Salesforce is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. that aims to help businesses manage their customer relationships. It’s a popular customer relationship management (CRM) platform.
Mule ESB (Mule Enterprise Service Bus) is a lightweight, Java-based platform that helps the integration of various applications and systems. It acts as an integration platform, allowing developers to connect applications quickly and easily, enabling them to exchange data and collaborate seamlessly.
Mule ESB is proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux. Note the applications highlighted are not a like-for-like replacement.
1. Activepieces
Activepieces is business automation software that’s AI-first, no-code and open-source. It can be self-hosted with a simple Docker command.
2. Actionsflow
Actionsflow helps you automate workflows – it’s a free IFTTT/Zapier alternative for developers.
With Actionsflow you can connect your favorite apps, data, and APIs, receive notifications of actions as they occur, sync files, collect data, and more. Its implementation is based on GitHub actions, and you use a YAML file to build your workflows. The configuration format is the same as GitHub actions, which makes it easy for you to get going if you’ve explored GitHub actions before. You can also use any GitHub actions as your job’s steps.
3. Zato
Zato is a Python-based integration platform that lets you build and deliver enterprise solutions with ease, from online APIs, business processes, data science, AI, ML, IoT, mainframe and cloud migrations to automation, digital transformation, knowledge graphs and state-of-the-art technologies, combining ease of use with safety and security.
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| Alternatives to Salesforce's Products | |
|---|---|
 | Heroku is a cloud platform that lets companies build, deliver, monitor and scale apps. |
| Mule ESB is a lightweight, Java-based platform that helps the integration of various applications and systems. It acts as an integration platform, allowing developers to connect applications quickly and easily, enabling them to exchange data and collaborate seamlessly. |
 | Quip is a collaborative productivity software package. It allows groups of people to create and edit documents and spreadsheets as a group |
 | Slack is a cloud-based team communication platform designed to be businesses-to-business service, offering a central hub for messaging, tools, and files, enabling teams to collaborate and communicate. |
 | Tableau is a visual analytics platform transforming the way we use data to solve problems |