MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is commercial workflow automation software made by Salesforce, Inc. Salesforce, Inc. was founded in 2007, and the company is based in U.S..
- Made by
- Salesforce, Inc.
- Maker founded
- 2007
- Source code
- Closed
Website Salesforce, Inc. on Wikipedia
Judgement
- What it is
- Framework or platform
- What it does
- Salesforce's integration platform for designing, building and managing APIs and integrations with Mule runtime and API management.
- Adopt it when
- A large enterprise wants an API-led integration architecture across many systems and has integration developers.
- Watch out
- Very expensive, and it needs specialist MuleSoft developers.
- Ready for
- Production-ready
- Runs as
- Cloud service and self-hosted server
- Built with
- Java and DataWeave
- What the license allows
- Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the maker's description and Wikipedia. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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