our system integration APIS, we need to exchange data with a lot of different resources. Those listed systems are our main systems that hold all business and logic behind our service. The integration from Anypoint Platform … Incentivized Helpful? AS Alex Scutea Cloud Solutions Administrator Chose Anypoint Platform We selected Mulesoft for speed of implementation. We did not have the luxury of time and needed a solution that can be learned and implemented within weeks so we can take advantage of newly formed partnerships. The training that was provided to use during our pre-sales and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform We believe Anypoint Platform is best in breed and has features that match nearly any other iPaaS offering. It also allows for accomplishing much more challenging and complex integrations due to the ability to connect to nearly any system, use custom connectors, and embed … Incentivized Helpful? Nikhil Kohli Service Delivery Lead Chose Anypoint Platform The main problem with this software is the different connector type that is used for different protocols except for a different SAP connector. There is only one connector called SAP. It will be great if there will have a different connectors like idoc, RFC, proxy, etc. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform Anypoint has tons of capabilities baked in one platform, and other competitors like Built.io or Workato may not have all those like Anypoint Exchange. However where these products shine are in usability, as it's ridiculously easy to build integrations using Built.io. I was … Incentivized Helpful? Kamta Prasad Technical Lead Chose Anypoint Platform Anypoint Platform is really very easy to adopt for application integration. Simple UI and easy data weave language allows user to focus on business portion only. The API management and deployment of application are hassle free. We have selected Anypoint platform because it is … Incentivized Helpful? Vaibhav Khanna ☁⚡ Salesforce Consultant Chose Anypoint Platform Dell Boomi is kind of similar in drag and drop implementation. However, it doesn't have as many connectors (shapes in Dell Boomi). Moreover, it also doesn't have deployment stuff on its own. Informatica is way behind Dell Boomi and Anypoint Platform, but users are still using it … Incentivized Helpful? Rajarshee Mukhopadhyay Associate Consultant Chose Anypoint Platform Compared to Dell Boomi the API management suite of Mulesoft is much mature, however if its only about the integration , then i would always go for Dell Boomi, as there is no infrastructure setup that needs to be done from the developer's end. APIGEE api management is as good as … Incentivized Helpful? Deepak Kushwaha Tech Arch Sr. Analyst Chose Anypoint Platform The main reason why we chose Anypoint API Manager is because it is well suited with the APIs developed in Mule ESB. AWS, on the other hand, is a very good tool but still evolving and offers a small set of API management features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform API led architecture focus with a decent API ecosystem for developer collaboration, policy management and declarative implementation. Batch processing, visualization, Anypoint MQ and ObjectStore leave a lot to be explored. Multiple deployment models make it worth considering. Incentivized Helpful? Ankit Goyal Technical Consultant Chose Anypoint Platform Dell Boomi and Talend Data Integration Incentivized Helpful? Federica Bianco Integration architect Chose Anypoint Platform It enables customers to expose their APIs in a very simple and fast way. It can be used by non-expert developers. It is compliant with all major connection and data representation world standard. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform TIBCO BusinessWorks and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus Incentivized Helpful? VR Vijaya Reddy Founder Chose Anypoint Platform We provide options to customers to choose from the best tools. Customers are the decision makers. Personally, because of open-source and large community base, MuleSoft is the repo in the market. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform It is a powerful tool with smart intelligence. The drag and drop feature makes my work easy. The tool has great connecting support which is the best reason to use the tool on a daily basis. Powerful functionality with designing and implementing APIs. Hosted on public IP. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Automation Anywhere

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Cloud Data Integration

Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of Product A and Product B
	Automation Anywhere - Ratings	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform 6.9 Ratings 15% below category average
Pre-built connectors	00 Ratings	7.50 Ratings
Connector modification	00 Ratings	7.20 Ratings
Support for real-time and batch integration	00 Ratings	6.70 Ratings
Data quality services	00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Data security features	00 Ratings	6.50 Ratings
Monitoring console	00 Ratings	7.20 Ratings

