Apigee Edge vs. frends eiPaaS by HiQ

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apigee Edge
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Apigee Edge is an API management platform now owned and offered by Google, since Google acquired Apigee in 2016.N/A
frends eiPaaS by HiQ
Score 9.0 out of 10
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frends enterprise integration platform as a service is a Nordic .Net integration platform. Hybrid, low-code, and intuitive, frends aims to deliver in a fraction of cost and efforts compared to traditional integration solutions. frends platform has a built in version control system in place, to track changes to integrations and to manage the lifecycle of existing integrations. frends fully supports BPA or Business Process Automation, which can be used to create either short or long…N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsEnterprise Tier: from 1000 €/month Additional enviornments are 600€/m 24/7 SLA and support: from 800 €/month
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Community Pulse
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Features
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API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
Apigee Edge
9.4
7 Ratings
12% above category average
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API access control9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
API usage data9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
API user onboarding9.97 Ratings00 Ratings
API versioning9.97 Ratings00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging9.97 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Data Integration
Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of Product A and Product B
Apigee Edge
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frends eiPaaS by HiQ
7.3
1 Ratings
10% below category average
Pre-built connectors00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Support for real-time and batch integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Data security features00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Monitoring console00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Apigee Edgefrends eiPaaS by HiQ
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(7 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
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Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
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Support Rating
6.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Apigee Edgefrends eiPaaS by HiQ
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
Few scenarios 1. For viewing API analytics, I think it is best in the market 2. For earning money via API monetization 3. Securing API 4. Onboarding legacy APIs to provide modern REST endpoints
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frends eiPaaS by HiQ
Hybrid Integrations: Organizations operating with a combination of on-premises and cloud applications will find frends particularly valuable. Its hybrid integration capabilities ensure seamless data flow between these diverse environments. Both for scheduled integrations that are triggered regularly or for event and API-based integrations. High volume of simple integrations: the pricing model is not tied to the number of integrations like in many competing products.
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Pros
Google
  • Better exception handling with the Raise exception policies help to monitor the flow by setting up the flow conditions.
  • Easy development of a Proxy and APIs with much less tutoring and helps make getting started for new users easy.
  • Very good documentation and blog with details of most common failures and error handling.
  • A very very easy to use console.
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  • It has been very stable and reliable over time
  • The developer tools are simple to use
  • It offers out of the box tasks/activities for typical routine tasks
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Cons
Google
  • Only one user can be active in a proxy at a time
  • No version control
  • Prohibited from using JSON.stringify on Apigee objects (tokens)
  • Debugging is difficult
  • Unable to rename or delete policies without bumping revision
  • Why would anyone give a js policy one name, display name something else, and script a different name?
  • 'Trace' limited to only 20 transactions
  • UI allows users to add target servers, but users must utilize the api to turn on SSL.
  • I'm sure there's more, they just aren't coming to mind right now.
  • Apigee forgets (expires?) your password at random intervals without notice. Every few weeks, or days, sometimes even three times in one day, I'll attempt to login to Apigee and my password will be 'wrong'. I've reset my password and Apigee still claims it's wrong. I've had to reset my password three times before it finally let me log back in.
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  • The recently renewed user interface has not been as clear as the previous version
  • Sometimes the performance or capacity has been at limits with more complex integrations
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Likelihood to Renew
Google
I am not the one deciding whether to use apigee or not really. But personally, I would recommend the use of it as developing APIs on it is easy. And as a mediator between backend servers, we could easily modify request and responses in it without touching any backend code while having a centralize gateway to access our backend APIs too.
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Usability
Google
Support has helped us to resolved all the queries and community support was also good.
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Support Rating
Google
Quite hard to get support, at least on the coding side, when we encounter blockers. But general concerns, they would schedule a call to you for them to get a whole picture of your concern. Albeit in my experience, bad really as they haven't replied about the progress, but otherwise seems to have been fixed.
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Alternatives Considered
Google
Apigee is the best in the market in terms of API Analytics Apigee is having wonderful Documentation with short videos Security is a major concern and Apigee provides an easily configurable policy to secure API Quota and rate-limit is again very easy to configure on every API basis It provides various policies to transform the response from one form to another form e.g. JSON to XML or XML to JSON
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frends eiPaaS by HiQ
frends does not have as broad functionality but it's lightweight and easy to use and has enough features for most integration needs. For example the frends API Management exists but it does not offer lot of options. frends might not be the choice for the largest enterprises but for small and mid sized organizations it does everything you will probably need. They have also recently improved their training materials to help new developers get on board.
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Return on Investment
Google
  • As a public entity it is hard to say how much ROI we can have. We have yet to create a billing and ROI plan. We are thinking of other ways to create ROI, possibly through data/service barter.
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frends eiPaaS by HiQ
  • Pricing model suites us very well as it is not tied to number of integrations or users. It's much more economic than most well-known competitors
  • The stability of the service is crucial and has served as well. We run hundreds of processes on the platform daily and they are really important for other operations.
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