Record your MuleSoft IT backlog with Digibee

Integration remains a top priority for any organization that wants to remain competitive in a digital-first world. In fact, 71% of companies are actively planning to adopt, supplement or replace their integration technology. But what happens when your integration solution is holding you back?

Many companies face ongoing challenges even after investing heavily in traditional iPaaS systems like MuleSoft. And we’re not talking peanuts here. For most companies, it’s a significant investment, with integration spend estimated at $720 billion to $1.12 trillion globally in 2023.

Even after paying a lot for MuleSoft, including for support and maintenance, the company must also pay to certify its developers, an ongoing investment required simply so you can continue using the software.

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Your integration backlog is growing

MuleSoft, as powerful as it is, doesn’t meet all your integration needs. Based on feedback from Digibee customers who have used (or are still using) the product suite, the pricing model is complex, there’s a lack of built-in support, and the technology can be difficult to use.

These three MuleSoft factors impact your developers’ bandwidth, especially when it comes to supporting IT projects that require integration. The result? A MuleSoft IT backlog.

As multiple IT projects pile up, your IT team is forced to prioritize. Business-critical integrations that significantly impact day-to-day operations? Customer experience initiatives to increase market share? Modernized marketing infrastructure to provide better business intelligence? Many projects languish, and MuleSoft’s IT backlog continues to grow.

Organization-wide systems often trump departmental projects. Processes that keep the lights on trump implementations focused on growth, convenience, or efficiency. Given how much you’ve spent on your MuleSoft deployment, it makes sense that you’d focus on the bigger jobs.

However, the acceleration of technological evolution is working against you. As legacy systems become increasingly risky and difficult to maintain, new, higher-priority integrations will emerge and less vital projects will be put on hold, and back on hold, and back on hold again.

While your MuleSoft-certified developers continue to chip away at the list of business-critical integrations, the rest of your IT team is left to focus on manually creating, maintaining, and rebuilding point-to-point integrations—an inefficient use of their time. Additionally, departments with very low-priority integrations may resort to your own solutions, creating a patchwork of fixes that increase security and governance risks – and create problems that your software engineers will eventually need to go back to to assess what was done and fix.

How does Digibee help?

The combination of a growing integration backlog, worsening inefficiencies, and the spread of opaque IT solutions paints a grim picture. But rather than investing more money and time into an already shaky MuleSoft ROI, many organizations are choosing to invest in Digibee’s modern integration platform as a service (iPaaS) solution.

While some of our customers are looking to replace their MuleSoft deployment with Digibee, others are deploying Digibee to work alongside it. Regardless of the model, Digibee is easier to use, accessible to all levels of software development experience, and significantly less expensive than paying for additional licenses and certifications to expand an admittedly expensive IT team.

Here's why Digibee is the smart choice for those facing a delay in the integration project:

Low-code for professional coders

• Digibee empowers all the developers, from the most experienced to those just learning the ropes. Your integration team expands to include almost everyone, without the need to pay for expensive training or certifications.

Flexibility

• Digibee’s deployment model is flexible, allowing organizations to run on the cloud of their choice. Rather than introducing limitations to the business, Digibee supports the company’s progression, ensuring that the company achieves its integration goals.

Simple pricing

• Our simple pricing model ensures you don’t face hidden fees or rising training and support costs.

Unparalleled support (free)

• We offer a unique delivery and support model where we build your first pipelines, accelerating time to value and eliminating integration delays.

Modern architecture

• Digibee’s modern architecture – engine-based and cloud-native – minimizes the risk of disruptions and downtime, coexisting with legacy integrations as needed.

But if you decide to rip and replace…

Of course, if you see significant long-term value in replacing your existing MuleSoft implementation in favor of Digibee’s iPaaS, we’ve seen many organizations successfully make this transition with minimal friction. We specialize in replacing legacy systems. Along with MuleSoft, examples include Tibco, IBM, SoftwareAG, and Oracle. With our flexible iPaaS, Digibee supports your integration strategy regardless of the solution you have, easily handling integrations from the most basic and straightforward to the very complex.

When does a rip and replace approach make sense?

• If you are facing a long and painful update like the Mule Runtime Engine EOL that requires significant time and effort
• If your legacy solution contract is about to expire and you know it no longer meets your needs
• If you are planning migrations or new technology initiatives that require a more agile and scalable solution

Let Digibee empower your integration team

While it may seem counterintuitive to replace or deploy a second integration solution after all you've invested in MuleSoft, the problems and missed opportunities that are a byproduct of using MuleSoft are apparent when you take a hard look.

The low-code iPaaS pricing model quickly eliminates your MuleSoft IT backlog with minimal disruption, easily scaling to handle all your enterprise integration needs. Let us show you how! Book your choice of a 15-minute discovery call, a 30-minute personalized demo, or a 60-minute deep dive and see our solution in action.