It has a scalable[2] and distributable object broker architecture that can manage interactions across legacy systems, in-house applications, and modern transports and protocols.

MuleSoft offers an Enterprise Edition of Mule that provides a management console, a Service registry, and higher availability.

This provides reliable, loosely coupled, and asynchronous message-based communication, supporting two models: point-to-point (queues) and publish-subscribe (topics).

[citation needed] WMQ or Websphere MQ is an IBM Message Oriented Middleware product for communication for distributed systems.

The idea is to, by staged events, wrap the work into sensible bundles and process it in stages that can conform to models of transaction-based processing that are useful in time or mission-critical applications such as financial transactions, where subsequent successful outcomes are required to permit the desired outcome.