F5 NGINX Management Suite vs. IBM API Connect

I love the IBM API Connect features, performance, and security level for all our business data. The workload balancing and integration with other third-party products are very simple. The data migration speed is beneficial, especially for time management, and creating process reports through IBM API Connect is incredible.

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• Security. I would say creating and applying scopes to each operation is intuitive and clear.
• Managing multiple path at the same time. Creating new path and operation is straightforward.
• The analytics tab is good to see what APIs have trouble with errors

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• One thing that could be improved is that it requires heavy hardware support. So making it less dependent on the hardware could free up the resources.
• The hardware comes at a high cost which easily cross your budget if you try to scale the business through it.
• It is quite time consuming and complex to setup and requires a technical person to set it up which again can increase the overall cost.

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IBM API Connect may be less appropriate for small-scale projects with minimal API management requirements, where simpler and more cost-effective solutions suffice. Organizations lacking the necessary technical expertise or resources to harness its full potential may face implementation challenges. In static environments with infrequent API changes or limited developer engagement, the platform's comprehensive features may be excessive for the task at hand.

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There are two main reasons for choosing IBM over others. 1) Pricing 2) The conversation during the sales stage. The team at IBM understood our requirements and acted as consultants instead of sales people. They genuinely focused on providing a solution to our pain points which reflected during the implementation and continued after go-live in the form of technical support

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• I consider IBM API Connect as a business capability enabler - the ROI level is practically secondary.
• With this platform at the core, associated architectural framework and guardrails ensure that we can progress with distributed development and automation in autonomous teams - a key factor to deliver required time to market performance.
• At this time, security and trust is key. A flexible yet secure API manager layer is necessary to ensure our relationships with partners and customers.

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