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IBM API Connect

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IBM API Connect
Score 9.0 out of 10
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IBM API Connect is a scalable API solution that helps organizations implement a robust API strategy by creating, exposing, managing and monetizing an entire API ecosystem across multiple clouds. As businesses embrace their digital transformation journey, APIs become critical to unlock the value of business data and assets. With increasing adoption of APIs, consistency and governance are needed across the enterprise. API Connect aims to help businesses…N/A
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IBM API Connect
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IBM API Connect
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
IBM API Connect
Considered Both Products
IBM API Connect
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Engineer
Chose IBM API Connect
Never used any product of the IBM environment together.
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Consultant
Chose IBM API Connect
IBM API Connect is more flexible and easy to use. It has a lot of features that differ in the market like API monetization & analytics.
Verified User
Program Manager
Chose IBM API Connect
This IBM system allows easy data transfer across many different platforms, and its API functionality is on top. The security for the multiple data processed via IBM API Connect is the best, and the access control and document management features are more responsive. Its …
Verified User
Director
Chose IBM API Connect
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 …
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Employee
Chose IBM API Connect
IBM APIC far and away blows the other two systems I've used out of the water. There really isn't any comparison, in my humble opinion. Ease of use, security, versioning, efficiency, accountability are basically 'forced' by APIC, which allows less burden on the users themselves.
Verified User
Engineer
Chose IBM API Connect
IBM API Connect is easier to use and develop API flows. The developer community and IBM Support are outstanding compared to other peers.
Manish Bhattacharya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Manish Bhattacharya
Staff Engineer
Chose IBM API Connect
IBM API Connect and Apigee are both robust API management platforms. IBM API Connect was selected for its strong integration capabilities, hybrid cloud deployment options, and comprehensive analytics. It aligns well with organizations seeking flexibility and control over their …
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Roberto De Gasperi
Principal Integration Developer
Chose IBM API Connect
API Connect was far more mature, far quicker than Kong. It was clear a few years ago that API Connect features such as Applications and Product groupings were the way forward as Kong was at the time lacking these but planning to replicate them in their roadmaps
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Consultant
Chose IBM API Connect
This is more of a combinatory set of features where it isn't a question of either or, but rather what and how when. Choosing the right tool and implementation format for the problem at hand - and having the option to select tooling from the full set in the toolbox.
Verified User
Consultant
Chose IBM API Connect
API Connect provides the most complete feature set out of all the above mentioned
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Professional
Chose IBM API Connect
It works well with API Connect
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Team Lead
Chose IBM API Connect
IBM API Connect is very mature and offers lot of flexibility for enterprise requirements, highlighted in the following key areas:
  1. Consumer management
  2. Workflow on product lifecycle
  3. Intuitive UI-based development options
Verified User
Engineer
Chose IBM API Connect
As we have already have deep work relationship with IBM, when it comes to API gateway, we start looking at the API service IBM provides. And that is when we found out IBM API connect. It is very reliable and convenient tool to manage our API. It works with our cloud agnostic …
Rahul Malik | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rahul Malik
Senior Team Lead
Chose IBM API Connect
The power of IBM APIC is much more in contrast to Apigee or any other product of the same domain because it is having DataPower as the backbone which allows for easy integrating with almost any platform, providing the highest level of security, handling millions of transactions …
Abhijeet Davane | TrustRadius Reviewer
Abhijeet Davane
Vice President & Head Technology COE -Open Banking, FinTech, CRM, Wealth Management, HR & Finance
Chose IBM API Connect
We selected API connect as both tools have more or less same features, the differentiation was we also use IIB, and seamless integration with IIB was the major factor
Top Pros
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Features
IBM API Connect
API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
IBM API Connect
9.2
26 Ratings
13% above category average
API access control9.526 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies9.621 Ratings
API usage data9.026 Ratings
API user onboarding9.326 Ratings
API versioning9.026 Ratings
Usage billing and payments8.818 Ratings
API monitoring and logging9.126 Ratings
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
IBM API Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(26 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(18 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM API Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Pros
IBM
  • 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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Anonymous
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Cons
IBM
  • 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.
LM
Laury Mante
Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst
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Usability
IBM
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.
Manish Bhattacharya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Manish Bhattacharya
Staff Engineer
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
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
Verified User
Anonymous
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • 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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Anonymous
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