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What is IBM API Connect?

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 to get new features to market fast, maintain continuous availability, meet changing user needs, and spur innovation.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features IBM API Connect has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • API access control

    Authentication and authorization systems to ensure that users of the API have permission

    Category average: 8.7

  • Rate limits and usage policies

    Usage quotas to restrict traffic volumes to keep traffic loads manageable

    Category average: 8.3

  • API usage data

    Analysis of traffic patterns to track how API is being used

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • API versioning

    There are mechanisms to roll out new versions of the API and the ability to migrate applications to new versions.

    Category average: 8.4

  • API monitoring and logging

    Regular test cycles to check that APIs are operating as expected and log analysis providing deeper analysis on system usage

    Category average: 8

  • Usage billing and payments

    Support for payment mechanisms such as monthly fees, or other payment patterns

    Category average: 8.1

Reviews

What users are saying about IBM API Connect.
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IBM API Connect the obvious choice

Incentivized
Jacques Pottas
Technical Specialist in Information Technology at Nedbank (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM API Connect very extensively in our organisation, with huge success. Since starting with IBM API Connect in 2017, a lot of business clusters got on board, hosting their API's on IBM API Connect. We primarily run a provider model approach, we have a Centre of Excellence set up, and we do a review of all API's to conform to the bank's standards. The tool set is mature, easy to use and manage, good choice for any company to get to the next level. This is surely the way to go to enable your business clusters to reach that competitive level in a sometimes challenging business environment.

Pros

  • Simplicity
  • Easy to manage
  • Solid Security
  • Adabrability

Cons

  • Toolset can be somewhat cumbersome

Return on Investment

  • Easy to adapt to change

Usability

Alternatives Considered

IBM DataPower Gateway

Other Software Used

IBM App Connect, IBM MQ, IBM DataPower Gateway

Improved with IBM API Connect

Incentivized
Javier MurgantiView profile
Solution Architect in Information Technology at Banco Comafi (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM API Connect to manage and control our APIs, and we're starting to develop our next ones. The APIs have a simple language, which allows for controlled development and prevents excessive resource usage. If you're looking for a tidy and controlled environment, I recommend IBM API Connect.

Pros

  • Govern API
  • Develop API
  • Avoids excessive use of resources

Cons

  • In architecture, improve API governance
  • In Infrastructure, improve the use of resources
  • In development to improve the speed of API development

Return on Investment

  • Improves the resources used
  • Charging consumers for the use of APIs

Usability

Alternatives Considered

IBM Instana

Other Software Used

IBM Integration Bus, IBM Verify

Real API Gateway

Incentivized
Suresh Uppala
Sr Manager in Information Technology at Bjs (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We are using using IBM API Connect as Enterprise API gateway to expose critical business functions as APIs to external world in a secure way

Pros

  • Security
  • ease of use
  • easy integration

Cons

  • Native Connectivity with AWS SDK

Return on Investment

  • for our organizaiton, IBM API Connect is easy of of use but expensive licensing model

Usability

Other Software Used

IBM App Connect, IBM MQ, IBM DataPower Gateway

third party integration

Incentivized
Krishan KumarView profile
Sr Engineer in Engineering at Siemens (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We use IBM API Connect to connect to our internal tools

Pros

  • I think that IBM API Connect has Good documentation
  • In my opinion, IBM API Connect is Intuitive
  • In my experience, IBM API Connect is Robust
  • I also find that IBM API Connect is Resilient

Cons

  • Auth

Return on Investment

  • For us, the Faster development when we use IBM API Connect has a positive impact on our business objectives

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Acuity ELM Essentials

Other Software Used

ApostropheCMS, 3POS

IBM API Connect Review

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We firmly believe that these tools can help us centralize security and collaboration between business teams and IT technicians, increasingly leading us to implement strategies that truly help us successfully adopt and implement our company's digital transformation.

Creemos firmenmente en que esta herramientas nos puede ayudar a centralizar la seguridad y colaboracion entre equipos del negocio y los tecnicos de IT. Llevandonos cada vez a poder implementar estrategias que verdaderamente nos ayuden la correcta adopcion e implementacion de la transformacion digital de nuestra empresa.

Pros

  • Centralize the containerized API architecture
  • Properly manage security in APIs
  • Document APIs in an orderly manner and based on best practices
  • Centralizar la arquitectura contenerizada de APIs
  • Gestionar correctamente la seguridad en Las APIs
  • Documentar las APIs de manera ordenada y en base a las mejores practicas

Cons

  • Omnichannel in Retail Business
  • Integration of financial credit systems
  • Management and monitoring of third-party APIs
  • Omnicanalidad en negocios de Retail
  • Integracion de sistemas de credito financiero
  • Gestion y monitored de APIs de terceros

Return on Investment

  • Omnichannel is now more achievable.
  • API documentation helps us manage and integrate our APIs more quickly into our business and external applications.
  • It is a high investment cost and can be complicated to implement when you do not have the technological capacity or even the knowledge of the technical team.
  • La onmicanalidad ya es algo mas alcanzable
  • La documentacion de las APIs ayuda a gestionar e integrarla mas agilmente en nuestras applications empresariales y externas
  • Es un alto costo de inversion y puede llegar a ser complicado implementarlos cuando no se tiene la capacidad tecnologica o incluso el conocimiento del equipo tecnico

Usability

Alternatives Considered

IBM App Connect, IBM webMethods and IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Other Software Used

IBM App Connect, IBM DataStage

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