Anypoint

Anypoint is a commercial integration platform developed by MuleSoft, marketed as the Anypoint Platform. It provides tools for designing, building, deploying, managing and monitoring APIs and integrations across cloud and on-premises environments. The platform centers on the Mule runtime engine and supports API-led connectivity, hybrid deployments, and microservices architectures.

Key components include Anypoint Studio (an Eclipse-based IDE), Anypoint Design Center (web-based API and flow design), Anypoint Exchange (a repository of connectors, templates and APIs), API Manager (policy enforcement and lifecycle management), and Runtime Manager (deployment and operations, including MuleSoft’s CloudHub iPaaS). The platform offers a library of prebuilt connectors, data transformation and mapping capabilities, security and policy controls, and observability features such as logging and analytics.

Introduced by MuleSoft in the early 2010s and consolidated as Anypoint Platform around 2013, the product suite has been positioned for enterprise digital transformation and system integration projects. MuleSoft was acquired by Salesforce in 2018, and Anypoint continues to be offered as a commercial SaaS and on-premises solution under subscription licensing.

Typical use cases include API management, legacy system modernization, application integration, and building event-driven or service-oriented architectures. Competitors in the integration and iPaaS space include platforms from vendors such as Dell Boomi, IBM, TIBCO and Microsoft.