Thousands of enterprises choose the Anypoint Platform. And no wonder – it’s fast to start, secure, and flexible. Mulesoft enables developers to search, discover, develop, and deploy APIs. As a result, it allows your company to grow faster, cheaper, and at scale.
But how the entire lifecycle looks like? And what tools and services can you use? Check out the answers below.
What is MuleSoft?
MuleSoft is a SaaS company headquartered in San Francisco, California, specializing in application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide an integration platform with connection on-premises and cloud systems. The system helps companies unlock and access data in a wide range of software packages, from legacy systems to mobile devices.
Who owns MuleSoft?
On May 2, 2018, Mulesoft was acquired by Salesforce for $6.5 billion. Thus, Salesforce gained customers such as Coca-Cola and Anheuser-Busch. The acquisition came a year after MuleSoft went public and spent the year increasing sales while dealing with its growing losses.
What is MuleSoft used for?
MuleSoft is a platform where systems and departments meet. The platform helps companies make changes, add innovations, and easily connect to any application, data, and device using the application development API.
MuleSoft facilely combines data to provide a unified view of the client, automate business processes, and create interconnected processes. With a modern API-oriented approach, each integration becomes a reusable building block. As a result, it eliminates reuse and accelerates the delivery of IT resources.
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform offers a wide range of tools and services, including the following:
Designer API is a web-based graphic tool. Developers can evolve and document the API, along with transferring the designs to team members.
API Manager is an interface through which a developer can control user access to the API. Also, provide secure connections to internal data sources, and create policies for invoking and regulating the API.
Anypoint Studio is a hybrid integration service that connects SaaS applications, microservices, and APIs. Thus, it is ideal for a cumbersome legacy system that requires updates.
Anypoint Connectors is a set of built-in connectors that are used to integrate applications with REST and SOAP.
Anypoint Analytics is an analytical tool for tracking such API metrics as performance and usage.
Anypoint Runtime Manager is the central console with which a developer can provide and control all resources deployed on the Anypoint platform in hybrid cloud architectures.
Anypoint Exchange is a central site that a development team can store and access APIs, templates, connectors, documentation, and other resources.
Anypoint Monitoring is a dashboard that helps you track application status.
Anypoint Visualizer is a graphical tool for displaying APIs and their dependencies in real-time.
How can MuleSoft solve integration and digitalization issues?
MuleSoft has also been one of those platforms that function through integrations. It was acquired in May 2018 by Salesforce. MuleSoft technologies are now used as part of the Salesforce Integration Cloud.
Let’s take a look at how MuleSoft can solve critical areas in current middleware and iPaaS issues:
Cloud
Developers who plan to stay relevant today must be ready to work in the cloud and develop platforms for the cloud – MuleSoft can claim both. It is designed from scratch and can connect services in cloud and on-premises situations. In addition, MuleSoft has the “Runtime Environment Anytime” feature. Thus, users can use Kubernetes and Docker to deploy in AWS, Azure, or locally.
Reusability
MuleSoft applies reuse by creating a market for off-the-shelf integration resources, including APIs, connectors, templates, and examples. Thus, teams do not need to waste time creating and developing APIs for the most common Internet services.
Instead, MuleSoft allows businesses to create and publish their reusable assets, which can then be used by various departments, functions, and groups. As a result, it reduces replication, improves management, and reinforces efficiency.
API Networks
API network is very sophisticated, and it requires developers to meet all of its integration needs. In addition to having middleware for building a network – efficient tools are also needed to manage, monitor, and protect such networks. The MuleSoft service provides the ability to design and build a network faster using a semi-visual interface, a deep understanding of network performance, and specialists to diagnose problems. Anypoint Security service provides security at every level of the network with built-in compliance with common security standards such as ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and GDPR.
Time to market
MuleSoft’s platform includes:
- Visual tools and workstations
- Reusable accessibility
- Support for a full development testing life cycle
- A simplified integration execution environment
These key points ensure that integration projects can be very efficient and flexible. As a result, MuleSoft provides three times faster delivery and 70% higher productivity for application developers, which leads to rapid market entry.
4 benefits that show why MuleSoft is an asset for Salesforce
1. Strategic. Unlock data from your legacy systems
With the help of the Mulesoft built-in APIs, Salesforce Integration Cloud works better with projects. It also works well with disparate applications that require integration with back-office and legacy systems. Global business needs an integrated transaction, that is, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services together.
MuleSoft’s technical capabilities complement Salesforce’s SaaS offerings and provide them with a strategic opportunity to expand their presence through deeper participation in all three levels of the cloud.
2. Profitable. Customers benefits
MuleSoft solutions help corporate networks work faster, making technological evolution more painless for enterprises not yet ready for a complete transition to the cloud.
3. Creation of new opportunities
While learning, companies should manually connect massive amounts of data from new applications and devices then turn this data into real-time business results. MuleSoft provides a comprehensive set of artificial intelligence technologies for CRM. MuleSoft operating model allows both LoB and IT to equip new solutions as needed for the entire organization while maintaining critical visibility and control.
4. Tech Insight
From a technical point of view, MuleSoft is a solution for the entire lifecycle of application development and deployment. It is applied at the presentation level, so the system business logic remains unaltered and encapsulated in a separate SOA service. Furthermore, MuleSoft becomes an integration point. It provides interoperability with all additional modules on the side to expand the system of supplementary modules.
Summing Up
MuleSoft fits perfectly with Salesforce’s profile, strategy, and needs. In addition, it provides comprehensive off-the-shelf functionality when most of the development is done under the hood. In this way, every business can automate most data gathering and analytical work with fewer resources.
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