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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Apigee Edge

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AApigee Edge is an API management platform now owned and offered by Google, since Google acquired Apigee in 2016.N/A

    IBM MQ

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIBM MQ (formerly WebSphere MQ and MQSeries) is messaging middleware.N/A
    Pricing
    Apigee EdgeIBM MQ
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Apigee EdgeIBM MQ
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Apigee EdgeIBM MQ
    Considered Both Products
    Google
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    42 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    42 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    39 Answers
    Features
    Apigee EdgeIBM MQ
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Apigee Edge and IBM MQ
    Feature
    Apigee Edge
    9.4
    7 Ratings
    11% above category average
    IBM MQ
    -
    Ratings
    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
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    Apigee EdgeIBM MQ
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    Amazon API Gateway
    Score7.2 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Apache Kafka
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    OCI API Management
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Apache Kafka
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Apigee EdgeIBM MQ
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (48 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (29 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (27 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Apigee EdgeIBM MQ
    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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    IBM
    In the context of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, IBM MQ plays a pivotal role in managing the substantial data streams emanating from interconnected devices. Its primary function is to guarantee the dependable transmission and processing of data, catering to a diverse range of IoT use cases, including but not limited to smart city initiatives, healthcare monitoring systems, and industrial automation solutions. In the telecommunications sector, IBM MQ is employed for message routing, call detail record (CDR) processing, and network management to ensure real-time data exchange and fault tolerance. When managing the supply chain and logistics, IBM MQ is used to ensure timely and accurate communication between different entities, including suppliers, warehouses, and transportation providers. IBM MQ can be cost-prohibitive for smaller organizations due to licensing and maintenance costs. In such cases, open-source or lightweight messaging solutions may be more appropriate. For scenarios requiring extremely low-latency, real-time data exchange, and high throughput, other messaging technologies, like Apache Kafka, may be more suitable due to their specialized design for such use cases.
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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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    IBM
    • The documentation is very clear,It is understandable and the support helps to configure it in the best way.
    • Server guidelines make it possible to get the most out of work management. It's broad, we can work with different operating systems, I really recommend using linux.
    • It is highly compatible with systems, brockers, applications, and data accumulation programs, it is possible to configure everything so that after the installation of programs, they can communicate with each other and then throw data to an external program that accumulates it and represents in clear details of steps to follow and make business decisions.
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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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    IBM
    • There is limitation on number of svrconn connections you can have to MQ on the mainframe which has been an major issue for us. This has been an issue for us for over 4 years and still no fix although I am aware IBM have been working on a solution over the last year.
    • When upgrading to MQ V9.3 on our MQ appliances there is no fall-back option. This was the same for MQ V9.2 upgrade from MQ V9.0. For production upgrades this I believe is not acceptable.
    • AMS is not supplied as part of the standard mainframe MQ licence. You need an extra licence. IBM tell customers how important security and protecting data is yet they still want to charge for this software. The cost of MQ on the mainframe is not cheap so I would expect AMS to be part of the base product.
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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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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Google
    Support has helped us to resolved all the queries and community support was also good.
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    IBM
    I give it a nine because it has significantly improved my team's data reliability and operational efficiency. Its great security features give us peace of mind, knowing our sensitive data is well protected. While the setup might initially be complex, I believe the long-term benefits far outweigh this hurdle.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    The messages are delivered instantly with this software and it integrates with our technology stack, in terms of availability we only had one failure when we were doing some testing and integration with third parties, the features of this software make it always available and its deployment is easy for the company, it does not generate expenses due to failures
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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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    IBM
    There are very specific things that must be elevated to more specialized areas of support, but the common support is very agile when receiving questions or when we leave concerns in real time. I recommend the support of the program in this regard.
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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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    IBM
    We found IBM MQ very easy to get started and quick to learn by the new users with a short learning curve and seamlessly integrates with IBM products, and quick to perform self-service analytics and make informed business decisions. IBM MQ is also very straightforward in creating simple and best reports, which are very profitable and productive.
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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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    IBM
    • Positive- Message Reliability and Reduced downtime, increases the ROI many times.
    • Positive- Increased stability and enhanced customer experience
    • Negative- cost is very high - Both licensing and integration cost
    • Negative- Learning and training cost of IBM MQ is high as its complex to use and integrate
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