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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…
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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. https://ibm.biz/API_Connect_product_page |
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API Management Features
- Supported: API access control
- Supported: Rate limits and usage policies
- Supported: API usage data
- Supported: API user onboarding
- Supported: API versioning
- Supported: Usage billing and payments
- Supported: API monitoring and logging
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| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac, Kubernetes and Openshift |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Reviewers rate Rate limits and usage policies highest, with a score of 9.7.
The most common users of IBM API Connect are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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December 29, 2023
The BEST API Management Solution for Enterprises
I head the software Implementation team and our product requires to be integrated with the client's ERP. Every client has different ERP and they want the integration to be either one way or two way. In either of the cases to meet the client's requirement we tend to build the APIs for passing the data to the ERP. IBM API Connect helps us build and ship the APIs in the least amount of time. We also have some already existing APIs and to manage the entire lifecycle of the API we use the IBM software.
- It supports various API standards like REST, GraphQL, SOAP, etc.
- Enterprise grade security to safeguard the APIs
- Predefined test cases to test the APIs via AI
- The implementation is a bit tedious and complex
- The product documentation is not user friendly because of which the adoption can take time for somebody who is not familiar with the environment.
- Analytics module not include in the basic license
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9.7
- Time to build and ship the APIs reduced significantly
- The predefined test cases helped us save manhours spent by a developer which eventually resulted in faster project delivery
- The performance of the API response time improved
Security is a critical requirement for our business as we serve clients across the world. The authorization using OAuth, OpenID, etc helped us build the trust with our clients. The encrypted gateways ensured the multi layer data protection, which is of great importance considering our product offerings are around finance.
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.
December 17, 2023
API connection and security, qualified routing at all times.
In our case we use it to have security in our APIs and have control or administration of them. IBM API Connect simplifies all the work for us, having functions to discover new services through the developer console. I like your documentation, I think you have what it takes. Its learning curve is stable and easy to understand. This is a platform you can trust, it gives you the security you need to know that your APIs are in good hands. You can also create new APIs seamlessly and something goes wrong, then sending them to your target is easy.
- Calls by the black-end server are fast.
- Impeccable security.
- Good management service.
- Simple implementation with an excellent learning curve.
- The update process can be a bit tedious, it is somewhat complicated.
- The security it provides to the APIs is a determining factor to continue with this software.
- Constant monitoring of the APIs.
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7.1
- It is the solution to promote technological development both in our facilities and in the cloud.
- Integration with IBM products also drives integrated work.
- It has a self-service system for high-level developers.
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- Monetization of API.
- Developers' portal.
- Improved compliance with SLAs.
To support the development, lifecycle management, operational management and operational security of APIs.<br>Use the Developer Portal for discovery and testing of API.<br>Use the Analytics to understand usage and aid in troubleshooting.<br>API Gateways for enforcing security policies and protection of backend systems.<br>Aid in enforcing best practices, standards and security for managing APIs.<br><br><br><br>
- Developer Portal for API discovery and testing
- API Gateway for policy and security enforcement
- Management system for managing API lifecycle
- Support for getting tokens using additional OAuth flows in the Developer Portal
- Better monitoring support for API Gateways
- Better product feature stability between upgrades.
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8.6
- Improved the maturity of API development by enforcing OpenAPI and semantic versioning standards
- Improved security of APIs
- Provide better visibility of APIs available and their usage
The product supports OAuth for single sign-on for end users. Consumers can self-service manage their client applications and subscriptions via the Developer Portal and API Product Managers can self-service manage their APIs via the API Manager. <div><span style="letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Analytics support access management partitioning to ensure visibility to only those who are authorised.<br></span><br>Audit logs and analytics logs can be offloaded to a SIEM.<br><br>OAuth, certificate and basic authentication are supported for API invocation in addition with API Keys for authentication and usage tracking.</div>
July 02, 2019
Market leader in API Management
IBM API Connect provides a unified platform to house all of our company's APIs. The beauty of this tool is that we are able to access and manage all our APIs from a single place and not have to install additional softwares like API Manager or Apigee etc. We are to make full use of this product to expose our older services as well in addition to the new ones being developed through API and having IBM WebSphere DataPower to serve as the Gateway which is already an established market leader in terms of security, speed and handling massive volumes without breaking a sweat. The wizard to create new API is very simple and straightforward. Once that is done, we can publish the new API created to all the concerned parties. Its integration with the cloud is seamless and very beneficial if you know how to leverage is properly.
- The best part is that it is a one-stop solution for hosting all the APIs and keep on increasing as the new ones are added. It has been the leader in our Digital transformation and the features of security, interoperability and accommodating all types of clients based on various technologies has been the greatest asset for us.
- The creation of new API is fairly simple and doesn't require much [of a] learning curve. Once you have created the new API, you can publish it as well to the specific audience and they can try to interact with that API with the required security parameters to get to the actual service back-end.
- The installation is quite straightforward and the product is ready to go. The deployment of the artefacts from environment to the other or code promotion is relatively simple as compared to other older products.
- The Gateway used here is IBM Datapower which is one of the most secure, reliable, highly available, fast and can integrate with almost any front-end or back-end.
- The first thing challenge we faced with the product was that if you deploying it to a third party cloud, that was very challenging and we need IBM team help at every step of the way and as well all know IBM support doesn't come cheap. A reason for that is that there isn't enough documentation done on the subject from IBM side.
- The upgrade process is not that seamless and involves a lot of hassles.
- You really need to have our requirements sorted out clearly because it is not very easy to customize the UI according to your needs, So you need to involve IBM from the start and give them clear requirements and then work with them to achieve it.
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8.4
- IBM API Connect has been very beneficial for our business because it has increased the productivity and collaboration to a great extent. All the team members are aware of the method they need to follow to develop new API and check internally if there is already an API existing to replicate that functionality. So, reusability has increased significantly after this and saved us a lot of effort and time.
- The work of the IT Security has lessened because now we don't need to submit IP white-listing requests to them of each new API being developed. If that client is allowed to hit 1 service, he is allowed to hit other services as well as long as he has the proper SSL certs and auth tokens or any other method of authentication used in the service.
- The code promotion and deployment of artefacts has been really smooth and without issues. So, that is a big plus if you consider production deployment going swiftly and hassle-free.
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 at wire speed and also capable of transforming the message content as and when required. Secondly, it acts as a unified portal for all the services and we can manage all the API's from a single place and make changes. We can look for any services here, it acts as a repository for all the organization services and we can assign specific audience to specific services.