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	Automation Anywhere	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
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User Ratings
	Automation Anywhere	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	8.1 (0 ratings)	7.6 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.7 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Availability	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.8 (0 ratings)	6.8 (0 ratings)
Online Training	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	7.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	7.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Automation Anywhere	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	Automation anywhere is well suited in most rule-based processes. It can manage high-volume transactions with accuracy and scale up quickly. It is very flexible in terms of integration and implementation. The bots can be scheduled, monitored and performance can be reported on a regular basis. It works well with most enterprise solutions. K.V.R. Sailaesh Transformation Program Manager Read full review	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is best tool in the market for developing APIs with complex structures communicating with various different types of applications including web applications as well as legacy applications. Also applications including database connectivity for fetching and updating data in the DB tables. I cant think of any scenario which MuleSoft Anypoint Platform could not be used for developing the integrations. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Now I easily generate the invoices and quotation generation is an easy task now. Previously it was very time consuming as we have to drag the data from the excel sheets. I will praise its integration with other software that has facilitated us to make amendments in the data across those platforms. Its interface is very easy and user friendly. Incentivized Brandon Young Senior Software Engineering Consultant Read full review	Provides wide range of popular connectors like salesforce, netsuite, sftp and many more. A user can easily integrate with those services using specific connector. Support API development using RAML and desing tool. The platform is very good in data type classification. Cloud deployment and post deployment monitoring is easy. A user can configure application worker as per need. Alert and notifications are real time. Incentivized Kamta Prasad Technical Lead Read full review
Cons	Automation Anywhere doesn't come with easy installation, We need to install Java, IDEs and Databases in an orderly fashion which we are not able to do. Automation Anywhere has no workflow design which is not making us to understand the process. Automation Anywhere has no fit to size object cloning. Incentivized Premnath R Senior Executive Read full review	Has more features than what we really need so we're paying for more than we use. Sort of like paying for an Abrams tank when all we really need is a Toyota Corolla. Not a value product, tends to be expensive. Takes a while for developers to learn to use Mulesoft Anypoint. Incentivized A Verified User Cloud Solutions Administrator Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	To continue enjoying the benefits of our productivity improvements and efficiency focus. Chakravarthy SSNTK Practice Manager - RPA, Chatbots, IoT, AI & Blockchain Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	On more complex use cases, Automation Anywhere requires technical background like knowledge on network protocols and database language on task creation, and even people with technical background might have some trouble in the beginning because of the product particularities on how variable manipulation works, or how to get the object cloning (a more resilient screen manipulation command) to work as intended. The scheduling of tasks on the Control Room and the autologin feature isn't intuitive as they should, so much of this works requires documentation analysis to get it done on the first time. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is really very easy to adopt for application integration. Simple UI and easy data weave language allows user to focus on business portion only. The API management and deployment of application are hassle free. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Automation Anywhere is a great tool for a low cost, fairly easily scalable, and quickly learned. The company is growing by leaps and bounds and continually pushing the automation boundaries. The problem with fast expansion is that sometimes you can grow more quickly than you can appropriately support your products. While Automation Anywhere has an excellent support structure in place, every company and situation is different, and they often struggle with why problems arise in the system and how to fix them. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Anypoint Platform support is very responsive. There is also a huge knowledge base and an active online forum where answers to most questions can be found. When needed support engages the engineering group so adequate solutions or workarounds are always provided. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Online Training	Perfect training from the online academy the software offers it for free Chakravarthy SSNTK Practice Manager - RPA, Chatbots, IoT, AI & Blockchain Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Nothing in particular Chakravarthy SSNTK Practice Manager - RPA, Chatbots, IoT, AI & Blockchain Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Automation Anywhere is the most comprehensive, end-to-end automation platform out of the three. It offers a wider range of functionality than Blue Prism and UiPath. Its powerful features allow automation of complex tasks, creating smarter bots to streamline business processes. Automation Anywhere’s features are also very progressive, supporting web scraping and creating AI-driven automation capability. Additionally, it requires less redevelopment for updates than the other two options as its development platform is one of the most user-friendly designs available. The choice of Automation Anywhere over the others was made due to its comprehensive features and progressive capabilities that will make our enterprise more efficient in automation functionalities. The large library of functions provided by Automation Anywhere makes it easier for us to find the right solution quickly, without having to develop extensive scripting knowledge if needed during projects. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Once we have moved all of our system integration APIs to the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, we will need to communicate with a wide variety of external systems. All of our business and service logic is stored in the aforementioned core systems. Anypoint Platform (and all of our APIs) makes it easy to connect to various other platforms. In order to link to these many other systems, connectors and/or components are utilized, and they are simple to configure and integrate. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Scalability	Highly reliable once you start experiencing the results. It helps you to have a clear cut results with better productivity numbers and financial savings Chakravarthy SSNTK Practice Manager - RPA, Chatbots, IoT, AI & Blockchain Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Customer satisfaction has increased. They are pleased with faster development and execution. Cost internally for our company is heavy and the client doesn't bear the full cost for it. We didn't need to train our staff a lot for this. Just a week of overview was enough to get started. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Mulesoft can be used to provide an integration platform to a large number of systems like Salesforce, ODBC, JDBC, SAP, Mongo DB, etc. An excellent option to develop microservices and real-time integrations. Not as robust in handling large data volumes, Informatica is better in that respect. Incentivized Nikhil Kohli Service Delivery Lead Read full review
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