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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    F5 BIG-IP

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AF5 BIG-IP software from Seattle-based F5 Networks is a load balancing and application protection solution suite available on cloud or via virtual editions, on a subscription or perpetual licensing basis.N/A

    Mashery (now part of Boomi)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AMashery, for a time sold as TIBCO Cloud API Management, was an API management solution whose former capabilities have been added to Boomi's enterprise platform.N/A
    Pricing
    F5 BIG-IPMashery (now part of Boomi)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    F5 BIG-IPMashery (now part of Boomi)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    F5 BIG-IPMashery (now part of Boomi)
    Considered Both Products
    F5
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    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    258 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    215 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    255 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    179 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    196 Answers
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    Features
    F5 BIG-IPMashery (now part of Boomi)
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of F5 BIG-IP and Mashery (now part of Boomi)
    Feature
    F5 BIG-IP
    -
    Ratings
    Mashery (now part of Boomi)
    6.9
    23 Ratings
    20% below category average
    API access control00 Ratings8.423 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings7.723 Ratings
    API usage data00 Ratings7.223 Ratings
    API user onboarding00 Ratings7.522 Ratings
    API versioning00 Ratings7.019 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging00 Ratings6.522 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    F5 BIG-IPMashery (now part of Boomi)
    Small Businesses
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    Amazon API Gateway
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    OCI API Management
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    F5 BIG-IPMashery (now part of Boomi)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (265 ratings)
    7.6
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (140 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.7
    (12 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    F5 BIG-IPMashery (now part of Boomi)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    LTM's scope of action goes beyond load balancing. Tools for control, governance, and application enhancement, as well as APIs like iRULE, are very important for day-to-day operations. Furthermore, the F5 BIG-IP WAF offers exceptional security. Advanced firewall and routing functionalities are helpful in more complex environments. O LTM possui um escopo de atuacao que vai alem do balanceamento. Ferramentas para controle, governanca e aprimoramento de aplicacoes e API como iRULE sao muito iportantes para o dia a dia a operacao. Alem disso o WAF do F5 BIG-IP tem uma qualidade de seguranca exceptional. As funcionalidades avancadas de firewall e roteamento ajudam em ambientes mais complexos. This review was originally written in Portuguese and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.
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    Mashery is great when it comes to deployment to your own datacenter and when it comes to managing third party API's like Salesforce using Mashery Cloud version. I would be a little bit more careful when deploying it on Kubernetes as it was not designed for it. New version 5 is re-architected to run more on natively on Kubernetes, but we have not tested it yet.
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    Pros
    F5
    • My company is kind of like it's a safe thing if you log in and you provide another second login to get the code to log in, confirm that it's a correct that you are logged into the account and it just provides more for the company
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    Discontinued Products
    • Easy integration of the TIBCO Cloud Mashery developer portal allows simple onboarding and user and application management.
    • Configuration of TIBCO Cloud Mashery is both flexible and focused to address the main tasks for an API Management solution.
    • The built-in OAuth Token capabilities provide a quick start to properly manage application access.
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    Cons
    F5
    • I think a couple of challenges. One, I mean the cost, it's not an inexpensive product, but I think it's probably parity with value, maybe a little on the pricey side of things.
    • As far as features and what we'd like to see more cloud native type experiences like where NGINX and F5 kind of come together, we're moving more of the cloud just like everybody else, and it's a little clunky right now.
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    • The "Control Center" admin dashboard is not performant. We have a lot of configuration data in Mashery (many endpoints, many plans, many users, many keys, etc.) and the website struggles with the volume of data it has to deal with.
    • Their systems have limitations that make it more difficult for us to operate the way we would like. For example, there is a limit to the number of API Definitions we can create, as well as a limit to the number of Endpoints we can define in a Plan.
    • Their support organization leaves a lot to be desired. Responses are slow, and when they do come they are often inadequate. We have to re-phrase the question to get them to answer it differently, or we have to repeatedly follow up to ask for additional clarifying information.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    Stability of product and easy way to have account manager contact. F5 support team is also always available to help with major issues. Last year during the major OS upgrade F5 team and F5 leadership always shared clear information and F5 team was dedicated to help us to have it closed in record time
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    Discontinued Products
    Ease of use.
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    Usability
    F5
    It is a good product to use but right now it is lacking the automation of certificates, management of iRules and automation of certain configuration. Also creating an APM policy from scratch with many APM agents take a long time due to slow load times of the GUI and the need to create everything from scratch every time. It's tough to reuse the configuration.
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    Discontinued Products
    i find some of the package adding and key are complex . UI experience is bad . Every step need front and backward navigation too much. It would be better if endpoint itself contain package and key addiction option
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    Support Rating
    F5
    I've supported F5 for three different companies. Our F5 support has been very consistent, regardless who the customer is. F5 technicians are very experienced and provide good support, even when issues are more related to knowledge than they are with the ability of the product to do what you need it to do.
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    Support has been good overall.
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    In-Person Training
    F5
    Practical cases and hands on , many hours of training with tipical cases
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    Implementation Rating
    F5
    implementation is fine
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    Discontinued Products
    Initially it was difficult to understand . after few day , it was easy
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    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    We are recently not evaluating, but we have started the deployment for WAF and we're using GTM, LTM, you name it. F5, we are using all of them.
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    Discontinued Products
    I've really only looked at Mashery since it has been around a very long time and has a rich feature set. I do know our platform teams are looking into AWS gateway but not sure this product has everything we need.
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    Return on Investment
    F5
    • The F5 BIG-IP has improved all our load balancing needs, we have over 400 LTM VIPs in our environment this all use to be done with DNS round Robin configurations.
    • we have created unique APM solutions to support our external customer base
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    Discontinued Products
    • As a API Mediation layer it has helped with the troublesome port setup with internal and external clients. Meaning it made that easy to the client that they know where to go for access to an API.
    • The interactive documentation is very well put together and has reduced the time that developers have to go back and forth with each other to figure how to call the API.
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